I genuinely have no idea of the standard but what I do know is that last season we beat Blyth who ran away with it, on their ground in the Trophy, and even allowing for the fact they were likely focusing on the league, that really tells its own story, The worst by a very large distance modern day Alty side most of us can recall beat the league champions of the league we've just been relegated too 6 months ago has to count for something.
There's no doubt we'll be a lot of sides cup finals but unllke the coalition of chaos last pre-season I get the impression Parkinson actually knows what he's doing. We'll soon find out but if as an absolute minimum we are not in the play offs come late April we might as well give up.