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Given what County fans thought re: both, I guess it's panned out as expected with Newby being the better longer term prospect for us (especially given his age). Jennings has been OK but I wouldnt be interested in keeping him on longer term from what I've seen so far - that's not to say I can't be convinced yet.

As far as I see it, we're tantalisingly close to solving our right winger issue, but we've far from solved our centre forward one.

I'm hoping our summer recruitment will involve going all our for a proper centre forward given we should be OK in most positions by then (if we can retain everyone).

I can only speak from listening to RR, but I get the feeling he adds a lot to the build up play - holding the ball, laying off, bringing others into play etc - but is certainly not a prolific goalscorer; I think he only had 1 chance on Saturday.
RR seem impressed with him.

So frustrating we don't finish these games off, lose concentration and put pressure on ourselves late in the game.

Happy with the result though!

Quote from: Steve from Sale on November 23, 2022, 11:44:32 AM

Interestingly enough, the shout then for the offside trap was 'ON YOUR TOES.' That meant, move your backsides out and leave the forward offside; coming from the manager's bench.

When I was a manager at Unicorn, the coaching of our team that our Alex played in, was taken over by none other than Graham Tobin. I moved to manage our Chris's team. When we wanted our players to beat the offside trap, Graham taught them this with the shout of 'on your toe's' We managed this quite successfully, and when I asked Graham where he got his code from, he said it was from the Kingy/Tony Saunders era at Altrincham.

Weren't Unicorn (or their youth team) quite good at one time, along with Hale Barns United? I remember I used to frequently read about one or two lads from my school in SAM who played for HBU.

Hale Barnes United were THE team when I was a lad. One of my junior school mates, Alan Richardson played for them.

Quote from: MadFrankie on November 22, 2022, 07:57:48 AM

Quote from: JD on November 21, 2022, 11:45:01 PM

And the story also got onto Sunday night's Headliners on GBNews!

So that’s another 75 people who are aware of the story.

Interesting to hear that a news story based in fact appeared on their screens as well.

Oh deary deary me!

And here’s a clip you might have seen from the 84/85 season. I’ve seen most of these but don’t remember this one.

Interesting for the younger lads* for the clips of the ground (and Alty town centre).




https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HYxHNioMZ7c





* they might not find it interesting to be fair 😂

Whatever happened to Stuart Hall?

Before the game would have been happy with 1-1...
....but a silly goal to give away so late - disappointed!

Will this be all but a reserve match?

Can't see Stockport putting out their strongest team.