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May I add how impressive the Alty fans were is their support at Rochdale. I was unable to make the game as Tuesday nights are difficult for me away from  home. I purchased the stream and all the way through the game I could hear the Alty fans as they easily outshouted Rochdale.

My last comment was they deserved more on the pitch, but suggest the club and us now put closure on what happened and move on to next Saturday's game. Last time we played Solihull Moors at home we had a big win if I remember rightly, they are also turning in some poor results and a home win will put us well into the play-offs again.

We really are masters of our own destiny this season, I have confidence in Phil, Neil and the lads that they can end our poorer run on Saturday and start heading uo the table again. The following Saturday we play Dorking at home which again is a winnable game. We have everything to play for, the last two games have been a minor glitch which Phil has warned us about already.

Got a sneaky feeling James Jones and Roscoe will be in. Not sure how I feel about that.
Probably back three with Cooper missing out. Not sure how I feel about that either.
Kosylo and Donowa possibly?
Linney definitely.




PS. The above is what I think might happen rather than my personal preferences.
As long as we win, I don't care

We definitely need to change the way we play when it’s obvious that plan A isn’t working.

Then why have we ditched the back three as soon as it showed signs of actually working - especially given it allowed us to play without a recognised striker where we've been struggling?

Linney in from the start - let's get him sharp ASAP - can always withdraw him on the hour, let's start doing things the other way round now.

We played Josh Lundstram at right back to great effect against Solihull last season - let's start on the front foot against a Solihull side that have suffered back-to-back defeats like us.

Things definitely need freshening up, so hopefully the management see Justin Donawa as ready to go straight in - he's another one that can always be withdrawn after an hour if needed.

No idea what changes will be made or what system we'll play.

Think Donawa should start as we look a lot more threatening when he does.

Sithole surly will be benched but after that I've no idea

Alty 2-1 Solihull (Con-Clarke, Osbourne)

Cheered up by Barnet's performance tonight. They weren't at the races at all and they were the home team!

Really tough night. Don’t know if the long slog to Eastleigh on the weekend caught up with us but we lacked zip in the attacking third & Rochdale picked us off far too easily. Only really the second time this season (Barnet away) where we’ve properly been done. Crucial now we get back on the horse on Saturday against a Solihull side who’ve just lost two on the bounce too (but both at home in their case) so suspect we are in for a scrappy one on Saturday.

Only bonus was the unexpected return of Kosylo. Need him & Linney to get back up to full speed ASAP.

As an evening out football aside it was decent. Good pint in the new Victoria Tap & then into the Baum in the town centre which is a magnificent pub. The ground & food was very decent too. Not £24 decent mind. Lovely ground but 3 sides of it acres of empty seats. Too big for Rochdale I think.

The grim footage (devoid of all of those first-half glitches on the National League TV streaming service):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5re_YdHxdg

The short corners were a loss of hard earned territory last night.

You can't change history but we need a reset for Saturday. From Parky's post match interview it sounds like there's going to be some squad rotation going on.

Tell players not to take more than 2 touches unless it moves us at least 5 yards forwards. The number of times someone had 3,4,5 touches to stand still at Eastleigh was infuriating. We did it much less second half and things improved markedly