Tuesday 28th January 2020.
Newport County v Macclesfield Town.
County face another test against a lowly placed team in the table. Counties record this season against the low placed teams is poor. Of the current bottom five clubs, only five points have been gained, thanks to a very fortunate victory over Carlisle at Rodney Parade. Infact, that victory over Carlisle is, to date, Countys only league victory this season against the current bottom nine clubs. Macclesfield, who've had six points deducted and are currently sitting in twenty second position, are not to be taken easy. Despite their low position, their latest three league results / scorelines are impressive.
1. Colchester 2-1 Macclesfield - Colchester are undefeated in their latest fifteen league matches, are in fifth position and one of their goals in this game was an OG. 2. Macclesfield 1-1 Crewe - Crewe are among the top group in the table and it took a goal deep into injury time 90+5 by them to avoid defeat.
3. Macclesfield 2-1 Forest Green - Forest Green are just outside the play-off positions. Macclesfield equalized on seventy four minutes and then, despite having a player sent off with around eleven minutes remaining, scored again and gained the three points.

Meetings between the two clubs:
Conference Premier:
2012 / 2013:
Macclesfield 1-1 Newport County:
A goal shortly before the break from Tony James gave County a half time advantage.
Striker Matthew Barnes-Homer equalized for the Silkmen with around ten minutes remaining.

Newport County 4-1 Macclesfield:
This re-arranged meeting was played on a very wet Thursday evening.
Macclesfield took the lead in the first five minutes before County were ahead 3-1 at the break with goals from Jolley, a penalty from Sandell and a third from Willmott.
Willmott got his second of the game midway through the second half and the ref blew for full time moments into injury time as a heavy shower teemed down.

League Two:
2018 / 2019:
Newport County 3-3 Macclesfield:
Macclesfield, who were bottom before this game with just three points from ten games, were two up within eleven minutes. Butler got one back on the half hour mark before Demetriou leveled the score near the hour from the penalty spot. Macclesfield went in front again with their second penalty of the game with less than ten minutes on the clock. Defeat appeared on the cards until Matt equalized deep into injury time. Ten players were booked by referee Trevor Kettle who is possibly the worst performing referee i've witnessed at Rodney Parade in a game involving County.

Macclesfield 0-0 Newport County:
A poor result for County. They were now in 11th position, two points behind seventh placed Exeter but three clubs above them via goal difference.
A very valuable point for Macclesfield in their quest to avoid the drop, now two points clear of relegation with two to play.. 

2019 / 2020:
Macclesfield 1-1 Newport County:
After a positive start with Amond putting County ahead in the first minute, former County midfielder Emmanuel Osadebe equalized around nineteen minutes.

Managers:
Macclesfield - Mark Kennedy
Newport County - Mike Flynn.

Head to head:
No meetings as yet.

Some players who played for both County and Macclesfield are:
Emmanuel Osadebe
Jon Parkin
Reece Cole

Gnahoua who looked good against us in the away game scored a blinder on Saturday.

Full back sent off in that match for chopping down Aaron Collins when he was through on goal. Probably turned out to be a match winning contribution.

I notice that temperature forecast for 3 degrees tomorrow night? We know what that could mean!

OLDCROMWELLIAN wrote:I notice that temperature forecast for 3 degrees tomorrow night? We know what that could mean!

Prince Charles in attendance as they are / were his favourite band ???

neilcork68 wrote:

OLDCROMWELLIAN wrote:I notice that temperature forecast for 3 degrees tomorrow night? We know what that could mean!

Prince Charles in attendance as they are / were his favourite band ???

Thanks for the reminder. Had forgotten about that. Believe he had a bit of a thing for Sheila Ferguson? but sadly had to settle to Camilla instead.

They are playing the Acapela Studios in September,sadly Shelia Ferguson is no longer with them.Valerie Holiday still is apparently,I know because they send me Emails about events.

Tonight's referee is Graham Salisbury who refereed the reverse fixture in September.
Matches of which he has refereed involving County:

2013 / 2014:
County 3-0 York City.
Four yellow cards.

2014 / 2015:
Stevenage 2-1 County.
Four yellows, one of which resulted in a red. County's Chris Zebroski was sent off moments before full time.

2015 / 2016:
Dagenham & Redbridge 0-0 County.
No bookings.

County 1-4 Bristol Rovers.
Three yellows.

2016 / 2017:
County 2-2 Barnet.
Five yellows.

2017 / 2018:
County 1-2 Barnet.
Five yellows.

Grimsby 1-2 County.
Four yellows and one red. Our very own Jamille Matt was sent off for Grimsby shortly before full time.

County 2-1 Cambridge.
Two yellows.

2018 / 2019:
County 1-0 Mansfield.
Five yellows.

2019 / 2020:
Macclesfield 1-1 County.
Six yellows.

How do you get tkts I've been to the tkt office 4 times today closed.do they open at all?

Regarding my short list of players who have played for both County and Macclesfield:

Emmanuel Osadebe
Jon Parkin
Reece Cole

Other names to add are:
Scott Barrow
Scott Boden
Charlie Henry
Rhys Taylor
Ashan Holgate
Ryan Jackson
Frank Knowles
Terry Lees
Billy Owen
George Taylor

reebok0165 wrote:Regarding my short list of players who have played for both County and Macclesfield:

Emmanuel Osadebe
Jon Parkin
Reece Cole

Other names to add are:
Scott Barrow
Scott Boden
Charlie Henry
Rhys Taylor
Ashan Holgate
Ryan Jackson
Frank Knowles
Terry Lees
Billy Owen
George Taylor

Aaron Collins

Percy plunkett wrote:

reebok0165 wrote:Regarding my short list of players who have played for both County and Macclesfield:

Emmanuel Osadebe
Jon Parkin
Reece Cole

Other names to add are:
Scott Barrow
Scott Boden
Charlie Henry
Rhys Taylor
Ashan Holgate
Ryan Jackson
Frank Knowles
Terry Lees
Billy Owen
George Taylor

Aaron Collins

Aaron Collins never played for Macclesfield has he?
Confusing Macclesfield with Morecambe?

Precisely Exile, Collins hasn't played for Macclesfield.

reebok0165 wrote:Precisely Exile, Collins hasn't played for Macclesfield.

Just seeing if anyone pays attention to my posts.They are both in the NW so easy for someone to make that mistake,not that I did of course.

Joss Labadie, Jordan Green and Padraig Amond replace Mark O'Brien, Matty Dolan and Tristan Abrahams