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Reply | Match Thread Gateshead
at 23:10 4 Mar 2025
Agree regarding Kingdon, he was solid throughout and hardly put a foot wrong. Gateshead neat and tidy but created very little. We deserved the win in the end for our perseverance in what was a classic case of two teams cancelling each other out. |
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Reply | Spennymoor at home
at 15:35 3 Mar 2025
It's a funny old game. We've never won a meaningful trophy in the clubs history, the Ogdens could achieve it in their first season. |
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Reply | The Kairo Conundrum
at 15:29 3 Mar 2025
He'll score twenty goals this season, you don't give goalscorers away. |
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Reply | The Kairo Conundrum
at 15:03 3 Mar 2025
Yes, all fair points those. It does beg the question though ,why has it taken until the last third of the season for McNulty to bring a alternative like Bird into the club? We've been crying out for a physical presence up front all season, somebody who can hold the ball up and bring others into play. Two forwards who can play off each other. You need it in this league, Fondop is a great example at Oldham.
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Reply | The Kairo Conundrum
at 14:09 3 Mar 2025
Some good points in all of that but I dont buy into the Sassi/ Hogan example. Sassi was a liability who played a defence splitting forward ball which led to a Mitchell goal, he wasnt notable for his passing ability and Hogan is by far a better defender. If We're relying on a centre half to set up chances for the forwards then the finger needs pointing at the manager. Secondly, i don't think McNultys lack of tactical nouse and flexibility has been highlighted enough. There have been many games when we have created next to no chances throughout the duration and passed up a gilt edged opportunity to put the ball into the penalty area in preference to recycling the ball backwards. Eventually any striker loses the will to gamble in and round the penalty area, i think we see that with Mitchell. Then there is also Devante Rodney who seems to just meander through games, he's the conundrum not Mitchell. To my mind Mitchell is often left alone up front with Rodney out near the wing, he's fighting a loan battle. So i think it's the way the team is set up to play and the adverse risk to losing posession that is the conundrum and not Mitchell. Give him the chances and he'll score goals, he's proved that. |
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Reply | Altrincham FA Trophy Match Thread
at 10:28 2 Mar 2025
Agree, there's always a reason for why we can't compete or achieve. A excuse for not being able to do something. Both on and off the pitch...even banging a drum. Why all of a sudden are our players anymore knackered than players from clubs we are competing against? We have a very competitive squad and for all my misgivings about Simon Gauge I'm pretty sure he's made sure that McNulty has been backed. There is still over two months of the season left to play, more if we win our next trophy game..if the players are collapsing and tired now then God help us for the remainder of the season. Not many managers would give the players a ready made excuses to under perform but that's what McNulty does in his interview, he doesnt think they should be criticised for it. We're a professional football club and we live or die on football results, that should always be the priority for everybody, especially the manager. [Post edited 2 Mar 11:51]
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Reply | Altrincham FA Trophy Match Thread
at 07:30 2 Mar 2025
McNultys post match interview worried me with nine weeks of the season left. He mentioned players collapsing on the pitch and how tired they were. He sounded like a man who didn't believe we can reach the play offs or beat Gateshead on Tuesday night. That's only my perception, others might listen and disagree.
He mentions the pitch and the upcoming fixtures and there's no positives to take from his comments. He also mentions his data analysis in a positive way and suggests everything is on track. We have picked up 4 points from the last available 18 in the league, thats relegation form, he doesnt mention that. I'd also suggest that Fitness shouldn't be a issue with so much of the season still left to play surely? It's not good when you hear your manager speaking like that and I'm now of the mind that we will drift away in the league but hopefully have a visit to Wembley as a consolation. How do the part time teams cope? [Post edited 2 Mar 8:02]
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Reply | Altrincham FA Trophy Match Thread
at 18:20 1 Mar 2025
Spot on. A proper team performance today, Barlow was fantastic and Bird also reminded me of COG. It's the inconsistency of performances that cause the frustration and we beat a very decent Altrincham team today by playing with some tempo and not playing walking football in our own half. |
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Reply | Season 24-25 Bar Operations & Feedback
at 07:36 1 Mar 2025
Thanks for your in depth explanation. The fact that this large increase in beer prices wasnt deemed important enough to inform the fans/ customers at the time is indicative of how the fans perceive they are viewed by those in charge of the day to day running of the club. No doubt hoping that a hefty rise in the price of a pint will somehow go unnoticed. A 30p rise on a pint of beer is a significant increase and supporters should have been informed. Your communication on this forum is always appreciated but in this particular instance it's disappointing that such a large price rise was not cascaded down to the customers/ fans. This at a time when the club are about to launch an initiative which has communication between the club and it's fans as its main bedrock. Something championed by James Willoughby a Club Director. [Post edited 1 Mar 7:49]
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Reply | Season 24-25 Bar Operations & Feedback
at 21:41 28 Feb 2025
Can you confirm that over the last couple of weeks beer prices have gone up 30p/pint in the Ratcliffe? It was the topic of conversation at the last home game. If that's correct why haven't fans been informed? The club have just launched CAB and it's supposedly all about improving communication between the club and the fans. |
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Reply | Time to go Jim. The turning point
at 17:30 26 Feb 2025
Fair point but I'm willing to bet his budget at Bolton was still well in excess of Accringtons. Scunthorpe was a total disaster. He gave us the best time ever as Dale fans, thats what he should be remembered for, in the end he'd lost the plot though. [Post edited 26 Feb 17:34]
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Reply | TAMWORTH
at 22:31 25 Feb 2025
A poor result against a poor team. To be fair i thought we knocked it about well tonight especially in the second half. We aren't ruthless in the final third though and that's been apparent all season. Draws are like defeats now, theyre no good, |
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Reply | Time to go Jim. The turning point
at 20:48 25 Feb 2025
The reason he was sacked was because he took on the whole fan base and said that they were wrong to have expectations in respect of the play offs and also belittled the club in a post match interview.They were in the play offs at the time. The Chairman had very little choice but to replace him. Constantly picking fights for no reason. Their fans forum was very telling at the time, the fans hated him even though he had them at the right end of the table. He did the same with the Bolton fans on Radio Bolton after they lost 7-1 at Accrington and stated the fans should realise where the club was...they had one of the largest budgets in the league at the time and just been taken to the cleaners by Accrington. A bit like McNulty telling us how great part time Tamworth are. [Post edited 25 Feb 20:56]
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Reply | Time to go Jim. The turning point
at 19:07 25 Feb 2025
Still would have relegated us. BBM simplified it, we rolled up our sleeves and put in a shift and kept winning 1-0. Then he moved away from that and complicated everything. We didn't cross the halfway line for three months and he copied Hill and broke a record, our worst home run of results in our history. Relegated us with a good team, turning good players bad. You can't keep blaming the players for under achieving and I'm seeing it now with Jim [Post edited 25 Feb 19:11]
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Reply | Time to go Jim. The turning point
at 18:30 25 Feb 2025
With one of the top budgets in the league. I think Bolton lost 7-1 at Accrington when Hill was managing them. That scoreline needs some digesting. [Post edited 25 Feb 18:33]
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Reply | Time to go Jim. The turning point
at 18:17 25 Feb 2025
We were nailed on for relegation when he was sacked. He was collecting players like postage stamps and we regularly conceded three and four goals. Nobody liked him at Tranmere or his football, he turned on the fans in the main stand and suggested they were out of order for expecting the team to do well in the play offs...that was him on toast when he did that. He broke the record when he then went to manage at Scunthorpe, the worst results of any manager in their history..two wins over 40 plus games i think. He'd lost the plot at Rochdale and was deservedly relieved of his job, his demise continued. It's madness that anybody would want him back at the club. Our best manager ever until he started believing his own hype and then his ego consumed him unfortunately and he couldn't see the wood for the trees. He forgot what worked and embroiled himself in coaching manuals, posession stats etc. It was his downfall and we are seeing it now, same happened with BBM. Complicating a simple game. Before he became all self consumed there is no doubt he was our best ever manager though. It's a shame what happened to him. [Post edited 25 Feb 18:26]
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