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I seem to remember (at least) one shot that came back off the bar too. Such a pity that so few matches were videoed back then. Wasn't Mark Ogley's goal from his own half around that time too? A complete fluke obviously, but even so! At least I saw that one - when Stuart Coburn scored at Runcorn, I had taken my eyes off the game for a few seconds, assuming quite reasonably that nothing much would happen. And can anyone beat my record of missing two goals in one game in the 6-1 win at Workington (snack bar and toilet - it was one of those games!)?

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He certainly scored other thunderbolts (plus others which came close), and some say the Chester goal wasn't even his best that season. I can't for the life of me remember the games the others were in though.

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: HT vs Daggers
« on: April 21, 2023, 09:44:28 PM »
I was going to say, we may see a decent away following from Torquay at last, and can we please keep them at the Chequers End (I always thought the Clock End sounded daft therefore ditto Scoreboard), even if they say they are going to bring 1,000 - which I don't think they will? I repeat, there must not be a repeat of the Notts debacle.

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Safe
« on: April 21, 2023, 09:27:46 PM »
We are indeed

I think I still have a SAFE t-shirt somewhere - the underground one, not the original.

Are Kings Of The Golf Road still going? Sadly I lost the hat I bought from them.

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For Pete Reid. And Sporting Altrincham of course for John Laidlar with his interest in Lisbon!

Interesting that there is no clear favourite. let's hope it never happens.

By the way, why were Newport and Maidstone allowed to have their old names?

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Goal of the Season
« on: April 21, 2023, 08:46:22 PM »
Better to have loved and lost...

Colclough against Dorking for me. I.ve said before and I'll say it again, not many players at this level can do that. (I wonder if his vote will be depressed by the number of people in the CSH at the time...)

For those who were in the bar at the time, see here, from 5:57. Brilliant!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge58G26zOgkhttp://

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Dale down unless they win at County!
« on: April 21, 2023, 08:29:49 PM »
We always enjoyed a ground with an adjacent railway track. Bamber Bridge, Lancaster and Burscough come to mind. There may well have been others.

Kidderminster, and their famous soup - the perfect ground for the railway enthusiast foodie! For the first Cup match against West Ham, the Severn Valley Railway ran a football special. One away day there when I treated myself to a trip on the railway, a Harriers fan on the train asked me if I was ready to get beat - I pointed out we were on a decent run, and we duly got something there. I think Kidderminster were top then though I can't recall the season off hand. About the 10th of March anyway.

I used to work with someone from Collyhurst, a keen City fan, who tended to show a bit of antipathy towards Altrincham. Poynton is probably posher than us as well. To be fair to City, I seem to remember them encouraging people to watch local non-league teams when City weren't playing (though back around 1999, there maybe wasn't that much difference!).

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Dale down unless they win at County!
« on: April 20, 2023, 08:17:41 PM »
I enjoyed the Lancashire hotpot at Flixton, the only place I remember seeing it (and Jimmy being mistaken for a player there one time!). A sad loss to football.

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Up and Down
« on: April 20, 2023, 08:15:07 PM »
We need Torquay down for no other reason than its a pain in the arse to get to. Ditto Yeovil.

What about poor old Harold?
Last year he lost Weymouth, now it's Yeovil and, probably, Torquay.
What will be his nearest game now?!

Probably Alty 😃😃

In all seriousness, I remember Western League Keynsham Town (near Bristol) complaining that it took them longer to get to a league match at Mousehole than it would take them to travel to Manchester! Still a few tweaks needed at step five by the big cheeses, methinks.

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Altrincham FC First Team / Dale down unless they win at County!
« on: April 18, 2023, 10:56:24 PM »
I urge you all not to go to the Edgeley Park game on Saturday (assuming it's not sold out already). There will be plenty of time to let it sink in during two National League games next season, should Dale fail to win there, and to get several other results in their favour. Should the worst happen, I hope their stay in the National League "Premier" is a short one. And I would add that step two is far better today than when we got relegated in 1997 and thought we were garden gnomes at Bamber Bridge, or got the highest crowds in that league in 1999 with average gates of around 800. I look forward to welcoming Dale to the JD next season. Should the worst happen...

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Altrincham FC First Team / Repair the segregation fence.
« on: April 16, 2023, 01:39:54 AM »
Or come up with some other arrangement. I checked at the Gateshead game, there are still the same defects I reported after the Notts game where I got assaulted through a hole in that fence. Such a situation must not be allowed to happen again.

Some may feel this trivial, however I was  watching footage relating to the 1985 European cup final where failure to keep rival groups of supporters bent on trouble apart caused quite serious problems. If we are going to have at Moss Lane the likes of those Notts County supporters who reacted violently to the teasing of some of our supporters, we have to have measures in place to control this. Historically, we have dealt with things and driven change for the better in football. We must do so now and ensure our supporters can watch games safely.

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Dorking Match Thread
« on: April 15, 2023, 10:54:48 PM »
If we're going to be a top half club next season it's likely to be in National North. It is absolutely essential that we beat Dagenham on Tuesday, because if Torquay and Aldershot are still within catching distance they'll fight like tigers in our last two games.


There was talk on here about us relegating Aldershot on the last day of the season. On current form it isn't impossible that it could be the other way round.

This page (for one) should hopefully demonstrate that it is highly improbable that Altrincham will go down. And that's if we finish on 53 points, I still expect us to add to this. Too many teams need to get ahead of us in too few games.


https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/national-league/form-guide

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Dorking Match Thread
« on: April 15, 2023, 08:56:19 PM »
If we're going to be a top half club next season it's likely to be in National North. It is absolutely essential that we beat Dagenham on Tuesday, because if Torquay and Aldershot are still within catching distance they'll fight like tigers in our last two games.


There was talk on here about us relegating Aldershot on the last day of the season. On current form it isn't impossible that it could be the other way round.

Don't be daft.

We're not mathematically safe, and until we are we should take nothing for granted. Provided Torquay don't perform some sort of miracle at Wrexham we should survive, but we have a lot to sort out this summer.

Starting to physically practice defending set pieces instead of talking about it would be a good start.

Speaking of which, does anyone know if we're still allowed to actually watch training sessions? I used to watch them sometimes when they had them at ML, and from by the Brook when they were at the gas works place (I could probably actually have watched from Timperley!). Heathcote always used to tell them to "hit the target" at shooting practise, and was much the best at putting a cross in. He seemed to get them well organised too. The best time was when I saw them practising a move where a player broke away down the right wing towards the corner, back-heeled to a player running up behind him who put it straight into the box. As I remember, they actually used this in the next matc, I think at Farnborough in the FAT, lwhich actually led to a goal (as some of you may remember). It would be interesting to get an idea of what goes on at training sessions these days.

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Sc**thorpe down now (barring AGM cups)
« on: April 15, 2023, 01:48:50 AM »
Out of interest, what year was it that we became 'debt free' ?

I can't remember the exact year off hand but I'm sure it was after we got promoted in 2005 (despite Yemi Odubade's best efforts), when our total staff wages were about 2.5k, up from 1.8k in the NPL, at a time when the likes of Worksop Town were paying some 5k a week.

I suspect it was towards the end of the 6 year spell in the Conference (during which we recorded a post Maunders best of doing better than eleven Conference teams who started the season), or not long after. I'm sure it will be in the Altyfiles archives somewhere.

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