James Moore

Goalkeeper - Accrington Stanley U18
26 Feb 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for James Moore

65 Edition

The Accrington Stanley Chronicle

25 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Jack Stacey asks to leave Accrington Stanley

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings

Louie Bradbury, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.03

A mark of 8.03 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

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.

Squad

Farrend Rawson falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Accrington Stanley see off Chesterfield

Three points for Accrington Stanley, 2‑1 the final word against Chesterfield in a contest settled by the finer margins.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Louie Bradbury

At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Accrington Stanley Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Micah Hamilton

Successful dribbles: 42. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A fracture rules James Moore out for 17 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.

Player ratings

Isaac Heath, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.71

A mark of 7.71 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Match

4 matches without a win for Accrington Stanley

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Accrington Stanley are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tempers go at Accrington Stanley

Micah Hamilton 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Accrington Stanley against Fleetwood Town

1‑2 to Fleetwood Town, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Bruno Paulo falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market

Accrington Stanley and Devon Matthews are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Squad

Seamus Conneely dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

5 Edition

The Accrington Stanley Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Isaac Heath

Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

James Moore breaks a bone — 25 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 25 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Michael Kelly falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Tempers go at Accrington Stanley

Bruno Paulo 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Accrington Stanley against Barnet

0‑2 to Barnet, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Michael Kelly gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

4 Edition

The Accrington Stanley Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Isaac Heath

Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A fracture rules James Moore out for 33 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.

Market

Charlie Hall asks to leave Accrington Stanley

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Farrend Rawson in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Accrington Stanley this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Accrington Stanley training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Josh Woods 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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Accrington Stanley

5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief

3 Edition

The Accrington Stanley Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules James Moore out for 40 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Isaac Heath

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Accrington Stanley pay Wycombe Wanderers $460.0K for a proper upgrade

Wycombe Wanderers did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $460.0K for Stuart Moore, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.

Squad

Tempers go at Accrington Stanley

Farrend Rawson 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.

The terraces

Accrington Stanley spend $460.0K on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $460.0K for Stuart Moore, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Squad

Words at Accrington Stanley training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bruno Paulo 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.

Boardroom

No investment in the facilities at Accrington Stanley

Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.

Squad

Accrington Stanley pick somebody else ahead of Seamus Conneely

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Market

Accrington Stanley bring in an old head

Bruno Paulo is 36 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

In brief

2 Edition

The Accrington Stanley Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Farrend Rawson signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Farrend Rawson commits to Accrington Stanley for another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Accrington Stanley

Farrend Rawson 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.

Squad

Marcus Wyllie gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Marcus Wyllie has just signed for Accrington Stanley, and for once the answer mattered.

Market

Still no ink between Accrington Stanley and Isaac Sinclair

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Accrington Stanley, another week without a signature from Isaac Sinclair.

Squad

Words at Accrington Stanley training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Josh Smith 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.

Market

Accrington Stanley sign Luke Pearson, one for the future

Luke Pearson is 14, and Accrington Stanley have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief