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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Goals
« on: August 20, 2022, 09:17:15 PM »
Well I thought that Kaja's header for the goal was very good at least. If he is one of the second half subs who helped turn the game on its head against the Manchester United XI, I think he promises to be a good signing.

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Popside standing
« on: August 20, 2022, 09:14:53 PM »
So did the barriers at Burnden Park until 80,000 crammed in. And I well remember the incident at the Huddersfield cup match. For all I know, it might be a different story with dozens of people rushing against those flimsy looking fences.

Of more interest to me from a safety point of view is the continued insistence at this level of obscuring the windows in the CSH during play, especially with the issues over getting everyone served during half  time. I hope the authorities will relent eventually, at least for some games at this level, and I would personally rate the increased risks from opening the windows at effectively zero. It might even be less of a risk, with less of a rush to try and get drinks during half time if people are not missing the match in the CSH (or alternatively allowed onto the terraces with hem). It seems something of an anomaly that big matches can be screened at crowded pubs with supporters of both teams mixing, but in the home only CSH, it is apparently too dangerous. Seriously, who is going to behave more dangerously if the windows are open there?

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Loan keeper
« on: August 20, 2022, 07:48:53 PM »
Til Boring Wood apparently. Here's hoping...

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Popside standing
« on: August 20, 2022, 07:16:01 PM »
Why did we get these barriers anyway, rather than the rather more solid seeming structure we used to have? Money, I suppose?

Am I right in thinking that it's just a question of getting the fencing tested rather than necessarily making any changes to it? And when will we be back in the corner at the back of the pop side?

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Maidenhead Match Thread
« on: August 18, 2022, 10:17:20 PM »
Quote from: TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe on August 18, 2022, 07:07:25 PM


I know that Mee makes a hash of things for Maidenhead's opening goal but what on earth was that bizarre backpass all about?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd96SPx4eyg

Dear me. "Time, time", the correct shout. The first rule of defence - if in doubt, get rid. In fact, I suspect Oliver Byrne may well have prevented both goals. I'd like to know the Welsh FA's (or whoever) excuse.

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Something should be done about "tactical" injuries.
« on: August 18, 2022, 09:12:22 PM »
Now there's an idea!

I seem to remember Everton doing something similar with those mints (doubtless someone can tell me if they did in 1975).

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Something should be done about "tactical" injuries.
« on: August 18, 2022, 08:39:37 PM »
Quote from: AltyTunnelSteward on August 17, 2022, 11:24:21 PM
Unless every match official is a qualified medic it isn't possible to intervene when injuries occur.

I suspect that, although in principal, the subject matter may have some value, your observations  / suggestions are spectacularly impractical

Genuine question, what exactly happened with the electric carts business, was it in any way effective, why wasn't it repeated, and what are your insights into the matter (of electric carts specifically but also more generally on time wasting) as  a qualified referee?

In any case, as I've suggested above, quite a lot could be done by enforcing the rules we already have (four steps rule, anyone?), and the matchday experience would gain more from, say, a properly enforced six second rule than "VARs" obsessing over an offside fingernail.

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Altrincham FC First Team / Something should be done about "tactical" injuries.
« on: August 17, 2022, 08:34:42 PM »
We saw it yet again last night, after a sustained spell of ALty pressure, a Maidenhead player went down "requiring" treatment for some time. After which he was able to continue. Of course he could have really taken a knock, but the same routine has happened in other games, and we know that teams do use it as a tactic to relieve a spell of pressure. This means we get home later (from places like Maidenhead) and see a less entertaining game. Too many time wasting tactics go unpunished whilst at the same time the football authorities see fit to obsess about marginal offsides. A few years back (well maybe a bit more than a few now...), at one world cup they insisted that players who got injured were taken off on an electric cart promptly for treatment. If not the same, we should certainly think along similar radical lines or such nonsense will just continue.

And another example of a keeper taking the p... again last night when the ball was given back to him for a goal kick, he kicked the ball "accidentally" into the stands (like Peter Jamieson, who, as mentioned previously, didn't catch the ball when it was thrown very near him for a goal kick). No ifs, no buts, such behaviour should always result in a booking, and referees should be alert to it

The back pass rule shows that radical changes can be made when they want to, and it is high  time to get tough on such spoiling  tactics, especially with the large amount of stoppage time that is common place these days (and I remember when Manchester United scoring a goal as much as 4 minutes into stoppage time was considered noteworthy) .

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
« on: August 17, 2022, 08:10:33 PM »
Quote from: Amsterdam Alty on August 17, 2022, 03:53:18 PM
It is far from strange to raise capital via crowdsourcing platforms, least alone Seedrs which is one of the two best in my experience.

Why does it matter who/where the idea came from? It's smart and opens us up to awareness and new audiences (do I need to dig out the hundreds of mentions on here at the lack of investment over the past 20 years?).

Want to get in on the dividend for met targets? Why not increase your shareholding via this scheme? Varied offering promotions are regular in our society... What free phone can you get with your new contract today compared to 6 months ago?

Want a statement on the statement about the coming launch statement? You're too crazy for words in that case.

I heard Ashton United have a ground that is near to falling apart and a nice red and white kit to cheer on, not to mention a bar that serves hand pulled cask ale. Zero sign of a fan zone and absolutely no ambition to be the best team in their town nevermind their council borough. Up the Robins.

I thought United had one of the best fan zones I've seen, they just don't call it that. And do stop sniping.

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Bromley Match Thread
« on: August 13, 2022, 10:30:53 PM »
I think the best I've seen (apart from possibly Stuart Coburn at Cambridge) is still Peter Jamieson for Blyth. I remember at one point I threw the ball back to him from the back of the Chequers End (after he had called for the ball back) and he stood stock still as the ball sailed past him within inches of his fingers. The FA really should tweak the rules so that it is an actual bookable offence when keepers take the p.


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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Bromley Match Thread
« on: August 13, 2022, 07:21:58 PM »
Quote from: CRT Butty on August 13, 2022, 06:28:31 PM
If Gould has to go through a concussion protocol, who's in goal on Tuesday night?

This delay in getting Ollie sorted out is ludicrous.

That keeper on loan at Alsager? An emergency signing (not Ian Senior presumably😎) ?

Seriously, why is the Byrne business taking longer than my passport? The whole thing's ludicrous.

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Improving the website
« on: August 12, 2022, 11:48:32 PM »
Or maybe colour coded for wins/draws/defeats like we did with the subs last season? Or simply have a big W/D/L next to every result? At the end of the day, whatever system we have, surely the important thing is that it is easily and immediately understood by everyone who reads it?

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Opening day Match Thread.
« on: August 07, 2022, 10:14:04 PM »
Quote from: Bob on August 07, 2022, 09:26:11 PM
Quote from: Ian Harwood (Hale Alty) on August 07, 2022, 05:02:08 PM



Maybe remember why you were able to bring your own sandwiches, not have to travel far to away games, stand where you want and have all that fun?

It was because we had two horrid seasons, double relegations, dropped to our lowest level in living memory, protests against the chairman, crap crowds, poisonous atmosphere, manager after manager, losing runs. That's what it took and I never want to see that again.

I seem to remember a poisonous atmosphere when we didn't change a manager as well a few years before that. Rowley got a lot of stick for that too (despite probably being correct on that occasion). But I agree there are plenty of positives at the moment. The thing is to make the changes required to progress whilst taking as many of our longstanding fans with us as possible, and it is always worth discussing what we can do better. I for one wouldn't necessarily consider it progress if we were getting bigger crowds (like MK Dons) but lost many of the supporters we were getting in previous years, and I hope and believe that will not happen. It can't be emphasised enough how important it is to have a long standing supporter who understands the club as chairman.

Anyway, looks like it won't be long until fence standing and the fan zone return, and that will help massively. I only regret that it looks like the old programmes shop won't be returning.

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Opening day Match Thread.
« on: August 07, 2022, 10:04:51 PM »
Quote from: Seth on August 07, 2022, 09:40:27 PM
I say it every week but the only way that service in the CSH is going to improve is if they start prepouring pints... yes it's not ideal but I don't even bother trying to get served at the bar anymore

Maybe not quite true. Trafford had a gazebo with a man selling cans of beer. Not to everyone's taste maybe, but it was quick and effective (another thing I loved about Trafford were those wooden seats. The little things really do matter...).

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Opening day Match Thread.
« on: August 07, 2022, 02:07:25 PM »
I stood by the CSH at the end of the first half yesterday and went straight in at half time but still barely had time to finish my drink before the second half started. We badly need facilities to return to the "fan zone" corner if we are going to get these sort of crowds regularly.

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