Apologies if they make depressing reading but they do rather encapsulate the recurrent patterns that are hindering any major prospects of us progressing:
(i) Alty have now gone 32 consecutive competitive matches since they last kept a clean sheet (2-0 at home to Eastwood Town on Saturday, 5th November 2011, incidentally).
Frankly, that’s an extraordinarily embarrassing statistic, particularly for a team managed by someone who plied their trade as a defender.
(ii) During Lee Sinnott’s tenure as Alty's manager, the longest unbeaten sequence in competitive fixtures that we have contrived to compile has comprised four games (starting with that 4-1 victory at Hinckley United on Monday, 9th January 2012).
Our inconsistency remains consistent.
(iii) In the 48 competitive games that Alty have played since the appointment of Lee Sinnott, Alty have only managed to win ONE match when the opposition have scored the first goal of the game (2-1 versus Stalybridge Celtic at Moss Lane on Tuesday, 6th March 2012, courtesy of Damian Reeves’ exquisite late goal).
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Improve on those areas and Mister Sinnott may just start to win over the hearts and minds of the Moss Lane faithful.