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Well, that has to go down as one of the more curious 4-0 Alty victories that I have had the pleasure of witnessing.

Maidenhead are certainly entitled to feel that the scoreline (though not the eventual outcome) was somewhat unjust, as they fashioned a few good chances during that first half.

Whilst the Robins did strangely contrive to concede possession far more than is customary during that opening 45 minutes, they exhibited a delightful utterly ruthless streak when any presentable goalscoring opportunities were created.

Three clinical strikes from Alex Newby, who became the second Alty player to record a first-half hat-trick this season. Lovely work from Osborne and then Golden to set up the opening goal, and some splendid play from Linney to engineer both the third and fourth goals.

It highlights just how far the club has progressed in recent years that a 4-0 win at this level no longer counts as a surprise. Several seasons ago, such a resounding triumph would have prompted an outbreak of dancing on the tables and unbridled cartwheeling in the Noel White Suite (and that was just from the late and much-missed George Heslop).

We've endured plenty of bitter experience of watching us being patted on the head by (southern) teams in this division in distant times, so how heartwarming it was to see us in the ascendant.   
 

Great summary......nothing more true than the comment about being patted on the head by Southern teams. Getting done over by the likes of Canvey Island and hearing their managers in the NWS telling our fans how poor we were is a particular lowlight of those seasons in the mid 2000s constantly looking at how many points we would need to finish out of the bottom four.

Think Pasiek summed up our night, brilliant and times but gave the ball away too much.

Golden was superb at rb

Agree with Cult, easy to be blase / take for granted the result last night but our attacking and finishing in the first half was superb. Rest of the team wasn't too bad either. Great to see. Some tougher games coming up next but we're playing decent stuff, especially at home, keep it going lads!

Nail firmly hit on head re. our awful away form. That really is the difference between us being a solid player off team and one scrabbling around the edges. Fingers crossed, we will find a way of replicating our home form away.

Well, that has to go down as one of the more curious 4-0 Alty victories that I have had the pleasure of witnessing.

Maidenhead are certainly entitled to feel that the scoreline (though not the eventual outcome) was somewhat unjust, as they fashioned a few good chances during that first half.

Whilst the Robins did strangely contrive to concede possession far more than is customary during that opening 45 minutes, they exhibited a delightful utterly ruthless streak when any presentable goalscoring opportunities were created.

Three clinical strikes from Alex Newby, who became the second Alty player to record a first-half hat-trick this season. Lovely work from Osborne and then Golden to set up the opening goal, and some splendid play from Linney to engineer both the third and fourth goals.

It highlights just how far the club has progressed in recent years that a 4-0 win at this level no longer counts as a surprise. Several seasons ago, such a resounding triumph would have prompted an outbreak of dancing on the tables and unbridled cartwheeling in the Noel White Suite (and that was just from the late and much-missed George Heslop).

We've endured plenty of bitter experience of watching us being patted on the head by (southern) teams in this division in distant times, so how heartwarming it was to see us in the ascendant.   
   

Brilliant summary. Ended up very much a routine patting of the head. Newby was magnificent & his partnership with Linney will hopefully take us to Wembley this season. I thought Crankshaw looked very tidy in the time he had too. The young lad from Preston looked nervy, gave the ball away a bit. Sure he will grow with more matches. Maidenhead awful in both boxes. If there are four worse teams than them they will be doing well to overtake them. Footy for a fiver a success as it put about 300 on the gate and the Fanzone was doing a brisk trade throughout.

All this meaningless though if we do not follow up at Eastleigh & sort out that away record?

Putting away the league?s fodder at home has been our bread and butter for couple seasons now, proof is in the pudding on Saturday away at a team with play off hopes like us

Well, that has to go down as one of the more curious 4-0 Alty victories that I have had the pleasure of witnessing.

Maidenhead are certainly entitled to feel that the scoreline (though not the eventual outcome) was somewhat unjust, as they fashioned a few good chances during that first half.

Whilst the Robins did strangely contrive to concede possession far more than is customary during that opening 45 minutes, they exhibited a delightful utterly ruthless streak when any presentable goalscoring opportunities were created.

Three clinical strikes from Alex Newby, who became the second Alty player to record a first-half hat-trick this season. Lovely work from Osborne and then Golden to set up the opening goal, and some splendid play from Linney to engineer both the third and fourth goals.

It highlights just how far the club has progressed in recent years that a 4-0 win at this level no longer counts as a surprise. Several seasons ago, such a resounding triumph would have prompted an outbreak of dancing on the tables and unbridled cartwheeling in the Noel White Suite (and that was just from the late and much-missed George Heslop).

We've endured plenty of bitter experience of watching us being patted on the head by (southern) teams in this division in distant times, so how heartwarming it was to see us in the ascendant.   
   

Jake Bickerstaff loan extended to the end of the season.

Happy to back the management on this.

The management team clearly (and quite rightly) value squad stability, so it doesn't surprise me they've gone for the extension - no idea how accurate Wrexham's online wage bill is, but it looks as if being here is fairly cost-effective and we definitely need the depth.

As much as he hasn't quite ignited yet, there's definitely a player in there, I think he'll improve.

Jake Bickerstaff loan extended to the end of the season.

Just took another look at this draw - weirdly we're the only all-Step 1 tie, with loads of our obvious competitors for the trophy being handed tricky-looking Step 2 assignments, most of which are away from home, so I wouldn't be surprised if one or two of those drop.

Eastleigh will undoubtedly be our toughest tie yet, I think they'll want to give this a proper go.