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I bring you the sad news that Crawley will have one spare place on the team coach for the next few months.

I believe that one of the dodgy dealing owners is now spending his first night at one of Her Majestys less desirable residences (much different from a £3M Brighton penthouse).

Better than the usual fireworks !

An earthquake was experienced early this morning in Altrincham.......Obviously this was organised to recognise the recent heroics of the team, staff and brilliant travelling fans.

Seriously it scared me a little. I had been to the Orange Tree and Market to 'reflect' upon the good result and fell asleep in the armchair on my return. I was awoken at 1am when I felt the whole room shaking. I was then really not sure what had just happened; had I had dreamt this effect or was it for real.......?

Just woke up again and checked the BBC who said there had been a quake with the epicentre in Lincolnshire.

Maybe Torquay can call their next game off as a result of a shaken pitch ! Justice was done tonight.

Almost an 'Alty' topic, but not quite :-

There is a good interview with Neil Brown on the North West Counties League Website. For those that don't know, Neil is the Altrincham FC groundsman and former Reserve Team manager.

He has taken over bottom placed Abbey Hey and is trying to turn it around. For those that have watched the reserves before, there would be no problem in recognising almost all of the Abbey side.

Abbey Hey won on Saturday with goals from former Altrincham reserve players, Mulholland and Heffernan.

Crawley - 800 ish
Droylsden - about 450
Vics - about 600
Democratic Republic of Ebbsfleet - 850 ish

Not good in relation to the estimated financial outlay of these teams

The (other) Robins, that is Southern League Midland Division team, Evesham drew at Home to Halifax on Saturday.
Truly a success when you consider that they are the equivalent of a Unibond One team eg 3 divisions below their BSP opponents.

What's this got to do with us.................well nothing really, but makes a change from talking about Millwall supporters.

But it also puts our FA Cup performance into perspective, in that another BSP team struggled to get a result against lower league opposition (except of course that Halifax did not win either). The cup does this.

Scored twice last night for FCUM

Lots of stuff on here over the last few weeks - I am going to give it a miss for a fortnight before I lose my job, but before I do I thought I would make a post.

Last season we were relegated - nobody called for GH to be sacked
The season before last we were relegated - nobody called for GH to be sacked
This season we have not been relegated - lots of people want GH to be sacked.

My point is that nobody ever got relegated before Christmas.............so give the management a chance.....we have had tough games and despite seemingly bizare tactics, none of us have managed at this level before, so none of us can be completely sure of the reasoning behind the decisions. Let GH & DS engineer a great escape. What makes people so sure that a change will be a positive one ?
If we are relegated then review the situation again in May, but now let's all get behind the team.
For those that think we are relegated now, then 5th from bottom will be a huge bonus.

On the Conf N v Conf issue.......I would prefer to see us struggle against the FT teams and finish 19th, 2000 on boxing day etc, than play away at Alfreton and win.

Regards Geoff..........well he is one of those people who will always react like he does, its called frustration and speaking out and saying the wrong things. Who has not done that. Maybe Ecky should be spokesman (on seeing his silky slik PR skills on an earlier post ! If Geoff has offended, then be a little more thick skinned and remember that he is one member of a 7 person board who have done tremendous things for this club.

It could be worse..........we could have Connett and Warhurst

Forget it and don't be insulted Easter