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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: Barry Howard was my Hero on April 19, 2014, 09:10:25 AM
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Based on what I have seen you stand a good chance in the play offs, there's really not much between the top 5 teams.
Can't believe the response of some of your fans every time you don't win a match, I would hate to think how they would react if you were relegated 4 divisions and we're then 15 th in that league.
That said I thought your fans were excellent at the game, County fans were somewhat flat but that's to be expected given our circumstances
Next season will be interesting. We have a target list of players who are supposedly the cream of this league and have already agreed deals with a couple of them, I would expect there will be a couple from Alty that we will be looking to sign up.
It will probably all go wrong for us in pre season but at least we have some stability and no ex players,managers to pay for, Trying to Not be too disrespectful to any clubs in this league but if you are a part time player and have a choice of playing in front of 5000 fans in a proper stadium or 300 in a field with a shed ,I would hope the attraction of county would be too hard to resist. That said there will always be some players who go to whoever pays the most but on reflection I'm not sure I would want those players anyway.
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I also fear we could lose a couple of our best players soon
These next few games are so important
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Trying to keep our best players for next season is a priority once the season ends
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Trying to keep our best players for next season is a priority once the season ends
Hopefully it's already in hand & not just once the seasons finished.
I think we'll lose at least 3 of our best :'(
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LOoet's hope Leamington beat Boston United today & we will be in the play off's. As it stands @ the moment, come on Gloucester City,Colwyn Bay,, Leamington, Harrogate Town & Oxford City. Then onto Monday. At least, the players are more committed than some of our so calleds supporters. Unfortunately, Altrincham have always contained a batch of mindless MOANERS.
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Committed? The amount of money some spend watching this side entitles them to an opinion. They dont need patting on the bead by club officials.
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Committed? The amount of money some spend watching this side entitles them to an opinion. They dont need patting on the bead by club officials.
It is these so called moaners who are the salt of this club as well, forget the 621 happy clappers out for a day on the piss in Stockport, they won't be at Gloucester next year
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Uday,
i think some of those 621 will,and its good that we took that sort of figure to county.I am hoping that we do go up and then i will have a game to go to at Torquay and maybe Exeter.
As for moaners my father was one and he would punch anyone(our own other teams fans) who said anything he did not agree with.But he knew his stuff and has played at Moss Lane,but he was a nightmare at matches.We did go everywhere watching Alty from the 60s upto the year 2000 ish,i moved to devon in 1978 so do not get to see them as much as i would like now.
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I hope Telford win this and we finish 3rd then play and beat Hednesford (rather have them than Guiseley) as I fancy us against NFU in the final opposed to Telford.
I can only dream but I think that's our ideal route out of this division.
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Based on what I have seen you stand a good chance in the play offs, there's really not much between the top 5 teams.
Can't believe the response of some of your fans every time you don't win a match, I would hate to think how they would react if you were relegated 4 divisions and we're then 15 th in that league.
That said I thought your fans were excellent at the game, County fans were somewhat flat but that's to be expected given our circumstances
Next season will be interesting. We have a target list of players who are supposedly the cream of this league and have already agreed deals with a couple of them, I would expect there will be a couple from Alty that we will be looking to sign up.
It will probably all go wrong for us in pre season but at least we have some stability and no ex players,managers to pay for, Trying to Not be too disrespectful to any clubs in this league but if you are a part time player and have a choice of playing in front of 5000 fans in a proper stadium or 300 in a field with a shed ,I would hope the attraction of county would be too hard to resist. That said there will always be some players who go to whoever pays the most but on reflection I'm not sure I would want those players anyway.
Players aren't just players- they're blokes with commitments. Too many clubs get by on a whim and a prayer financially. At Alty we may not pay the best but the players know it'll be paid in full on the day. SCFC need to get the money right first. One the money side is sorted you have every chance of walking this division in the next couple of years.
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All players have been paid in time and have been for a number of years, our debts have allegedly been written off by shareholders, our highest paid leeches ( can't call them players) will be off the books in a few weeks so we can look forward.
We can pull in 3000+ for a meaningless fixtures when we haven't scored for 5 matches I'm sure you can imagine what the place would be like should we actually have something to play for and a half decent team.
It's a shame Phil Jevons is retiring at the end of the season but I believe Alan Lord already has a number of replacements lined up from the clubs at the business end of the table.
It's never boring at County but I have to say that this division will see away followings like never before if we are are battling for promotion ( watch out for the attendance at Franks Gaff tomorrow).
PS has anyone got the phone numbers for your number 9,10,11, In fact the whole team please.
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That's a great post, smiling away here, unfortunately it seems though that most of our side are ex-directory.
So good that a game between us last night went so well with no problems and a big crowd, County will get back to a higher level one day soon, perhaps not back to L1 but you deserve a league place. Take solace from Luton, it took time but they did it and your place is rather friendlier than theirs!
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All players have been paid in time and have been for a number of years, our debts have allegedly been written off by shareholders, our highest paid leeches ( can't call them players) will be off the books in a few weeks so we can look forward.
We can pull in 3000+ for a meaningless fixtures when we haven't scored for 5 matches I'm sure you can imagine what the place would be like should we actually have something to play for and a half decent team.
It's a shame Phil Jevons is retiring at the end of the season but I believe Alan Lord already has a number of replacements lined up from the clubs at the business end of the table.
It's never boring at County but I have to say that this division will see away followings like never before if we are are battling for promotion ( watch out for the attendance at Franks Gaff tomorrow).
PS has anyone got the phone numbers for your number 9,10,11, In fact the whole team please.
I think we should all be more wary of Salford City potentially nicking all the good local non league players if I'm being honest.
Can imagine players being more tempted to play for them for the obvious reasons than play for SCFC.
It's a shame but its a sign of the times nowadays.
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Not sure about Salford, I think it's a disaster in the making. What do ex premiership players know about non league, there is no fan base to call on and the whole thing will be loss making from day one, with the players no longer earning x thousand a week I'm not too sure they will be too keen to splash the cash each week.
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Not sure about Salford, I think it's a disaster in the making. What do ex premiership players know about non league, there is no fan base to call on and the whole thing will be loss making from day one, with the players no longer earning x thousand a week I'm not too sure they will be too keen to splash the cash each week.
I think FCUM should be very wary of their fans defecting to Salford, they are very fickle after all.
Dont think Neville & co will have to put too much money in, just having there names associated with the club will bring in outside investment & sponsorship.
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Trying to keep our best players for next season is a priority once the season ends
Who decides who stays thou?
Presumably Sinnott will go if we dont get promoted so by the time a new manager is appointed half the players could be signed up elsewhere.
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Not sure about Salford, I think it's a disaster in the making. What do ex premiership players know about non league, there is no fan base to call on and the whole thing will be loss making from day one, with the players no longer earning x thousand a week I'm not too sure they will be too keen to splash the cash each week.
I think FCUM should be very wary of their fans defecting to Salford, they are very fickle after all.
Dont think Neville & co will have to put too much money in, just having there names associated with the club will bring in outside investment & sponsorship.
There wont be many that do maybe a few salford based ones but their forum is confident it will be small numbers.
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If it stays the same it's better to come 3rd rather than 2nd also be better if Telford win leauge think ferriby and hednesford alot more beatable than Telford guiseley
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I'm not sure Guiseley are the footballing monster everyone fears them to be. After all, they have failed in THREE consecutive playoffs. The fear of failure has to be a weakness to exploit.
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That's a fair point about previous failures
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Yesterday, when I looked at the fixtures, I came to the conclusion that the result we really needed to happen was Hednesford winning at Oxford. Looking at the remaining fixtures, I can see us, Hed and Guiseley winning both games, meaning we finish 3rd and Hed 4th. For me that would be just perfect - at least the best we can hope for! Guiseley and Ferriby (can't see them winning at Boston) can fight it out in the other semi. I can't see us beating either tbh, but I'd fancy Guiseley at home more than Ferriby away.
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hednesford are actually top of the form table (last six games ) at the moment with guiseley second.
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I reckon in my theory of results is
we have a few big games a head of us
if the team plays well we win play bad we lose
plenty of fans ready and waiting
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big game ...big crowd .....we lose . chorley next season for us
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I can see the advantage in definitely finishing 3rd, however I'd be tempted if we beat Vauxhall on Monday to rest a good proportion of the squad away at Histon. They looked knackered at stockport.
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Yesterday, when I looked at the fixtures, I came to the conclusion that the result we really needed to happen was Hednesford winning at Oxford. Looking at the remaining fixtures, I can see us, Hed and Guiseley winning both games, meaning we finish 3rd and Hed 4th. For me that would be just perfect - at least the best we can hope for! Guiseley and Ferriby (can't see them winning at Boston) can fight it out in the other semi. I can't see us beating either tbh, but I'd fancy Guiseley at home more than Ferriby away.
With Boston nearly out of it good chance ferriby may beat them
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I can see the advantage in definitely finishing 3rd, however I'd be tempted if we beat Vauxhall on Monday to rest a good proportion of the squad away at Histon. They looked knackered at stockport.
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Cant see us being in a position to rest players at histon if guiseley and hednesford win tomorrow we will probably need a win at histon to get third place .
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We will almost certainly be in a position to rest players at Histon. It will come down to whether LS thinks it's more important to have fresh legs for the playoffs or to finish as high in the table as possible for home advantage etc. I can see arguments both ways. I agree with Toff that they looked tired at the end on Fri and I also think tiredness was a big factor at Brackley last season. No good securing home advantage if the players are too knackered to make use of it.