Stockport County – Wot, No Admin

So Thursday 26th came and went and the prediction that County and perhaps half a dozen other clubs would enter administration proved to be a wrong one.

No announcement was made and so therefore I can tell you that as of now, Stockport County are still alive and struggling.

All I can gather is we have funds to carry on for another few (rumoured 30) days by which time… what exactly? Have we received stop-gap funding?

Well, we have lost Gary Dicker, on loan to our chums at Brighton until the end of the season. What’s the betting this move will become permanent. Has Dicker had a fall out with Jim Gannon? Has Jim Gannon seen something more in Matty Mainwaring, meaning Dickers days were numbered? Or could it have been that for financial reasons, one more body off the wage bill and (just speculating) early funds coming into the club from Brighton with an ‘understanding’ regarding Dickers future?

Whatever, we do have the feel of a once well-heeled family selling the family silver in order to repair the leaking roof. Further, it feels like the family motor is going to need replacing next month and we may have to sell other treasured heir-looms just to carry on.

Are we merely delaying the inevitable? Are we the drowning man who has surfaced for the third and last time?

Once again we are all in the dark, and despite the embargo placed on the owners, (er.. that’s the Trust. No honest.) we really need some kind of statement from the Trust Board as to what the situation now is.

So what should we think?

All is bleak and the end is nigh (and that reminds me.. whatever happened to the ‘Jesus Saves / The end is Nigh’ chap that used to walk up and down outside the main stand before games 10 years or so ago?).

Or do we think we have a lifeline and that we all should try to use this period of time to enable the club to make it to the end of the season and hope for something positive happening during the close season?

I reckon we should take the latter approach. Let us do what we can to get as many people crammed into Edgeley Park for the remaining three games. Yeovil, Walsall and the Friday night is County night, last game of the season rip-snorter against our dear friends from Crewe.

What can you do to help? Get to all three home games and support the lads and have some fun. Bring a mate, wife, mistress, partner, son, daughter, elderly relative or just drag someone in off the streets. Let us see if we can give Martin Reed, Sean Connolly et al the time they need to work some magic and pull a rabbit out of the hat.

What is there to lose?

‘Ol Pop.

ps forgot to say, apparently if we do go into Administration before the end of the season we do not necessarily have to suffer a minus 10 points start next season. The rules on this make Duckworth-Lewis look like a modern day GCSE Maths paper so don’t ask me to explain. For one thing I can’t be bothered and for another that is defeatist talk. And we will have none of that around here…..