Great earlier post about the building of the late 70's and early 80's team and comparing it to now. Remember the wobble towards the end of the 80/81 season, i think when JR got injured, the buying of Gary Hulme for a then record fee of i think around £5k and in the end winning the league from Kettering with a game to spare before the last game of the season at home v Yeovil. Great shame that alot of that team were nearing the end of their careers at the same time and it was always going to tough for Tony Sanders to rebuild a team of a similar quality. Remember the stick he was getting towards the end from a few fans and always thought it a shame his managerial career at Alty ended that way.
As for now, someone has already mentioned one difference from back then is the number of subs allowed but also there is the difference in the use of loan players. Personally at times I've lost touch as to who is permanent and who is on loan, and it would be good to finish the season with a more stable starting 11, of players who should be with us next season and not end up having the same turnover of players we have had this season. Its petering out this season but can't see why we can't compete in this league next season, I don't think there are too many teams we should be afraid of.