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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: Jenga on June 10, 2008, 12:24:13 PM
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I know we are a team who do not have too high expections and we should keep our feet on the ground and real according to the board. So here are expectations for the forthcoming season.
League Position - Top 10 Finish
FA Trophy - Semi Final place at least
CSC - Winners
FA CUP - minimum of 4th Round Proper
Being on Setanta - 7 times minimum
If anyone thinks my expectations are too high I challenge you to a dual !!!
Actually I hope for more or less league safety by Mid April, that would be great news, the cups can take a running jump except for the cash that is involved
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I know we are a team who do not have too high expections and we should keep our feet on the ground and real according to the board. So here are expectations for the forthcoming season.
League Position - Top 10 Finish
FA Trophy - Semi Final place at least
CSC - Winners
FA CUP - minimum of 4th Round Proper
Being on Setanta - 7 times minimum
If anyone thinks my expectations are too high I challenge you to a dual !!!
Actually I hope for more or less league safety by Mid April, that would be great news, the cups can take a running jump except for the cash that is involved
I'd settle for a league position with a -teenth at the end of it, being safe a couple of weeks before the end of the season and beating a FL club (preferably Macc or Chester) in the FA Cup ...
However I'm sure you know better than me so I'll agree with you! :D
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With the squad we are assembling and the amount of time we have had to prepare this time I would expect us to stay out of the bottom 4 for the whole season and finish at least 6-9pts above it.
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18th
Plenty of teams to fight with and we can improve our record against that nature of opponent. Think Lewes, Eastbourne, Barrow, Salisbury, Histon, Weymouth, and Woking will all struggle next season with a couple more like Histon and Kettering potentially around there too. We have to try to be better than 5 or 6 of these teams and clear of them by Christmas.
COME ON ALTYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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One of the major differences to previous years is that we have got the nucleus of the squad together now and know what league we're in. We were 'caught with our pants down' until the loan signings came in half way through the season.
That isn't going to happen this year.
Looking at other teams' sites, they all make us favourites for the drop. Well that's fair enough, they're entitled to their opinions.
However I'm very optimistic about the signings GH has made - especially if Brownhill comes in July - and with a street-wise, experienced centre back in the squad who's not slower than me, we could have a team that will surprise a fair few sides this year.
Here's hoping.
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3rd! ;D
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a win at Websfeet would be nice!
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Oh come on.. 'We'll never play them again" ???? So lookin forward to those two games, they are my new FGR !
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I'd be happy with the last game being an end of season nothing match with nothing to play for rather than the nailbiting stuff of the last few seasons.
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The key to me is the approach we take at home. If we have a go at teams I am confident that we can stay up.
Alty 3 Weymouth 2 and Alty 0 York 3 are better results than Alty 0 Weymouth 0 and Alty 0 York 0.
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My expectations are to be able to watch a team of players giving it 100% in every area of the field in every game.
Using set peices to open up the oposition, and ensuring we look up before trying to distribute the ball.
One can only hope and pray.
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I want us to only be cautious against say the 6 best teams in the league. The rest are fair game.
Always try to win at home with a 4-4-2, 4-5-1 away unless its against the worst six teams in the league, then 4-4-2 and go for it.
I want to finish 18th and then build again.
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I want us to only be cautious against say the 6 best teams in the league. The rest are fair game.
Always try to win at home with a 4-4-2, 4-5-1 away unless its against the worst six teams in the league, then 4-4-2 and go for it.
There in lies the nub of the 'problem'. Hasn't GH already outlined his part-time tactics will not change or do we think he will do a u-turn with the new signings? I'll probably get peaked on from a great height for this post, but whilst I'm delighted with the new signings, I'm not going to go overboard with optimism either.
I'm hoping to be convinced I was wrong and the steps already taken offer some hope, but I am cautious.
With the team we are assembling I would hope we will be safe before the last day of the season......but didn't a lot of us think that last year?
UG (head daring to rise above the clouds, but feet planted firmly on the ground)
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The key to me is the approach we take at home. If we have a go at teams I am confident that we can stay up.
Alty 3 Weymouth 2 and Alty 0 York 3 are better results than Alty 0 Weymouth 0 and Alty 0 York 0.
Such a valid point, I'd rather go at teams and win and then get stuffed the following week than eek out two draws.
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My hopes:
League: -teenth will do me
FA Cup: laying to rest old scores season: 4QR Stalybridge 0 Alty 2, 1R Accrington 1 Alty 2, 2R Alty 4 Macc 1, 3R a money tie
FA Trophy: Quarter Finals
CSC: It doesn't matter until the final - where we will put out the first team against Alsager Swifts and lose on penalties
Setanta Shield: quite frankly my dear, I don't give a damn!
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to watch a home game and finally see a win i missed the few games we won so maybe best if i miss all games :(
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FA Cup: laying to rest old scores season: 4QR Stalybridge 0 Alty 2, 1R Accrington 1 Alty 2, 2R Alty 4 Macc 1, 3R a money tie
Droylsden away in the third round then...
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FA Cup 1st round Bath City vs Alty. I know you lot have miles to travel but I've been waiting for this for years and City never get into the national rounds of Cup or Trophy so it won't happen!
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My expectations are to finish outside the bottom 4 and play some exciting attacking football, especially at home.
In fairness to GH I applaud him for bringing players of the calibre of Chris Denham to the club. This bodes well for the future and it's looking quite positive at the moment.
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Myexpectations -
cautious: improve on the "18th" of 2006.
Optimistic: anything Histon can do, we can do. Hopefully whaat is happening is the same as four years ago when Heathcote built a quality Conference North team on a budget, only this time a level higher.
The signs are good. Denham particularly is an example of what we should be doing, a qualty player who didn't fancy full-time football. With the debt gone and a clear pre-season to prepare for Conference football, this is our best chance for a long time.
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Roof on the away end new gates at the home end and a couple more stewards would be nice ;D ;D
But i would settle for 16th
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I've bet the lads at work Alty finish higher in BSP then Blackburn finish in the premiership
easy money i think?
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I've bet the lads at work Alty finish higher in BSP then Blackburn finish in the premiership
easy money i think?
How does that work with a differing number of teams in each league (unless you do it on a percentage basis)?
Don't think that's easy money either way, unless you think Blackburn will implode after the departure of the Sparky one. No real movement on the player front yet.
Good luck with the bet and I really hope you win as I think that will mean we have a great season.
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what we agreed on was 1-12 position nearest the top
12 down nearest the bottom
and with sparky gone and their best players wanting to leave
even the blackburn fans are very worried about next season
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Sorry cornish robin..............but I think you better hold off from spending your winnings. Not easy money at all and I think you have got a very good chance of losing your bet.
I cannot see Blackburn occupying the bottom six next season, whereas a sixth from bottom finish for Alty is something I would settle for right now (and then build on this the next season).
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Most confident prediction of all.
Alty will get less than two home Setenata games next season so we won't get the larger payment of £13k per match.
Torquay will get at least four home games and giving them an extra £39k on us.
Stevenage and Oxford will also get at least two home matches for the extra cash irrespective of league positions.
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Most confident prediction of all.
Alty will get less than two home Setenata games next season so we won't get the larger payment of £13k per match.
Torquay will get at least four home games and giving them an extra £39k on us.
Stevenage and Oxford will also get at least two home matches for the extra cash irrespective of league positions.
I think some people are barking up the wrong tree about this. Setanta are a business, not a charity, the casual fan who really hasn't got anything better to do with his time and finds a Conference game live on the tv is far more likely to watch if Oxford/Wrexham/Torquay are playing than the likes of us, Histon etc. That's the unfortunate reality so we have to deal with the fact that the tv cut will just increase the gap between the haves and the have nots.
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I'm not convinced I'm that bothered about being on Setanta, ok it increases awareness but say we get Mansfield or Wrexham at home I think I'd rather see 2000+ in Moss Lane.