...tainted by the injury to Masha, absolutely gutted beyond words for him. It looked horrendous and I give him by best wishes for the recovery.
1-11 put in an enormous shift tonight, especially Michael Rankine (who's done nothing but work hard in the three games I've seen) and Stuart Coburn who kept us in the game; there was one double save in particular that was vintage Coburn. Those two have easily been our best players in these opening games of the season and they shone again this evening.
Further nods to Scott Leather, Shaun Densmore and of course George Bowerman who scored the weirdest / easiest brace in Altrincham history. I'm fairly certain the first goal never crossed the line. The second one was a gift as their keeper messed up.
That was a huge three points but more importantly a huge reason for the squad to get their heads up. Four games, four losses would have been an absolute nightmare but we battled fantastically and actually had the much better chances in the second half. I think their main chance was that mint free kick that hit the post, but we had two or three that could have been converted on a different day, especially when Rankine's(?) shot hit the post, hit the keeper and went out for a corner.
Our support was cracking considering we were missing a handful of vocal fans.