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AFC Altrincham

6 (27.3%)

FC Altrincham

2 (9.1%)

Altrincham Town

6 (27.3%)

Altrincham Albion

0 (0%)

Alty FC

4 (18.2%)

Stamford Park Rangers

0 (0%)

Sporting Altrincham (Spalty)

0 (0%)

Something else (let us know below)

4 (18.2%)

Total Members Voted: 21

Voting closed: April 16, 2023, 11:16:53 AM

[Strong summer needed]

No lets not

[rorysgrandad]

Altrincham Saturday.

Tuesday's free too.

[JD]

In a bad season Altrincham Nil

[Saughall Robin]

In a bad season Altrincham Nil

Wash your mouth out! 😂

[Wilmslow Alty]

After a merger to save both clubs, we arise, phoenix-like, with green and red stripes as 'Altrincorn FC' - nickname: The Linbins.

With Rocky Robin as manager and Ron Corn his assistant, we romp to a Macron Challenge Cup quarter final and a NWC First Division South play-off spot before international TV personality, Terry Christian, buys the club and seals a lucrative deal with Amazon Prime to chart Altrincorn's meteoric rise back to the mid to upper reaches of the Northern Premier League.

That's my guess anyway.

[rorysgrandad]

Dynamo Altrincham or perhaps Alternator Altrincham scans better.

[Hugh]

For Pete Reid. And Sporting Altrincham of course for John Laidlar with his interest in Lisbon!

Interesting that there is no clear favourite. let's hope it never happens.

By the way, why were Newport and Maidstone allowed to have their old names?

[Ukrainian Alty]

By the way, why were Newport and Maidstone allowed to have their old names?

Accrington Stanley FC were formed in 1891 and went bust in 1962.  A team with a similar name, Accrington Stanley (1968) FC, emerged in, well, 1968 and this was the name they were using when we knocked them out of the FAC 4QR in 1974/75 (the Everton Season).  They quietly lost the '1968' moniker sometime later on.  Anyone else remember the milk advert?

[Ukrainian Alty]

The reasoning behind why some clubs are allowed to retain (or revert back to) the name of a defunct club that they are effectively seeking to clone probably has a lot to do with the circumstances under which the original club managed their decline and left the Football League.

A bit of research on t'interweb  reveals that Accrington Stanley FC resigned from the FL mid-season in 1962 but didn't actually go into liquidation until 1966 and apart from them causing a bit of inconvenience I can see why they would be allowed to enter the Football league using the defunct club's name of Accrington Stanley FC.

Anyway, the milk advert went like this.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pieK7b4KLL4

[One Foot in the Grave]

Both Accrington Stanley and Stoke City are often wrongly credited as being among the 12 founder members of the Football League. The clubs then were simply Accrington and Stoke, both went under in fairly quick time.

[Hugh]

By the way, why were Newport and Maidstone allowed to have their old names?

Accrington Stanley FC were formed in 1891 and went bust in 1962.  A team with a similar name, Accrington Stanley (1968) FC, emerged in, well, 1968 and this was the name they were using when we knocked them out of the FAC 4QR in 1974/75 (the Everton Season).  They quietly lost the '1968' moniker sometime later on.  Anyone else remember the milk advert?

And Gary Wright's version of it - and travelling there on the East Lancashire Railway and having a jolly long walk at the end (and a similar story at Whitby)! Tose were the days.

[Ukrainian Alty]

nickname: The Linbins.

'Linbins' just so happens to be an anagram of Blinis which is Ukrainian for Pancakes.  Very nice they are too. Good with Philly and a touch of smoked salmon.

They sell mini blinis in most supermarkets in the chiller.  I might have to pop down to Tesco and get some.  Yes, I,m going now. yum, yum.

[ManagementGuru]

And the now defunct Accrington Stanley's leading scorer in their last full season in the Football League was none other than Jack Swindells

[distancetraveller]

And the now defunct Accrington Stanley's leading scorer in their last full season in the Football League was none other than Jack Swindells

What would that man be worth nowadays. Happy memories watching him.

[Wilmslow Alty]

nickname: The Linbins.

You're on my wavelength.

'Linbins' just so happens to be an anagram of Blinis which is Ukrainian for Pancakes.  Very nice they are too. Good with Philly and a touch of smoked salmon.

They sell mini blinis in most supermarkets in the chiller.  I might have to pop down to Tesco and get some.  Yes, I,m going now. yum, yum.