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I can’t believe Marc Joseph played international football for anyone, small island nation or not. He was atrocious for us. Being charitable, that may have been because he was simply past his best at the age he joined us.

James Lawrie had 3 full Northern Ireland caps before joining us, so there’s him as well.

In fact, I’d venture he’d be the international with most goals in Alty shirt.

Knows Phil, great pedigree to get in county championship side, sign for fleetwood and then sign for the league again.

Hulme listed on stockport forum as tomorrows signing. will judge that in 4 weeks after hes scored 3.

Well if he’s a decent cricketer that always puts someone up in my estimation 👍

To be fair to Thompson, his distribution is an integral part of our game. The reason a lot go astray is because he’s trying to pick people out.

I’m sure if we told him just to T**t every back pass he’d have no problems whatsoever.

Yeah, today was wank but let’s keep our nerve and f**k it off and move on.

Every so often this can happen, some days you’re the hammer other says you’re the nail. I’m not happy but the general direction is positive so let’s crack on.

We did try to keep playing I suppose

I’m not happy clapping btw 😂

I don’t think we will necessarily turn into a Rushden type club/atmosphere. Once this sorts itself out a bit it’ll alleviate a number of problems. With so many fans and stewards in such a small space there would obviously be much more points of contact that say if the GRE was open. You’d probably barely see or talk to a steward if we were spread out across the GRE.

I must say though. I’m slightly surprised that a few of us haven’t recognised that yesterday was an almighty box ticking exercise to show TBC that it could all be stewarded effectively in order to open up further capacity for the Bromley game though? We shouldn’t really be complaining that there’s no space (find some) or have to be moved 4 times. As excruciating and as frustrating as it is, it was just a hoop we needed to jump through and we needed to help the steward.

I didn’t see the incidents described so I’ll leave it there but essentially guys, right now, we can’t be giving the stewards an opportunity to manage a situation badly or to give TBC anything else to think about or decision to make (they’ll make a bad decision!). Did we really need someone to go in the Golf Rod ffs?

We sort of have to remember that a new stewarding group has been brought in because the previous one was deemed by TBC to not be counting people/not moving people from areas they shouldn’t have been. Obviously, they’re going to do that. We just need to suck it up for a game guys. Hopefully Nigel can feedback to them though.


One thing that has been raised is that, given the specific situation we’re in, we need some specific communication to allow us to realise what is happening and why.

As an example, the standing at the front at pitch side barriers (or not standing there now to be precise). At the AGM on Friday in aob Lawrence Looney and Neil Faulkner explained (and I think if I’m not quoting verbatim then I’m certainly paraphrasing with a large degree of confidence) that this is a new directive that for people to stand there the barriers have to be tested as crush barriers. They need strengthening to do so..

Now, football clubs are going to be checked on this when inspected but it’s not an immediate thing. However, because some absolute C**t (my phrase, not from LL or NF that one 😂) has grassed us up to the council, that has been noted by them and applied.

I queried whether the issue was the walkways by the barriers were uneven/trip hazards. It’s not. It’s the strengthening reason. This can be done but the cost factor involved isn’t appropriate right now. What is costing us more money is the reduced capacity. That is our priority to get it back up and then the strengthening can be looked at in the overall scheme of things.

That sort of information would show people clearly just why they are being asked to move away (if they couldn’t work it out themselves) and would probably help both them and the stewards going forward so maybe that’s the level of communication we need right now.

We need more strength in depth, or at least the resources/availability to cope.

Firstly, I'm relieved that the 'traitor within our midst' 'name and shame' post that appears on another thread seems to have lost momentum.  Whether someone who lives locally has complained I cannot say, but I very much doubt the self-scuppering theory has much evidence to support it.

You can be relieved as much as you like but I was right though wasn’t I?

Let us be very clear about something tonight. Someone with detailed knowledge of the club, who has been put out by recent events has written into Trafford council detailing problems with the ground.

It may have been done with jealousy over the success of the partially opened fanzone vis a vis the CSH, the subsequent events possibly unplanned.

But whoever has done that, has set in course a chain of events that has led to this football club that we, and they purport to, love losing £100,000 of income. We may have lost it in front on a 2,500 crowd in a normal Moss Lane but now we’ll never know.

When we finally nail down the culprit, and I am lead to believe that the belt is tightening in this regard, let us not forget this. Regardless of previous efforts made for the club or positions held. There will be a reckoning to be had.

Their inability to grow up shames them. This will be difficult for them. I hope they can’t sleep tonight for reasons other than the rest of us won’t sleep easy.

This won’t apply to everyone I guess but the new roadworks/temporary traffic lights at the Grove Lane/Delahays Road junction are causing havoc, traffic has backed all the way down Grove Lane to past the King George for example.

Not for the first time this week, cheers Trafford Council, nice one.

And I suspect anyone travelling through that area is probably already aware or indeed reading this whilst sat in the traffic.

I’d just suggest to people that maybe it really would be getting there earlier than usual tomorrow night, definitely allow a bit of extra journey time.