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Sounds fishy! No, I'm thinking of a player who played for a team that CCC just beat...

Right, we are top half for the start of the new year, a tremendous achievement by the players and staff (and supporters!), and I thought it would be interesting to see where people currently see us finishing - and maybe compare it with the early season poll. Personally I think that 8th to 11th, which would represent our best finish since Maunders pulled out, is now a realistic target, but that we may just fall short. Whilst we won't suffer again the large scale changes we saw in the close season, we will probably lose one or two players, and there are some strong teams in the league. A reminder - in the first poll on where we would finish, nobody predicted a top half finish. That number again - 0.

The CCC now has its own special feature on Alty TV, and if it doesn't go "viral", it certainly deserves to (442 views already) - though I must say it looked better from the Golf Road End. Let's remember too that this was against an FC Halifax side that had only conceded three goals in their last six league games.

I suspect MOM was given before the goal - exactly the reason why I'm not a fan of giving the award before the final whistle, you never know when someone is going to score a wonder goal that will be remembered for years and put a completely different complexion on things - Phil Parkinson looked like he had no doubts about his man of the match. I doubt I'll see a better goal this season.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-cmCsHelag

First start of the season isn't it? Now if Pringle could emulate him...

Curzon made CCC look Messi? I'm not so sure. Look at the Alty TV coverage from about 5:05. I think he genuinely was good there! I used to play fullback sometimes in kickarounds, and I would have hated trying  to stop that. Also good to see Toby Mullarkey showing the sort of form that had Portsmouth interested (apart from when he nearly missed an open goal ).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lFetA2EEcg

So far as I can tell, they are basically selling out home games, and I wonder if the Oldham attendance was related to segregation or some such (and I seem to remember there were issues around the Oldham-Wrexham game).

Essentially, something akin to what happened to Swansea "Town" - who have previously averaged below what Alty got last season   
(in 1974-5) is now happening to Wrexham, and wen they finally build their new stand and are playing in the Championship, I wouldn't be surprised if they regularly sell out 16,000 odd (assuming we don't get ww3 or something first...).

It was a bit silly maybe and then some, but then again, what about a certain Morecambe goalkeeper's mother? What about "half a pound of tupenny rice"?  What about "Cantona and Giggs", or Julian and the lineswoman at Stevenage - or indeed any number of things that I have done? And indeed what about a snowball with a brick in it? Anyone can do things that they will later regret, especially when young. It is all too easy to say "throw the book at them", but wouldn't it be better to try and show them the Alty way of doing things and make them long term Alty supporters we can be proud of? I know I am a better person because of people I have come cross watching Alty (and yes that includes you, Phil Taylor   ) Let's not give up before we've tried.