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Amazed that the match is on - won't be for the faint hearted on or off the pitch.  Thanks to all who have braved the weather and travelled up for this one.

Come on Alty - I predict 5 4 to The Robins - Burrell to score hattrick in injury time after coming off the bench in the 88th minute - then get sent off.

I'd settle for 1 point though

Folks the bottom line is that we only had 4 turnstiles open, and so it was inevitable and foreseeable that yet again we would see large numbers of people still queuing 10 to 15 minutes after kick off.

We can blame people for turning out a few minutes before kick off-  but this has been happening since time began and was never this much of a problem.

We can bury our heads in the sand and make out there is no problem - one poster saying there was no queue at the Golf Road at 3pm - that is simply untrue-  I was outside the golf road at that time and there were 150 plus easy at that time - and a lot of people were really fed up.

We can look at other, valid ways of selling tickets - e-tickets a good idea and it seems to be working very well.

But whatever you think, or the club does, 4 turnstiles open for a match where a crowd of 1300-1400 was expected is just not acceptable and is inviting problems. This has happened at every single Saturday match in recent weeks - 4 turnstiles open - chaos in the few minutes before and after kick off - so it isn't as if this is catching the club unawares.

We need more turnstile operators, it is that simple - but no one at the club is asking for them.  When I did the turnstiles for 3 years we never had less than 8 turnstiles open for generally much smaller attendances, you got free entry, and a fiver for your troubles as well.  I became one because we were short for the Burton FA Cup match so George Heslop put a call for volunteers on the website - and I carried on because it was handy for me at the time and because it was contributing to the club. I am sure there must be 4 or 5 fans out there who would be happy to help out if they were asked.

But we HAVE to address this quickly.  We have a match against Kings Lynn coming up which we will need to be on our game for - away turnstiles open, all golf road turnstiles open - as it will attract a bigger crowd and we can expect a fair few from Norfolk given it is the first time we have played them at moss lane.

If we don't have this sorted by the Chester match then we can expect all hell to break loose.

I am not looking to criticise club officials for this - you work so hard on match days and in most respects organisation and professionalism at the club has improved dramatically-  but I know what I am talking about here, and this must be addressed or we will have much bigger problems down the line.

Please take this in the constructive spirit in which it is intended

 

Don't wish the lad ill at all, but is he isn't producing for Chester and Mahon is for us, then we come out of that deal pretty well.  I see us playing Chester in the play offs at the end of this season, and I would much rather we finished above them and got them at home.  Happy for him to take the league by storm once we have been promoted to The National League and Chester are doomed to another season in League North! 

Cant get to this one  - good luck to all those attending.

Telford have been patchy all season, and not had a good run of late, but they are capable of scoring goals against good sides, so I am a bit nervous about this one.

Will go for optimism - Telford 1 Alty 2 - Hulme, Mahon attendance 1066 - 137 in away end

Head says a draw a good result though

such a shame that Kettering playing in a sub tier 7 ground that isn't even in Kettering.  Rockingham Road was one of the more formidable away trips back in the day.  Great atmosphere, passionate fans, and intimidating to scary when they were a big club in the conference. 

The play off semi 2nd leg victory in extra time in 2005 one of my fondest, and most unexpected, memories following Alty. We celebrated so hard when the 2nd goal went in that there was an explosion in my head!! It was either a mini stroke or a huge adrenaline surge.  Utter joy!

Manslaughter for beating a fit and healthy 25 year old lad to death 

Think the initiative - which has gone viral - of donating shirts from clubs with the number 25 on, and with the name Sinnott on the back - with a view to auctioning them off for charity - is awesome.  What a fantastic tribute that is to Jordan.  I understand clubs at all levels and from overseas as well - example Barcelona - have already donated.  I hope we are doing so as well, and my missus thinks we should do a tribute rainbow shirt as well - on the basis that it will probably go for quite a lot of money.

Hope we do a minute's applause at our next home match - I know we don't tend to for our own until the last match of the season -but he played 57 times for us, more times than he played for anyone else, and the tragic and horrifying circumstances of his death in my view merit us doing something special by way of tribute to him and out of respect for his family. I am wsure it would comfort Lee and co to know that we really pushed the boat out for them.   What do others think?

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better than my winter break and where is Chris Senior ones ? I think not how dare you

It's rumoured that Chris Senior is taking a winter break. It must be true - tweeted by Johnson and Morley......

you know what I say let bygones be bygones . Good luck JJ hope it works out. But Chester have zero class from thier behaviour at moss lane ... Again... and the lack of class on twitter . I want anyone to go up but them

This. Exactly.

Chris Senior is on a winter break and is showing tourists around the ruins of Chester City  He hotly denies rumours that he is in fact Yoda