All Things Stockport County

          Now, what was it `the man` said? Oh yes….” Never mind the quality feel the width” and that goes some way to summing up County`s performance today against Barrow at Edgeley Park for me. And the man also said I believe “ A win is a win is a win!” and that is what many will choose to take away from a game in which County might have won by more had they not scorned a raft of chances . That said, the chances apart, much of County`s play hinted at them struggling to win this one, but they did and if the goal by Louis Barry had elements of luck about it, it cannot be argued that they were not due a bit of that commodity. We looked for them to nail down the win via a second goal but ,try as they might, this would not materialise   and we may have   regretted that fact had Peter Wild`s side possessed even a modicum of attacking nous about them but happily for us they hadn`t. By contrast we had Ryan Croasdale who returned to first team duty i...

      County took us on another roller coaster ride at Edgeley Park last night where a highly charged face off with Bradford City saw them come back from one down to share the points in a 1-1 draw. In many ways it was a re-run of what has gone before this season as the blues set about tearing Mark Hughes’ side apart from the off, but despite looking on for a goal or two their overwhelming dominance faded after 20 minutes in now familiar style. It was 0-0 at the break so still all to play for, but poor County defending made their task that much more difficult as City took the lead via an Alex Pattison goal.   The input of Referee Sebastian Stocksbridge and his Danny Stand liner did not help County`s attempts to respond as 2 solid penalty appeals were spurned by the official and a clutch of dubious offside calls kept City ahead until 10 minutes from the end of normal time when substitute Isaac Olaofe equalised from close in for the blues. In the end we settle...