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Please be aware that Altrincham FC currently runs many junior sides (successfully) in the local leagues......how many kids come and watch the club on a Saturday ? I don't know the numbers, but I suspect only a small group. Some volunteers / level 1 coaches running the junior sides are big Alty fans and will be providing lots of encouragement to the kids to come along on matchdays. It's not like nothing is happening already.

My 2 lads go to BTH on a Sat morning where Chris Bullock and John Halfpenny run the Alty Under 8 and  below stuff prior to the proper teams taking over at Under 9. Chris quite often plugs the Alty game, and my gobsh*te son will always shout out who they are playing. When he was mascot I got him to tell Chris who had him stand up and tell everyone.

But like you say, you'd think you could get a bigger following from them but no one seems that bothered.

Todays program was similarly bad - twice I was reading one of the articles and had deja vu, as I realised the paragraph had been repeated!!

ar*e clenching time for 35 minutes now ! Come on Alty!

No. About half the team have gone for 1 reason or another since the good season last year (I'm also assuming it was a fairly stable team from the season before with a couple of changes), GH had to be patient and wait for players during the summer season, at that point the forum mood was one of trust in GH and KM. The team only train part time (and I guess it is very part time) and it takes time for the team to gel. Budgets in the BSP are ever increasing.  All of the above is out of the managers control surely?

Everyone makes mistakes (bringing in unfit players etc), thats why there are rubbers on the end of pencils - I think GH is trying hard to rebuild a team and is still trying hard now with approaches for another striker and seeing if Colin can help out. Hasn't he also brought in some extra training time?

The only disappointment in GH for me was when he threw the towel in the other week out of frustration and sat the second half out leaning against the wall and his public negativity. In his minor defence was his bereavement and that team orders on who takes free kicks just werent followed.

It would be interesting to know KMc's views on the team, manager and situation?

At some point the team should gel, all we have to do is hope it happens before its too late for this season.

Has it always been a 1 sided board? I was sure last season it was 2 sided so everyone could see - has the credit crunch hit hard !

and piss Alty ST holders off too !

Correct, a long term investor which would help us stabilise ourselves in the BSP.

investor - definition of investor - An individual who commits money to investment products with the expectation of financial return.
benefactor n. One that gives aid, especially financial aid

Ah, do we want the former or latter of the 2 above? I can see why there are no investors coming forward, in that football is very unlikely to make any form of financial return. If it would give me a return equivalent to ISA etc I'd be happy to invest as Im sure many others would be.

You'd have to have someone quite wealthy with a passion for the club to keep pumping money in ? Its either that or someone who likes to flash the cash and be the big man - which again would probably bring all sorts of issues.