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And I'm delighted!!   My son has been selected to represent Buckinghamshire in the High Jump at the English Schools Athletics Championships.  I have told him that every time I've been to the Gateshead International Atlhletics Stadium I have come away delighted after a 3-0 Alty win in 1979 and a 3-2 win in 1995.  At least I won't be miles away from the action this time and there will be a lot more than 200 people there!

Stafford v Boston - attendance 206

A league table based on all the games since Ken took over (including Eastbourne) has us in 15th, 7 points clear of relegation places as follows:

1   Luton Town                        19      12   4   3   40   13      27   40
2   Crawley Town   17      12   3   2   39   13      26   39
3   Wrexham                        18      10   6   2   27   11      16   36
4   AFC Wimbledon   20      10   6   4   36   23      13   36
5   Fleetwood Town   20      7   10   3   26   17      9   31
6   Newport County AFC   20      9   4   7   35   30      5   31
7   Kidderminster Harr   21      9   8   4   30   23      7   30
8   Bath City                        20      7   8   5   32   30      2   29
9   Kettering Town   19      8   4   7   28   29      -1   28
10   York City                        18      8   4   6   23   16      7   28
11   Grimsby Town   19      6   8   5   35   24      11   26
12   Rushden and Diamonds   18      7   5   6   29   26      3   26
13   Mansfield Town   20      7   4   9   34   35      -1   25
14   Cambridge United   19      6   6   7   28   31      -3   24
15   Altrincham                        19      6   6   7   21   38      -17   24
16   Darlington                        18      5   8   5   19   16      3   23
17   Gateshead                        17      4   7   6   22   25      -3   19
18   Tamworth                        19      4   7   8   28   34      -6   19
19   Hayes and Yeading U   20      5   3   12   22   35      -13   18
20   Forest Green Rovers   19      4   6   9   23   37      -14   18
21   Barrow                        19      4   5   10   18   33      -15   17
22   Southport                        18      3   5   10   20   31      -11   14
23   Eastbourne Borough   19      3   5   11   24   42      -18   14
24   Histon                        18      3   4   11   16   35      -19   8

I reckon 52 points will keep us in this league.  That means we need 37 pts from 24 games - not unachievable, it's midvtable form (9th to 11th)

In addition there is a mini league of 10 teams at the bottom from Kettering down who are in the relegation scrap and from whom we need to get most of our points.  And as luck would have it 8 of these 9 still need to visit Moss Lane.

So wins against Southport, Hayes, his ton, Eastbourne, Fgr, Gateshead, tam worth, Kettering at moss lane and away at Fgr, barrow and tamworth give us 33 of the necessary survival points.

Draws with Cambridge bath York and Newport at moss lane would take us over the line.

And anything we got at Rushden Grimsby Mansfield Wrexham, Kiddy, fleet wood, Newport Wimbledon would be a bonus

Of course to achieve this, we need to start scoring...

With injury time offside deflected hand ball goal.

Corner flag to get uprooted.


http://www.cambridge-united.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10423~2081511,00.html

Could be: 

Barrow v Workington
Gateshead v Darlington
Grimsby v York
Kettering v Rushden
Cambridge v Histon
Woking v Wimbledon
Crawley v Eastbourne
Newport v Forest Green (Oh hang on, they're down!!)
Newport v Salisbury
Hayes v Oxford
Wrexham v Kidderminster
Mansfield v Tamworth
Alty v Southport

Some interesting matches in there!

"If you can prevent Perry and Duffy from falling over in the box, which is a tall order, you may be alright. May I suggest two players mark each man, and at all times try to support their body weight to prevent their legs from collapsing beneath them.


Also they're very dirty, so say some bad words in their ears and they'll likely attack you and get sent off."

This second sentence shows where we went wrong!  We let them intimidate us, rather than the other way round

   

Wednesday 06 January 2010
club news
Altrincham ticket sales suspended


There is over an inch of snow on the pitch and the exposed terraces. Even if that isn't a lot compared to some parts of the country, there is more snow falling heavily now, and underneath the snow the pitch is already frozen. Therefore, we have suspended ticket sales for Saturday's game against Altrincham.

The FA is understandably keen that every game is given the maximum possible chance of going ahead and so pitch inspections cannot take place before Friday morning - and even then only under 'extreme weather' conditions. Nonetheless, we will be in regular contact with the FA so that we can keep fans up to date.

If Saturday's game is called off, it can be played the following Tuesday, 12 January. If the weather prevents any postponed game being played on that date, then we understand that Trophy ties take precedence over midweek league games (but not Saturday league games) - so if the extreme weather persists we might find that the home game against Grays is displaced by this Trophy tie.

This information is published to allow fans to make whatever contingency arrangements they feel are appropriate - we stress that no decision has been made about Saturday's game.