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Get well soon Pete!

Hope you're back on your drinking feet in time for the invasion on Feb 10th!

Andy, your point is precisely the one I was trying to highlight. 

We have good banter with York, UKPhil is a top man and we have never had much bother there.

However York have the  potential  to bring a right firm, its just that they don't see Alty as much to battle with (which is right!).

However you never know who is amongst a crowd of 300 away fans.  A tense decision (last minute pen at Oxford anyone) and the atmosphere changes.  With no segregation you could have an FC United (the family club) repeat.

With no segregation there is always the clowns who decide not to change ends and stand right next to the home fans.

Cut out all the hassle and segregate every game I say.  I would never complain about it an an away game.

Thanks for the kind words Mark, and you are dead right.

If we are still doing well we could potentially bring anything up to 1,000 fans to Moss Lane in February (although I reckon 600-700 would be more realistic). If that is the case then, inevitably, there might be some people who you wouldn't want to be stood next to in an unsegregated environment. And the same is true of any club in a following of that size. Take Exeter for example - great bunch of people, really friendly, but with a small minority of idiots who pick on away supporters when they go down to Devon. Not all away supporters (not Alty from what I've heard anyway!) but some. And you have also experienced some nastiness away at Oxford this season which I am certain was partly the fault of some of our fans who had caused some bother at the previous Oxford home game and who had "woken up the beast".

Of course me and a number of mates are coming across for a cracking day out and Alty should make a load of money in gate and bar receipts on that particular afternoon! I am really looking forward to it, it should be one of the best days of the season.

And - one last thing. I also agree with Gaz about facilities for away supporters. We made you stand on an open terrace and so I won't be bleating on the internet when I have to do the same at Moss Lane, what a bloody cheek if I did!