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The loan signings in January have cetainly made a difference. It's rare that such a large influx of loan players settle into a team so quickly; you normally find that one or two just don't fit in or can't be bothered.
As far as the part-time vs full-time debate goes, well in my opinion it's not just a matter of fittness. The full-time teams have plenty of time to work on team work, tactics, set pieces as well as being able to analyse their weeknesses (and the opositions) and put things right that have gone wrong - difficult if you only have a couple of evening sessions each week. In recent seasons the part-time clubs have suffered more as the season progresses, so the last third of the season can be a real grind!
As for our chances - well a lot depends on the results between ourselves and Droylsden/Stafford/Farsley. However, if we play as well as we did on tuesday against Kiddiminster I think we can pick up a few more points against mid-table teams. But you're right, there are still a lot of points to play for, and I believe it will go down to the wire between the current bottom five sides (squeeky-bum time!)
(p.s. - thanks for the peake Mike)

Bottom 6 all losing

Well...this afternoon is now about the results of the other teams around us in the table. As things stand, just need Crawley to do us a favour.

There are several players nearing their Alty expiry date. Whilst it may be neccesary to release a few players, it's never nice to see trusty servants of the club leave.

By the way, I think the team would like to play it to Col and Chris' feet but we get closed down that quick that in the end we have to lump it ok.
Nobody, least of all, GH thinks it's a good idea.

Are Alty the only team in this league who get closed down quickly? It may not be the most skillful league in the world, but not all teams resort to hoof-ball. Our problem is that we defend so deeply that when we do get the ball our players get heemed in and have few alternatives. I know its not quite this simple, but play the ball further up the pitch and having players moving and supporting the player in possession would help.
There were times yesterday when Logan had the ball, was surrounded by 4 Vics players whilst the nearest Alty Player was 30 yards away. The point I'm trying to highlight is that we make it hard for ourselves by not giving players easy options.

Fair play to Vics. They out-fought and out-thought us in every department.
Meanwhile Alty seem to think that putting nine men behind the ball (in the first-half at least) and banging hopeful long passes to our midget strikers will reap rewards. Football, or so I was taught, is about making space and moving into space ( support the player with the ball FFS) when you have possession and closing down space when you are defending- we did non of this today. These basics are difficult, I admit,  when you are playing ex-league sides but today we were at home to a team below us in the table!
Some people have said here that we have better players at Alty than for many years, but we certainly don't have a better team - time for a change in coaching staff I feel.
Feel free to Peake.

Thank you very much.
...leaves building...