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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: MarpleAlty on July 29, 2019, 10:14:59 AM
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Surely the game has to be in doubt at this stage?
Do the historians amongst us know whether an opening-day postponement has happened before?
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I appreciate the issue in the main is drainage, but considering the forecasts would it be an idea to get the surface water off the problem area as soon as possible. Possibly hiring/borrowing some super soppers from lccc and the getting the area covered for the rest of the week? Pulling the covers back if we get any sun. Also if help is needed please keep communicating and don’t just ask for help at 2pm on Friday.
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Agreed Pete. I'm happy to come down and help if it gets this game on.but would prefer it not to do be a last minute reques.
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Do the historians amongst us know whether an opening-day postponement has happened before?
I have no recollection of an opening fixture of the season having been postponed in the years since I started watching Alty during the 1971/72 campaign.
However, I do recall the postponement of a Nationwide Conference North League home game against Barrow (which had been our scheduled fourth fixture of the season) back on Tuesday, 24th August 2004 owing to a waterlogged pitch engendered by some early-afternoon torrential rainfall.
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Alty 6/4
Draw 13/5
York 13/10
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Do the historians amongst us know whether an opening-day postponement has happened before?
I have no recollection of an opening fixture of the season having been postponed in the years since I started watching Alty during the 1971/72 campaign.
However, I do recall the postponement of a Nationwide Conference North League home game against Barrow (which had been our scheduled fourth fixture of the season) back on Tuesday, 24th August 2004 owing to a waterlogged pitch engendered by some early-afternoon torrential rainfall.
I thought it was postponed because Barrow would have had difficulty travelling due to torrential rain closing the M6
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If the covers aren't on we're in deep doo-doo. It's like the Niagara Falls out there, and the bloke opposite has started building an ark.
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You'd like to think they were used to protect against the heaviest of the rain.
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The rain overnight and this morning was truly biblical, I live less than a 100m from the ground, the local park is flooded as I have never ever seen before, the brook now a river behind the ground is overflowing.
I know we have partial pitch covers, ( i chipped in towards them), but where does the water run of these? Straight onto the grass and surroundings. The water table is I guess 3 foot higher than normal so do they make a difference unless you have dedicated pitch drainage that doesn't drain into the local ditch, that feeds into a brook that looks tidal at present.
There is no easy solution to this issue at the ground without significant investment, that I guess would cost in excess of £500k
I pray the rain eases to allow the pitch to drain as the brook level drops away. So we can get the game on.
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I'm optimistic and have stocked up on sun cream for Friday and Saturday....
Drench
White Hannigan Mullarkey Hampson
Branson Richman Williams
JJ Jordan Arnold
Subs TT Jones Densmore Max/Peers Chadwick
2-1 to Alty att 1385 (400 York)
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Is Richman not injured?
If not then I think that will the 11
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I know we have partial pitch covers, ( i chipped in towards them), but where does the water run of these?
When this subject arose last year, weren't we told they were frost covers, not rain covers?
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Forecast much better for Thurs/Fri/Sat so Hopefully two full days to dry out
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No word from the club on what is/isn't being done to make sure the game goes ahead?
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I'm sure like everyone else they are waiting for the rain to stop. I think we can all expect the Gold Road corner to be very soft with big puddles under the fence. So can someone at the club hire a pump to get rid of that water so the water still on and in the pitch has somewhere to go?
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I would imagine all the pumps locally are in use pumping out peoples houses and flooded roads. Think we need a little perspective here, this is not normal weather in the area, its extreme. Many roads are blocked and impassable.
The brook behind the ground has now breached the bank and flowing over the bridge to the golf course. The culvert is at least 2 foot higher than on Sunday by the ground almost to path level. nowhere for the water to go at present.
I am sure the club will do what it can to get the game on.
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I'm optimistic and have stocked up on sun cream for Friday and Saturday....
Drench
White Hannigan Mullarkey Hampson
Branson Richman Williams
JJ Jordan Arnold
Subs TT Jones Densmore Max/Peers Chadwick
2-1 to Alty att 1385 (400 York)
With Drench between the sticks we are surely sorted ;D
This is the exact reason why a Winter Break is needed.
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I would imagine all the pumps locally are in use pumping out peoples houses and flooded roads. Think we need a little perspective here, this is not normal weather in the area, its extreme. Many roads are blocked and impassable.
The brook behind the ground has now breached the bank and flowing over the bridge to the golf course. The culvert is at least 2 foot higher than on Sunday by the ground almost to path level. nowhere for the water to go at present.
I am sure the club will do what it can to get the game on.
I tend to agree, although this sort of weather is becoming more common, whatever Donald Trump and co. might say. Hearing stories of flooding in Poynton, there are greater immediate priorities for any pumps.
The forecast is better for the next few days, and I can see a bit of blue sky now, so I certainly don't give up hope for Saturday, but, maybe, donning my tin hat, we do need to consider that 4G pitch in the longer term.
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I'm optimistic and have stocked up on sun cream for Friday and Saturday....
Drench
White Hannigan Mullarkey Hampson
Branson Richman Williams
JJ Jordan Arnold
Subs TT Jones Densmore Max/Peers Chadwick
2-1 to Alty att 1385 (400 York)
I would go with the formation of last year.
Max No.10 role and maybe for this one Richman over Williams. Just for the legs in the centre.
Just had a look at the pitch from a far and seems OK. No standing water.
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Never has selection been so tough. As Sean said in his interview, every player in the squad would consider themselves hard done by to be left out. I'd more or less go with the thriving jezza's team but if Simon is unfit I'd consider playing Mullarky in midfield. He's so comfortable on the ball that I think he could easily do that job.
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I would imagine all the pumps locally are in use pumping out peoples houses and flooded roads. Think we need a little perspective here, this is not normal weather in the area, its extreme. Many roads are blocked and impassable.
The brook behind the ground has now breached the bank and flowing over the bridge to the golf course. The culvert is at least 2 foot higher than on Sunday by the ground almost to path level. nowhere for the water to go at present.
I am sure the club will do what it can to get the game on.
I tend to agree, although this sort of weather is becoming more common, whatever Donald Trump and co. might say. Hearing stories of flooding in Poynton, there are greater immediate priorities for any pumps.
The forecast is better for the next few days, and I can see a bit of blue sky now, so I certainly don't give up hope for Saturday, but, maybe, donning my tin hat, we do need to consider that 4G pitch in the longer term.
I can confirm your stories of flooding in poynton. I left wythenshawe hospital at just after 4pm to take a (Macc fan home and away) person back to rainow, it took three and a half hours to get to rainow and I am still not back home (Wilmslow). Cars abandoned in adlington and the outskirts of poynton and Macc the A537 is floooded in both directions. I’ve had to come over the tops towards Whaley bridge and should be finally home in 20 mins. No excuses for the game not to be on its dry as a bone now. Except for all
The inland seas 😂
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Reading what's on the club website it would appear that Simon Richman is very doubtful for the first two games. If that turns out to be true, we will miss his energy in what could well be very stamina-sapping conditions; it doesn't matter how much the sun shines between now and 3pm Saturday, I would have thought the pitch will inevitably be in far from ideal shape. As I've only seen one PSF - at Whitchurch - I can't comment on the likely selection, but trusting the management is surely the best policy for the rest of us.
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I see from Twitter that Stuart Coburn loaned us a pump yesterday that has helped towards I quote a ‘massive improvement’ on the pitch & also pumped water away from the dressing rooms which were apparently also affected by the deluge. Cautiously optimistic now that we will be on this Saturday.
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Cheers Stuart.
Club have just tweeted asking for volunteers this morning to contact the club if you can spare a little time to help with the clear up.
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A few years ago the club asked for volunteers to come forward in order to form a working party who could be contacted in the event of inclement weather. They would ring people to (for example) come down and fork the pitch and/or move pitch covers. I seem to recall that it worked quite well, so would it be worth doing it again?
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A few years ago the club asked for volunteers to come forward in order to form a working party who could be contacted in the event of inclement weather. They would ring people to (for example) come down and fork the pitch and/or move pitch covers. I seem to recall that it worked quite well, so would it be worth doing it again?
I suggested this to the club with regards to the pitch covers as, I was told, one of the reasons they weren't being used was man power. Building a list of "on call" volunteers for such weather is something many clubs do.
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Quote from: Paul Cain's Chip Pan on Today at 09:23:04 AM
A few years ago the club asked for volunteers to come forward in order to form a working party who could be contacted in the event of inclement weather. They would ring people to (for example) come down and fork the pitch and/or move pitch covers. I seem to recall that it worked quite well, so would it be worth doing it again?
I suggested this to the club with regards to the pitch covers as, I was told, one of the reasons they weren't being used was man power. Building a list of "on call" volunteers for such weather is something many clubs do.
Andrew, that's a great idea, hopefully the club will resurrect this. Makes absolute sense.
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A few years ago the club asked for volunteers to come forward in order to form a working party who could be contacted in the event of inclement weather. They would ring people to (for example) come down and fork the pitch and/or move pitch covers. I seem to recall that it worked quite well, so would it be worth doing it again?
I suggested this to the club with regards to the pitch covers as, I was told, one of the reasons they weren't being used was man power. Building a list of "on call" volunteers for such weather is something many clubs do.
There is a whatsapp group for "Pitch Cover Helpers" in existence, and offers of help have been offered this week via the group.
For whatever reasons unknown to me, I dont believe the covers have been utilised this week.
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It's absolutely persisting down again. Water is running down both sides of Wood Lane like twin rivers.
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Just a shower, not that bad at the ground.
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Just a shower, not that bad at the ground.
Forecast is much better from now until Saturday, so let's hope we're on target now.
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The reserves' home game on Saturday in the Cheshire League Memorial Cup has already been called off.
However, that is nothing to do with the pitch, but because the visitors were Whaley Bridge, and the inhabitants of that town have more than enough to cope with at the moment, before trying to make their way to a football match.
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The reserves' home game on Saturday in the Cheshire League Memorial Cup has already been called off.
However, that is nothing to do with the pitch, but because the visitors were Whaley Bridge, and the inhabitants of that town have more than enough to cope with at the moment, before trying to make their way to a football match.
I have never heard of the like of what they are going through in the UK before. I have seen some of the pics/video on the M.E.N. website. Extraordinary.
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Never in doubt was it...
Drench
White Jones Hannigan Hampson (c)
Branson Williams
Johnston Arnold Walters
Hulme
Hulme vs McNulty will be a fascinating watch.
Altrincham 1-1 York City [Johnston penalty, 78']
ATT: 2,321
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Never in doubt was it...
Drench
White Jones Hannigan Hampson (c)
Branson Williams
Johnston Arnold Walters
Hulme
Hulme vs McNulty will be a fascinating watch.
Altrincham 1-1 York City [Johnston penalty, 78']
ATT: 2,321
Great team. I would maybe have White LB and Dens RB, I think we are more dangerous with Dens bombing down that side.
I am proper excited about this season.
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Walters is an interesting signing, but I am disappointed for Matt Chadwick. He worked his tripe off during the friendlies but we have to go my squad restrictions I guess.
Welcome to Lewis, good signing as he has showed up well in all the friendlies. I also noticed what Ashley Hemmings said on Twitter - 'What a signing'
Roll on tomorrow, we have really strong options everywhere on the pitch now.
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I think he may give Max a starting role, probably at the expense of Walters. Also wouldn’t be surprised to see Dens on the bench, but we have many combinations at the back which will work...including the welcome addition of Mullarkey who has been excellent in pre season. My only concern ( whisper it ) is that Jordan hasn’t been firing pre season at all....not scored and has looked off the pace to me. Hoping he comes alive on Saturday.
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I have to say Max is one of the players I was expecting to be sacrificed to bring in a bit more quality....I think Williams did better as a pushed up midfielder than max did as no10.....
I like that starting XI with both walters and Arnold!!...wow! wonder if PP has thought of that coz it never occurred to me despite scratching my head and keep coming up with peers or Williams pushed up in the number 10 Saturday.....
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We may go 4-3-3
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I think he may give Max a starting role, probably at the expense of Walters. Also wouldn’t be surprised to see Dens on the bench, but we have many combinations at the back which will work...including the welcome addition of Mullarkey who has been excellent in pre season. My only concern ( whisper it ) is that Jordan hasn’t been firing pre season at all....not scored and has looked off the pace to me. Hoping he comes alive on Saturday.
Just my view but I thought Jordan gave the 2 Fylde centre backs an absolute nightmare in preseason.
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Well, I for one am desperately hoping the game doesn't get cancelled.
Tomorrow is set to be my first Alty game in about 24 years - since the 95/96 season.
I moved overseas with family as a kid in '96 and have been following Altrincham from afar ever since.
While I've been back to the UK a couple of times since, this is only my second trip back to Manchester and the first that coincided with a game.
So, any tips for someone who is not, but might as well be, a first-time attendee?
How long before should I arrive, where to park, any good pre-game pubs, where to sit, etc?
Thanks,
-Peter
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So, any tips for someone who is not, but might as well be, a first-time attendee?
How long before should I arrive, where to park, any good pre-game pubs, where to sit, etc?
The game looks pretty good to go now so I wouldn't worry about that. I'd arrive around 2:30 to avoid the turnstile congestion. Any later and you may have a small wait. If you want to park nearby then the car park behind Aecom is ideal, free to use: https://goo.gl/maps/ZG8ZdpoH1zc4dotr9
Pre-game drinking is better in the town centre but if you wanted to park within the vicinity of the ground I'd suggest just getting in and getting one at the ground. You can take it out in a plastic cup and enjoy it while the atmosphere builds. Main haunts in the town centre for fans will be Libero in Kings Court and probably Costellos in Goose Green. Plenty of other top pubs around the town but I'd steer clear of the Station Hotel as there will most likely be a load of York in there.
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2-1 Alty - Arnold/Hulme Att: 1743
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So, any tips for someone who is not, but might as well be, a first-time attendee?
How long before should I arrive, where to park, any good pre-game pubs, where to sit, etc?
The game looks pretty good to go now so I wouldn't worry about that. I'd arrive around 2:30 to avoid the turnstile congestion. Any later and you may have a small wait. If you want to park nearby then the car park behind Aecom is ideal, free to use: https://goo.gl/maps/ZG8ZdpoH1zc4dotr9
Pre-game drinking is better in the town centre but if you wanted to park within the vicinity of the ground I'd suggest just getting in and getting one at the ground. You can take it out in a plastic cup and enjoy it while the atmosphere builds. Main haunts in the town centre for fans will be Libero in Kings Court and probably Costellos in Goose Green. Plenty of other top pubs around the town but I'd steer clear of the Station Hotel as there will most likely be a load of York in there.
And if you want some food our menu is available in all 3 kiosks, serving from 1:30pm.....
https://www.altrinchamfc.com/club/menu-at-the-j-davidson-stadium (https://www.altrinchamfc.com/club/menu-at-the-j-davidson-stadium)
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So, any tips for someone who is not, but might as well be, a first-time attendee?
How long before should I arrive, where to park, any good pre-game pubs, where to sit, etc?
The game looks pretty good to go now so I wouldn't worry about that. I'd arrive around 2:30 to avoid the turnstile congestion. Any later and you may have a small wait. If you want to park nearby then the car park behind Aecom is ideal, free to use: https://goo.gl/maps/ZG8ZdpoH1zc4dotr9
Pre-game drinking is better in the town centre but if you wanted to park within the vicinity of the ground I'd suggest just getting in and getting one at the ground. You can take it out in a plastic cup and enjoy it while the atmosphere builds. Main haunts in the town centre for fans will be Libero in Kings Court and probably Costellos in Goose Green. Plenty of other top pubs around the town but I'd steer clear of the Station Hotel as there will most likely be a load of York in there.
And if you want some food our menu is available in all 3 kiosks, serving from 1:30pm.....
https://www.altrinchamfc.com/club/menu-at-the-j-davidson-stadium (https://www.altrinchamfc.com/club/menu-at-the-j-davidson-stadium)
love that hot vimto is still for sale RIP Kieth
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Gutted not to be going.
Alty 1-1 York. Arnold
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Alty 1 York 0 Mullarkey header from a 95th minute corner just after York go down to 9 players and Watson is banished from the touchline.
Attendance 1,753
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I presume the game is segregated today.
Alty 2 York 1
Attendance 1950
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Very disappointed just first day blues hopefully.Full credit to the York fans
For respecting the Minute silence.
Game itself we started well and got the early goal after 25 minutes York
Grew into the game and fully deserved to equalise on half time.Second half
They played the High press very well and on numerous occasions they robbed our midfielders.for me the two new boys Arnold and Walter's were
Very disappointing but way to early to draw any conclusions on either.on to
Chester on Tuesday and hopefully put today's result on one side and kick on
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Why did we stop playing after we scored. We became a team that just launched it.
Hope Hulme doesn't give Tweedledee and Tweedledum the same respect and starstrucked performance he gave McNulty today.
Very very disappointed with that today.
Didn't look like a Parkinson side for large parts. Even when a full time fit Fylde side penned us in we kept our cool.
We miss Hancock so much.