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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: One Foot in the Grave on January 24, 2019, 06:43:59 AM
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The draw specialists - a trend they started at our place on the opening day of the season.
We'll be fresh, but they had a tough game on Tuesday against County. We need the three points from this to maintain our playoff challenge. The two teams above us have quite tough assignments - Spennymoor host Chester, and Telford go to Southport., so It's feasible that we could be up to 4th at teatime on Saturday.
I'm on the coach and will be ready to rumble....
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Leamington 7/4
Draw 5/2
Alty 5/4
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Looking forward to this one. Easy direct train from Manchester or London, some decent pubs, friendly locals & we normally get some kind of result vs Lem.
Given after this Saturday it’s potentially a 2 week gap to our next league game vs FCUM think it’s v important we take the points. They’ve only won 3/13 at home so we should go home with something at least. Looking forward to seeing this new lad from Barrow too, hopefully more like Dale/Hemmings than the other recent loanees.
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I very much doubt injury hit Chester will get anything at Spennymoor, but hopefully Southport should take points off Telford.
We saw how resilient Leamington were earlier in the season and they've been fairly consistent ever since in being hard to beat (even Stockport were hanging on at the end). Of course we can win, but the smart money is on a draw.
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They’ve not won since November... I think we know what that means.
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Wed should be fresh and need to get at them. New Striker on the bench should keep Jordan on his toes.
Same team as last Saturday I guess barring any injuries.
We can certainly get a result. Come on Alty
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Same starting 11.
Leamington 1-2 Alty. Hulme Waterston
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We are a lot better when we opened the season against Leamington.
I expect us to come away with 3 points tomorrow.
The Brakes 0-2 Alty
Not a bad journey for me, mainly motorway.
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Long way back from here.
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What was the red for?
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What was the red for?
He kicked out at a player in "retaliation" (retaliation in quotes as he wasn't the player who had been fouled) and this was picked up by the assistant, not the referee, as the play had moved on.
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Their 2 led with his elbow every single time and finally connected with the new lad's head in the area and ref gave nothing so Hulme's frustration got the better of him. No excuse but the ref was one of the worst I've seen. Their pen looked very soft albeit Hanigan should never have got himself in that position in the first place, their 3rd was clearly a foul as the forward climbed all over us as he had been doing all day. We should have had a couple of penalties - one for handball, they jumped with their arms in the air to block every clearence we made and he gave only about 3 of them during the game but not the one in the area - the elbow at the end was also blatant. It was the endless niggle fouls by them he ignored that wound everyone up. Sliding challenge on JJ and he gave nothing, their 7 lost the ball and chased Hampson 30 yards clearly intent on retribution and kicked him when he got their yet no booking, 2 minutes earlier he'd booked white (?) for a minor pull back.
TT was really poor today, persistent clearing into touch 3 or 4 goal kicks straight into touch, he came out a couple of times and got nowhere near the ball. We cleared off the line a couple of times with TT nowhere to be seen. The only silver lining today was that TT was so bad that PP will have to act now.
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What was the red for?
He kicked out at a player in "retaliation" (retaliation in quotes as he wasn't the player who had been fouled) and this was picked up by the assistant, not the referee, as the play had moved on.
He actually pushed the bloke over . He wasn't the player fouled he just lost his composure (again) unecessary red imo.
What a f**king sh*t day out that was
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Well apart from the opening 10 minutes where we looked pretty sharp, that was absolutely awful, probably the worst all round team performance I’ve seen under Parky. Not one player can come out of that with any credit. We lost the ball cheaply all game and the lack of reaction when the second and third goals went in was worrying. Every player had an off day and Josh Hancock, James Jones and Max Harrop were unusually poor. Unfortunately I’m used to the level of performance from Tony Thompson, he was absolute garbage.
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Absolutely appalling.
Our inability to defend balls into our box is a recurrent theme - it seems like we work at it every now and again, then have a game where we do ok at it, then PP says 'see, told you we can defend set-pieces' and then we forget about it again and revert to being dreadful. We barely won a header in our own box in the first half. It's such a basic requirement of football - could we employ a specialist set-piece coach? Our coaching team seems incapable of doing it. It goes without saying that it would help if we had a competent goalie.
The meek and feeble way we seemed to roll over and accept defeat in that first half when things weren't going our way was by far the most concerning thing.
I didn't see what Jordan did to their No. 2 but whatever it was, the guy is an imbecile.
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There was so much wrong that it's difficult to decide where to start.
Let's deal with the goakeeping situation first. Thompson was dreadful today. I've commented before on the effect he has on the performances of our back four. Today he stayed on his line more than once when he should have stepped up and taken control; on other occasions he rushed off his line and got nowhere near the ball. His distribution was woeful. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE can we have Elliott Wynne back in nets RAPID !!!!
Now on to that back four. I'm usually pretty happy with them as a unit, but today it was like the Keystone Kops. Hampson had probably the poorest game he's had for the club; White ran him close; Jones was like a lost soul; Hannigan can't do it all on his own, but even he was below par. The penalty was soft and he won't have been happy with himself.
In the middle of the park, we had a very poor showing from Harrop. Unfortunately much of our first half effort came down his side, but he and Hampson played like they'd never met before. On the other side, Johnston started brightly but was kicked by opponents on two or three occasions, and eventually faded. Moult and Richman never got a real foothold in the game. Hancock was largely anonymous.
Hulme. What the hell is wrong with him ? He doesn't learn. His aggression has to be channelled better - too often he behaves like a spoilt child. The red card illustrated this perfectly - it wasn't his battle, and he should have kept well away. The linesman had a clear view of it, and acted accordingly. He will have been unavailable through suspension for almost 20% of this season.
However, the officials have to take a great deal of blame for the debacle. The referee was unbelievably poor, and let Leamington get away with murder. How he missed the elbow on Waterston in the box amazes me. He could scarcely have been more partisan if he'd been bribed. We wouldn't have got a result with Anthony Taylor in charge, but this guy totally pissed me off.
On the positive side, Harrison looked ready to resume, and Waterston could be a valuable addition when those around him are up to scratch.
We've got a fortnight to sort this mess out. We're still clutching a playoff spot by our fingernails, and we need to step up now and put in the necessary effort to stay in contention.
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For me, Alty did well until unable to clear from a corner - why we still persist in having all 11 in the box to defend a corner is still a mystery.
First goal was very poor defending.
The pen was a very poor decision, still, Hannigan was behind play by 6 yards, and should have defended much better - he should have been in line with the other central defender.
Their third was quite a poor goal to concede, as Bishop was clearly fouling the defence to score - ie hands on shoulders pushing the defender down. Guess the ref hadnt read this far in the rules of football.......
Strangely, Thompson's clearances from dead balls were much better than from in play. Even from goal kicks, few went straight out for throws. Wind was a factor, but Leamington simply altered their tactics in the second half to counter the weather. Something we seemed unable to do.
Alty should clearly have had two pens in the second half.
First seemed like a clear handball, second was an elbow to Waterson (which lead to the sending off of Hulme). I also thought English also kicked Waterson afterwards.
Harrop very poor in first half, much better in second. Don't think he should have been brought off. Main issue was central midfield. It was just poor and non- existant.
As for the referee. Its a hard job. You are judged on the decisions you make. Such as booking White for a challenge in the middle of the park, and not booking Murphy for sprinting 30 yards with the intent to foul.
3-0 harsh on alty, BUT really need to adapt to what the referee is going to give.
If Hulme has just pushed the bloke over - dont think its a red. This was a decision made by the assistant ref - who couldnt see the elbow, and didnt flag for the penalty decision in first half.
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Well I can only echo the posts above, that was utterly dreadful and the worst I’ve seen us play in a long time.
Lem weren’t a particular cultured outfit, all long balls and get it in the mixer but that’s all they needed to do against us. To call our defending inept would be generous. Wynne has to have a run in the team now and be allowed the opportunity to make mistakes too.
Hulme’s red card utterly needless in the context of the game which was long gone by that point. Capped the day off grimly.
To be honest on that showing I’d rather we didn’t get in the play offs, that team would get eaten alive in the National.