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To be honest I'd try and get Baguley back here in the summer whatever league we're in. We've been crying out for someone creative in midfield all season and I mean even after we had young King on loan as he was very much a ball winner like Robbie. The lack of someone who can create openings has been the main reason we've not won that many during the improved run of form.

Think it was Charlie Mitten (ex Man U) as i remember him being player-manager in the early 60's. Not sure when I started watching Alty but guess it was about 1961. My Grandad, whom I never knew, did work for the club as I have a clock on the fireplace which they presented him for service from 1930 to 1948 (maybe some of the older fans can tell me what he did as I can't ever recall my dad telling me!!). My dad lived at the white house opposite the ground which is now the nursery and I remember him taking me to games before the W&S years. I remember us getting stuffed 7-1 at Macc and all the Alty fans giving Paddy Fagan grief......I think he may have been player-manager at the time.
Remember many of the names already mentioned but I always recall Don Cooke who was going to be a massive local star but I think he got injured and never really made it and I always have this memory of a Scottish centre forward called Harvey McCreadie, if my memory serves me well, who was awesome in the air!!
Loved the Swindells era whilst at school and got plenty of my mates from school to come and watch at the time, however, in autumn 67 one of my mates returned the favour and took me along to the Kippax and I was hooked on watching City from then on. What a year to start watching them as I was up at Newcastle on the last day of the season to see them win the league.
Came back to watching Alty in the early 70's but went back to City in 79 and ended up missing the League Championship wins!! Returned again in 94 I think when my wife suggested I go and watch City with my niece's husband but I saw that Alty were playing Kiddy who were champions but hadn't been allowed promotion. I've been coming ever since and have been a season ticket holder for about 10 years and my oldest daughter became thr fourth generation Alty fan in the Read family when she started watching about 8 or 9 years ago!!

Spoke to a bloke in the bar who was part of the stag do and they were up from Nuneaton and staying in Manchester (the Outback....Aussie hostal?). Don't think he told me why they'd ended up at Alty though!!!

I'm very pleased with the appointment of Graham B and do see it as the start of a new era which hopefully will see us push on to a mid-table position in the next season or so!!
I have been as critical as others about Graham H at times, mostly due to the negativity we sometimes show in our play and I do hope that we do try to be a little more positive, the fitness shouldn't really be such an issue now with the full-time lads in the team. Tuesday night was a bloody good start!!
One plea I'd like to make to the Grahams.........can we please start leaving a couple of forwards up when we're defending a corner?!!! I still can't see the point of players like Senior and Little going back to defend and it also means whatever the clearance, it's going to go to one of the opposition. I'm not sure if Pacey's 4 up is the answer but if we leave 2 up it means the opposition probably have 4 players (including goalie) back plus the corner taker so can only have 6 in or around the box.....surely we've still have enough back to defend that?!!
Looking forward to giving York a better game than the other week!!

I remember back in the early/mid 60's the MEN used to print the teams out for all the local teams, including the non-league ones, in Friday's edition and it took an awful long time, and an explanation from my old fella I guess, for me to figure out who "A N Other" was as we seemed to have two or three of them playing every week!!!!!!! This was especially evident in the Freddie Pye days when we signed just about anyone who looked half decent.

If I remember correctly Graham is about the same age as me and will be getting his state pension in about 10 years time and it is my guess that he will stay around as manager until then!! The Board has been assembled of "Graham men" and will never sack him or, as we have seen in the past, accept any resignation he might "offer".
Think about it guys, would you walk away from £25-30k a year managing a part-time football team to become what?....a postie wasn't it last time?

How can you say that Potts, Senior and Logan can't do it from the start?!! Senior has far more enery etc than Little but it's ok for him to start against "fresh" players!! Surely it's got to be worth a try, especially at home, and see if we can get a couple of goals ahead rather than throwing the subs on to chase a game. I agree with your man of match and I too thought Asa had a great game.