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No question, the away end is for away fans, the pop side is for home fans.

Every advantage we can get counts from here on in.

We can go back to being the friendly small club when it's Bradford and MK Dons patting us on the head in league 2. I'd rather we didn't then either but you get the point.

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Hardly fair to complain about a free service that is now kept alive by a bloke who has no interest in Alty due to not living in the area anymore. Pretty decent Gary even does that tbf.

Quote from: MarpleAlty on March 15, 2024, 07:58:11 PM

Clearly something's gone on behind the scenes for his departure to be announced in such a quiet manner - in normal circumstances I think we'd have given him a bit more of a send off.

Ultimately he was nowhere near good enough - it's as simple as that, harsh as it may sound.

Good luck to him, hopefully he establishes himself a little further down the pyramid.

Not sure that a player who managed 1 season deserves a send off? That aside, I really hoped that as a local lad he’d do well for us. It just wasn’t to be. Hope he moves on and makes a success of it somewhere else. Not Macc of course though.

Anyone wondering why, might want to reference my post the other week regarding his mentally challenged father and the glee with which he posted after our loss to Dagenham.

I was a fan of Ollie, I still maintain he needs some decent coaching on his weak spots and he's a NLN/NL keeper.

His dad needs to be told his son ain't the second coming of Peter shilton and He most certainly ain't no f**king Alfe Inge Haaland either.

We've removed a large bit of toxicity from the squad, that's almost as good as a new signing for morale.

Quote from: GolfRoader on March 06, 2024, 12:07:06 PM

I thought Angus you played his role fairly well last night which was essentially being in CCC’s position but playing it defensively. Not an easy task

I agree. I thought he worked really hard when he came on..

He worked hard, but by God he goes down way too easy. Especially when getting the ball in our final third then dropping like he's been shot. Not a fan of that tbh. 100% behind him for the next 3 games though.

That was Ross Joyce levels of ineptitude from the ref, so he'll be in the league next year no doubt.

The move on Isaac after the first goal would be a citation in Rugby, the lad stepped over and dropped the shoulder on him. Assault.

The defence was immense tonight, Lewis Baines is the best central defender we've ever seen at the club. He's put more incredible blocks in this season than I can even begin to list. Tonight's full-faced block was up there with the best.

Dorking have clearly realised they need to be a bit nasty to get results when you are at the wrong end of the table. I don't particularly begrudge them that, but the ref had no idea how to deal with it. It ruined the game as he lost more and more control.

Win in the bag though and one that will hopefully bring the lads together.

Quote from: MarpleAlty on March 05, 2024, 10:07:53 AM

I saw a post somewhere on the Facebook group about Justin Donawa going out to Chorley to 'balance the books' - where did that come from?

If it's true, I must say it makes me more relaxed about some of the recent decision making, as NOTHING should put our balance sheet at risk.

Could it also have contributed to Parky's slightly strained words around the support base a few weeks ago?

We've seen how it goes for clubs around us that push beyond their means, and it's very evident that we've been very ambitious already this season with recruitment.

As a bit of guide, we had players reject deals with other established National League clubs to come here - and then there was Crankshaw, Mooney etc -who won't have come cheap.

Maybe it's just about seeing the season out now, and seeing whereabouts we land.

Parky mentioned balancing the books on his pastries interview yesterday. Also said he should be back in a few weeks. But also mentioned they are looking at maybe a loan or too coming in if right person was available. So not sure how we fund that..

Smoke and Mirrors comes to mind.

I don't think we need to panic about the health of our balance sheet (which without some poor accounting should still be 1.5m in the green at least), we just need to be balancing the budget side of the books at the most.

We do have a very expensive bench of inactive players right now though. None of Amaluzor, Jones,Byrne, Ross & least of all Crankshaw are on low salaries. We've not given Dan Mooney 10p and a bus ticket for wages either, or Newby, who took a cut but still can't be cheap.

The positive is the result barely dented our playoff chances.

The negative is that performance (& the last 2) have severely dented our playoff chances.

Some context re. tomorrow's visitors, courtesy of the splendid John Laidlar:

"It's now four defeats on the spin in the league for Alan Devonshire's men, who briefly rekindled hopes of a play-off charge earlier this month... Since then, missed chances and misfortune have afflicted the team at a crucial juncture of the season, with the side losing a game they should have handsomely won at Boreham Wood before going down to a 2-1 defeat in the 98th minute at FC Halifax Town last week.

Saturday's 3-1 loss to Oldham Athletic and last night's 2-1 loss to Southend United were much more disappointing performances and few could argue they deserved anything from either contest.

United briefly came to life towards the end of the first half, when Kevin Lokko rose well to head home Sam Barratt's free kick to make it 1-1, but generally, they were second best to a Shrimpers side who started the night four points below them in the National League table....

Devonshire's men hav[e] failed to score more than one goal in all but one of their last 12 matches, now 13. It means that whenever they fall behind, there's a general unease about whether they have the firepower to get back into a game."

0-4 to them it is then