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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: that man showler on February 06, 2022, 08:33:14 PM
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Huge Congratulations on progressing to FA cup 5th round
Credit were credit due huge respect.i will be routing for you at Everton.
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With a bit of luck they may not be as keen as normal for fear of missing the next round when they play us in 10 Days time
Well done in beating Bournemouth
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Absolutely. Well done.
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Well done and all that but they have appalling support & are bankrolled at least two leagues above their natural level by their Chairman. There’s very little romance about their story just a fat pile of cash & the town as anyone whose ever seen us play there is even by London suburbia standards deadly dull & a bit of a dump. If this was a Boston/Woking/Halifax I’d wish them all the best but they are basically a modern day version of Rushden and Diamonds.
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Well done and all that but they have appalling support & are bankrolled at least two leagues above their natural level by their Chairman. There’s very little romance about their story just a fat pile of cash & the town as anyone whose ever seen us play there is even by London suburbia standards deadly dull & a bit of a dump. If this was a Boston/Woking/Halifax I’d wish them all the best but they are basically a modern day version of Rushden and Diamonds.
An Interesting insight into Borehamwood. If they haven’t many fans then they will struggle once the money man goes.
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Well done and all that but they have appalling support & are bankrolled at least two leagues above their natural level by their Chairman. There’s very little romance about their story just a fat pile of cash & the town as anyone whose ever seen us play there is even by London suburbia standards deadly dull & a bit of a dump. If this was a Boston/Woking/Halifax I’d wish them all the best but they are basically a modern day version of Rushden and Diamonds.
To be fair to the owner he's stuck around for years, kept propping them up and he's been pretty realistic about what they can achieve in relation to what they have. Maybe he kept plugging away in the hope they'd get what they now have. If so then he deserves the moment big time. I'm sure plenty of other towns with giant killing teams over the years aren't exactly Beverly Hills either.
Very different to a Rushden in my view, not a particularly unpleasant club from what I've seen (although others may know better) and I'm pleased for them.
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It seems most non-league clubs that have been on good runs / drawn plum ties have ultimately ended up in the football league not long afterwards.
With regard to being bankrolled, they've just defeated a team bankrolled to the tune of multiple times what they could ever dream of. Credit where it's due.
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They were excellent. Rode their luck at times but hey they won! PS West Ham were bloody lucky SBL
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It seems most non-league clubs that have been on good runs / drawn plum ties have ultimately ended up in the football league not long afterwards.
With regard to being bankrolled, they've just defeated a team bankrolled to the tune of multiple times what they could ever dream of. Credit where it's due.
Very good point re Bournemouth. If you start negating results because of bankrolling, natural levels etc. then you're opening up a massive can of worms.
I think the lucrative cup runs are only a catalyst at this level because the sums involved are still quite small compared to the money flying around. Chesterfield would have made a fortune from the Chelsea game but they are massively in debt and been losing amounts that would have put us to the wall. All relative I guess.
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They did well yesterday, it reminded me of there game against us, closed us down, harassed and were very physical. There Chairman they said had been around for years as a supporter and owned a business supplying the movie industry with props. So for me a valid reason. Bournemouth didn't really turnup so deserved what they got.
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Interesting article about their academy in yesterday's issue of The Observer:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/feb/05/boreham-wood-fa-cup-bournemouth-academy (https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/feb/05/boreham-wood-fa-cup-bournemouth-academy)