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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: distancetraveller on February 26, 2024, 12:21:31 AM
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Hopefully, we will see a selection picked of the like of when we last won against Rochdale. Let’s get back to our sharp passing game moving the ball quicker than of late…
Southend 1 - Alty 2.
Con Clarke & Linney.
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I agree. But if the playing surface is not conducive to that style of play, it will not happen.
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Lord knows how we'll line up.
Hopefully Baines will be restored to his rightful place if nothing else.
Southend 1-1 Alty (Newby)
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The pitch at Roots Hall is playing very well at the moment and definitely favours ball playing teams rather than the less stylish cart horses that are Boreham Wood. The highlights vid attached from Saturday shows the pitch playing truly and we are not forecast any rain worthy of the word between now and tomorrow night. Safe journey down all those making the trip, it should be a good game if both teams play to their best.
https://youtu.be/g8Mm27Loy9s
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After having our pants pulled down bigtime on Saturday we need a response. Am looking forward to ticking a new ground for me & the lads looking to make amends. Not sure of team or result but fingers crossed.
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Surely, Dan has got a point to prove
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I actually think we will win this - a 4th consecutive defeat is unthinkable.
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I actually think we will win this - a 4th consecutive defeat is unthinkable.
It isn't unthinkable if play as poorly as we did on Saturday. Dackers is bound to score, so we'll need to score twice....
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Long day trip, lets hope batteries are recharged enough for a good showing. Hoping strongest 11 get on the pitch. Working till 6pm so will stream.
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I’ve got the stream, let’s hope they can get back to winning ways. Cmon Alty..
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I actually think we will win this - a 4th consecutive defeat is unthinkable.
It isn't unthinkable if play as poorly as we did on Saturday. Dackers is bound to score, so we'll need to score twice....
If Dackers is bound to score then using the same logic Mooney is bound to score.
Personally I don't think either will
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Is anyone listening to RR? Are we on?
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Chris might get the headlines for the goal first half but has given it away about 20 times!
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I’m glad we’ve got enough points already to stay up
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Chris might get the headlines for the goal first half but has given it away about 20 times!
Not as many as saturday then!
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That was old school Alty. Scared for the full 45 of conceding.
Where is the rest of our squad? Are we that crocked we don't have 5 benchwarmers?
Where is the utd kid?
Where is the formation that wins us matches and scares the opposition?
Fair play to those that traveled to witness that first half. Much better is needed now.
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This is quite a “blip” we are enduring 😕
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We're still back in the playoffs places if we win our game in hand but, yeah, when does a blip become a collapse?
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This is a collapse mate, a full scale collapse.
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Sadly Roscoe, Wilson and Kosylo aren’t up to it to start games. Osbourne looks like Osbourne again and Ethan Ross makes big saves at crucial points whereas Gould just concedes goal.
As for a CM playing at right back while Donowa is out on loan is a farce!!
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A fair outcome.
They dominated the game and we never got to grips with their left winger Bridge.
That's the third consecutive game in which we have scored the opening goal and then lost.
We never looked like salvaging anything during that second half and merely mustered one tame shot on target from Conn-Clarke (who was our sole hope up front).
Running on empty here. Only being able to nominate four subs is embarrassing for a full-time team.
At least a couple of favourable results elsewhere redeemed the evening somewhat.
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If the idea of sending Donowa to Chorley is to get him match fit, bringing him on as an 83rd minute substitute at Brackley this evening seems to make it a fruitless exercise.
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If the idea of sending Donowa to Chorley is to get him match fit, bringing him on as an 83rd minute substitute at Brackley this evening seems to make it a fruitless exercise.
I think I could have managed to play for 7 minutes (as long as they didn’t play too much added time)
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Good to catch up with some of the lads over a few beers round Liverpool St before KO but that was about it.
Astonishingly we took the lead then barely left our half after that in the first half. Southend just kept coming down our LHS & throwing crosses towards Cardwell & Dackers & it was inevitable they’d pick up the second pieces sooner or later. They also pressed us really well for the first hour-we couldn’t get out. The one thought was that all the crosses they put along our six yard line there might have been second thoughts with Ross fit (which he will be soon).
Second half as they naturally dropped off we had a lot more of the ball but it was largely in front of them & as long as they kept their shape & shuttled across we didn’t really open them up. Mooney looked lively when he came on tbf-if we could just pay 6000 people to boo him every game he’d be bang up for it no doubt.
It was much better than Maidenhead but the team need to give us something to hold on to starting this Saturday. Season is rapidly fading away now.
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Didn’t get to see this or the Hartlepool game but the fact we don’t look like we can get back into games is particularly worrying. I imagine our points gained from losing positions stats would make for interesting reading. Beyond the one point at Bromley due to Newby’s excellent free kick, I’m struggling…
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Didn’t get to see this or the Hartlepool game but the fact we don’t look like we can get back into games is particularly worrying. I imagine our points gained from losing positions stats would make for interesting reading. Beyond the one point at Bromley due to Newby’s excellent free kick, I’m struggling…
We were a goal down at home to Hartlepool back in September and came back to draw 2-2, but otherwise it's a depressing picture. I'm more concerned that we've lost three consecutive matches from a winning position.
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Massive credit to the travelling faithful, that was a hard watch on NLTV, with no banks which led to a formation change, we were exposed on our right, and they capitalised. Great to lead on a rare counter, and good finish. They pressed and lobbed balls into the area for fun, annoying that as dackers headed the ball down our player marking cardwell slipped and gave an open goal. Nor sure if Gould could have done better. The second, not enough pressure in midfield to prevent the run into box.
Second half we dd better and had a few half chances. We kept going. Slight glimmer there. I assume Regan had a knock, need him and players such as Banks, Amaluzor and Ethan back asap. Were still in a good position and with 3 home games coming up there's hope.
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Our opening goal was against the run of play. They dominated the first half much the same as we did against Hartlepool. We just couldn't put our foot on the ball. We had more chances in the second half as they became tired but we were knackered mentally and physically by then. Definitely an improvement on the Maidenhead game though.
It will be interesting to see the team on Saturday because I think there was quite a few walking wounded out there by full time including CCC.
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I actually think we will win this - a 4th consecutive defeat is unthinkable.
It isn't unthinkable if play as poorly as we did on Saturday. Dackers is bound to score, so we'll need to score twice....
If Dackers is bound to score then using the same logic Mooney is bound to score.
Personally I don't think either will
Did either manage a shot on target?
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Dackers got an assist for the equaliser I think.
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The following observation by a Southend United supporter on their fans form regarding last evening's game did raise a wry smile:
"Is this the first time this season we've got more subs than the opposition?"
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I feel like we're quite an intriguing paradox...
The way in which I feel we SHOULD have been proactive in January, was adding reinforcements when things were going well - knowing this tight run of fixtures was going to come. I know additions were much more necessary the previous year, however we phased Maxi Oyedele into the side quite gradually until he became one of the first names on the teamsheet.
But did we REALLY need to be that proactive with rotation after one defeat?
After the Aldershot game I think we undertook a process known as 'throwing the baby out with the bathwater'... now before people pull me up on previous suggestions of mine that gentle rotation is healthy, surely it's one of the first rules of football that you leave the spine of the side intact?
Looking at the positives - Maidenhead abomination aside - the three away fixtures in this run were perfectly 'loseable' and they were three of the tougher assignments left.
We weren't going to sustain a winning run for the last 13-14 games of the season, and the likes of Barnet/Bromley/Gateshead/Solihull have all endured similar spectacular losses of form like ours.
I still back us to 'come up on the rails' and push for a playoff place - this form will turn, but we really do need to go back to basics here.
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I can't disagree with anything MarpleAlty has written.
A couple of things we aren't party to is
a) the number and severity of any niggles that players may be carrying which may or may not affect team selection
and b) the health of the bank balance which would have an impact on dipping into the loan market.
I'm still expecting a top seven finish, just not the third that I did think was on the cards before our last few games.
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I can't disagree with anything MarpleAlty has written.
A couple of things we aren't party to is
a) the number and severity of any niggles that players may be carrying which may or may not affect team selection
and b) the health of the bank balance which would have an impact on dipping into the loan market.
I'm still expecting a top seven finish, just not the third that I did think was on the cards before our last few games.
Two very crucial points - as much as we fans can speculate, we're only ever privy to half the information (e.g. suggestions Lewis Baines has been unwell).
We do also need to cut our cloth accordingly, and let's face it - our recruitment so far this season will NOT have been cheap - far from it.
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Tottering on the brink of admin again?
They'll probably be ok though won't they?
PS. There's a article about it in the local Southend newspaper but I don't have the skill to attach it! 🙄😏
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https://www.echo-news.co.uk/sport/24226837.consortium-reveal-reasons-delay-southend-united-deal/ (https://www.echo-news.co.uk/sport/24226837.consortium-reveal-reasons-delay-southend-united-deal/)
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Here you go: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz7zzj71w1ro (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz7zzj71w1ro)
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I particularly enjoyed the 1, 2 repeated sound checks. Bring back the threats if you walk in front of the press box. Really miss that one.
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Thanks for the links Gents! 😉