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Play our strongest 11 on Sat.

Just read Oyedele isn't available. Need him for Halifax.

GK Byrne

RB MWH
CB J.Jones
CB Baines
LB E.Jones

CM Marriott
CM Lundstram

LW Sinclair
RW New Guy ?
10. Hulme

ST Linney


Then big rotation for Tuesday.

Highly unlikely the new lad from Oldham will get a start when he’s not really featured much there this season. I suspect Osbourne will be a starter.

I think the average gate point is an interesting one too.

Whilst us long term fans are all buzzing at an average gate just over 2k, the fact is that’s not
impressive in the National League these days & puts us 14/24 in the average attendance table-20 years ago we’d have been proper big boys with an average like that in the Conference but times have moved on. To push on towards the play offs we probably need 2500ish towards 3k. Those numbers though it’s chicken & egg because we need much better spectating facilities but without the larger support and more revenue it will be harder to get those better facilities.

It’s why a week Saturday is so important, for the buzz, interest & longer term benefits for the club (e.g. a Wembley appearance has to be worth at least 150-200 extra ST holders next season surely) to galvanise more of the town to come on down & get behind us.

If we were to relocate, I can only assume it would be on Broadheath Retail Park - although I hope we'd pick an existing plot at the front (e.g. the Homebase plot if they finally went bust / sold up) and not the back.

A few boozers to choose from, and a 20-minute walk from the station which is do-able for most (even shorter if you hop on the tram to Navvy Road).

Agreed. Trams & trains from Navvy Road, loads of buses to/from Alty & town, at least 3 pubs & Stubborn Mule taproom in close proximity. The only plausible wider location in the town if we ever had to leave our current home for whatever reason is that Broadheath Retail Park area.

Linney to start plus ten others. Pile in on the Notts win.

Quote from: MarpleAlty on March 13, 2023, 05:38:18 PM

Wasn't there talk of the pitch being flipped 90 degrees at one point?

On the face of it, makes sense - would give us room to have deeper stands running down each length of the pitch, and would probably just about miss the telecommunications mast - but it would go quite far into the allotment, and obviously they're under no obligation to sell.

yes this is my plan but requires a big euromillions win.  Some concern about buying up the allotments, the new houses make this difficult.
I suspect we would have to go out of town to build from scratch, how about just off the new M56 junction, plenty of space

Think this is a live debate for the club. To get Moss Lane up to the standard of increasingly most of the grounds in our league (not to mention the EFL) will require millions & a lot of building work. Hemmed in as we are by houses on 3 sides & an allotment on the other I can see planning permissions becoming an on-going issue so exploring if there is anywhere else feasible in the town is s sensible thing to do. You think of the sides local-ish to us be that Halifax, York, Chesterfield & the stands we get put in at their grounds & then what they get at ours. It’ll be hard but we can’t stand still with the ground.

We’ll have played better then that & not won this season, but under the circumstances to follow up Saturday against a team who clearly targeted tonight with another win is superb. I thought we coasted through it for long periods against a limited York side & did what we had too.

In a strange way the most pleasing thing was that was what I would call a proper Conference display & what a Boreham Wood or a Bromley have done to us at Moss Lane a few times we did to York. Whether it was Byrne wasting time, Hugill winning soft free kicks or Lundstram sending their fans into an absolute fume by going down injured we just wound the clock down, did all the tricks & then won it on s set piece. Displays like tonight you see our maturity as a squad at this level growing.

Perhaps the Chequers End could become the Home End. It's got a better gradient. Away fans could then have Golf Road.

It’s an interesting one as there is no doubt the view is miles better at the Chequers then on the GRE. However all the adjacent facilities in the CSH, Fanzone, snack bar etc means that the Altrincham end of the ground will always be the natural home end.

Quote from: Leon on March 13, 2023, 10:02:16 AM

I'm actually more wary of Halifax than the other two as, like us, they don't have anything else to play for.

That York made five changes from their win at Bromley supports Leon's view. A Home draw is the priority imho.

Absolutely Hendo. Still think for a one off it really should be at a neutral L2 ground at this stage but there we are. With 4K home fans in I’d back us against any of them at home. Away I’d feel most confident at Gateshead with their poor home record & the impossibility of creating any kind of atmosphere at their soulesss athletics track.I think Halifax & Barnet could both draw big numbers for a Semi.