2014 Prediction League; Game 5 v Bury (away)

[Div3North]

Bury FC

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Accrington Stanley

2014/15 Prediction League; Game 5 v Bury (away)

Bury’s most recent signing – one of 11 so far – is 24 year-old MF/striker James Poole; he features in this week’s “You Couldn’t Make It Up If You Tried” slot................... Before joining the Shakers he played for Hartlepool, who – last season – were skippered by Peter Hartley; in February2013 they met Notts County, and beat them 2-1 .............and the scorers were? ...........Hartley and Poole .......... Brilliant!

Bury FC was formed in 1885, created by a merger of Bury Wesleyans FC and Bury Unitarians FC, engineered by one Aiden Arrowsmith at the White Hart Hotel; in 1894 they joined the newly-formed Second Division, winning it in their first season (beating Liverpool in a play-off) and going straight up to the First Division, where they stayed until 1912 ......From early days they played at Gigg lane, which was eventually gifted to the Club by the Earl of Derby; now, of course, they play at the JD Stadium (JD Sports Fashion PLC sponsoring the ground and the shirt), hereinafter called “Gigg Lane” ..........whether their away kit is red and gold or all black depends which version you believe!

The early 20th Century was good to Bury FC, representing the Costa del Pudding Noir ; they won the FA Cup in 1900, beating Southampton 4-0, and then 3 years later they repeated the feat, this time without conceding a goal , and beating Derby 6-0 in the Final. Relegation was followed by promotion again in 1923, and in 1926 they finished 4th in the old First Division, their best place ever .......... their glory days in the Cup were behind them, though, and in 2006 they suffered the indignity of being the first team ever thrown out of the competition (for fielding an ineligible player against Chester in Round 2 – Stephen Turnbull, who they had on loan from ...would you believe Hartlepool (?) ..... but for whom they hadn’t got (or registered) the owning club’s permission for him to play); that cost them their winner’s fee and a 3rd Round spot, and nearly their League place, because they then went 16 games without a win , and only escaped relegation courtesy of a 0-0 draw at Stockport’s Edgeley Park!

They’re the third-longest (continuous) serving team in the Football League (behind PNE and Notts County); they’re also the only club ever relegated on “goals scored”, rather than goal average or goal difference – a 1998/99 one-time experiment which saw them finish on 47 points alongside QPR and Port Vale, but go down because QPR scored 52, the Valiants got 45, and they managed an appalling 35 in 46 games (even though their goal difference was -25 to PV’s -30 ); their away record that season was W1 D10 L12 F11 (yes, eleven) A33 ..............Among their former managers are Bob Stokoe (twice), ex Burnley classy wing half Martin Dobson, and the obligatory tenure (one season only) of Neil “I thought the referee was awful” Warnock ............ and who remembers that Bruce “Rubberlegs” Grobbelaar played for them at the venerable age of 40 years and 337 days (just the one game, sandwiched between appearances for Chesham Utd and Lincoln City?)

They released (or otherwise lost) 11 ½ players in the summer (the half being a transfer-listed Andrew Procter, who doesn’t have a squad number this year ); out went GK Trevor Carson (26), who was with Sunderland for 6 years without ever playing in the League, and who spent last year at Pompey, and “The Beast” – the other GK – Dane Brian Jensen (39), who did bits and pieces in his home country, then played at the Baggies (where he got his nickname) and Burnley; Carson went to Cheltenham, Jensen to Crawley; Crawley also snapped up 24 year-old winger Lewis Young (Watford, Burton, Northampton, Yeovil and Aldershot); MF Tommy Miller, now 35 and a veteran of Hartlepool, Ipswich, the Black Cats, the Owls, the Terriers and Swindon, went home to Hartlepool; LB Joe Skarz (25, with Huddersfield, plus loans at Hartlepool and Shrewsbury, on the cv) went to Rotherham and that nice Mr Evans ; Tope Obadeyi (24) went to Kilmarnock (he’s the only player I’ve ever come across who’s played for Rio Ave Futbal Clube (Portuguese, if you didn’t know); Iranian U21 Navid Nasseri (18, MF), once a schoolboy at Man U and at Blackburn, signed for Brum; Reice Charles-Cook (20) – the keeper they wanted to keep – left, and signed for Coventry (who immediately loaned him to Nuneaton for the season); ex Millwall and Rochdale MF/F Ashley Grimes (28) joined Walsall; Proccie – as far as I know – is practising “keepie-uppie” ........

They brought in a full team; the better known include striker Danny Rose (20) from Barnsley, from whom they also acquired Nigerian MF Kelvin Etuhu (26) – once of Man City (prior to a spell, it is reported, as a guest of Her Majesty) and Pompey; Joe Widdowson (26, def) arrived from Grimsby via Rochdale and Northampton; MF Nicky Adams (27) returned (he was at Gigg Lane from 2005 to 2008) after spells at Leicester, Brentford, Rochdale, Crawley, Rotherham and the Welsh u21 side: Tranmere’s Joe Thompson (25, MF), formerly of Rochdale, happily made a full and speedy recovery from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and is back playing (now at Bury) – and the very best of good luck to him ; Baghdad-born GK Shwan Jalal (31) - brought up in the UK - arrived from Bournemouth (he was on loan at Morecambe a few years back) to fill The Beast’s Big Boots ; and Olde Father Time’s striker nephew Ryan Lowe – now approaching State Pension Age (OK, 35) – variously with Shrewsbury, Chester, Crewe, Bury (!), Sheff Wed, MK Dons and Tranmere – returned for Fatted Calf and chips to the ground where, between 2009 and 2011, he netted 52 times in 97 games as a Shaker ............and a Mover as well ................

They’ve started well enough; they lost 3-2 (at) at Bolton in the C++++++AsA Newt Cup, and succumbed 0-1 at home to Cheltenham in the first game in the League, but since then they’ve won 2-0 at Hartlepool and 2-1 last Saturday against Plymouth, and drew 1-1 at Luton, a game they should and would have won if they’d parked the bus properly in the 90th minute ............in the League, then, P4 W2 D1 L1 F5 A3 Pts 7, giving them 7th place – above Southend on goals scored and above the Wombles on goal difference ...........they’re also the fifth side (out of 5) that we’ve played this season who are in the top half of the table ..........bring on Exeter, and Oxford, and Newport ! Leading scorers for them are Danny Rose with 3, Tom Soares and Daniel Nardiello with 1 each, and Ryan the Aged and a Mr McNulty (who each have 1 in the Newt Cup ...........and who won’t score in that competition again this season!)

We last met in 2010/11, when they went up (2nd, behind Chesterfield, with 81 points) and we didn’t quite (but we did make the Play-Offs ).......We lost 3-0 away, finishing up with 9 men and two red cards , but we did win the return by the odd goal in one – a poor return in a season when we scored three goals at home on ten occasions, four once and seven once (I was there! ); that made our overall record against them since 2006 P10 W2 D2 L6 (plus one out of one in Cup Competitions!)

Deadline for entries is scheduled kick-off time, which is 3.00pm this Saturday, 30th August; they ain’t scoring by the bucket load, so if we can shackle Danny Rose ....and Methuselah Lowe .............maybe we can do ourselves some good!

Good luck to everyone! ..............Keep the Faith! .................and thanks for playing!

[Wynonie Harris]

Predictably enough, 5-0 to the Stanley!

[mab]

Bury FC 1 - 2 Accrington Stanley Please for me

[Div3North]

"We last met in 2010/11 ......" overlooked last season when - in high hopes - we lost 3-0 away, and drew 0-0 at home .......which did little for our "goals for" column .... Or our overall record against them .....

(I didn't used to make mistakes like that until they removed the "previous years results" link from the Fishy ....... Now I have to remember to look up when other teams went up or down! Curse you, Moriarty!)

Sorry!

[DaveinGermany]

2-1 to the Stanley please D3N.

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by Div3North

"We last met in 2010/11 ......" overlooked last season when - in high hopes - we lost 3-0 away, and drew 0-0 at home .......which did little for our "goals for" column .... Or our overall record against them .....

(I didn't used to make mistakes like that until they removed the "previous years results" link from the Fishy ....... Now I have to remember to look up when other teams went up or down! Curse you, Moriarty!)

Sorry!

This might come in handy for future reference
Head To Head Next Vs Match - Accrington Stanley FC - Stanley

The fishy website is a totally new one and not all information could be transferred.

[Tommy McQueen]

Bury 2 Stanley 1 please

[cashman]

Stanley win 2-1 fer me.

[Redash]

3-1 to The Stanley please.

[smobile]

2-0 Stanley

[football19]

Bury 3 v 0 Acci sorry !!!

[accybeme]

Bury 3 Stanley 1 please

[MikeA]

2-1 to Bury.

Wasn't it the White Horse in 1894?

[AccyMad]

We never usually get anything at Bury & more often than not get a man sent off so surely our luck has to turn sometime???

3 - 2 to Stanley ............................ & a Shaker sent off for a change

[Div3North]

Originally Posted by MikeA

Wasn't it the White Horse in 1894?

Don't think so; it was the White Horse where they were formed (couldn't read my own writing), but that was 1885; they joined the League in 1894