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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: Jenga on August 07, 2011, 02:27:15 PM
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What are your thoughts on the season ahead, personally I feel so nervous, I want a good campaign and just hope it doesnt go flat on us.
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I think we look really solid,and are playing nice football,my worry is our lack of attacking options,and as the manager said last night he is focusing all his attention on this,but 20 goal a season strikers dont come cheap and arent in plentiful supply,seems to me as if we may take a striker on loan from somewhere
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Optimistic, confident with a healthy portion of respect for the rest of the teams in the BSN - What I have seen since the arrival of Lee & Neil makes me think we should fear nobody but do not take things for granted..
B E L I E V E
Looking at the fixtures and as long as I can afford it I should be able to make most away games this term
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Optimistic rather than confident. I think we're a striker away from a really decent starting XI, but I'm really concerned about the lack of cover in the squad (particularly in goal, and up front).
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Excited. I should get to some games 2nd half of the season.
Regardless of what happens at Harrogate I think we will do well this season. Top 5 would be a good achievement for me.
I think players might be a bit nervous going into first couple of games, so we shouldn't be too harsh.
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Pretty satisfied with the way things have gone pre season, Just looking forward to it now.
Onwards and upwards
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I think we're going to do well this season and certainly win quite a few more than we'll lose. That will do for me and anything more's a bonus.
To get promoted, I think we'd need to score 70 to 80 league goals over the season and, as I can't see us doing that, I just hope everyone doesn't start being sh*tty on here if we're not in the promotion shake-up at the turn of the year.
I think most people have got more sense than that though.
PS: I'd love to be proved wrong though and see us gallop away with the league! :D
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I'm going to be blunt. Based entirely on what I have seen so far, I honestly feel we will win this league. I agree with others though that an extra attacking option is vital.
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Very impressed with the new manager and he's made some good signings. Optimistic of a good season, sneaky feeling we will do well in one of the national cups. Deep down though I fear we don't have the squad size to challenge for the title.
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Very impressed with the new manager and he's made some good signings. Optimistic of a good season, sneaky feeling we will do well in one of the national cups. Deep down though I fear we don't have the squad size to challenge for the title.
I fancy a Cup run, and one's well overdue. The money it would bring in would do the Club a power of good.
BUT.....the effect of the resulting number of fixtures on a squad as small as ours would lead to problems with injury and suspension. The question is, would we want the financial benefits and kudos of Cup success if the price we pay is another season of BSN football ?
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Very impressed with the new manager and he's made some good signings. Optimistic of a good season, sneaky feeling we will do well in one of the national cups. Deep down though I fear we don't have the squad size to challenge for the title.
I fancy a Cup run, and one's well overdue. The money it would bring in would do the Club a power of good.
BUT.....the effect of the resulting number of fixtures on a squad as small as ours would lead to problems with injury and suspension. The question is, would we want the financial benefits and kudos of Cup success if the price we pay is another season of BSN football ?
If we got united away and earnt £1m yes I would lol.
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We will win this tinpot league,....errm well maybe :D
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Very impressed with the new manager and he's made some good signings. Optimistic of a good season, sneaky feeling we will do well in one of the national cups. Deep down though I fear we don't have the squad size to challenge for the title.
I fancy a Cup run, and one's well overdue. The money it would bring in would do the Club a power of good.
BUT.....the effect of the resulting number of fixtures on a squad as small as ours would lead to problems with injury and suspension. The question is, would we want the financial benefits and kudos of Cup success if the price we pay is another season of BSN football ?
If we got united away and earnt £1m yes I would lol.
If we got them at home we could go for the replay! ;)
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Very impressed with the new manager and he's made some good signings. Optimistic of a good season, sneaky feeling we will do well in one of the national cups. Deep down though I fear we don't have the squad size to challenge for the title.
I fancy a Cup run, and one's well overdue. The money it would bring in would do the Club a power of good.
BUT.....the effect of the resulting number of fixtures on a squad as small as ours would lead to problems with injury and suspension. The question is, would we want the financial benefits and kudos of Cup success if the price we pay is another season of BSN football ?
If we got united away and earnt £1m yes I would lol.
Just the small matter of knocking out 5 other clubs first....
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I fear we may have too small a squad for what we need. If Lee's going with the quality not quantity mantra then we prob need a bit more quality to be honest, a right winger/midfielder and a striker.
Pre season has been ok but the type that it is difficult to tell too much from, in that we've been okay but other than that we don't know. You can't tell going upwards but you can certainly tell if it's going to be a bad season.
We've had reasonable PS before and not done so well but never had a bad pre season and gone on to have a good season if you see what I mean.
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I fear we may have too small a squad for what we need. If Lee's going with the quality not quantity mantra then we prob need a bit more quality to be honest, a right winger/midfielder and a striker.
Have to concur with Ballers.
However, we haven't really seen enough of Richman to date in order to make any sort of fair judgment as to his abilities.
Defensively, we should be OK but, alas, I just do not regard a strikeforce of Reeves and Twiss as being prolific enough to score the necessary amount of goals to facilitate a promotion push.
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That's what I expressed earlier in the thread. I'm just hoping the manager realises this too - Im sure he does. However, finding another 20-odd goals a season player at this stage (and with our finances and what we can afford to pay) is going to present a real problem.
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I think we will beat harrogate and get a few good results over the first 2 months and be right up there, then as inevitable injuries start to come through are squad size will hinder us, then of course the January sales might land us a lifeline,
I hope I'm wrong, but was sinnots farsley promotion squad this small? I very much doubt it
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There's always the loan market if needs be.
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I'm sure the transfer window doesn't apply at this level so players can come and go much more freely if things aren't going so well.
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I'm sure the transfer window doesn't apply at this level so players can come and go much more freely if things aren't going so well.
Apart from anyone who's on a contract....
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Really looking forward to this season. In a way coming down has been a good thing for Alty. The club has had time to re-group and take stock, and with the new manager it feels like there is a real air of expectation and the pressure to achieve is self imposed and controlled.
Blimey...I'm going for a lie down.
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I'm very happy with the progress so far and very impressed with the no nonsense attitude of Lee Sinnott.
However our enforced budget cuts have left the squad thin and I think for me that rules out any title challenge. I would expect us to float between 4th and 8th on a regular basis.
I think we'll win and lose a lot of games 1-0 and go on a little run that will make us think "could we win it?" and then a bad run coinciding with injury where we'll lose a few on the bounce as well.
I also predict that during the season there will be calls for Lee to be knighted and also questions if he is the man for the job after not playing the lazy bloke who comes for a trial who has good hair and a chantable name.
I'm looking forward to it immensely and think we'll do well.
And I am bouyed by the fact that if we don't do as well as expected the gaffer won't be scared to chop anyone and get fresh faces in.
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My feeling is that whatever happens this season we are at the start of an exciting new era. I like the way Lee Sinnott has gone about things so far and I think that we have a good chance of making the playoffs next April/May.
I'm looking upon it as a long term thing and not just the next season. The club is in good hands and during the next 2 to 3 years I personally think we'll achieve promotion.
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I agree with the last post. There were times when we tried to get access to the Football League via winning the Gola League then going through the vote system. The downside of Auto-promotion is that full time teams come down but stay full time, while others who realistically cannot afford it get into problems when they stay full time.
I am glad we did not go down the road of other clubs, and all I ask is that my club remins stable and cuts its cloth accordingly. I am not convinced that auto promotion next season would not be too much too soon, and we will end up where we left off, but will leave it in Lee's more than capable hands. Things will probrably be different with new management, impressive friendlies and some new players, all meaning new ideas which to me is very refreshing and even more intriguing. This led me to book Alex and me on the coach this weekend to support us away.
Lets win more games than we lose, and build on that, and if it proves we are good enough to win this league then I will take that and look forward to building on that the following season. Looking forward to Saturday, lets get behind the lads and make sure they hear us as we do our bit for them.