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Post by hatter_in_macc on Mar 13, 2018 11:51:15 GMT
Announced by BPA today, and no doubt coming soon on COWS... bpafc.com/stockport-county-game-all-ticket/County will receive an initial allocation of 1,000 tickets, and the match will be segregated. Probably not surprising after last year's late-season match there!
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Mar 13, 2018 20:18:49 GMT
oh what a pain in the arse. i'd mistakenly thought it was midweek again and would thus be lower profile. although it's a weekday, it's good friday...
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Mar 20, 2018 10:18:35 GMT
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Mar 26, 2018 13:02:22 GMT
Just turning this into the Match Thread, ahead of Good Friday.
You know what to do...
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Post by hermannsays on Mar 26, 2018 18:20:44 GMT
I'm sure Telford must fancy at least a point away at BPA tonight as BPA played their second half on Saturday with only 9 men... and they've won just once this calendar year.
Hopefully our extra recovery and time to prepare means we'll be in a good physical shape to take all 3 points from Friday's game. A 4-0 can only help build confidence but let's not forget that we lost the two games after the 6-0 defeat of Southport. So the minds have to be right too.
A win will not only mean 4 on the bounce but also taking 3 pts in each of the last 3 away games. With away results overall being that of a bottom half side so far, turning that around for the run-in would be very welcome!
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Post by ceefer on Mar 26, 2018 19:16:48 GMT
And we could do with increasing our goal difference do we are not caught out on the last day if the season by that elusive 1 goal 😂
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Post by ceefer on Mar 26, 2018 19:27:33 GMT
And news from BPA
A separate burger van and additional portable toilets will be located at the Park Road end of the ground, where away fans will be housed. However there will be no beer tent and no alcohol will be sold at the away end of the ground on the day.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Mar 27, 2018 11:34:27 GMT
My updated 'Take Five' piece, to appear on COWS nearer the time:
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TAKE FIVE (2018)… Bradford Park Avenue
By Hatter in Macc
1. Another away-trip across the Pennines - hopefully, with less wintry weather this time!
Indeed. Forecasters are now saying that we should avoid instalment three of the ‘Beast from the East’ over Easter - which is a blessing, after copping for the second one the last time County were on the road, en route back west from Gainsborough Trinity, just under a fortnight ago!
So - no repeat on the weather front, fingers crossed. But one link definitely shared by Good Friday’s hosts Bradford Park Avenue with Gainsborough is former membership of the Football League (in Avenue’s case, from 1908 to 1970).
2. They themselves hark back to a bygone era, then. When was their year of birth?
Now, there is a question. And one that could lead to several different answers! Officially, Bradford Association Football Club (the ‘Park Avenue’ part - taken from the name of the then-ground - got added to avoid confusion with both footballing rivals Bradford City, born during 1903, and Rugby League outfit Bradford Northern) was formed in 1907. But it is argued by some that Avenue are actually Bradford’s most senior club - given that, from 1895 to 1899, Bradford FC played in the West Yorkshire and Yorkshire Leagues, as well as entering the FA and FA Amateur Cups.
So, keep 1895 and 1907 in mind as possible birth-years. Then add 1974 and 1988, by way of another two! During the former year, the club - by then a Northern Premier League outfit, which in 1973 had sold the ground on Horton Park Avenue in an attempt to remain afloat - suffered liquidation, but was immediately re-started as a Sunday league team (and even got to host matches again at Park Avenue for 1987/88). And 14 years later, Avenue were fully reformed to play Saturday football - beginning a long ascent back up the non-league pyramid to its second tier, at which they have now been plying their trade continuously since 2012.
3. Plenty of anniversaries to celebrate, then! How did they fare in the Football League?
The club itself enjoyed three seasons in the top flight - the only current National League North team to have done so - but possibly of even greater note are individual feats by its players.
Away from the playing field, and on the battlefield, Donald Simpson Bell - an Avenue right-back from 1912 - earned renown as the first English professional footballer to be awarded the Victoria Cross, after single-handedly attacking and destroying German front-line positions in the Somme with hand-grenades and a pistol on 5 July 1916. And, a decade or so later, there was Albert Geldard, a tricky right-winger with magic as a hobby - that led him to be dubbed as ‘a wizard on and off the pitch’. Geldard’s appearance at Millwall on 16 September 1929 made him, at the tender age of 15 years and 158 days, the youngest player to turn out in a Football League match (until the record was broken by Barnsley’s Reuben Noble-Lazarus in 2008). Among Avenue’s Football League players who later moved to County were goalkeeper Willis Walker (at County in 1926/27), who also played first-class cricket for Nottinghamshire, and striker Jim Fryatt (1967/68 and 1974), who, on 25 April 1964, scored at Bradford against Tranmere after just four seconds - which still stands as a League record for the fastest-ever goal.
4. A good many other players will have featured for both clubs more recently, I guess?
Well, there have been a dozen ex-Hatters - including Ben McKenna, who left us for Curzon Ashton a couple of months ago - at Avenue in the last couple of seasons. And nearly half of them are still there - with Mark Ross, Luca Havern, Danny Boshell, Javan Vidal and Oli Johnson all having started at current home, the Horsfall Stadium, against Telford on Monday night.
5. That would make Avenue the ‘new Brighton’, then?
I cannot possibly say! But the Horsfall Stadium, in south-west Bradford, does have a surrounding athletics track to evoke memories of The Albion’s former Withdean ground, where we ended up watching (from a distance) a few of our number from the old ‘Class of 2008’. Spooky…!
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Mar 27, 2018 17:53:47 GMT
which is a blessing, after copping for the second one the last time County were on the road i take it you didn't bother with the cat and fiddle on your homeward journey? my brother stopped in chesterfield until 8pm afterwards, and apparently getting back to buxton wasn't good after that. wasn't it javan vidal who gave it loads at the cheadle end when he scored against us for somebody, despite the fact that nobody had given much thought to him playing against us because he had been so temporary when playing for us?
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Mar 27, 2018 23:22:45 GMT
Ended up taking the M62 back from Gainsborough, exile - which was only passable with care... And, yes, Vidal performed his weird celebration after scoring for Tamworth. As it happens, I have this very evening been writing about that in my 'Take Five' and 'Guest Informant' pieces ahead of Easter Monday's game!
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Mar 28, 2018 18:17:19 GMT
i occasionally go to buxton over the M62 when the weather's bad rather than woodhead, but any drive where you're relying on the top of the '62 to be kind when it's bad elsewhere is a bit of a risky one. bit of a trek too. fair play to your dedication - something that i'm increasingly lacking as our dry spell in non-league runs on.
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Post by hatter_in_macc on Mar 28, 2018 21:18:39 GMT
For 'dedication', read 'insanity'!
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Post by gazz on Mar 28, 2018 23:05:14 GMT
For 'dedication', read 'insanity'! Well, they do say that genius is often offset by insanity, so I reckon you are more than entitled to claim the opposite in your case, matey!
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Post by hermannsays on Mar 29, 2018 21:14:58 GMT
Mulhern, who came off the bench to score both BPA's goals on Monday night, is an interesting one to 'watch out' for tomorrow. This time last season he was involved with Huddersfield at U23 level after leaving Leeds where he was apparently a hot prospect... for some time at least. He moved to Guiseley in the summer and that's one of 3 teams he's scored for this season. As well as them and BPA, he got 3 in 6 league appearances at Alfreton. Although it wouldn't be hard to be appear a 'bright light' when playing for Alfreton, he did look pretty good on and off the ball in the various attacking roles he played, hits the target and he's physically strong.
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Post by another_ruined_saturday on Mar 29, 2018 22:11:53 GMT
five clubs in two seasons? he'll be catching brodie if he doesn't settle down.
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