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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: robininstockport on November 08, 2023, 09:39:56 AM
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Seems an age since the hard fought at Oldham. No idea if any players are back from injury.
Ross
Banks. Cooper. Baines. Jones
Osbourne. Marriott
Newby. Con-Clarke. Amaluzor
Angus
Alty 2-2 Southend. (Con-Clarke, Banks)
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It'd be nice if Linney was fit enough for a run out.
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It'd be nice if Linney was fit enough for a run out.
Possibly Kozzy first, but it still sounds like Regan might be a while away.
His leg's still been in a cast (or certainly one of those jackets they put around them these days) whenever I've seen pictures / videos.
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Linney and Wilson both available
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Linney and Wilson both available
That's great news. Probably starting on the bench? Coming on for the last half hour?
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Thank God for that. Two vital players.
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Ross
Donawa Cooper Baines Jones
Osbourne Marriott
Amaluzor Con-Clarke Newby
Sithole
Subs : Linney, Banks, Wilson, Angus, J Jones
Linney to have at least 30 mins.
3 - 1 Alty
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Think I'd still start Banks and bring Donawa on at some point.
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PS. That bench is looking good too! 👍
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Linney and Wilson both available
I stand corrected in that place! Having Regan back will be a HUGE boost.
He tormented Southend last season, winning and scoring the penalty (that was Southend wasn't it?)
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Ross
Donawa Cooper Baines Jones
Osbourne Banks
Newby CCC Amaluzor
Linney
Hopefully we’ll see Linney back out there tomorrow!
Alty 3 Southend 1
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Ross
Donawa Cooper Baines Jones
Osbourne Banks
Newby CCC Amaluzor
Linney
Hopefully we’ll see Linney back out there tomorrow!
Alty 3 Southend 1
This is defo our best 11, apart from Banks. Surely, Marriott over Banks in CM?
Think he will start Linney on the bench, but need him to have decent amount of mins.
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Thought Banks did enough to keep his place.
PP might not be pleased with the suspension, may have to earn his place back.
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If anyone thinks Banks should or will play in midfield over Marriott is quite frankly barking mad
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I'd happily take a hard fought draw in this one. Southend are a very tidy side on a great run themselves and would be above us without their points deduction. I think a good performance in a competitive match wouldn't be the worst outcome here. Southend have also had a 2 week break so it's all even on that front.
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Great win! How did Linney look? From listening on RR sounded like he did well.
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Superb game on a tricky pitch. No mom for me as all were immense.
Great away support and 2000 home fans without any offers is brill.
Up the National League we go
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A big win, well done lads.
Worried when we decided to go 5 at the back, looked shaky.
Luckily, we got the second.
Defo think Amaluzor causes more issues down the left. He was putting some decent crosses in and has the pace to get into the box.
Gutted for Newby, he was so good second half, before his injury.
Sithole or Linney to start next game. Angus wasn't great again.
The ball Osborne did to CCC for our second was quality. Osborne is completely a different player, fair play to the lad.
Ross, best keeper since Coburn, by some distance.
Onwards and upwards.
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Wow! What a brilliant game between two brilliant teams. I think that overall we shaded it, though we did ride our luck at times and were reliant on at least 3 superb saves from Ethan.
We were great all over the pitch going toe to toe with easily the best team I've seen this season (I missed the Chesterfield match).
Osborne was absolutely sublime and his partnership with Isaac is the best midfield combo in the league. Baines and Coops are mint.
It was great to see Regan back too. Things are looking bloody good.
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For me, the way we withstood the 10 minute spell of pressure around the 70 minute mark showed how much progress we've made. We'd have conceded a goal - or even two- in a similar sustained attacking spell last season. We've really grown as a team.
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For me Ethan MOM,no coincidence that a top keeper gives confidence and assurance to our defenders,a very even first half,second half carried on much in the same way,but we were more
Clinical in front of goal,along with two top saves from Ethan.
Feels so good to be an Alty fan at the moment, I don’t fear anyone in this league including Chesterfield and Barnet.
Let this run continue.
Minute silence for Remembrance Day fully respected by all in the ground,as expected.
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For me, the way we withstood the 10 minute spell of pressure around the 70 minute mark showed how much progress we've made. We'd have conceded a goal - or even two- in a similar sustained attacking spell last season. We've really grown as a team.
Yes, that was the main thing for me too today, although I thought it was a bit later, just after James Jones came on in a bid to form a more defensive formation. I am not sure whether I said or just thought that Southend can't keep up that pressure for too long, and that, provided we got through that spell, we would be okay.
We did get through, and scored a second goal, and even could have scored a third, which Regan Linney probably would have got if he was at full match sharpness, if you know what I mean, but that margin would have been harsh on a very good Southend team; I do admire the togetherness of their players management and supporters, who rightly applauded them for their efforts at the end, but not their departing ownership.
As for the minute's silence, people should really know, but maybe it needed an announcement to say that you should not applaud at the start of a minute's silence...
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Decent game from 2 decent sides. Hard to pick a man of match, and wouldn't really argue against Isaac Marriott getting it, but blimey, Elliot Osbourne was superb yet again. Then you've got our 2 goals and CCC was absolutely superb in helping to craft them out. Very good all round and to see out a sustained period of Southend pressure in the second half without conceding a goal was a top team effort, topped off by the keeper.
Brilliant to serve up a win in front of the legend Mr Tony Sanders. Great afternoon!
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For me, the way we withstood the 10 minute spell of pressure around the 70 minute mark showed how much progress we've made. We'd have conceded a goal - or even two- in a similar sustained attacking spell last season. We've really grown as a team.
Yes, that was the main thing for me too today, although I thought it was a bit later, just after James Jones came on in a bid to form a more defensive formation. I am not sure whether I said or just thought that Southend can't keep up that pressure for too long, and that, provided we got through that spell, we would be okay.
We did get through, and scored a second goal, and even could have scored a third, which Regan Linney probably would have got if he was at full match sharpness, if you know what I mean, but that margin would have been harsh on a very good Southend team; I do admire the togetherness of their players management and supporters, who rightly applauded them for their efforts at the end, but not their departing ownership.
As for the minute's silence, people should really know, but maybe it needed an announcement to say that you should not applaud at the start of a minute's silence...
As for the minute silence. The referee blew the whistle at the end of the playing of the last post by the bugler.
What should have happened to avoid any confusion was that the ref should have waited until a minute after the bugler finishing, then blowing his whistle.
As an ex soldier of 24 years service I wish people could just stop and stand still rather than keep walking about whilst the silence is being observed.
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Great advert for the NL especially for any neutrals, great game of football that we deserved to win. Thought Elliott Osbourne was my MOM, but all played well. Bench was stronger and showed with Regan and Justin coming on. Thought as Parky said when Newbys effort was superbly blocked at the back post it may not be our day.. But we kept going.
Love Parkys interview lauding Tony and mentioning club volunteers whom are un well. Also honest and on point.
Lets hope the good times continue.
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For me Ethan MOM,no coincidence that a top keeper gives confidence and assurance to our defenders,a very even first half,second half carried on much in the same way,but we were more
Clinical in front of goal,along with two top saves from Ethan.
Feels so good to be an Alty fan at the moment, I don’t fear anyone in this league including Chesterfield and Barnet.
Let this run continue.
Minute silence for Remembrance Day fully respected by all in the ground,as expected.
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My thoughts entirely.
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Great game and it flowed. Lots of pushing and pulling but all within tolerance of the officials most of the time and little dissent or obvious cheating - no cards. All the players tried to stay on their feet. Both management teams and players and the four officials deserve huge credit. Two good teams playing super football. Excellent.
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Breathless second half, shows why I prefer watching Alty to supposedly higher level teams. No play acting or trying to fool the ref, just two good teams out to play football.
2-0 was harsh on Southend but two quality moves for the goals justify the three points.
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Great game to watch and two relatively evenly matched teams. Superb effort to bring such a large away support, credit to them.
Worthy of a mention too, is the steward who was positioned behind the goal at the GR end. I thought he dealt with the need to move our younger supporters away from the fence sensibly and with good humour. I spoke to him at the end to thank him but if you're reading this, Bill, it might be worth passing on a bit of positive feedback to his boss.
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Once the ref showed himself to be even in his allowing of rougher play I thought the game stepped up a notch to become one of the most exciting games I've seen in a while.
It really is good to have a ref that we can say good things about, I hope the Southend fans think the same.
I loved to see our bench yesterday. Regan looks like he's got a couple of injury pounds to drop but nothing another week or so of training won't fix. I can see Sitole getting a start in the next game based on the comments from Phil in his post-match interview.
10 in a row with two very middling-form teams to come before we get a real test of our Playoff potential with Solihull & Chesterfield back to back.
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While on the subject of referees, I thought the one yesterday was the best we have had this season. None of Alty's players were booked or sent off, and to my knowledge neither were Southend's players. Yes there was some discreet pushes, but the referee seemed to feel there were two disciplined and well-drilled teams and therefore let the game flow, and the players to just get on with it.
There were the minimum of stops and interruptions and this made the game very enjoyable for both sets of fans. All in all, a good day for everybody but well done to the officials for letting the game flow with minimal interruptions.
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Great game by two good teams.Agree with all the above.
Yes, ref should have paused after the bugler had finished to avoid confusion....although it was announced that there would be a minute of silence.It was then thoroughly respected once people realised....although people should have stood still.
All in all the whole day a great advert for Altrincham FC and NL football
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Getting very positive at the moment despite myself. 😊
If we can get favourable results over the next five games, (say 8+) who knows what it could lead to.
This period up to Christmas is crucial.
Come on you Supers 👍 🇦🇹 🏆 🥇
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Highlights are up on Alty TV. Seeing Donawa's goal again, must give some recognition to Regan for his flying leap over the ball to avoid blocking the shot. Quite probably bamboozled the keeper while he was at it.
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An excellent team performance for the whole 90 minutes. Very enjoyable with multiple options for MOM. The difference between the two good teams was that we had an end product, particularly in the second half, following some very slick passing. My recollection was that their keeper was far busier than Ethan and we could easily have had four, and whilst this may have looked harsh on Southend, comparing possession, I think we deserved it.
Well done and thank you.
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An extremely gratifying afternoon and a statement victory over a strong Southend United side.
The sort of solid all-round team performance that a manager must dream about. In particular, Marriott and Osborne really caught the eye and a word of praise for the calm and consistently reliable Lewis Baines (another exceptional block from him during a Southend attack early in the first half).
Ross once again proved why he has been such an invaluable acquisition. The back four just seem far more confident with his presence in goal, as opposed to our manifest defensive fragility last season.
Credit is due both to Southend for their approach to the game and the officials who also contributed to the occasion.
I hope that some of the drainage issues regarding that area of the pitch directly in front of the main stand can be resolved and I trust that the scoreboard operator has recovered from their second-half nervous breakdown.
The day was topped off nicely when Bill Waterson was kind enough to bring the great Tony Sanders into the CSH after the match in order for some of us to enjoy an extended chat with him.
What a remarkable character he is. Almost 86 and as sharp as one of our Chief Executive's suits. It was an absolute pleasure to see him back at Moss Lane after all these years. Now we just need to commission a statue of him....
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A small point in the scheme of things. What's happened to Alty TV? It seems that it is no longer in HD. In fact, definitely LD.
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What a remarkable character he is. Almost 86 and as sharp as one of our Chief Executive's suits. It was an absolute pleasure to see him back at Moss Lane after all these years. Now we just need to commission a statue of him....
The first time I spoke to him was, along with Swindellsworth at the back of the stand at Ashton United in the 70s. He obviously wasn't our manager at that point but we both thought what a great, and approachable, guy he was.
Happy days.
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A small point in the scheme of things. What's happened to Alty TV? It seems that it is no longer in HD. In fact, definitely LD.
Thanks for the feedback on this. We've recently switched to the TNT owned camera as main cam as my trusty old JVC (Alty TV cam) can no longer send out a stable output to the NLTV stream (a very loose HDMI out). You might notice a much better quality picture when the edit switches back to camera 2 (using the JVC) on the Southend video. I'll try to make a few more tweaks to the TNT camera and if this doesn't work we'll revert to a dedicated single camera edit using the Alty TV camera only for highlights and leave the NLTV feed on the TNT camera.
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What a brilliant appointment by Noel White & co to move Tony up after Roy Rees left us . His great side should have taken us into the FL of course , we all know the story.
As a strange aside i saw a number of Skem programmes when he was there and they all had him down as Tony SAUNDERS ! No wonder he left .
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What a brilliant appointment by Noel White & co to move Tony up after Roy Rees left us . His great side should have taken us into the FL of course , we all know the story.
As a strange aside i saw a number of Skem programmes when he was there and they all had him down as Tony SAUNDERS ! No wonder he left .
Do you remember the Ashton chat with Tony mate?
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Once the ref showed himself to be even in his allowing of rougher play I thought the game stepped up a notch to become one of the most exciting games I've seen in a while.
It really is good to have a ref that we can say good things about, I hope the Southend fans think the same.
I loved to see our bench yesterday. Regan looks like he's got a couple of injury pounds to drop but nothing another week or so of training won't fix. I can see Sitole getting a start in the next game based on the comments from Phil in his post-match interview.
10 in a row with two very middling-form teams to come before we get a real test of our Playoff potential with Solihull & Chesterfield back to back.
Chesterfield now TBA due to them being in FA Cup action that weekend so the first half of our December still up in the air with the Trophy draw to come to. Dorking at home needs rearranging before Xmas too I’d have thought.
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I couldn't go on Saturday, which is a real shame as it looks as if I missed a brilliant one, obviously in terms of result but also the quality on show.
The ground staff are working miracles with the pitch, I just hope it gets the chance to dry out a bit as it does look heavy and sticky - credit to both sets of players for being able to play some good football despite this.
Hopefully Regan is ready for a start soon, but as suggested it might be one more week on the bench. It looks as if we're playing Eastleigh at the right sort of time form-wise, but given the length of trip I'd be happy enough to keep the unbeaten run going with another point.
4 point cushion in the playoffs, and a game in hand - who would have thought it? - I'm sure there's a spell of poor form around the corner somewhere, but it definitely doesn't feel like we'd suffer the same slides down the table that we've been used to previously. Or at least let's hope not.
It'll be a real show of our ambition to see whether we freshen a few places up with loans in January, although I do feel that we've stretched the budget quite a bit already.
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I couldn't go on Saturday, which is a real shame as it looks as if I missed a brilliant one, obviously in terms of result but also the quality on show.
The ground staff are working miracles with the pitch, I just hope it gets the chance to dry out a bit as it does look heavy and sticky - credit to both sets of players for being able to play some good football despite this.
Hopefully Regan is ready for a start soon, but as suggested it might be one more week on the bench. It looks as if we're playing Eastleigh at the right sort of time form-wise, but given the length of trip I'd be happy enough to keep the unbeaten run going with another point.
4 point cushion in the playoffs, and a game in hand - who would have thought it? - I'm sure there's a spell of poor form around the corner somewhere, but it definitely doesn't feel like we'd suffer the same slides down the table that we've been used to previously. Or at least let's hope not.
It'll be a real show of our ambition to see whether we freshen a few places up with loans in January, although I do feel that we've stretched the budget quite a bit already.
Annoyingly i missed the match too ! I absolutely agree with the above word for word 👌
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What a brilliant appointment by Noel White & co to move Tony up after Roy Rees left us . His great side should have taken us into the FL of course , we all know the story.
As a strange aside i saw a number of Skem programmes when he was there and they all had him down as Tony SAUNDERS ! No wonder he left .
Do you remember the Ashton chat with Tony mate?
I do mate . It was the Ashton v Hyde cup game , replay i think and we were there to 'spy' on our next round opposition . Tony was Roy's assistant and doing likewise . Lovely fella . It was 1972, the Notts County year 😉
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I'm sure there's a spell of poor form around the corner somewhere
I contend that the recent game at home against Kiddy might be as bad a spell of poor form as we might have this season.
The Scoreboard evidently agreed with me as it tried to remedy the outcome of that disapointing performance at half-time on Saturday.
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What a brilliant appointment by Noel White & co to move Tony up after Roy Rees left us . His great side should have taken us into the FL of course , we all know the story.
As a strange aside i saw a number of Skem programmes when he was there and they all had him down as Tony SAUNDERS ! No wonder he left .
Do you remember the Ashton chat with Tony mate?
I do mate . It was the Ashton v Hyde cup game , replay i think and we were there to 'spy' on our next round opposition . Tony was Roy's assistant and doing likewise . Lovely fella . It was 1972, the Notts County year 😉
Wow. Didn't realise it was so early in the 70s. Suppose it must have been though. 51 years back 🤯
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I'm sure there's a spell of poor form around the corner somewhere
I contend that the recent game at home against Kiddy might be as bad a spell of poor form as we might have this season.
The Scoreboard evidently agreed with me as it tried to remedy the outcome of that disapointing performance at half-time on Saturday.
You make a good point, maybe Kiddy and the two Oldham games were the dodgy spell, we seemed to just be hanging in there with a threadbare squad.
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I'm sure there's a spell of poor form around the corner somewhere
I contend that the recent game at home against Kiddy might be as bad a spell of poor form as we might have this season.
The Scoreboard evidently agreed with me as it tried to remedy the outcome of that disapointing performance at half-time on Saturday.
You make a good point, maybe Kiddy and the two Oldham games were the dodgy spell, we seemed to just be hanging in there with a threadbare squad.
I think you were correct in the first place Marple.
As I said elsewhere, the next four or five games up to Christmas will give us a clearer picture of where we are.
Let's hope we're somewhere fantastic! 😉
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A small point in the scheme of things. What's happened to Alty TV? It seems that it is no longer in HD. In fact, definitely LD.
I'll take frame rate over definition any day.
Thanks for the feedback on this. We've recently switched to the TNT owned camera as main cam as my trusty old JVC (Alty TV cam) can no longer send out a stable output to the NLTV stream (a very loose HDMI out). You might notice a much better quality picture when the edit switches back to camera 2 (using the JVC) on the Southend video. I'll try to make a few more tweaks to the TNT camera and if this doesn't work we'll revert to a dedicated single camera edit using the Alty TV camera only for highlights and leave the NLTV feed on the TNT camera.
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A small point in the scheme of things. What's happened to Alty TV? It seems that it is no longer in HD. In fact, definitely LD.
I'll take frame rate over definition any day.
Thanks for the feedback on this. We've recently switched to the TNT owned camera as main cam as my trusty old JVC (Alty TV cam) can no longer send out a stable output to the NLTV stream (a very loose HDMI out). You might notice a much better quality picture when the edit switches back to camera 2 (using the JVC) on the Southend video. I'll try to make a few more tweaks to the TNT camera and if this doesn't work we'll revert to a dedicated single camera edit using the Alty TV camera only for highlights and leave the NLTV feed on the TNT camera.
It's like a different language. Delighted you understand all this and can pull Alty TV together. It's hugely appreciated.
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It sounds like your JVC camera has had as much abuse as my laptop. Thanks for the explanation.