S12 E31: Magic Mike's Hotdog Fluffers!

🎙️ Welcome back to the award-winning The Scarf Bergara Wore – the original Stockport County fan podcast! ⚪️💙

Russ and Waggie are joined by regular fan guest Wrighty to talk through all things County, with a little England chat thrown in for good measure. Then we get straight into it…

County have been charged by the FA under Rule E21 following the pitch invasion during the second leg of last season’s playoff game against Stevenage. But what does that actually mean? We read out the charge from the FA and discuss why we’ve been charged for this one when we’ve had plenty of other pitch invasions over the years during times of absolute joy. What could it mean for the club, and just how big a fine do we think County could potentially be facing?

We then turn our attention to Shrewsbury 0-2 County in the EFL Trophy. There were 10 changes from the last league game, with a ‘second string’ County side taking on a similarly rotated Shrewsbury team. Seven academy players featured, so we talk through their performances, the standout players and the continued signs of McNulty Ball. It was also great to see Adigun and Gardner get themselves on the scoresheet. We also discuss the surprising additions of Rydel and Mingi to the substitutes’ bench and use County Squad Tracker to try and clear up exactly why they were there!

County Women smashed Bradford 8-0, another huge win against a side who started the game on the same number of points. We look at the result, the teams around them in the division and how the County Women now find themselves sitting 4th in the league.

So, why are County being tipped as promotion favourites? Most of the bookies now have us as favourites to win the league, having been around 7/8 before the start of the season. What’s changed? Why are the bookies suddenly so convinced? All three of us give our thoughts on where we think County will finish and why it is in the Top 2!

We then look ahead to Barnsley and have a discussion based around Steve’s Preview Pod about what we can expect from a young Barnsley side, how they are likely to play and how County can get around them. Of course, we also give our own score predictions, along with plenty of predictions and opinions from those tuned in.

We have another go at Rival until we get some better suggestions, the football app that gives us a random historic game involving County. This time it’s Barnet at home in 2006. We’re going a bit further back again for our little minds, although Russ is once again o