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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Let Down
« on: November 15, 2020, 03:20:38 PM »
Quote from: TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe on November 15, 2020, 02:25:35 PM
Quote from: rorysgrandad on November 15, 2020, 12:52:32 PM
Quote from: Jeff on November 15, 2020, 11:57:15 AM
Reminds me of when young was in charge. He Kept bringing in players to fill gaps and most of those were not good enough. If you get beat at this level so what if your full squad has given there all but at moment I can’t see it. I have watched all games before anyone asks and we look shaky. How many goals do we need to give away by messing about at the back. We are not a top premiership team we Alty. Let man up and get going.
There’s a big, big difference from Young’s time. Young hadn’t gathered any squad together at all, then had that group of players decimated by injury. Young just recycled rubbish with further rubbish. The only reason PP has brought loan players in is because he’s been forced to by injuries to his highly capable squad. The three new loanees he had available yesterday hadn’t had a trading session with the other players and were thrown in the deep end through desperate necessity.

 Neil Young was playing preseason games months after the season had started. Chalk and cheese.



Neil Young actually only lasted the first three weeks of the 2016/17 season as Alty's manager.

He was sacked after six league matches, the first three of which resulted in draws. That 6-0 home defeat by AFC Fylde prompted a total meltdown.

Oh god, that game. I vividly remember Young hadn't signed a left back for some bizarre reason and was using his coach Simon Garner at wing back. He was run ragged by two Fylde wide players miles faster than him and after the game Young moaned about a lack of work-rate. Thank god Jim Harvey came to rescue us...

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Sponsor
« on: November 13, 2020, 09:11:08 PM »
Quote from: altering um on November 13, 2020, 09:09:27 PM
Tax avoidance/ evasion  specialists. Part of the reason for austerity, food bank culture etc. Not appropriate for the Golf Road. Give 'em the Sponsers Lounge.
 It's hardly altruism, just advertising. Once you get to the higher echelons of finance/ business bollocks (which they obviously have) it's basically a license to print money, so "giving back" is just indulgent showing off.
 Welcome aboard. Walk the plank.

This is based as hell.  8)

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: ALTY home stream games for November (including Solihull)
« on: November 11, 2020, 04:44:52 PM »
Quote from: VofD on November 11, 2020, 04:30:44 PM
Thanks very much, but when I get to details page "use voucher" and "cart" do not appear.

Are you using a phone or a computer?

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: ALTY home stream games for November (including Solihull)
« on: November 11, 2020, 03:54:04 PM »
Quote from: VofD on November 11, 2020, 03:03:33 PM
Can anyone heip please.
I am unable to complete my order for Sollihul match because it says "our legal terms have not been accepted",but I cannot find where to accept them.
Thanks

It's a tick box at the bottom of the page where you give your details. Below "use voucher" and above "cart".

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Non Altrincham FC Talk / Re: COVID-19 and associated discussion
« on: November 09, 2020, 11:34:32 PM »
Quote from: Hugh on November 09, 2020, 09:31:31 PM
Belgium and South Dakota

Latest worldometer numbers:

South Dakota - one more death

Belgium - 347 more deaths.

Still not convinced, I'm afraid. Will try and keep an eye on it.

Hugh, you've either wildly misread or misrepresented the figures. The number you quoted for Belgium there is for two days. They had 199 deaths yesterday and 148 today which presumably is where you got your 347 from. The figure for South Dakota isn't "one" and it doesn't say that on Worldometer anywhere. Indeed, the latest daily death tolls it gives are both 13 for November 7th and 8th. They haven't even released today's numbers so you can't compare them. Belgium does indeed have a slightly higher death rate in recent days, although it's not nearly the difference you indicate above.

You talked about cherry picking numbers earlier but you put a lot of stock in figures from very short time frame and compare random countries to one another. Statisticians don't work this way. They look at as much data as possible to get an idea of things. I'm not actually arguing with any of your other points RE economy, personal freedoms, projections. I'm just pointing out that your numbers are dead wrong and the areas you're promoting as doing well are objectively not.

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Buy a striker
« on: November 08, 2020, 02:34:13 PM »
I'm not against bringing youth players through, I just thought it was a bizarre suggestion in the context of talking first team strikers.

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Non Altrincham FC Talk / Re: COVID-19 and associated discussion
« on: November 08, 2020, 01:01:33 PM »
Keep posting. It's interesting to hear your thoughts on these matters in here. I disagree with you a lot but I think you're coming from a genuine place. That said, we probably have more agreements than we realise. Correct me if I'm wrong but I think we're both of the opinion getting football fans back in (to some degree) would be a good idea and present minimal risk for a start!

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Buy a striker
« on: November 08, 2020, 12:55:26 PM »
Quote from: hsmith1 on November 08, 2020, 12:34:22 PM
how about the young lad in the Youth team,or is he to young for the 1st team?

If you're good enough, you're old enough, but do you really think a youth team player with no senior experience is going to step up to the 1st team and replace Hulme?

I know, I know, Duncan Watmore existed. But this is a real stretch.

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Non Altrincham FC Talk / Re: COVID-19 and associated discussion
« on: November 07, 2020, 09:58:12 PM »
If you want to make the economic argument then that's another matter. But I don't think you can really have a multi page thread where you argue lockdowns don't work, get proved wrong then say "I was only talking about the economy." Come on, that's a bit of a pivot. I'm sure you're arguing in good faith, but I'm a bit irritated that you've deployed a huge strawman to accuse me of cherry picking figures.

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we can all cherry pick figures, I dare say I'm guilty of this myself at times. You could count Scotland as an honorary Nordic country (Shetland was Norwegian a few hundred years ago after all) and get a different picture again.

Well, no. If you called Scotland a Nordic country because part of it was Norwegian a thousand years ago then that would be ridiculous as it doesn't share the important social or demographic traits relevant in this scenario. It's not cherry picking to compare Sweden with its nearest neighbour.

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As for South Dakota, I haven't been following them closely thus far, however, I would assume that their surge - and cvdeath rates - are less than we are seeing from Europe's worst lockdown idiots Belgium.

You assume very wrong. In the last seven days, South Dakota's COVID death rate is nearly eight times that of Belgium's in the same period. (Belgium 93 per million, South Dakota 724 per million). This is also significantly worse than Belgium at its peak.

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Non Altrincham FC Talk / Re: COVID-19 and associated discussion
« on: November 07, 2020, 07:40:01 PM »
Quote from: Hugh on November 07, 2020, 07:16:44 PM
Yes, I heard they were letting 300 in - the magic of Ross-shire! I suspect I would have struggled to get a ticket though (even if I lived there) - despite Dingwall having about half the population of Lymm! A bit shocked at the results of my poll - fully half expecting it to be next season before we can attend our matches, which would be a disaster. Of course it's only supposition at the moment that there'll be a game changing vaccine by March. Much better looking at other options for now. Learning to live with it? targeted protection? Hasn't done Sweden, South Dakota etc. any harm anyway.

I don't think a complete ban on attendees at football matches makes sense, but what you've said there is patently untrue. The Dakotas are enduring an absolutely horrific surge. To quote Vox; "North and South Dakota now have four to five times the weekly (US) average for daily new coronavirus cases per 100,000 people."

Meanwhile Sweden, who you consistently hold up as a positive example in this thread, has not done well at all, especially in comparison to its Scandinavian neighbours. As Time magazine tells us "As of Oct. 18, Sweden’s per-capita death rate—58.6 per 100,000 people—was among the highest in the world. And from early September to early October, average daily cases nationwide rose by 173%, with particularly dramatic increases in cities such as Stockholm and Uppsala."

Or as the British Medical Journal said back in September; "Compared with its neighbours Sweden has been unsuccessful in preventing deaths—Finland, for example, has had 343 deaths, which equals 62 deaths per million population." Essentially, Sweden had a death toll almost 10 times higher than their nearest neighbours.

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Non Altrincham FC Talk / Re: COVID-19 and associated discussion
« on: November 07, 2020, 01:17:01 PM »
May interest you to know that Ross County played a Scottish Prem game in front of 300 home fans last night.

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Imagine
« on: November 06, 2020, 10:00:49 PM »
Quote from: Sale Holmfield on October 31, 2020, 08:22:07 PM
Quote from: Saughall Robin on October 31, 2020, 07:53:58 PM
Quote from: RageAgainstTheFirstTeam on October 31, 2020, 07:48:19 PM
Quote from: oneedham on October 31, 2020, 05:34:35 PM
Decent blocks by TT.

Kicking remains awful.

How did you rate Joel Bembo-leta today?


Didn't see him make a single mistake! 😉


Oddly enough, I saw him play today, as I went to Ashton United v Clitheroe in the Trophy. He played in central defence for Ashton and was pretty solid in their rather fortunate 1-0 win.

Other ex-players involved were Liam Tomsett who came as on a sub for Ashton as did Craig Hobson for the visitors, who are managed by David Lynch, who was an unused substitute. Hobson got a yellow card three minutes after coming on, and was lucky not to get a second.

It was a lot better than watching a stream for which you couldn't register, or trying to listen to a radio who weren't allowed to broadcast.

Good to hear he's still playing! I looked him up the other day but couldn't find anything recent. He got called up for Burundi a little while ago but I don't think he actually played.

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Name the player that Parky signed for Alty who has played for Wealdstone
« on: November 06, 2020, 06:29:57 PM »
I believe you are referring to centre back Liam Goulding.

But this looks like it's time for me to strut my stuff as chief rememberer of minor squad players from 10 years ago. Because there's another player to have represented Alty and Wealdstone. That would be Mohamed Coly (sometimes referred to as Momo Coly), a huge midfielder who played for us twice in 2010/11. His debut was in the 12-1 thrashing of Alsager Town. He never made a league appearance but he was an unused sub a few times and did run out in the Cheshire Cup final against Northwich Vics. I think I co-commentated that game with you in the early days of Radio Robins.

Coly was last seen in the lower tiers of Germany. He claims to have played five games for Leyton Orient but this appears to be a lie.

What have I won?  ;D

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Signing
« on: November 06, 2020, 06:19:39 PM »
Quote from: distancetraveller on November 06, 2020, 06:02:35 PM
I was just saying the other day to my partner that Ben would be a good shout to enquire about.
Well done to PP getting him on loan, and thanks to Crewe yet again for a great loan.

Talking  of Ben’s, I would be happy to see Ben Harrison back at Moss Lane..

B-but, distancetraveller, he isn't called Ben!

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Wealdstone Away This Saturday
« on: November 03, 2020, 09:34:46 AM »
Quote from: rorysgrandad on November 03, 2020, 09:07:58 AM
Quote from: Brian Flynn on November 02, 2020, 05:02:17 PM
See the official club website for details.
Just for a second I forgot where I was and thought this was going to be the travel arrangements. Anyway, back to real life.

It takes time to adjust. Every time I watch SPL highlights I think "not many there..." before remembering why!

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