He said theyd call the ground the arse ticklers stadia if it made them extra revenue
New name???
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How come you know the score & your thousand s of miles away?
Saw it for what it was - not another chance to have a cheap dig at the club just because I couldnt get a joke.... The club do it every year. I too saw the flying penguins on BBC1 - there was also a joke news item on the local evening (yes thats evening) news where they were training pigeons to fly in formation to replace the planes in the Eastbourne Airborne show by showing them arrows and directions written down on a piece of paper hahahahaha
It was beyond me how they kept a straight face...Jimbo T
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any publicity is good publicity people have been talking about stanley and even somebody else from work is going to see what the crack is, it takes the pressure of the players and should add to the atmosphere on friday ....
stanley stanley stanley stanley blunt them daggers
chopped pork and ham yuk
You'd have to be an idiot not to have understood it was a poor attempt at humour.
Big joke, though. Just when they should be launching a full scale drive on the brilliant season ticket prices, the local press has got Eric saying that the public of Accrington don't deserve a league team, front page two days running.
1. The local press are exactly that - press - they will print whatever they want to and normally do - in a very similar way to people posting on here whatever they want to and normally do
2. Thats nothing new from Eric - he's been saying that for a long time as we all know and sometimes you can see why (re-reading this stupid thread for one)...
Jimbo Tblower
2. Thats nothing new from Eric - he's been saying that for a long time as we all know and sometimes you can see why (re-reading this stupid thread for one)...
Jimbo T
blower
You'd have to be an idiot not to have understood it was a poor attempt at humour.
Big joke, though. Just when they should be launching a full scale drive on the brilliant season ticket prices, the local press has got Eric saying that the public of Accrington don't deserve a league team, front page two days running.
It's a Blue morning!!...First thing on my MP3 when I turned it on ?...
Howlin' Wolf....'Goin' down slow!!!', then I re-read the piece in the 'Telegraph'' Oggy !, which ends 'Without doubt it was a bit of fun and an April Fool. But the more we think about it, the more it makes sense '...then I sat at my Piano and played some more Blues !.
Because if there is one thing to ponder upon when surveying the collective
reaction to the 'fishy spoof', it is surely the fact that none of it makes any sense whatsoever !!, and anyone who can arrive at any other conclusion
must be THE April Fool!!
The whole affair, in the opinion of one who has supported 'ACCRINGTON STANLEY' since watching George Stewart glide his headed gems between
the Peel Park goalposts, has done little to enhance the reputation of those
who perpetrated this not-so-subtle attempt at ' Veiled Irony', and, worse still, gone on to use the original words in a ploy to get a more sinister concept accross to the people of Accrington and it's surrounds !...SHAME ON THEM !!..... ' Quo Vadis ?'.
So Alfred.E. and I are Blue, (Where we should be 'Red all over'!)...and, to use aother 'blues' phrase!...'Is it any wonder?'.
I'll try and cheer up before tomorrow night...Honestly!!!!!.
' ON ACCRINGTON STANLEY..........ON !!!!'
Oh what a way to stuff up all the brilliant publicity surrounding the club recently!
I'm not a Stanley fan but do follow their results being from accrington and posted on here regarding the new season ticket prices etc.. hailing the club for it's good work then they go and do this!
As a joke it was ok but to carry it on the way they have is ridiculous and makes the club look very amateurish but to all the fans considering not going because of this,don't be so silly!
It may be a joke for now but if attendences drop further don't you think it might become more of a reality?
You have already lost the club once do you really want to go through that again?
I'm not a Stanley fan but do follow their results being from accrington and posted on here regarding the new season ticket prices etc.. hailing the club for it's good work then they go and do this!
As a joke it was ok but to carry it on the way they have is ridiculous and makes the club look very amateurish but to all the fans considering not going because of this,don't be so silly!
It may be a joke for now but if attendences drop further don't you think it might become more of a reality?
You have already lost the club once do you really want to go through that again?
Nobody is saying that they wouldnt go to Accy stanley matches what they did say if the consideration for name change became a reality then they would get on the bus to Accrington Stanley not LSU.
I made a decision a few weeks ago that if I couldn't post anything positive then I wouldn't post. Whatever Eric and co. where thinking has to me now fallen flat and once again made us a laughing stock, I wonder what our new director is making of this and I hope it's not stopping him getting a few more southern money men investing in the club.
You'd have to be an idiot not to have understood it was a poor attempt at humour.
Big joke, though. Just when they should be launching a full scale drive on the brilliant season ticket prices, the local press has got Eric saying that the public of Accrington don't deserve a league team, front page two days running.
The worst thing of all Oggy ??
The 'Spoof (?)...and it's consequent fall-out...
Was, and is, totally unnecessary for everyone concerned !!.
Where is OUR great Club going to next????
'WHAT ME WORRY'...Both Alfred.E. and I do when faced with
such calamitous behaviour!!
'ON ACCRINGTON STANLEY...... .ON!!!!!
Baggie, you and I have often not seen eye to eye on here, but in this case , whether you like it or not,
, I echo your thoughts/concerns 100%.
The last thing Stanley need is a clown like Batchelor taking over, he should be charged by the CPS for being a nuisance to football.
Interesting quote from Eric though, "I would not sell to anyone who wants to take the club out of Accrington or change it's name dramatically". Could have saved a lot of genuine passionate fans a lot of arguing on here if that had been put on the website instead of the stuff that has been published.
for those not in the know (no link available yet) the front page of the Observer tells of the attempted purchase of the club for 1.5M by John Batchelor (for a reason?).
This is the guy who tried to buy Mansfield and change the name to Harchester United (fictional team from Sky Ones Dream Team)
He had suggested taking the club to Leigh where a 10 000 seater stadium is being built and calling the club Lancashire United.
The much maligned name change story was prompted by this and Rob Heys admitted this was his idea. He goes on to say that changing the name is not something the club would do lightly but it is something that they would now definitely think about if it widened the appeal of the club. Eric Whalley weighs in with ..."I said I didnt want to go down the line of appealing for support as we have done it all too often. That is why we now have to consider all options. Peter Cavanagh in his column also says that ",... but it is only a name and if a name change brings about more revenue then so be it."
So the joke rumbles on and the rose-tinted, club can do no wrong fans will continue belly laughing into their tea at the fact that Accy Web continues to be deceived by an April Fools joke on the 3rd of April. Publicity stunt my arse.
This is the guy who tried to buy Mansfield and change the name to Harchester United (fictional team from Sky Ones Dream Team)
He had suggested taking the club to Leigh where a 10 000 seater stadium is being built and calling the club Lancashire United.
The much maligned name change story was prompted by this and Rob Heys admitted this was his idea. He goes on to say that changing the name is not something the club would do lightly but it is something that they would now definitely think about if it widened the appeal of the club. Eric Whalley weighs in with ..."I said I didnt want to go down the line of appealing for support as we have done it all too often. That is why we now have to consider all options. Peter Cavanagh in his column also says that ",... but it is only a name and if a name change brings about more revenue then so be it."
So the joke rumbles on and the rose-tinted, club can do no wrong fans will continue belly laughing into their tea at the fact that Accy Web continues to be deceived by an April Fools joke on the 3rd of April. Publicity stunt my arse.
Tin pot behaviour from our " marketing/press office " yet again. makes you wonder why we bother .
Grrrrr.
Grrrrr.
Tell you what really gets my goat.... folk on here remain positive and spend valuable time and effort fighting negativity and narrow mindedness and then the Club does something so stupid, farcical and undermining that it makes our efforts pointless.
here here totally agree with you linds