Match Thread - Altrincham (h)

Team: McKeown, Parslow, Thomas, Magnay, Pearson, Brown, Clay, McLaughlin, Mackreth, Neilson & John-Lewis

Subs: Bignot, Walker, Winfarrah, Oates & Hannah

Good to see Aswad back. Hope he can provide some added attacking impetus!

Definitely good to have a more attacking full back. We thinking 4-3-3?

Quoted from Rodley Mariner

Definitely good to have a more attacking full back. We thinking 4-3-3?

Guess so. Some sort of 4-3-2-1 Aswad playing is the proviso for moving Neilson into the middle.

Humberside doing their best to build this one up... Playing Pressure Point by Zutons. Can't argue with that.

4 4 1 1?

Looks like 4-4-1-1 to me. Good to see Thomas back. Fingers crossed for a good game.

No Toto?

Suspended mate

urine poor crowd
Started with much more energy than the last home game

sound like we've started positively, got to be a good thing. Fingers crossed

Quoted from TAGG

urine poor crowd
Started with much more energy than the last home game

Was expected. Care to estimate the attendance?

i'll go first

2479

Free header they should have done better with that chance.
We look ok though playing some good football

Quoted from chaos33

Was expected. Care to estimate the attendance?

2800
One just past the post for them  

3165

About 50 of them but a great big fat bloke so about 70  

Quoted from TAGG

Started with much more energy than the last home game

A relief to hear that. Sounds decent from the commentary too.

0-0 or 1-1 again I expect.

Hurst to defend his tactics in the telegraph tomorrow while the Fishy rages

Lincoln winning 2 zip at Southport. Just shows how bad that result was last week.

Quoted from MeanwoodMariner

A relief to hear that. Sounds decent from the commentary too.

These don't look to bad on the break.
It's nice to see that we're not booting it up in the air to LJL every time, still trying to play football  

10 shots and no goals

Need Arnold and Pittman fit or someone new

Come on Town

HT 0-0

Lots of chances, but still firing blanks

All over them no fire power up front Oates and Hannah on bench lol

Is performance better than last couple of games?

Quoted from Garth

All over them no fire power up front Oates and Hannah on bench lol

to be fair, theres nothing to say Oates is the answer, however if we don't play him we'll never know. If anyone can tell us what has happened to Rossy Hannah since we signed him permanently then i'm all ears.

still fancy a cheeky 1-0 but if that's good enough or not remains to be seen

UTM

Rich

Quoted from Garth

All over them no fire power up front Oates and Hannah on bench lol

You couldn't make it up. 1 striker at home to Altrincham

need to win this one just to keep up, but it will still only be papering over the cracks again

Only just finished work so haven't been able to make it or listen to first half! sounded any good anyone?

Sound good up until we reach the penalty area.

Come on town

2535 attendance - wonder what Fenty makes of that?

40 from Altrincham, so less than 2500 Town fans. They can't have any complaints.

Quoted from 230[b

]2535 attendance[/b] - wonder what Fenty makes of that?

Jesus that's really not good

Anything other than a win and I can see Fenty's hand being forced...

Quoted from Chrisblor

2535 attendance - wonder what Fenty makes of that?

Anybody know how many season ticket holders we have?

Same old story. Lack of quality forwards means we're struggling to score.

Why we can just not finish.. it's infuriating to listen to!

Yeah when we score 13 in two games the crowds will come flooding back...

Come on Hurst 65 mins we need plan B

Time to get an extra striker on and sacrifice a defender maybe.

Quoted from Quagmire

Anybody know how many season ticket holders we have?

~2,050

Sounds like a reserve match

Quoted from mariner91

Sound good up until we reach the penalty area.

Half way line

Quoted from Mariners_15

Jesus that's really not good

Anything other than a win and I can see Fenty's hand being forced...

Whatever happens, think will wait til after Saturdays game

This is painful to watch.

How many times have we seen this? An opposing team, struggling in the league and set up to defend and we can't break them down because we don't have good enough forwards. Same lessons, repeated over and over and over again and still it doesn't change.

All this pressure were having and the only team I see scoring is Altrincham

How did this team score 7 goals in one match?

Difficult to listen to this

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Just as on Saturday our game is the only game in the division with no goals. The problem is obvious, if money is available surely we need some emergency meeting and get something done. Crowds will keep dropping, this is just ridiculous.

It's ludicrous!

Quoted from Chrisblor

How did this team score 7 goals in one match?

LJL played superbly well that day. If he could do that more that 2 or 3 times a season we'd be sorted.

Oates is a little too quiet but Magnay even on the radio sounds immense, seems to have a better presence up front than any of our strikers.

Quoted from TAGG

2800
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Should have gone to Specsavers  

No excuses for picking up just 5 points in the past 4 games.

Nice knowing you Paul, your P45 will be in the post tomorrow morning.

God damnit.

Its alright chaps..

He will turn it around wont he.

That game finished WAAAY before any of the other games tonight

We have failed to score in open play against Nuneaton, Southport, Dartford and Altrincham. Absolutely rubbish and don't any with rose tinted glasses say we were unlucky tonight. I stayed away because I expected it as nothing changes. We are a laughing stock. Can somebody out there please take over this club and put some pride back into it

Played 9 out of the bottom 10 teams and got 12 points from those games. Not good enough. Played 7 home games and failed to score in 4 of those.

John, can YOU go out and sign a quality striker.

Difficult to express much of an opinion as I wasn't at the match tonight but considering we have Wrexham and Torquay next a 0-0 draw is poor. The performance, according to Humberside, seemed strong but that's worthless if no goals are scored. The frustration continues and Hurst's future looks more and more precarious.

Positives? We've gained a point on the leaders.

MELTDOWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNN time  

Quoted from promotion plaice

John, can YOU go out and sign a quality striker.

No no no.

John can you go out and find us a quality manager..

Altrincham have conceded 30 goals this season. Says it all really. Sign a couple of goalscorers pronto or start planning for next season in the conference now.

I want to rant at the manager.....
....But whats the point. It seems so easy looking in, sign a couple of strikers - one at least. Get rid of the two that aren't scoring if need be. Every club  in the country wants to sign ljl according to the manager so lets auction him off, earn lots of money & sign another striker. Easy.

Sounded good on the radio, just same old  problem, no quality up font, we need a couple of strikers in quick

When you play one up front to a team like this, and that one is Lennel John Lewis it's no f***ing wonder we can't acore AGAIN. It's a disgrace.

Hurst has been absolutely ruthless with the defence. Bignot has done reasonably well in the games he's played but after the Torquay & Lincoln games he clearly decided that he was the weak link, brought Parslow in and we've stopped conceding.

I just don't understand the lack of similar speedy action at the other end of the field.  

Quoted from chaos33

When you play one up front to a team like this, and that one is Lennel John Lewis it's no f***ing wonder we can't acore AGAIN. It's a disgrace.

Ditto

Quoted from Jaws

Played 9 out of the bottom 10 teams and got 12 points from those games. Not good enough. Played 7 home games and failed to score in 4 of those.

Those are shockingly bad statistics. Hope J.F. sees them, looks at the ever dwindling attendances, and finally realises that he simply HAS to act now to have even a chance of saving this season.

Quoted from MeanwoodMariner

Hurst has been absolutely ruthless with the defence. Bignot has done reasonably well in the games he's played but after the Torquay & Lincoln games he clearly decided that he was the weak link, brought Parslow in and we've stopped conceding.

I just don't understand the lack of similar speedy action at the other end of the field.  

It's not just a lack of speedy action, he's had all pre-season and 14 weeks of this to sign at least one quality striker and he can't do it. Of course, we should just tolerate this, feel sorry for him and keep him on.

Other positives....Aswad back and in fine form, Magnay back at RB and rampant and a solid defence. A good all round performance missing just one obvious thing.

Any chance of a battle plan being drawn up? All the board in, Hurst, Doig and a suitcase of cash on the table and an exhaustive day spent searching every option. Only some thing along these lines will convince me that this season is being taken seriously.
This club's like a football with a slow puncture.

Quoted from Teestogreen

Positives? We've gained a point on the leaders.

Haha  

Robo - Paul Hurst is the last man on earth i'd give a suitcase full of cash to. Can you imagine what'd happen? We'd pay for another big black striker to come in and not score goals, only this time we'd had paid for the flipping privilege.

Quoted from RoboCod

Other positives....Aswad back and in fine form, Magnay back at RB and rampant and a solid defence. A good all round performance missing just one obvious thing.

Any chance of a battle plan being drawn up? All the board in, Hurst, Doig and a suitcase of cash on the table and an exhaustive day spent searching every option. Only some thing along these lines will convince me that this season is being taken seriously.
This club's like a football with a slow puncture.

Excellent comment Robocod - that's pretty much how I see this, also

Quoted from pontoonlew

Robo - Paul Hurst is the last man on earth i'd give a suitcase full of cash to. Can you imagine what'd happen? We'd pay for another big black striker to come in and not score goals, only this time we'd had paid for the flipping privilege.

Well I'm sure York City could find an out of favour defender to help us out.

I just want to see some major movement from the club, something akin to collecting buckets in the Pontoon to keep the club afloat all those years ago, something to get everyone pulling together and to show the board care as much as the fans, because the fans are paying top whack to watch a substandard and almost incomplete group of professionals ply their trade.
Football is all about scoring goals, without goals it's not worth bothering with, as the club are finding out.

Quoted from promotion plaice

John, can YOU go out and sign a quality striker.

Don`t think he was there tonight, unless he was sat in the Pontoon, at least I could not see him where I sat, could be wrong.

Humberside Radio wanted to interview him tonight pre match, but he said he was busy

Quoted from Madeleymariner

MELTDOWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNN time  

No

It was obvious to me at half time that we were playing a lot of good football on the ground up to the eighteen yard area and then we had no poacher to put the chances away,LJL as usual did his best but is only a huff and puff player and not the fox in the box the game required.

With the ball spending a lot of the time on the floor it was calling out for another striker (two sat on the bench) when they did come on it was too late the players were in desperation mode and both of them as hard as they tried had no effect.

So Pitman injured, Oates no better than Southwell, Hannah having a nightmare season, Arnold not interested and LJL being LJL.  without a proper striker we are going to struggle to make the playoffs.
Something that should have been sorted weeks ago