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Well the attendance is excellent

I'm impressed with everyone's optimism here but I'm struggling to find many positives with losing one of the most exciting players I've ever seen here. Especially at a point when the team was racing up the table.

Couldn’t have put it better myself.

We must have irons in the fire here, surely to God?

He visited our little corner of the world too. The Brazil squad in 1966 stayed in the Lymm Hote and I believe, at least I was told so by Mr. Coleman, that they also trained a few times at Altrincham Boys Grammar School.

Quote from: AltyTunnelSteward on December 26, 2022, 09:15:13 PM

For those sniping at Jennings, give your head a wobble.

People have slagged Dinanga off since we first signed him.

Hulme, as commented, isn't doing what we expected

Jennings has been more than decent. Any player is entitled to a sub optimal game

You did describe Baines as a terrible signing and it is very embarrassing that you think Cooper is better than him. Baines is a defender above.

Jennings is wayyyy past his best. Hulme or Dinanga are better options. Newby made Jennings look better than he is,  due to being in those positions. Jennings is about flick on's, without two capable wide players he is ineffective, like today.

Baines made a terrible start. I don’t think that would be unfair, although he was being moved about and has definitely improved with a run of games in his best possession (and with an actual goalkeeper behind him) but even so I wouldn’t say he was a terrible signing because his age, profile and experience was the target level we should be looking at.

With that in mind, when decisions get made about Jennings eventually, unless he’s really obviously making a difference we might have to accept the fact that Dinanga is 6(?) years younger than both him and Hulme and the striker we have to work with going forward?

For what it's worth, I'd still be looking to dip into the market for someone else if we have the capacity to do so.

Well, this is the thing isn’t it. At some point we’re going to have to take the big hard step of spending some actual money on a player. And for me it should be on someone we know to work, ie Newby, rather than the false economy of a gamble on a player we haven’t seen do well for us.

Quote from: Hugh on November 23, 2022, 07:28:01 PM

Weren't Unicorn (or their youth team) quite good at one time, along with Hale Barns United? I remember I used to frequently read about one or two lads from my school in SAM who played for HBU.

Not sure I ever played against Unicorn. I remember getting thrashed by Hale Barns United, as well as Flixton and Stretford Vics...

Would have been late 80s.

I played for Hale Barns at that time and Flixton and particularly Stretford Vics were very good sides.

Charles Heathcote played for Stretford Vics I remember

12,843 vs. Solihull Moors, according to Football Web Pages. Lincoln City were the first team to get a really big Conference crowd (around 10,000 in 1989 or 1990). This though is in a different league, not far below the highest FL2 crowds of recent years.

This mention of Lincoln crowds in that season makes me wonder if they are also the answer to the question of if we had played in front of 10,000 in the conference before Wrexham. We lost 0-5 there  when they were on a bit of a roll.

Anyhow, here’s a brief clip of our 0-0 draw in the home game against them that season.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kUU1ymxeNhA

Much better second half , would like to keep Newby if possible .Don't think Jennings is a number 9 as in hold the ball up and keep the centre backs occupied but he played his part in the second goal.

Played a nice part in what should’ve been an equaliser just before half time