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[cheshire cat]

Where do experienced managers get their experience from if they are never to be given a chance?

[finnquark]

Look at the Cowleys.....probably the management success story of the season. Where were they 5 years ago ?

Cowley began at Concord, cutting his teeth at a level commensurate with his lack of experience. Once he proved a success with them he was given the Braintree and then Lincoln jobs. He's been a manager for ten years and started when Concord were in the Essex Senior League. He was not given a job trying to keep a previously stable club from a second consecutive relegation.

[Teasierbeaver]

As stated by the pair at the meeting, they deserve the chance to start next season, bringing their own players and ideas in before and from the start of next season. This season they are doing their best with what they already had to work with. Matt and Robbie said it was a thankless task to start with what they had, in the light of results so far before they started. We are now seeing the signs of improvement. Believe me there is still a long way to go before things really improve, we can start by winning the next two games. If we do I also think there is a real chance we can survive, but if we don't then we go to the glue league. Even if that happens, from the meeting last Tuesday, I still think they deserve their chance to build their own team. Don't write them or the team off just yet, see what happens in the next two games, it could be boom or bust. As fare as Stalybridge in concerned my head says score draw but my heart says 1-0 win. Time will tell.

Of course they said it was a thankless task Steve they didn't win a league game for 3 months, I doubt they would have said it was all planned that way. I agree with the rest of what you've said.

[taxi Phil]

We have nine games left. I think it's safe to say we'll get nothing at Salford. Five of the rest are winnable if we pull all the stops out, and the other three could be drawn with luck if we've built some momentum.

Total points if we pull off that sort of miracle ? A mere 34. We'd still almost certainly be down before going to Tamworth on the final day.

I stopped dreaming months ago, but I'm ready to embrace the challenge of bouncing back....although enjoying it is secondary.

[taxi Phil]

Look at the Cowleys.....probably the management success story of the season. Where were they 5 years ago ?

Cowley began at Concord, cutting his teeth at a level commensurate with his lack of experience. Once he proved a success with them he was given the Braintree and then Lincoln jobs. He's been a manager for ten years and started when Concord were in the Essex Senior League. He was not given a job trying to keep a previously stable club from a second consecutive relegation.

But that demonstrates part of my argument. Braintree and Lincoln took them on because they had a progressive profile. You couldn't say that about our last two permanent appointments.

[finnquark]

Look at the Cowleys.....probably the management success story of the season. Where were they 5 years ago ?

Cowley began at Concord, cutting his teeth at a level commensurate with his lack of experience. Once he proved a success with them he was given the Braintree and then Lincoln jobs. He's been a manager for ten years and started when Concord were in the Essex Senior League. He was not given a job trying to keep a previously stable club from a second consecutive relegation.

But that demonstrates part of my argument. Braintree and Lincoln took them on because they had a progressive profile. You couldn't say that about our last two permanent appointments.

But you also say maybe they'll cut it in the glue league, when there is little evidence of that, as they haven't proven themselves at that level or at any level.

[wayno]

We are playing to do the double over Stalybridge.

We are playing so as to avoid finishing bottom club in the division.

We are now playing for pride and arguably have more to play for than the mid table teams.

How did this pan out then ?

Not long left now

[Alty Bri]

There was no lack of effort today on either side. There was just no quality, particularly in the final thirds. I'm not inclined to pay £14 to watch nil every week. I hope the chairman enjoyed it.

[AFC56]

That was awful. Two dreadful teams serving up another highly unwatchable game of football. Could have heard a pin drop after the walkout. Andy Owens, not sure I've seen a bigger donkey in the shirt since Chris Young in the Bernard Taylor days.

[taxi Phil]

We have nine games left. I think it's safe to say we'll get nothing at Salford. Five of the rest are winnable if we pull all the stops out, and the other three could be drawn with luck if we've built some momentum.

Total points if we pull off that sort of miracle ? A mere 34. We'd still almost certainly be down before going to Tamworth on the final day.

I stopped dreaming months ago, but I'm ready to embrace the challenge of bouncing back....although enjoying it is secondary.

That 34 points just became 32. Dreadful. The first team we've taken 4 points from. The only team not to score against us. Yippee ! Mine's a hemlock.

[York Alty is back]

First half was sh*te.

Second half  marginally better.

Could have won it,could have lost it. No team deserved to have scored.

Crap,  Neither will challenge for a title next season.

Crap.

[Alty Dave]

The pitch made it difficult today, I agree it was not a great game.

But we had the better chances, hitting the post and forcing a few saves from there keeper. but a draw about right.

We lack an inform striker, if we had one I am sure we would have won. Reeves of old or Colin little is what we are missing.

[York Alty is back]

The pitch made it difficult today, I agree it was not a great game.

But we had the better chances, hitting the post and forcing a few saves from there keeper. but a draw about right.

We lack an inform striker, if we had one I am sure we would have won. Reeves of old or Colin little is what we are missing.

Breezy with it too.

[Mausoleum Alty]

The pitch made it difficult today, I agree it was not a great game.

But we had the better chances, hitting the post and forcing a few saves from there keeper. but a draw about right.

We lack an inform striker, if we had one I am sure we would have won. Reeves of old or Colin little is what we are missing.

Instead of lumping it up to lumbering Sunday league clown Andy Owens!

[Alty Dave]

Interesting article in the matchday program by Mike Garnett called the unpalattable truth...

Basically stating we have over achieved in the last 13 years or so. Sobering reading.