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Guernsey away would be a nice weekend.

Forgot guernsey would be in it. Unlucky for which ever non-league outfit gets them away, unless Guernsey has to pay for transport in the cup competitions as well.

Hope we manage to get a decent run.

he's off to Kos. Very nice place to go. Maspalomas is very nice, quite a lot of lovely little beaches around too. May even take in a trip to turkey.

He could also bump into a guy (who knows a guy) who will come and bang in 40 next season.





if only!!

Sorry to bang on about this again, and I am entirely and totally aware of the current financial situation and the restrictions it places on us.

However, I see from the Official Site that Theo Kidd has moved on, presumably because he's now too old for the Youth Team and we have nowhere for him to go which would enable us to keep him at the Club.

He's a talented lad and maybe one who could have done a job for us off the bench next season

Main problem we have is no reserve team. The kids need the nurturing a reserve league would give them, in addition to playing under the "Altrincham" banner. Throwing them in at full squad level may hurt them in the long run.

Its a shame, as some of the kids seem to have a lot of potential.

Alty 2 - 1 Eastbourne

Kettering 1-0 southport

Tamworth 1 - 4 FGR

See other thread, but tamworth look set to play an outfield player in goal.

The main problem for any capping, are the likes of Crawley, Fleetwood, Chelsea, Man City and others who have benefactors willing to put large sums of money into teams. Even Fulham wouldn’t be able to sustain premiership football, if they were capped to income generated, rather than what Al-Fayed puts in. Though as Rushden, Boston and Altrincham showed, when the money man is no longer willing to put the money in, the club suffers badly through lack of income streams to support their on-field squad.
I think there is a big difference between clubs like Rushden and us losing the money men, compared to Boston, Chester, Scarbrough and Halifax’s poor financial management. I think it is this poor financial management that the FA can do far more to govern finances. For example, ensuring key liabilities are paid (wages & tax). Non-payment of these should mean a points deduction. There is no point having a squad if the club cannot afford it (it is effectively cheating). In addition, all clubs should have to file monthly accounts with the FA to ensure any losses are guaranteed by the directors.
Though a business will only function if they have some sort of credit facility for other suppliers. In addition, problems occur when the weather means the club has no income for a number of weeks. As our former goalkeeper states, even not paying these suppliers can adversely affect other livelihoods. As such, increased checks on the accounts of a club should show a team in potential trouble, and trigger a warning to get their house in order. Failure to do so should lead to points deduction.
Problem is that most of the clubs in millions of debt are in the Premiership, having either run up large loans of purchasing players, or having debt placed on the business as part of a takeover.  As such, the FA may be unwilling to increase the regulation on football teams.
The HMRC nowadays only accepts less than 100% of the debt in unusual cases. The taxman got annoyed when they were taken off the preferred creditor list. The club can only force a CVA through if the tax debt is less than 25% of the value of all creditors (75% of the value of the creditors are needed to make the payment plan legally binding).

booooooooooooooooooooo.

I might cycle. Is there anywhere to chain my bike up?

yep, chain it round Twiss' legs. Wouldn't make any difference to his movement.

Full time FGR 0 - 0 AFC Wimbledon.


Well done lads, still in with a chance to get away with it...