The Accrington Stanley Chronicle
Boardroom6 May 2030
Accrington Stanley spell it out for Interim Coach
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Interim Coach has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Squad6 May 2030
A fracture rules Richard Evans out for 69 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Accrington Stanley will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match4 May 2030
The wait goes on for Accrington Stanley
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad6 May 2030
Tempers go at Accrington Stanley
Sean McLoughlin was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad6 May 2030
Words at Accrington Stanley training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Paul Smyth is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match4 May 2030
The goals have deserted Accrington Stanley
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Accrington Stanley can tell you which week it ends in.
Player ratings6 May 2030
Nobody could get near Paul Smyth
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad6 May 2030
Luke Edwards stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Luke Edwards and Accrington Stanley agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom6 May 2030
Wages eat 94% of everything Accrington Stanley earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
In brief
- Match No goals between Accrington Stanley and Wrexham
- Boardroom Accrington Stanley pull $76.7K back off the table
- Market The Donald Love question follows Accrington Stanley around