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Reply | Altrincham FA Trophy Match Thread
at 10:40 1 Mar 2025
Will be interesting to see if the atmosphere is better or worse today as the young lads from the Sandy have tickets for the Pearl Street end as a one-off and the club have apparently granted permission for the drummer to take it in there with him.
From what I can gather their ambition is to make the move permanent next season, ideally in the block of seats nearest to Willbutts Lane.
What the club decide to do with visiting supporters if this happens is another matter. |
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Thread | Altrincham FA Trophy Match Thread
at 20:48 28 Feb 2025
Does anyone know if, should the teams be level after 90 minutes, the tie goes straight to penalties or would the teams play 30 minutes extra time?
Just trying to assess travel options. |
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Reply | Time to go Jim. The turning point
at 13:34 26 Feb 2025
The ironic thing is that I remember reading an interview with BBM in an Irish newspaper when he got the job at City where he said that his footballing philosophy was partially moulded by Hilly who force fed them videos of the original Pep Barcelona team, enthusing how they’d footballed opponents to death. |
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Reply | This evening's matches.
at 20:00 25 Feb 2025
Neither Newby nor Linney are in the Altrincham side tonight, presumably rested for Saturday. |
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Reply | TAMWORTH
at 19:49 25 Feb 2025
Just defend those long throws from Tonks for a start…. |
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Reply | Match Thread, Dale v In form top of the table Barnet
at 12:16 23 Feb 2025
I fear you may be right about BJ beginning to lose the crowd.
I spoke to a family member yesterday who has been a seasonticket holder for years and has only missed a handful away games in a decade.
He has deep reservations about renewing next year and even about going next Saturday.
“I simply don’t enjoy it anymore,” he said.
The acid test for Jim is if he loses goodwill from the young lads in the Sandy. Should that happen he’s toast. |
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Reply | Sack McNulty
at 11:54 23 Feb 2025
I’m beginning to wonder if any research and homework had been done before playing recruitment on how successful teams win promotion from the NL? And I don’t mean throw money at it like Wrexham.
Gateshead seem to be the model; did BJ decide that his style of football would trump everything else and proceed accordingly without being practical about it?
We’re nearly at the situation where all three games in hand will have to be won to get back into those playoff places.
If nothing else, being in the top seven at the end of the season could bring a welcome financial bonus from a shared gate at somewhere like York, Oldham or Halifax for example. |
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Reply | Match Thread, Dale v In form top of the table Barnet
at 20:53 22 Feb 2025
To be honest I’ve seen some abject performances over the years.
Nightmares in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s but that display that afternoon is up there with the best (or worst) of them.
Anyone else remember 6-0 drubbing by Plymouth around 1973?
And I recall Lincoln turning up around 2005 and paralysing us.
The difference is that the expectations are much higher these days, fuelled by a spell in League 1 and by the acquisition of the club by the Ogden family.
Today has been coming for months though. My wife, who has no interest in football decided to come to the Braintree game at the end of September. Her immediate reaction was, “is it always this boring?”.
The writing was on the wall then and we are also suffering from a chronic lack of activity in the transfer market.
I can only presume that BJ was told that the budget didn’t allow any recruitment in January because money had to be spent on urgent work to the pitch.
There are plenty of bodies in the current squad but they’re all clones. The only selection issue is seemingly which two players can be permed from around six to play on either side of Mitchell.
Barnet were impressive but nothing like as good as the likes of Wrexham, Notts County and Stockport have been at this level in the recent past.
They were helped by the gift of an early goal of course. Beckwith is a shadow of the player he was in the autumn.
The second came when Tarryn lost possession but I’m still not sure why he was where he was to receive the ball in the first place.
The game had gone then.
And we effectively surrendered by bringing off East and Gordon in the closing stages. The footballing equivalent of throwing in the towel.
Will BJ fall on his sword? Highly unlikely, he’s a year into a three year contract with a wife and young family to support. Will he be pushed? Not in the foreseeable future in my opinion. The board may well be influenced by his seemingly continued love in with the Sandy and the chairman on the ground hasn’t a good record in sacking managers at the right time. There is a shortage of prospective caretakers in the building as well, no equivalent of Tony Ellis. Would Hendo relish the task?
The worry is that BJ is allowed to oversee recruitment in the summer which could subject us to another season of boredom. |
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Reply | Toilet Gate
at 16:17 21 Feb 2025
There were a couple of police officers filming from the front of the stand for most of the game as well. |
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Reply | Hughen Riley R.I.P.
at 20:40 20 Feb 2025
I think he played number seven in a midweek game at Doncaster? I couldn’t go as it was a school night! The team were short of goals and Joe Fletcher had a handful of games there as well before Norman Whitehead reclaimed that particular shirt. |
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Reply | Hughen Riley R.I.P.
at 19:45 20 Feb 2025
Think he started off as a forward but was converted to a midfielder and took Vinny Leech’s number 4 shirt. |
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Reply | Hughen Riley R.I.P.
at 15:51 20 Feb 2025
This maybe a complete urban myth but I’m sure that I read somewhere when he was playing that before he’d signed for Dale as a youngster that he’d worked on the bins in Accrington? |
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Reply | Hughen Riley R.I.P.
at 13:16 20 Feb 2025
Minutes silence or applause in order on Saturday?
RIP to a key player at a great time to be a Dale fan. |
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Reply | Match thread Halifax Town
at 11:29 20 Feb 2025
I actually thought for a split second that Gilmour was going to score last night. Great block from a Halifax defender. |
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Reply | Match thread Halifax Town
at 11:10 20 Feb 2025
Halifax’s substitutions changed the game. I’m not sure that Dale’s did. |
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