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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: robininstockport on November 13, 2013, 06:40:31 PM
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Big game on Saturday and a chance for management and players chance to ease the pain of the Trafford debacle.
Hope everyone who can makes the journey and lets get behind them
We are overdue a run in this competition.
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Big game on Saturday and a chance for management and players chance to ease the pain of the Trafford debacle.
Hope everyone who can makes the journey and lets get behind them
We are overdue a run in this competition.
Wealdstone made the semis a couple of seasons back. Very few of the Conference teams give a toss until the S/F. If we sign some reinforcements to guard against injuries/fatigue, we could go far in this.
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I think most Conference teams see this as a way to a major final - I cannot agree that most Conference teams don't give a hoot until the semi's.
Out of interest who are the non-Conference sides who have reached the semis in the last ten seasons ?
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Come on Alty, we can't afford to screw this one up.
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2012-13 - Gainsborough Trinity Dartford - Grimsby Wrexham
2011-12 - Wealdstone Luton - Newport York
2010-11 - Luton Gateshead - mansfield Darlo
2009-2010- Kiddy Salisbury - Stevenage Barrow
2008-2009 - Ebbsfleet Telford - York Steevange
2007-2008 Aldershot York - Torquat Ebbsfleet
2006-2007 Northwich Grays - Kiddy Stevenage
2005-2006 Boreham Wood Exeter - Woking Grays
2004-2005 Bishop Stortford Burton - Huncknall Grays
2003-2004 Aldershot Telford - Canvey Island Hednesford
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I don't think a lot of the ex-league teams in the Conference are that fussed until it gets to the semi-finals, seen as more of a distraction from the major objective of regaining their league status.
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Thanks Jack
2004-5...........three non Conf sides in there.....that was the year Grays knocked us out :(
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Thanks Jack
2004-5...........three non Conf sides in there.....that was the year Grays knocked us out :(
We weren't just knocked out that day, we were destroyed! They were superb...
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It would just be nice to test the current squad against some conference opposition, our FA trophy record since our last semi final appearance in 1990 is very poor. It's littered with abject displays/results, particular highlights include the 1-4 home defeat by at the time lower league southport, the 0-1 home defeat to Aylesbury, the loss at lower league Blyth, the loss at lower league north ferriby the home defeat by lower league Stalybridge the away defeat at winsford the home defeat by lower league bishop Auckland and add to that the 0-5 QF defeat at Kidderminster when we froze, don't expect us to win the trophy but a couple of games pitting our wits against a couple of top flight outfits would be nice.Anyone else got any terrible memories?
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The particular lowlight for me (which I expected, and ducked the game) was the defeat at FCUM.
It would be great to have a run in the Trophy......but not at the expense of our promotion prospects. We can't afford a fixture pile up like the one Halifax had last year when our squad is so thin.
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one thing is for sure no set of fans react worse to cup defeat than altys internet fans. guess the whole board and management will have to go again if we should be knocked out!
think we'll win though if reports are right that Reeves is firing again on Tuesday. are the BPA goals online anywhere? here are Colwyns from Tuesday http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npLcBuN-YdI
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The particular lowlight for me (which I expected, and ducked the game) was the defeat at FCUM.
It would be great to have a run in the Trophy......but not at the expense of our promotion prospects. We can't afford a fixture pile up like the one Halifax had last year when our squad is so thin.
and who got promoted last season via playoffs? Halifax >:( >:(
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It would just be nice to test the current squad against some conference opposition, our FA trophy record since our last semi final appearance in 1990 is very poor. It's littered with abject displays/results, particular highlights include the 1-4 home defeat by at the time lower league southport, the 0-1 home defeat to Aylesbury, the loss at lower league Blyth, the loss at lower league north ferriby the home defeat by lower league Stalybridge the away defeat at winsford the home defeat by lower league bishop Auckland and add to that the 0-5 QF defeat at Kidderminster when we froze, don't expect us to win the trophy but a couple of games pitting our wits against a couple of top flight outfits would be nice.Anyone else got any terrible memories?
Curzon the first time was one of the worst perfomances Ive seen
The miss from Twiss in 89th minute at Blyth still haunts me
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one thing is for sure no set of fans react worse to cup defeat than altys internet fans. guess the whole board and management will have to go again if we should be knocked out!
It's not each individual defeat we're reacting to, it's the twenty years of consistent ineptitude in cup competitions. I think we're entitled to be unhappy about that.
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I agree with leon, its a collective and consolidated spitting out of the dummy,after such results. the FA Trophy record makes embarrassing reading since 1990. id much sooner get promoted than win it to be honest, but I know some who hold the opposite view.Id just like to test ourselves against a tamworth or a Hereford. And what excitement would be created from Alty v Macc being pulled out the bag in the next round, 16 years is a very long time.
Post 1990
http://www.lusa.u-net.com/fat90on.htm
Pre 1990
http://www.lusa.u-net.com/fatto90.htm
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It's in the last ten years or so in particular when our Trophy record has been terrible. Only three wins in the competition in the last eight seasons and we were lucky to get one of those (Curzon, after the floodlight failure debacle game that Jack mentions).
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I always felt in our last spell in the conference that the team had to raise itself so often against big full time clubs to get the required points that it almost led to a stepping off of the gas in the FA trophy fixtures. As a top 4 northern league club, we should be the sort of tie everyone in the bottom half of the conference would ideally want to avoid, especially at moss lane should we manage to get through the Colwyn bay tie.
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If the ice on Walshaws ankle at the end was precautionary then I would expect the same team to start at Colwyn Bay and I think it will.
Therefore the manager will have put out a team that can beat Colwyn Bay.
The players need to step up on Saturday and get us into the hat for the next round.
Looking forward to it.
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I effing loved the FA Trophy.
The 1986 FA Trophy run was a tremendous experience for me. The final was a bit dull to be honest, and Wembley is a strange place with only 16000 people in it, but the earlier games all had great atmosphere. The semi-final second leg at Moss Lane was probably the best Altrincham game I ever saw; better even than the FA Cup wins at Blackpool and Birmingham.
I think it was the year after when we drew Fisher Athletic in an early round, a game Altrincham won in the THIRD replay. I'll never forget the sight of one of the Fisher players dropping to his knees distraught at the final whistle.
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The particular lowlight for me (which I expected, and ducked the game) was the defeat at FCUM.
It would be great to have a run in the Trophy......but not at the expense of our promotion prospects. We can't afford a fixture pile up like the one Halifax had last year when our squad is so thin.
and who got promoted last season via playoffs? Halifax >:( >:(
Because they had a squad of sufficient size to cope. We could be starting games with ten men and no subs by April..........
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Every season the club should be setting out to get promoted, win the FA Trophy and make the third round of the FA Cup. No one has the luxury of being able to pick and chose the competitions they win. The majority win nothing.
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Unfortunately can't make to tomorrows game (Mum's 90th bday do)
Cmon Alty make amends for the Trafford fiasco
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£4,000 in prize money up for grabs against Colwyn Bay.
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I really like what LS has had to say about this game on the official site. Feels like a welcome change of tone from his usual statements - I hope it's carried through into his teamtalk and the team performance. Let's have 'em!
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No Francis on the field of play tomorrow
http://blogs.northwalesweeklynews.co.uk/seagulls/
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No Francis on the field of play tomorrow
http://blogs.northwalesweeklynews.co.uk/seagulls/
I trust you WILL be standing behind the dugout Pete.......