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Joe O'Neill:

26 (+ 2 as sub) appearances
5 goals

Ian Tunnacliffe:

33 appearances
5 goals

The tension builds....!

Altrincham left the shay with a point after halting Town's second half surge.

Alty went ahead after 10 mins when their right winger found himself outside the box in acres of defensive wasteland squared it past the advancing Mawson for the big striker Thomson to tap home. Then it was all Atrincham finding lots of spaces to pass the ball around Town. Some of the slickest passing (I'm afraid to say) seen at the shay this season.

Uhlenbeek went off injured, to be abley replaced by Toulson. Torpey the outlet on the left couldn't get going and Aspinall took the ball from his feet on a couple of occasions. Senior had a couple of snapshots easily saved. Town didn't get into top gear first half until a Kearney free kick on 42 mins. After a couple of bobbles about- Joynes found himself with room to fire home to enable Town to go in level with their heads up.

The second half belonged to Town, Young got his shirt pulled by Thomson and fell awkwardly hurting himself, being replaced by Wright (Wright was superb) the reshaped defence pushing everyone forward time after time.
Referee Coote had little control over the game, Joynes was kicked from pillar to post. Kearney stood his ground in the heart of the midfield and later in front of the back four when the wing backs were up attacking.

Towards the end Town hit alty with a barrage- had a well hit shot from the right wing saved by a spectacular Coburn leap across goal. Another effort cleared off the line by a defender. A goalmouth melee with the ball pinging everywhere, how we never scored during this period beats me.
Alty rarely ventured out, but put in a couple of good corners when they did. They were happy with the point having taken the p-iss out of us and the referee with severe time wasting from the 70 min mark.
All in all a good game, but two points lost.
My motM Tom Kearney.

Last night was a belter!

Instead of the old 'Golden Goal' competition, could we not now introduce a new game at Moss Lane called 'The Golden Bowler'?

Once Justin Bowler comes on as a substitute, spectators could then pay to nominate how many minutes he is on the pitch before another Alty player actually passes the ball to him and also guess whereabouts on the Golf Road Stand roof his first cross will land.   

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Ah, now where have we heard all this before?!

Can anybody confirm whether both these players are on contract?

If indeed they are, it looks like we could be saddled with two 'passengers' for the rest of the season and their wages would hamper the possibility of enhancing our squad.

The legendary Ian Tunnacliffe's Altrincham FC career:

League & cup appearances: 33.

Goals: 5.

So, Mister O'Neill needs to score four goals in his next 12 games if he is to emulate the master himself!