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Don't forget to say hello to Melanie at Trafford tonight, and ask her if they can switch their kick off time so we can have a double-header when York play Alty!!!!

 

You can also get the Gaelic games. Lucky you...

To be fair I am not a great fan of the Irish but I must admit I did use to enjoy Hurling and Gaelic Football when they used to show it Saturday mornings on Channel 4. It's pretty full on stuff, the fact they are prepared to smash each other in the face with sticks is reason enough for them to deserve my attention!

 

I thought you might have learned the lessons from last season when you invited FC United to play a friendly and they acted like a set of tossers, Bury are just the same, a dreadful set of wankers.

I can't see how any full-time professional club can operate without a reserve team, and one playing in a decent standard league.

We nearly lost ours 3 years ago but the fans raised the money to keep it going. Last season we beat Lincoln 2-0, Doncaster 7-0, Sheffield United 3-1, Grimsby 1-0 away etc etc as we had quite a good side. Next season the likes of Leeds, Sheffield Weds, Barnsley will be in our division.

I think it shows the professionalism of Jim Harvey who is a bloody good manager, and actually it is the smaller clubs lower down who benefit from playing strong opposition and who get the most out of being in the reserve league.

Gutted that the Alty game at our place is on a Tuesday night, that wrecks a few plans I reckon. no Frank Sidebottom this season!

That said, New Year's Day could be a good time to organise a session - you are away at Northwich, we are away at Droylsden. Also on the Bank Holiday Monday (Aug 27th) we are at Northwich while you are at Stafford.

Saturday Jan 19th is already in the diary - now, all we need is Trafford to be at home on the same day and for them to move their kick off forward and my great money-spinning "festival" idea might just work. Bit bloody cold though!

Done 

Any news on your confguide embargo yet?

Looks like a life ban, they are running scared now Woking have gone tits up.

 

Who says Alty are a joke?

Crawley are a joke. Northwich are a joke. Even us at York are a bit of a joke when we lose our best players for nothing every season.

Don't worry about it. It's usually fans of clubs that you've beaten or have frustrated that call you a joke. At least you haven't gone into administration, you don't have a 3-sided ground, you don't haemorrage £500,000 per season, you don't have a reputation as troublemakers, your officials don't grass up other clubs to save your own necks, you don't play dreadful hoof or time-wasting football and play for 0-0 draws away from home, etc etc.