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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Another new winger
« on: June 24, 2023, 04:07:19 AM »I'm sure we had a goalie called Justin but my brain won't cooperate!
Are you mixing Justin with Jerome John?
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I'm sure we had a goalie called Justin but my brain won't cooperate!
Ali Smith has also moved on. To Lincoln City in Division One.
Yes.Come on Radcliffe
In fact come on everyone but m*cc 😉
FYI on our away attendances, because I did some research for our next podcast, and thought it would add to this thread.
We averaged ~115 away in the league this season. I am not sure where this stands us in the league, but you'd imagine it's close to the bottom.
8/23 of the away games saw us take less than 50.
The average is heavily skewed by the 609 we took to Oldham. If you ignore the 'popular' trio of Oldham, Halifax and Wrexham (giving a better average of our hardcore away turnout) we averaged ~70.
Note: Estimated figures as five fixtures had no recorded away attendance.
The thing is, we can't afford to wait for Ollie to come good. We can't have another start to the season as slow as the one we've just had, we won't get away with it again.
I reckon the solution might be to loan him out till Christmas to the NLN; we know Chester need a goalkeeper and I'm sure lots of other clubs do too. Get another keeper in on loan, and tell him he's got the number 1 jersey when he gets back - provided, of course, that he does well.
You could well be right there.
Clearly it's not just Wrecsam trying to buy success in this league!
I've mentioned before about finances in this league, boring to some I'm sure but the numbers are staggering.
Notts County lost £1.7m in 2022 and were about £14m in debt. If it wasn't for their owners underwriting it then the receivers would have been in by now.
As for Chesterfield, they were about £12m in debt at the last count but about £10m of that was to a supporters trust who took it on from the previous owner. That £10m was converted into £5m of shares last summer. So on paper they made £15m in one swoop. They still run at a heavy loss all the same, but a massive chunk of their debt is simply not going to be called in.
Wilma, the Tea Lady at Flint, told me that they are also known as 'The Stones'