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Looks like an ideal opportunity for me to use my jam jars full of loose change that have collected in our house over the years. 

I'm not sure who's been overseeing the postage of items from the club but it has been verging on the amateurish.

I know of problems relating to the delivery of the respective programmes produced for the play-off success in 2020 and the closing fixture of the 2020/21 season against Torquay United.

Inexplicably, there were instances in which programmes were posted out in cheap and flimsy envelopes (not even hardback) with the result that the items arrived having been damaged in transit and/or insufficient postage had been paid by the club, thereby entailing that the purchaser had to venture to the nearest sorting office in order to fork out for the excess postal charge and collect the item.

Somebody was also under the bizarre misapprehension that you affix postage stamps to the top left-hand corner of envelopes. Schoolboy howler there.

The standard of postal deliveries certainly needs to be sharpened up, particularly if the club do intend to offer the postal subscription service for next season's home programmes that was mentioned earlier this year.

I make mugs and post them out almost daily - I wrap them up very securely. Expecting a mug to survive the Royal Mail journey simply in a jiffy bag is extremely optimistic. I'm glad some got through unscathed.

Where did you see this?

From John Laidlar's Alty Files website, source the Non League Paper 🤔
"HYBRID" HIBERNATES AT ALTY
In today's NL Paper, it says that "Altrincham face 'a big challenge' after postponing a switch to full-time football.
According to the NL Paper, that was the view of Altrincham assistant manager Neil Sorvel. He and manager Phil Parkinson were "handed full-time deals... with the playing staff slated to move to a hybrid model before following suit next season.
But depressed finances and player reluctance made any change impossible, leaving Alty as one of only three fully part-time sides in the top flight of non-League football.
'After having discussions with the players, we realised that a lot of them couldn't do it' said Sorvel (pictured, left). 'And with the financial implications, the budget we've got, the fact that the majority of the lads have only got a year left on their contracts, we just decided it would be easier to do it next season [2022-23].
'Am I frustrated? Yeah, a little bit. It's a difficult sitiation. King's Lynn have jumped to full-time, so have Woking. Weymouth have gone to a hybrid model.
'That leaves just us, Wealdstone and Dover which is a big, big challenge... If we can stay up for another season then we can re-evaluate. If we are good to go hybrid after that, then that's the plan'", stated Sorvel
Nevertheless Alty are "adding extra Monday night sessions ahead of midweek games this season. 'We felt it was essential' explains Sorvel who noted that last season 'The sides in this division were full-time teams from an organisational point of view. That was a big difference... The other thing we noticed was that lots of teams would rather avoid defeat than push to win a game... It's tough to play against'" said Sorvel.
The NLP adds that "Alty will target 'one or two' young players capable of moving to a hybrid model this summer but the majority of the squad will remain in place...
'To finish top of the promoted teams was an achievement in itself... The second [season] can often be more difficult because teams know more about you. For us as a club, it's about stabilising...
'We need to stay as a National League club for a couple of seasons before we can look at anything beyond that'" concluded Sorvel.

Great to see proper stripes back.

https://www.altrinchamfc.com/news/revealed-2021-22-shirts

Definitely our worst performance of the season but credit to Sutton for an excellent & powerful display. They never gave us a chance to get going and our already fragile confidence never recovered from their early goal. They looked strong all over the pitch and set a marker of how much we need to improve if we are to realistically challenge in future. That said, we haven't suddenly become a bad team - missing our 2 most influential players in Smith and Kosylo is hurting us significantly and as others have said, the Moult/Williams partnership just doesn't work or at best it makes us ponderous and predictable.  One thing that frustrates me is our wingers always cut inside, often running into blind alleys - the occasional cross from the bye-line would give players like Piggot the opportunity to attack them in the air. Maybe that's a too old fashioned approach but what we're doing now isn't working.

Yesterday was as disappointing a performance & result as we've suffered this season but I had expected more hammerings this season. While it hurts we need to remember we've come a long way and competed on the whole against opposition that hold advantages over us. This club is making huge strides forward in so many areas and we shouldn't let games like yesterday deflate us too much, we will bounce back.

Sutton are definitely under pressure to win again soon after having a good run and going top they've stuttered recently.

Pretty sure Ian Morris did in the late 70s, away at Matlock?