Some notably dreadful players would be:
GK: Wayne Baker, Nick Stephens
Defenders: Dave Swannick, Greg Challender
Midfield: Brian Croft, Steve Carroll,
Attack: Chris Young, Michael Twiss,
Few there from the dark Unibond days of early 2000's. Was that team of 2002/3 arguably the worst Altrincham side ever? In terms of league placing I think it is.
If you were to say 'the worst ... in recent times' I might go along with you, but historically Alty were twice bottom of the Cheshire League & finished next to bottom twice. That's pretty poor. In my watching time the Les Rigby side of 1975-6 would take a lot of beating in the Useless Stakes - when you read the names of John Wood, the so-called goalkeeper & Dave Furnivall, a real liability of a centre-forward in some of these selections that's the time they came from. Thank God I was in my last year at Uni & saw relatively little of Rigby's Disasters!
And yet on 31st December 1975, Alty were lying in fourth position in the Northern Premier League table, merely five points behind the leaders Runcorn.
Admittedly, things did rather deteriorate over the next two months!
I think that a lot of the initial resentment to Les Rigby concerned his treatment and subsequent exile of the likes of Peter Eales; Lennie Dickinson and Graham Heathcote, coupled with him signing such abject duffers as John Wood; Les Wain and the lumbering bison that was Dave Furnival.
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