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Another tough but highly winnable game.
Thompson
Senior Sutton Hannigan Hampson
Mularkey Smith
Kosylo Hancock Colclough
Harrison
Assuming Pigott is not yet fully fit.
Alty 2-0 Wrexham (Hancock, Colclough)
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According to the fully up-to-date NLP, 'Lewis Moult' was sent off for us at Torquay and will miss the Wrexham game. 😏🤯
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Another tough but highly winnable game.
Thompson
Senior Sutton Hannigan Hampson
Mularkey Smith
Kosylo Hancock Colclough
Harrison
Assuming Pigott is not yet fully fit.
Alty 2-0 Wrexham (Hancock, Colclough)
I think Mooney will be fit so Mooney for Harrison.
Hanks up top and Kossy No.10.
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According to the fully up-to-date NLP, 'Lewis Moult' was sent off for us at Torquay and will miss the Wrexham game. 😏🤯
Weirdly enough, his brother Louis played for Wrexham
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According to the fully up-to-date NLP, 'Lewis Moult' was sent off for us at Torquay and will miss the Wrexham game. 😏🤯
Weirdly enough, his brother Louis played for Wrexham
The very reason I never by the NLP or match programmes. If I want to get facts wrong I can do that myself for free.
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I think this will be a toughy - if the game is on - as our pitch will not be wholly condusive to our method of play.
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Another match against promotion rivals - happy days!
Such is the strength of the team in a minute that almost any of the outfield players might score.
Slightly surprised there is no mention for Ceesay starting - a player who could easily play at a higher level in the future.
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Another tough but highly winnable game.
Thompson
Senior Sutton Hannigan Hampson
Mularkey Smith
Kosylo Hancock Colclough
Harrison
Assuming Pigott is not yet fully fit.
Alty 2-0 Wrexham (Hancock, Colclough)
Yep, this will be the team - assuming he takes no chances with Mooney.
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The weather doesn’t look too good for tomorrow looking at the forecast.
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The weather doesn’t look too good for tomorrow looking at the forecast.
Game has been switched to Broadhurst Park (FC United), so assume good chance it will be on now.
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The weather doesn’t look too good for tomorrow looking at the forecast.
Game has been switched to Broadhurst Park (FC United), so assume good chance it will be on now.
Interesting update, and I assume it might pave the way for more games to be played there whilst the home team aren't around and there's no fans turning up anyway.
Would have thought this week's cold snap would have put most pitches in danger - but let's wait and see.
How does this affect Alty TV coverage?
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From mail site article about venue change..............
Live streaming of the game, as Phil Parkinson’s in-form team bid to maintain their recent outstanding form against opponents who are also pushing for a place in the play-offs, is available for purchase through the normal channels.
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Well done to all that have made this possible.
Not overjoyed to dishing out money to FCUM tbh but if it gets the game on fair enough.
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Not overjoyed to dishing out money to FCUM tbh but if it gets the game on fair enough.
Well it’s nice to be handing out a little charity to lesser smaller clubs in these trying times
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Weather forecast for Moston on Tuesday:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/6691220 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/6691220)
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Weather forecast for Moston on Tuesday:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/6691220 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/6691220)
My God! It's warmer here in Scotland!
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Not overjoyed to dishing out money to FCUM tbh but if it gets the game on fair enough.
Well it’s nice to be handing out a little charity to lesser smaller clubs in these trying times
I can think of more deserving causes tbh
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Weather forecast for Moston on Tuesday:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/6691220 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/6691220)
My God! It's warmer here in Scotland!
Yon midges will be oot.
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Weather forecast for Moston on Tuesday:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/6691220 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/6691220)
My God! It's warmer here in Scotland!
Yon midges will be oot.
Bloody things! Many LOLs!
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I think this is not only a good move for us to get games played, but also gives us a better chance of victory as our pitch will not be conducive to our style of football.
I feel more confident of a good result now.
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A sensible decision. Presume its a good pitch? SBL
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A sensible decision. Presume its a good pitch? SBL
It's a new pitch & FC United have frost covers that cover the whole pitch.
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A sensible decision. Presume its a good pitch? SBL
It's a new pitch & FC United have frost covers that cover the whole pitch.
impressive
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A sensible decision. Presume its a good pitch? SBL
It's a new pitch & FC United have frost covers that cover the whole pitch.
Is that why they stopped build the away end and left it as a car park?
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Suttons home game tonight is called off with a frozen pitch. So much for 4g!!
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Suttons home game tonight is called off with a frozen pitch. So much for 4g!!
I remember st university in Chester seeing the sign:
"All weather pitch closed due to ths weather!"
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Maybe not the case tonight; but all weather pitches are no good in dense fog, hurricane strength winds, lightning storms and blizzards ;D
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So.....Stockport have no scheduled game, Sutton is off, and I've got Hartlepool v Solihull down to draw. If I'm right, and we can slay the dragon........
WE COULD BE 2nd. IN THE LEAGUE TONIGHT !!!!!!
(OK, I know it's an illusion - but even so.....). :D
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Having walked through Stamford Park amidst snow flurries just over an hour ago, I have to say that watching tonight's game via a computer screen from the comfort of a warm room constitutes a far more attractive proposition than spending an evening outdoors in darkest Moston.
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2-2 tonight.
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Low scoring game tonight imo. 1 - 0 to us would be a treat!
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From the official site:
Team news from Broadhurst Park, starting with the Robins, with Ryan Colclough and Andy White coming in to the team in place of Connor Hampson and Jake Moult.
Thompson (c), White, Sutton, Hannigan, Hancock, Kosylo, Senior, Mullarkey, Harrison, Smith, Colclough.
Joe Piggott takes a place on the bench after his return to the club: Piggott, Ceesay, Densmore, Peers, Richman.
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Another tough but highly winnable game.
Thompson
Senior Sutton Hannigan Hampson
Mularkey Smith
Kosylo Hancock Colclough
Harrison
Assuming Pigott is not yet fully fit.
Alty 2-0 Wrexham (Hancock, Colclough)
Yep, this will be the team - assuming he takes no chances with Mooney.
As suspected, no Mooney - and no Hampson either - with their straight swaps coming in to leave us no weaker on the face of it.
Piggott take his place on what appears to be a very strong bench indeed.
Come on lads.
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One hell of a bench.
Come on Alty.
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Really looking forward to this one.
Hoping for a narrow win.
NOTE TO BILL
When you're counting how many are watching the streaming, don't forget to count two for me and Mrs S!
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Hartlepool heading for a win, so we'll all settle for 3rd I'm sure.
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Would I be correct in guessing that the free access for season ticket Holders is not available?
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Any chance they could turn the floodlights on, I can’t see a thing.
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Would I be correct in guessing that the free access for season ticket Holders is not available?
No. I'm in.
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Low scoring game tonight imo. 1 - 0 to us would be a treat!
That's my prediction knackered then! 🙄
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Two evenly-balanced teams, we were unlucky tonight. Poor defending for both goals. Very good stream in HD looked great on my 65 inch TV, although the stream broke up badly in the last five minutes.
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Well, our run had to come to an end at some point and at least we lost to a very good team who we more than matched. I'm not sure whether it was a case of their excellent central defenders or the fact that neither Matty nor Hanks turned up tonight but hey ho.
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Two evenly-balanced teams, we were unlucky tonight. Poor defending for both goals. Very good stream in HD looked great on my 65 inch TV, although the stream broke up badly in the last five minutes.
Yep same here, gave up with a couple of minutes to go - although that was half out of superstition (didn't work, clearly).
The sort of game where we could have done with someone like Mooney to give them something else to think about - but yes, our run was always going to end at some point and we weren't quite at the races compared to the high standards we've set ourselves recently.
Colclough is a bit of a cheat code at this level.
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I thought that we were below par this evening.
White was caught napping for the first goal and Mullarkey was complicit in the build-up to their second goal when his overconfidence led to him being dispossessed (and then, alas, the defending from the ensuing corner was dismal).
Hancock and Kosylo were largely peripheral figures.
I confess that the commentators' adulation of Harrison bewildered me. Yet again he contrived to squander a goalscoring opportunity.
Good shot from Colclough but woeful goalkeeping by Dibble.
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Good game, good stream apart from a few Mins at the end.
We cannot defend corners and free kicks very well.
Yeovil up next
Onwards and upwards
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Shows how high the standard has been set by the squad that it seems disappointing to lose that- the squad has improved a lot in a short space of time. One or two players might have learned a bit more about the league and what you might not get away with at this level after tonights game.
Possibly didn't have quite the usual sharpness around the opposition box to break down a fairly solid looking Wrexham defence, hence we had a few more long shots than usual (one of which we scored from). Maybe we could have got to the byline/round the back of them more or maybe they didn't let us, dunno.
Overall an entertaining game though. It made sense to warn before hand that the stream might struggle at times rather than surprise everyone and get peoples backs up. To be honest it was only the last few mins when it buffered badly and Wrexham were running the clock down then anyway.
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2 decent teams. Having 3 missing might have cost us but we still could have won
Onwards and upwards
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Frustrating that, I felt early doors and then when we got it back to 1-1 it was there for the taking. We just had a few under par tonight and obviously missed Moult too. Wrexham good on set pieces and had a dangerous front pairing took advantage. Good reminder for everyone after our excellent recent run as to the levels and consistency you need every week.
Credit to FCUM, that pitch looked excellent I have to say-can see why we switched it.
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Please Mr Chairman, can we have a pitch like that 😋
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I thought that we were below par this evening.
White was caught napping for the first goal and Mullarkey was complicit in the build-up to their second goal when his overconfidence led to him being dispossessed (and then, alas, the defending from the ensuing corner was dismal).
Hancock and Kosylo were largely peripheral figures.
I confess that the commentators' adulation of Harrison bewildered me. Yet again he contrived to squander a goalscoring opportunity.
Good shot from Colclough but woeful goalkeeping by Dibble.
All points spot on.
Totally agree, far too many compliments for Harrison. Hardly any sort of threat in any of the games he has played and poor finisher. Just start Joe and let him get match fit with minutes under his belt.
Really missed Jake, Hampson and Mooney's more direct play towards the box.
Onwards and upwards.
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We need ABH up front - Anyone But Harrison.
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I dont understand the hostility to Harrison. Watching the game I was agreeing with the commentators - and Parkie always seems happy with him.
I certainly dont think hes a natural goalscorer, but his positional and holding play was good and he brings in other players. Sadly tonight this didn't come to much.
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You can squeeze past Barnet at a 6/10 but not sides at the other end of the table. I don't think we played particularly poorly but you simply get beat at this level if everyone isn't at 100%. An off night unfortunately but the lads can be afforded one, all about the reaction now - and we've generally always reacted well under Phil & Neil.
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jake being suspended hurt us last night Toby was caught twice dribbling forward and losing the ball,both led to goals,really like him in defence,but when he and smith swap positions like they did twice last night,then toby did not look right for a forward midfield position.
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We got giddy. Hopefully this shock the players back to reality.
I disagreed pre match that we shouldn't be playing a Playoff side without Moult and it hurt us big time.
Toby Mallarky has barely played Conference football, and barely played CM (for Altrincham). It was a disaster against Barnet, where we scrapped by, poor last night.
At fault for both goals.
If Torquay was 8,9,10/10, Sutton was 7 or 8 /10. That was a about a 5 or 6 and you get punished for that.
Still not reached 10 goals between all our strikers, which is poor, and the reason Harrison is getting stick is that a CB could do his job up there holding it but he can't lay it off, and he can't finish. Any striker AT conference level should be finishing 1 on 1.
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We got giddy. Hopefully this shock the players back to reality.
I disagreed pre match that we shouldn't be playing a Playoff side without Moult and it hurt us big time.
Toby Mallarky has barely played Conference football, and barely played CM (for Altrincham). It was a disaster against Barnet, where we scrapped by, poor last night.
At fault for both goals.
If Torquay was 8,9,10/10, Sutton was 7 or 8 /10. That was a about a 5 or 6 and you get punished for that.
Still not reached 10 goals between all our strikers, which is poor, and the reason Harrison is getting stick is that a CB could do his job up there holding it but he can't lay it off, and he can't finish. Any striker AT conference level should be finishing 1 on 1.
# I agree with your sentiments, except on the Harrison finish, its never 100% guaranteed, he lacks confidence in that area, lack of confidence lead to a shot the keeper blocked. You see plenty of misses higher up the leagues. Both Fis and Peers have scored from similar situations this season to name but 2. His general play was good. He had other opportunities to shoot but chose not too. Its a confidence thing. Hopefully he'll score sooner rather than later or someone like Joe will step up to the plate when fit. Unlike last night..
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Harrison acts as a good focal point for the attack (which I must admit has improved our play) but seems to have no skill when he has the ball at his feet, wins surprisingly few headers and has now squandered 2 chances he should be scoring.
The faster Piggot is match fit the better as he seemed much more lively in the small cameo he made. I'd keep Byron until the end of the season as back up though.
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Like others have said, pitch was excellent, so were the floodlights. Stream was best yet except for last few minutes where went jittery. Commentary from Brian, excellent.
On the game, we started well, but we have to score when so dominant, 5 excellent chances saved I reckon.
Suckered by mistakes and being asleep cost us dearly.
We deserved at least a point, but so many players were not at there usual levels we've come to expect. Still staying positive. I'm sure Phil learnt a few lessons from the game last night on our setup as still on a big learning curve.
Wrexham were probably buoyed by the £2m injection sealed yesterday in the takeover, wonder if Ryan was streaming??
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2 decent teams. Having 3 missing might have cost us but we still could have won
Onwards and upwards
Hope we learn to be as taticla as other clubs and not ring around every pitch in the area for a home game.
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2 decent teams. Having 3 missing might have cost us but we still could have won
Onwards and upwards
Hope we learn to be as taticla as other clubs and not ring around every pitch in the area for a home game.
I still think it was the right decision to play the game. Might have had 4 unavailable for a rearranged date.
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I think the next set of fixtures will be a bit of a reality check for us.
Yeovil, Chesterfield and Bromley away and Borehamwood at home will be real tests.
After those games we'll have a better idea of where we stand in the greater scheme of things.
Six points would be good, eight or more and we can realistically aspire to the play offs.
I must say that the team/Club has seriously exceeded my expectations this season and I suspect I'm not on my own in feeling that way.
I just want to caution people not to get critical if things don't go our way. The lads are giving their all out on the field and have pulled up trees for us this year.
Come on you Supers!!
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I just want to caution people not to get critical if things don't go our way. The lads are giving their all out on the field and have pulled up trees for us this year.
Well said.
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I still think it was the right decision to play the game. Might have had 4 unavailable for a rearranged date.
Definitely. They might have strengthened by the time it was rescheduled. If we do carry on through to May then some teams are going to have a very congested schedule which will work against them. Hopefully we'll be alright on that score.
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A few wrexham mates have said thats the best they have played and i think we ran them very close and had them up against it. 2 scruffy goals for me so not too concerned, were not going to win them all are we
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If we would have drawn away at Torquay and drawn on Tuesday night against Wrexham, 2 points would have been considered OK, but we got 3! SBL
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Just a quick one for anyone who might know.
I think the commentators last night said there were 1082 watching the game and that this was a record.
Does this figure include season ticket holders?
Also, does the season ticket count take into consideration the fact that couples with STs should be counted twice given that they will only enter one code and watch together? (as with me and Mrs S)
Realise this may seem trivial, but I was just curious.
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No idea but it is 10K in the bank. What's not to like?
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We got giddy. Hopefully this shock the players back to reality.
I disagreed pre match that we shouldn't be playing a Playoff side without Moult and it hurt us big time.
Toby Mallarky has barely played Conference football, and barely played CM (for Altrincham). It was a disaster against Barnet, where we scrapped by, poor last night.
At fault for both goals.
If Torquay was 8,9,10/10, Sutton was 7 or 8 /10. That was a about a 5 or 6 and you get punished for that.
Still not reached 10 goals between all our strikers, which is poor, and the reason Harrison is getting stick is that a CB could do his job up there holding it but he can't lay it off, and he can't finish. Any striker AT conference level should be finishing 1 on 1.
Obviously Toby had a quiet game last night but I wouldn't say we scrapped by Barnet. We dominated that from start to finish in my opinion. Anyway, these are all good problems to have and we're having a superb season. To be disappointed that we didn't beat Wrexham shows the shift in mndset compared to any other time we've been in this league.
I also notice these days that lots of opposition managers say they were beaten by the better side when they lose to us. That never used to happen in previous years. It was always "a bad day at the office" or smash and grab for us. The progress is just hard to even get your head around at times it's come so fast.
Agree on your point about goals, though. We're creating a lot of very good chances for ourselves these days so we've got to start to put them away. 3 definite goalscoring ones in the first half last night and not putting one of them away probably cost us at least a point.
(but it is hard to be too disappointed overall)
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No idea but it is 10K in the bank. What's not to like?
Totally agree.
But more like 6k if that figure includes ST holders.
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Just a quick one for anyone who might know.
I think the commentators last night said there were 1082 watching the game and that this was a record.
Does this figure include season ticket holders?
Also, does the season ticket count take into consideration the fact that couples with STs should be counted twice given that they will only enter one code and watch together? (as with me and Mrs S)
Realise this may seem trivial, but I was just curious.
They said second too Stockport stream. I would imagine its all people linked in watching as a total number. It will be number of connections, not people watching, so people watching will be higher.
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No idea but it is 10K in the bank. What's not to like?
Totally agree.
But more like 6k if that figure includes ST holders.
Decent sum.
Wonder how much we paid for stadium hire?
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Replying to Saughall Robin - the figure given of 1082 relates to the number of streams ordered. We actually ended up at 1084 in the end. We believe that for home fans in particular, there are many households with more than one spectator for the stream, and the clearest example of this is season ticket holders where there are 29 households with more than one ST. The numbers of paying home fans watching the stream is beginning to creep up, and we had 30 first time buyers from home fans on Tuesday. The number of season ticket holders watching is around 70% of those eligible to do so, although the "multiple households" I mentioned above would take this to nearly 90% if we factor them into account.
We are very grateful to everyone who purchases a stream, or has bought a season ticket and this money is keeping us going and a major factor in our desire to keep this season going to the very end.
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Replying to Saughall Robin - the figure given of 1082 relates to the number of streams ordered. We actually ended up at 1084 in the end. We believe that for home fans in particular, there are many households with more than one spectator for the stream, and the clearest example of this is season ticket holders where there are 29 households with more than one ST. The numbers of paying home fans watching the stream is beginning to creep up, and we had 30 first time buyers from home fans on Tuesday. The number of season ticket holders watching is around 70% of those eligible to do so, although the "multiple households" I mentioned above would take this to nearly 90% if we factor them into account.
We are very grateful to everyone who purchases a stream, or has bought a season ticket and this money is keeping us going and a major factor in our desire to keep this season going to the very end.
Have we made our vote Bill?
I know we've publically declared to carry on; but I haven't seen anything to say we've vote to say For/Against Res 1,2,4
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Thanks so much for your update Bill. Very much appreciated 👍
Yet another example of the club's responsiveness and why we're all glad to have you as Co chairman!
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No idea but it is 10K in the bank. What's not to like?
Totally agree.
But more like 6k if that figure includes ST holders.
Decent sum.
Wonder how much we paid for stadium hire?
That's a very pertinent and interesting question, particularly as Flynny's interview with Phil Parkinson suggests that we could well be using FCUM's facilities again this season.
Not sure that your question will be answered though!
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I can understand why 'rental' figures might not be made public and that's ok by me.
Can't stop us guessing though 😉
I think we charged v*cs a couple of grand a time didn't we? That was a good while back so I'd expect it to be at least that and probably more.
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To answer the couple of questions:-
1) we have indeed cast our vote to continue, and for the NL to be treated separately from the North and South
2) we won't be revealing the details of the deal with FCUM, other than to say it was a deal for a one off game. We did agree that should we need to do it again, we would do so under the same terms and conditions as for the Wrexham game.
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Fair enough Bill thanks for the answer.
Any news on Williams returning to action?
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To answer the couple of questions:-
1) we have indeed cast our vote to continue, and for the NL to be treated separately from the North and South
2) we won't be revealing the details of the deal with FCUM, other than to say it was a deal for a one-off game. We did agree that should we need to do it again, we would do so under the same terms and conditions as for the Wrexham game.
Be much more fun if they revealed the votes in the style of 12 points from Eurovision
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I think the next set of fixtures will be a bit of a reality check for us.
Yeovil, Chesterfield and Bromley away and Borehamwood at home will be real tests.
After those games we'll have a better idea of where we stand in the greater scheme of things.
Six points would be good, eight or more and we can realistically aspire to the play offs.
I must say that the team/Club has seriously exceeded my expectations this season and I suspect I'm not on my own in feeling that way.
I just want to caution people not to get critical if things don't go our way. The lads are giving their all out on the field and have pulled up trees for us this year.
Come on you Supers!!
Sadly, looking like I was correct.
But we've got to stick by the lads and management. We haven't become a bad team overnight, we've just had a massive reality check.
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I think the next set of fixtures will be a bit of a reality check for us.
Yeovil, Chesterfield and Bromley away and Borehamwood at home will be real tests.
After those games we'll have a better idea of where we stand in the greater scheme of things.
Six points would be good, eight or more and we can realistically aspire to the play offs.
I must say that the team/Club has seriously exceeded my expectations this season and I suspect I'm not on my own in feeling that way.
I just want to caution people not to get critical if things don't go our way. The lads are giving their all out on the field and have pulled up trees for us this year.
Come on you Supers!!
Sadly, looking like I was correct.
But we've got to stick by the lads and management. We haven't become a bad team overnight, we've just had a massive reality check.
Agreed, we were always due a poor run too.
Not sure I agree with the suggestions of needing to recruit - not sure there's any point at this stage unless the right player becomes available.