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So was I, and have already said I was wrong. I can only think his lack of much of a pre-season accounted for his slow start, but once he got going,he hasn't looked back.

While I wouldn't quite put it in the way Octopussy did, and I certainly did enjoy the win on Tuesday, it is impossible to ignore that we are competing at a different level; as has been mentioned, our worst home league crowd for 13 years was still the best of the night in the division. We should be doing well at this level with the resources available.

I am not boycottting games myself, but I completely respect the motives of those who do after what has happened in recent years. It definitely does not mean they are not proper supporters as some seem to imply.

At least they turned up, which is more than Ashton United did for their home FA Youth Cup match against us tonight.
Somebody who keeps tabs has told me he reckons there have been no less than 28 withdrawals from the Youth Cup this season, including Chadderton who gave Ashton a walkover in the previous round. That must be a record.

Shaw Lane away is off now aswell for the Cheshire senior cup...

Although, if we draw with Clitheroe or Colne in the FA Trophy, any replay in Lancashire will take precedence over the Cheshire Senior Cup.
There does seem to be a lack of joined up thinking by the different parties in arranging county cup, league matches and potential Trophy replays for the same week.

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Quote from: Andrew Flynn on September 18, 2017, 02:38:24 PM

Shildon will play Banbury United away. What a missed opportunity.

What makes you believe we'd have had an easy passage at Banbury?

We are capable of much better than we showed on Saturday.

Not consistently we're not - not when the going gets tough. This season is so much following the pattern of Sinnots first. We will enough to be around the top 8, I said before this team has no bollocks (unless its arguing with supporters on the way out of the ground)

You have hit the nail on the head. The current team is capable of very good football, but I wouldn't trust them on, say, a wet Tuesday in Workington to get a result.
It will be the biggest task for Phil Parkinson to instil some mettle in this talented team.

in football as head of scouting at FC Halifax Town. Just when they are doing so well.

Quote from: Hemel Alty on September 10, 2017, 02:28:45 PM

100 or so Altrincham supporters. The entire gate was only 212.

Leicester were at home at 3pm which must hit them hard.

I've a lot of respect for clubs like Barwell (without patting them on the head) for even getting any sort of team out on 130-150 fans.  It must be a real catch 22 between wanting to try and play football and not being able to do it.

I've enjoyed both visits there although the aggregate score has clearly helped.

That's very true. It's worth remembering that it's an achievement, again without being patronising, for some of our opponents, such as Barwell, to compete at this level, which they clearly have done for a few seasons.

Abbey Hey were a limited, but spirited, side who certainly made us work hard for our eventual victory, and I am sure they will soon rise up the NWCL table. Elliot Wynne looked comfortably the best of the three goalkeepers involved in this tie, and I would really hope we would enquire to see if he fancies a chance playing at a higher level subject to him not being on contract or any other difficulties.

JJ deservedly man of the match, but a word of praise for Max Harrop who was vastly improved from the Stafford match.

I still have this feeling that the team hasn't quite clicked, thinking of the moves which came to nothing. Still, it's a win, we are in the next round, and are even on an unbeaten run now.