Post by hatter_in_macc on Apr 18, 2014 22:18:11 GMT
Our penultimate article of 2013/14, from tonight's programme, follows below.
We are now turning our minds to the final one for this term, ahead of Harrogate's visit a week tomorrow - and featuring Sandy and Maccy's end-of-season awards
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Happy reading!
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Hatter in Macc writes:
Good (Friday) evening, everyone – and welcome back to Edgeley Park for the first time in almost three weeks.
It is also nigh on two years now since we were able to proclaim that “Friday Night is County Night”, and, in our Play-off-bound near-neighbours from Altrincham, we have ideal visitors to help create the kind of atmosphere that has so often characterised the many footballing contests held here at this particular time of the week during years gone by.
There would certainly be no better setting in which to celebrate a County goal. For, while, since our most recent notes, two away-performances – at North Ferriby and, subsequently, Brackley – have each yielded a ‘good-on-paper’ point against a higher-placed team (results which compensated a tad for the disappointing defeat against Hednesford, when we last set foot in SK3), it is some five full matches, and getting on for eight hours, since we last hit the back of the net!
Several matches this term have offered the opportunity to welcome back former Hatters. And so it could prove tonight, if ‘Alty’ field Adam Griffin and Gianluca Havern. My esteemed co-contributor and I do have an amusing tale to tell that loosely concerns the latter player, but you will have to await its appearance in cold print until sometime next season, when the successor-collection of yarns to ‘C.H.A.O.S.’ [County Heaven’s Anecdotes Of Sport] hits the streets (… and, obviously, once we have obtained a second legal opinion)!
Best wishes to you all for a very happy Easter. Honestly, Sandy, where is Joe Bunney when we need him?!
Sandbach Hatter writes:
Egg-sactly what I was wondering, Maccy. Last I heard, he was rabbiting on about resurrecting his career at Rochdale, but their squad is currently choc(k) full of strikers so he’s not playing and is hopping mad about it.
All of which Easter-based punnery leads me very nicely into congratulating Sir Roger on his victory in my recent Monopoly-based quiz. Having already amassed a strong portfolio of all the yellow properties in weeks 1 to 3, he then guessed week 4’s player - Jermaine Easter - at the first time of asking, giving him Mayfair in the finale and an unassailable lead. He was suitably rewarded with one of our new ‘trophies’, custom-made by Gazza, which will now be handed out to winners of my quizzes, the Prediction League and the Limerick Lounge (note: they’re not real trophies; we’re not made of money).
Speaking of Gazza (aren’t we linking well today?!), the man himself claimed victory in Downy’s Prediction League for March after a tense final weekend almost saw it go to the tie-break. And we are all eagerly awaiting the results of the Big, Big Prediction Game which covers the entire season, all English leagues/cups and most European ones, too. I suspect, like me, no-one can remember their predictions, although I seem to recall tipping Southampton for relegation. Oops.
Lastly, we would all like to wish our friend, and fellow Heavener, Jarkko, the best of luck as his Norwegian Conference side, Rolvsoy IF, kick off the season away to Torp FC on 22nd April. After the pre-season they’ve had, there’s Nor-way they can lose! (Sorry).
Enjoy the game.
Animo et Fide.
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We are now turning our minds to the final one for this term, ahead of Harrogate's visit a week tomorrow - and featuring Sandy and Maccy's end-of-season awards
.Happy reading!
*************************************************************************************************
Hatter in Macc writes:
Good (Friday) evening, everyone – and welcome back to Edgeley Park for the first time in almost three weeks.
It is also nigh on two years now since we were able to proclaim that “Friday Night is County Night”, and, in our Play-off-bound near-neighbours from Altrincham, we have ideal visitors to help create the kind of atmosphere that has so often characterised the many footballing contests held here at this particular time of the week during years gone by.
There would certainly be no better setting in which to celebrate a County goal. For, while, since our most recent notes, two away-performances – at North Ferriby and, subsequently, Brackley – have each yielded a ‘good-on-paper’ point against a higher-placed team (results which compensated a tad for the disappointing defeat against Hednesford, when we last set foot in SK3), it is some five full matches, and getting on for eight hours, since we last hit the back of the net!
Several matches this term have offered the opportunity to welcome back former Hatters. And so it could prove tonight, if ‘Alty’ field Adam Griffin and Gianluca Havern. My esteemed co-contributor and I do have an amusing tale to tell that loosely concerns the latter player, but you will have to await its appearance in cold print until sometime next season, when the successor-collection of yarns to ‘C.H.A.O.S.’ [County Heaven’s Anecdotes Of Sport] hits the streets (… and, obviously, once we have obtained a second legal opinion)!
Best wishes to you all for a very happy Easter. Honestly, Sandy, where is Joe Bunney when we need him?!
Sandbach Hatter writes:
Egg-sactly what I was wondering, Maccy. Last I heard, he was rabbiting on about resurrecting his career at Rochdale, but their squad is currently choc(k) full of strikers so he’s not playing and is hopping mad about it.
All of which Easter-based punnery leads me very nicely into congratulating Sir Roger on his victory in my recent Monopoly-based quiz. Having already amassed a strong portfolio of all the yellow properties in weeks 1 to 3, he then guessed week 4’s player - Jermaine Easter - at the first time of asking, giving him Mayfair in the finale and an unassailable lead. He was suitably rewarded with one of our new ‘trophies’, custom-made by Gazza, which will now be handed out to winners of my quizzes, the Prediction League and the Limerick Lounge (note: they’re not real trophies; we’re not made of money).
Speaking of Gazza (aren’t we linking well today?!), the man himself claimed victory in Downy’s Prediction League for March after a tense final weekend almost saw it go to the tie-break. And we are all eagerly awaiting the results of the Big, Big Prediction Game which covers the entire season, all English leagues/cups and most European ones, too. I suspect, like me, no-one can remember their predictions, although I seem to recall tipping Southampton for relegation. Oops.
Lastly, we would all like to wish our friend, and fellow Heavener, Jarkko, the best of luck as his Norwegian Conference side, Rolvsoy IF, kick off the season away to Torp FC on 22nd April. After the pre-season they’ve had, there’s Nor-way they can lose! (Sorry).
Enjoy the game.
Animo et Fide.
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Proud to be Fan Sponsors of Alan Lord for 2013/14
