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RedhillAlty

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Best start to a season for how many years?
« on: August 18, 2009, 09:51:48 PM »
Best start to a season for how many years?
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Re: Best start to a season for how many years?
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2009, 10:16:19 PM »
Quote from: RedhillAlty on August 18, 2009, 09:51:48 PM
Best start to a season for how many years?
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I reckon at this level best start since around 94/95 think we had a good start that year remember beating southport 4-1 away


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Re: Best start to a season for how many years?
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2009, 10:41:01 PM »
We lost our third game of that season at home to Woking, 2-1. Therefore, this season has seen us start better.
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Re: Best start to a season for how many years?
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2009, 04:05:56 PM »
The prospect of finally playing with Altrincham on fifa11 is very exciting
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Re: Best start to a season for how many years?
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2009, 06:31:40 PM »
Quote from: RedhillAlty on August 18, 2009, 09:51:48 PM
Best start to a season for how many years?

Redhill Alty,

By my reckoning, it's our most successful start to a season since the final Northern Premier League campaign of 1978/79.

We started with four successive wins during that particular season:

Worksop Town (H): 4-1

Lancaster City (A): 4-0

Scarborough (A): 2-1

Gateshead (H): 2-0.
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"It was just two world class players going for a 50/50 ball."

John King's description of a crunching tackle on Ossie Ardiles in the FA Cup Third Round tie at White Hart Lane: 10th January 1979.

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Re: Best start to a season for how many years?
« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2009, 09:14:16 PM »
Quote from: TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe on August 19, 2009, 06:31:40 PM
Quote from: RedhillAlty on August 18, 2009, 09:51:48 PM
Best start to a season for how many years?

Redhill Alty,

By my reckoning, it's our most successful start to a season since the final Northern Premier League campaign of 1978/79.

We started with four successive wins during that particular season:

Worksop Town (H): 4-1

Lancaster City (A): 4-0

Scarborough (A): 2-1

Gateshead (H): 2-0.

Blimey - puts things in context  ;D
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Re: Best start to a season for how many years?
« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2009, 10:24:34 PM »
Wasnt 78/79 another season when we should have won the NPL and ended up with nothing (apart from playing Spurs)?
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Re: Best start to a season for how many years?
« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2009, 10:36:23 PM »
Quote from: RedhillAlty on August 19, 2009, 10:24:34 PM
Wasnt 78/79 another season when we should have won the NPL and ended up with nothing (apart from playing Spurs)?

Redhill Alty,

Not sure that I would state categorically that we "should" have won the NPL that season, as we were competing against a superb Mossley side that scored an impressive 117 goals in 44 games.

They finished as worthy Champions and were eight points ahead of Alty.

Oh, and they also knocked us out of the NPL Cup at the semi-final stage, notwithstanding that epic 5-4 win by Alty in that unforgettable first leg at Moss Lane!

The FA Cup that season did indeed feature our two games against Spurs.

The FA Trophy was an utter disaster, as we (as the holders) went out in the First Round at Moss Lane to a Cheltenham Town side who were forced to play a centre forward as their goalkeeper for the entire match!

As for the Cheshire Senior Cup, well, let's just say that we lost to Northwich and leave it at that, eh....?

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"It was just two world class players going for a 50/50 ball."

John King's description of a crunching tackle on Ossie Ardiles in the FA Cup Third Round tie at White Hart Lane: 10th January 1979.

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Re: Best start to a season for how many years?
« Reply #8 on: August 19, 2009, 10:54:15 PM »
Quote from: TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe on August 19, 2009, 10:36:23 PM
Quote from: RedhillAlty on August 19, 2009, 10:24:34 PM
Wasnt 78/79 another season when we should have won the NPL and ended up with nothing (apart from playing Spurs)?

The FA Trophy was an utter disaster, as we (as the holders) went out in the First Round at Moss Lane to a Cheltenham Town side who were forced to play a centre forward as their goalkeeper for the entire match!



How Alty is that!!!
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Re: Best start to a season for how many years?
« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2009, 01:01:31 AM »
Quote from: markecky on August 19, 2009, 10:54:15 PM
Quote from: TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe on August 19, 2009, 10:36:23 PM
Quote from: RedhillAlty on August 19, 2009, 10:24:34 PM
Wasnt 78/79 another season when we should have won the NPL and ended up with nothing (apart from playing Spurs)?

The FA Trophy was an utter disaster, as we (as the holders) went out in the First Round at Moss Lane to a Cheltenham Town side who were forced to play a centre forward as their goalkeeper for the entire match!




How Alty is that!!!

It was just after the Spurs FA Cup games as well!
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Re: Best start to a season for how many years?
« Reply #10 on: August 20, 2009, 11:32:48 AM »
Quote from: Brian Flynn on August 20, 2009, 01:01:31 AM
Quote from: markecky on August 19, 2009, 10:54:15 PM
Quote from: TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe on August 19, 2009, 10:36:23 PM
Quote from: RedhillAlty on August 19, 2009, 10:24:34 PM
Wasnt 78/79 another season when we should have won the NPL and ended up with nothing (apart from playing Spurs)?

The FA Trophy was an utter disaster, as we (as the holders) went out in the First Round at Moss Lane to a Cheltenham Town side who were forced to play a centre forward as their goalkeeper for the entire match!




How Alty is that!!!

It was just after the Spurs FA Cup games as well!

Brian,

That Cheltenham Town debacle occurred just six days after the Spurs replay at Maine Road.

Dave Lewis was the Cheltenham striker who played in goal for them.
That name will haunt me for eternity.

I think that Peter Eales still hadn't sobered up from the post-Spurs games celebrations....!



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"It was just two world class players going for a 50/50 ball."

John King's description of a crunching tackle on Ossie Ardiles in the FA Cup Third Round tie at White Hart Lane: 10th January 1979.

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Re: Best start to a season for how many years?
« Reply #11 on: August 20, 2009, 10:28:44 PM »
Quote from: TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe on August 20, 2009, 11:32:48 AM
Quote from: Brian Flynn on August 20, 2009, 01:01:31 AM
Quote from: markecky on August 19, 2009, 10:54:15 PM
Quote from: TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe on August 19, 2009, 10:36:23 PM
Quote from: RedhillAlty on August 19, 2009, 10:24:34 PM
Wasnt 78/79 another season when we should have won the NPL and ended up with nothing (apart from playing Spurs)?

The FA Trophy was an utter disaster, as we (as the holders) went out in the First Round at Moss Lane to a Cheltenham Town side who were forced to play a centre forward as their goalkeeper for the entire match!




How Alty is that!!!

It was just after the Spurs FA Cup games as well!

Brian,

That Cheltenham Town debacle occurred just six days after the Spurs replay at Maine Road.

Dave Lewis was the Cheltenham striker who played in goal for them.
That name will haunt me for eternity.

I think that Peter Eales still hadn't sobered up from the post-Spurs games celebrations....!





A Cheltenham cult hero of the seventies, sadly I believe that he died at a fairly young age.
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Alty Dave

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Re: Best start to a season for how many years?
« Reply #12 on: August 21, 2009, 10:06:14 AM »
How many years is it since we were this high in the table?
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Re: Best start to a season for how many years?
« Reply #13 on: August 21, 2009, 10:17:05 AM »
Its either the end of the 1990-91 or that odd seaon that everyone forgets about 1995!
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Re: Best start to a season for how many years?
« Reply #14 on: August 21, 2009, 11:35:56 AM »
Quote from: markecky on August 21, 2009, 10:17:05 AM
Its either the end of the 1990-91 or that odd seaon that everyone forgets about 1995!

I'm sure we were top of the table briefly in 1994/95.
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