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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Colin Little
« on: March 25, 2008, 03:33:28 PM »
to be fair to the stafford fans

since when have we been fair to stafford fans? when was that added to the rules?

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i left bramhall lane with my brother who was off his trolley. i was doing my usual blend in withthe locals bit but he kept singing alty alty alty alty altrincham under his breath. i told him i was going to abandon him if he didnt shut up. he was too off it to realise there were angry sheff utd nutcases all around us.

gazelle, thats why i remember the vics thing fondly. those mods came in and thought they were really hard, one of them gave a slap to the only bloke who stood up to them (he was well known but i cant recall his name)and they set about intimidating everyone. then the bloke who got hit ran back in and launched himself at the biggest one. cue pandemonium as everyone, and i mean everone - 14 year old kids, middle aged men etc - leaped on them and battered the crap out of them. i will always remember the leader being taken out by the coppers in tears going 'but they started it'.

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what year was that? i know i wasnt there and i wonder why

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if one is allowed a favorite bit of football violence, then the northwich mods episode was my all time number one!!
 
it was in those formative years that i acquired my trouble radar, which has seen me move out of the way just before it kicked off on countless occasions. (usually leaving the gazelle to get battered :))

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oh thats very funny. i bet the shoppers were scared.
as gazelle says grass bank skins will come out of retirement, join with alty razor squad and run those ruffians out of town.

its always been a source of pride that alty have never had any of this nonsense


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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Can you explain??????????
« on: March 17, 2008, 09:42:35 PM »
when i was a kid i wasnt wildly interested in football despite my dad taking me to old trafford in the late 60s, mainly because i was rubbish at playing it. i dont think it ever occured to me that you could go and watch games and enjoy it. somewhere along the line there were a group of kids in my year at alty grammar who used to go to alty every week, including some of my friends, so i went along and experienced a revelation. this was 1976.
i suppose i had it really easy compared to some of you because this coincided with the start of the succesful era. looking back i got into it really quick, going away a lot (it was reatively cheap on the coach then) i went to rotherham seeing us hammered 5-0 and went to all the trophy games including the quarter final at weymouth and the semi at scarborough. the years that followed were genius and i hardly missed a game for 3/4 years.
although i was at all the great games its not really them that i remember, more the silly away days at goole and worksop, at netherfield and great harwood. night games at vics where we would go in front of their main stand and carry out a 90 minute argument with the old blokes who stood there. going to weymouth midweek and arriving back in the middle of the night then going to school.
i hesitate to say it really, but i was quite a solitary child and alty allowed me to belong to something. i took (and take) great pride in the fans and their humour. i loved going to games and having a laugh with like minded people. i loved shouting daft things at the opposition, making up chants at school and trying them out on the saturday.in fact i really loved singing songs full stop. there is something liberating about bellowing at the top of your voice and not caring.
at one point we became the grass bank skins (grown their hair) and supported a journeyman centre half called graham tobin through thick and thin.
in 1982 i moved to london to go to college and although the early years were alright as i was living with another alty fan and at that time there were loads of local games and visits home, after my dad died i had no connection with alty any more and slowly i faded away to a game every now and then.

in many ways this message board has revived my interest because it keeps you in touch with what is going on

the other thing i would say is that i count myself incredibly lucky to have been around then. my twin obsessions are football and music and to be 15 in 1977, and then 17 in 1979 when manchester was the centre of the music universe, and your football team was kicking the crap out of allcomers.


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why aren't flats called flats anymore...when did they become apartments?

luxury ones at that
i cant remember the last time i saw any new build that wasnt described as luxury
luxury kitchens where you can touch two walls standing in the middle

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will you be able to watch the game on your balcony like those 'lucky' people at grays?

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: This needs sorting and quickly
« on: March 17, 2008, 12:45:59 PM »
Next seasons new arrivals potentially to the BSNorth

Stafford, Droylsden, Fleetwood, Witton

Possible new arrivals to the BSPrem

Lewes, Eastbourne, Kettering, Telford, Wrexham, Notts County.

No brainer.



ooh the prospect of an away at lewes, the home of harveys, is surely the spur we all need
 :P

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: You get what you deserve
« on: March 16, 2008, 06:51:49 PM »
not really the place for it but, thanks to the london alty fans for letting me hang around with them yesterday. despite the game i had a good day and reminded myself why i used to do it. thanks

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: You get what you deserve
« on: March 15, 2008, 08:06:38 PM »
all the above is true. i think fans will accept defeat and even relegation but will not accept their side never making any attempt to win the game.
playing one up without breaking midfield players is incredibly negative
how does anyone in their right mind think little can play up on his own? to realise this and put a centre half up there? to me it didnt look like there was a plan beyond hoping to keep them out and nick a lucky goal.

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it seems to me that once again the rules are not fit for the purpose. the rules were drawn up on the assumption that clubs wouldnt want to go into administration. a little like people used to try anything they could to not go bankrupt. this is no longer the case and its now seen as an easy way to get rid of a crippling debt.
what is to stop anyone running up enormous debt, amassing enough points and then going into administration and wiping the debt off? the people at halifax clearly have money, they just dont want to honour their debts. the whole thing stinks

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unfortunate that they are really the form team at the moment, and if that continues they will get away with it.

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Grays on Saturday
« on: March 13, 2008, 07:58:16 PM »
actually are there any london/south east robins going by public transport?

beer anyone?

London Alty is convening at the pub in Fenchurch St. station at midday.

i assume i will know who you are, so i will say hello

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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Grays on Saturday
« on: March 13, 2008, 02:18:53 PM »
actually are there any london/south east robins going by public transport?

beer anyone?

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