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Decent game with a very end of season air about it. We had most of the chances & yet if there was ever a game to sum up our season they score from a pen & an over hit cross. Still the main objective at the start of every season of preserving ourselves at this level has been achieved which most give PP, NS & all the players a great sense of satisfaction in what has been an up & down season.

Now onto Torquay, will there be tears in the Scoreboard end come 450 on Saturday…?

Hartlepool vs Crawley on Saturday too. Huge. Crawley go up there & win & that would be both the bottom two done for.

i drove past the moss rose on saturday and they've got a big sign outside saying something along the lines of "since 1874.". i think that's called having it both ways isn't it?

Fair play to the match programme & website & any articles penned by a certain figure at the club & occasional habitue of this forum who always rightly refers to the ‘now defunct Macclesfield Town’. Never forget they ripped off local business & cheated the tax man and have no history whatsoever.

Quote from: Timperley The Best on April 12, 2023, 04:09:41 PM

I do think Crawley will go

Are Crawley still the same bent mob that broke all the financial rules to get promoted....Company Registered Office was a shipping container at Gatwick Airport IIRC

They are now owned by some American crypto-currency people or ‘crypto bros’ as those ITK call it. Deeply unpopular with the Crawley fans & it’s been a bit of a circus on and off the pitch down there this season. They could well be another straight through team if they come down. It’s an absolutely awful away day too, the town has zero good pubs or any charm about it. A lot of those soulless London new towns in our league unfortunately. They in contrast get days out in stellar drinking towns like York, Halifax & Alty up here. The North/South divide.

A low quality game but you can only admire our fighting spirit to pull it back for a Desmond. The team as a whole looked off it but once Oyedele (incredibly good technique, a blinding finish) netted you could sense it was on. Sinclair one of those players who can make it happen, not sure how a bloke of his height powered home that header but it was a cracker. For 80 mins we might as well have all been in the pub in the Northern Quarter still it was that bad but we came alive when it mattered. Oldham didn’t have much about them & 2-0 flattered them anyway especially as their first goal was a weird combo of a handball & a foul on Byrne. I can see why none of their fans rate Unsworth if that’s what’s served up every week.

One thing that does need highlighting but I thought their pitch was appalling, far too dry & bumpy it didn’t suit our passing game one bit. Also we can’t talk with our away end really but 600 away fans there was no chance of getting service at half time at the sole open kiosk on the away end. Final gripe Oldham has 5 tram stops but none of them in the same universe as the ground unfortunately.

Anyway, we’ll see them for round 2 next season anyway…

Quote from: Sarf London Alty on April 05, 2023, 10:39:45 PM

Quote from: cheshire cat on April 05, 2023, 10:10:08 PM

I thought that was for teams involved in playoff positions?

Basically BT want to put Wrexham on telly & the slot available was 530 which now means everyone else (even a complete dead rubber like our game) also has to kick off at 530. Good day on the beers for our fans in the SE anyway.

It's a trifle premature to dismiss our visit to Aldershot on the final day of the season as being a 'dead rubber'.

Aldershot are currently languishing merely one position above the relegation zone, five points ahead of Yeovil - whom they happen to play on Good Friday.

Whilst I would expect them to stay up, their erratic form could still place them in jeopardy on 29th April.   

Aldershot fresh with their newly poached boss off Kings Lynn beat Yeovil at home tomorrow & the current bottom 4 is done for IMO. Torquay having a decent run but their run in includes Chessy & Wrescam so they’ll go too.

By the way. Does anyone have any idea where the final is due to be played?
Or does it partially depend on who wins the other semi between Crewe and Congleton?
I suspect it might be Nantwich (but it could be Macc couldn't it?)

I also reckon Nantwich. Witton seems to have gone out of favour in comparison now. Playing it at our end of Cheshire would be nice, I’d love it if they played it at the Bower Fold for one but I reckon Nantwich the likeliest. I hear Tue 25 April will be the date.