Jason Oswell Leaves?

After meeting Chester club officials last week, It looks like Jason has turned down Chester as they had hoped that former Newtown striker, who works as a physiotherapist at the Countess of Chester Hospital, would look to remain part-time and combine his career in the NHS with his football.

But after talks with Oswell, Chester Joint Manager Johnson believes that the striker has his heart set on taking a shot at the full-time game, with Port Vale, Morecambe, Wrexham and Hartlepool United all keen.

If Jason is not happy with the terms on offer at these interested clubs, he realises that Jim is busy building an exciting and excellent squad for this season and may still want to be a part of Jim’ Revolution here at EP for another season.

Jason has twitted “My journey at @stockportcounty has come to an end. I have the opportunity to pursue my football league dream. It has been a privilege to play for such a special club. I would like to thank my team mates, staff and the fantastic supporters. Good luck in your promotion fight.”

Jason has joined Morecambe who recently signed former County loanee Rhys Oakes and already have former players Ellison and Kenton. Jason is swapping a promotion battle for a relegation fight and could be playing against us next season 19/20. He is a good bloke and I wish him luck. Really surprised though that Morecambe didn’t go for Fylde’s Danny Rowe.

I know Port Vale were interested and they have bought in Ricky Miller. We offered Jason a vastly increased contract and on top of his earnings at Chester Countess hospital he is worse off now with a full time football career and will be looking for some sponsorship deals in the forthcoming season.

Jason’s form badly suffered for whatever reason after Christmas last season and his goals virtually dried up until near the end when he scored a few tap ins. I personally think the National League North is Jason’s level and that he should have stayed at EP for another season before venturing on his dream. Once the defenders worked out how to play him he faltered. He had 15 in 19 games and 21 by December 16th. He only scored 8 in his last 25 and I wonder whether the League Two defenders will out muscle him.

This gives Jim the opportunity to further strengthen our forward line and perhaps Rhys Turner will come in. Would also like to see Newby, Osborne and Gilchrist join the revolution at EP and we then would be really strong with healthy competition throughout the squad. This all depends on how Jim sees Etches and Czubik next season, I feel that they are not quite there in their development just yet and a loan out may suit them, we shall see.

Could be an expensive move for Jason as he lived 40 miles from county and a 35 minute journey now he has an 88 mile journey which with take him 95 minutes. He will have to move house if he doesn’t want to do the driving each day.

Why did Stockport County need Jason Oswell to stay on for another season. Well look at the matches Jason didn’t play last season. Jason scored seven goals in his first six league starts. The seventh game against relegated Tamworth without Jason we struggled to score losing 3-1. Jason had now scored 12 goals when we visited FC United in the cup replay without Jason and couldn’t hit a barn door losing 1-0 against 9 men. Jason now had 23 to his credit when we played Nuneaton at home without him and lost again 1-0 By now it became pretty obvious we were not the same team without Jason in the side. By the time Jason was not in the first eleven again he had 29 goals to his credit and we had to rely on a rare Scott Duxbury goal to earn a 1-1 draw away to Chorley to qualify for the playoffs. Jason was rested along with many for the last game against Darlington where in my opinion we lost momentum with a 1-1 before losing the first play off match 1-0 again to Chorley.

Jim. You need to now replace Jason with like for like. a quality prolific goalscorer of Jason's height 6.2 or more who continually scores at least 20 or more a season. You have good back up within the squad now, so go to ot Jim. I know I am right and what’s more is so do you.

Yes we needed to keep hold of Jason for one more season, it would have been better for both parties.

Two former Hatters strikers in Salford’s attack. Danny Lloyd and James Hooper. They will be signing Oswell next. They already have a strong strike force with Devante Rodney, Rory Gaffney and Jack Redshaw, also have Anthony Dudley who they have loaned out to Chester, they certainly show they are a club with ambition.

When are County going to replace a man who had a hand in 50 goals last season scoring 29 goals with 21 assists? Who was the last player to contribute to so many goals. Danny Lloyd scored 29 times with, was it 15 assists?

I wish County showed ambition and had a strong Strikeforce that would show that the club has the intent and ambition to win the National League North. Harrogate and Salford showed this last season by continually adding and tweaking the squad throughout the campaign, which brought them success, just hope County will do the same this season. Hope so, fear not, we will probably plod on as we do knowing what we need to add to the squad to get success and do not take the opportunites as many times before.

Boston and Southport have shown ambition with their signings and both have a strong Strikeforce. We will see where they end up together with Kidderminster with Ironside and Chambers leading their attack. Based on the squads as of today, my prediction is Kidderminster Boston Southport and Darlington will finish above us.

If we add four quality players now in a left sided defender, a quality striker and a couple of players with bags of pace we will have the ultimate squad to gain promotion. If we still had Stott, Oswell, Turner and Ball we would be certain favourites. I feel we are a year behind as had we added the six signings to last seasons squad we would have blown Salford aside.

Only time will tell, but did Jason make the right decision?

Left County who had prolific start to the season, left behind the valuable coaching he was receiving, left a place where he was adored by the fans and a big fish in a small pond. Now playing in league two, two tiers higher for a team that avoided relegation to the non league on goal difference, not picked for the starting 11, got trashed 6-0 and a small fish in a big pond.

At the moment Jason, you made the wrong decision as the grass isn’t always greener, early days and time will tell, but I think you should have stayed at Edgeley Park one more season

Jason still not scored for Morecambe who lost 3-2 at Bury today, his new clubs fifth defeat in six games.

Stott has been sat on Oldham’s bench in every games so far and not been used at all.

Ball has lost his first team place at Stevenage and is now sadly bench warming too.

Montrose at Fylde and Turner at Barrow both sidelined by injuries.

From reading the morecambe fc website noted a video involving Jason Oswell playing in their home reserve side defeat to Port Vale this week. How the lad has fallen.