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And now they are shutting bars early, reducing the number of people who can sit together in restaurants and asking people to wear facemasks on public transport.
For those who haven't seen Hugh's Sweden narrative debunked in the off topic thread, Sweden have suffered massive infection and death rates compared to their neighbours who did lock down.
They're actually really struggling right now
https://www.ft.com/content/81299a7a-ec53-41fa-bf33-7ea40f4bca07
because they made the mistake, like we did, of sending ill ppl into care homes and "struggling" no more than any other nation, but without the deaths and suffering from having no non-Covid treatments and bankrupting the country.
i'd be happy if he was just good at holding the ball up. a lot of jordan's forward play allowed hancock and others to score.
Agreed. The ball just seems to bounce off Ceesay's shins all the time when he plays up top. If we had a player who could hold it up and develop play as well as dcoring goals we would be a scary proposition!
Albeit Ceesay also couldn't hold the ball up we looked much better than when Fis plays. Ceesay still worried them which opened up some yards around him. As harsh as it sounds, I hope Fis is released.
Welcome to Alty.
What role will he play?
I'd imagine player/coach. Still only 32 and plenty of experience.
Statement says 'backroom staff' no mention of playing
If only.
I maintain that if we started Simon Garner for the duration of the season we'd have been promoted.
Welcome to Alty.
What role will he play?
I'd imagine player/coach. Still only 32 and plenty of experience.
Statement says 'backroom staff' no mention of playing
It could be argued that Harvey was worse
100%.
We wouldn't have gone down if Neil Young was manager for the duration of the season.
We wouldn't have finished in the top half either, but he'd have eventually settled on a squad that did just about enough.
Jim Harvey's reign did the most damage, for me. Coming in he needed to settle on a squad and system that would start getting some results - but the door revolved at a faster pace than it was doing under Young.
One thing's for certain, Neil Young would not have played Danny Hattersley and Craig Hobson at centre half.
Anyway, massive congrats to Marine. Great club.
I'm sorry but with respect, this is absolute rubbish. Neil Young had already destroyed us with the most bewildering recruitment policy I think I've ever witnessed. He also seemed to move heaven and earth to secure the services of the aforementioned Hobson and Hattersley that had rival clubs scratching their heads.
When he said in an interview that he'd basically keep on recruiting and shipping out until he got it right, that should have been alarm bells - he did the same thing at Stockport too, remember - they'd never seen such an extraordinary turnover of players in such a short period of time.
Jim Harvey had a reputation as a troubleshooter - a Sam Allardyce of this level, if you will - you could argue it was us that finished him off.
I'm not defending his recruitment, it was blatantly horrendous and we'd have done extremely well to finish above 17th, but I'm inclined to believe he would have brought enough ringers in to just about keep us up, in my opinion.
We quite rightly made a change and brought in Jim Harvey, who brought in equal dross and got worse results. When Jim arrived we had every chance of turning things around, it would hardly have been a miracle from that position at that stage. We were only 9 games into the season. Hence why BPA leapfrogged us and stayed up.
Three consecutive draws at the start of NY's tenure, including two against sides that finished firmly in the play-offs, would faintly suggest that squad he put together had enough to scrape staying up in the National League North that season. His side should have beaten Darlington on the opening day and we were unlucky to come away from Halifax with a point only. Arguably a completely different outlook and sense of confidence with two wins to open the season. Alas we didn't, and then the Fylde loss knocked us for a six that we never recovered from.
Not that it matters as we've ended up with a fantastic management duo and play some of the best stuff in non-league on our day. I'm just not having that Jim Harvey didn't play a huge part in our demise that season.
Perhaps it also stuck in my throat that he seemed to realise he'd absolutely screwed it and decided to do a runner.
Also, why do you feel confident Young would have brought in 'ringers' of a better quality than Harvey, when the season had already started and the best players were all signed up? He'd gone out of his way to sign many of the dross he did at the start of the season, what makes you think he'd have found good players when the season had already started?
You've also got to remember other teams were getting into their stride and the opening games are a bit of a leveller - once the dust had settled after 6 games, we knew we were done for, and I don't think Pep Guardiola would have saved us at that point. We literally needed to clear the decks and start again, but we couldn't.
We weren't done for at all. As Hashtag points out, for all the sh*t that Young signed, there was enough quality there to pick ourselves up, remember we're Altrincham FC and give survival an actual go. The appointment of Harvey was a third successive disaster at a time when we needed someone to come in and instil some confidence back into a downbeat group. Instead we were provided with 3 points from 10 league games, and a bloke who wanted to play two strikers at centre half.
As he also says, Neil Young had a decent record at National League North level and his policy brought great success to Chester. Sure, we'd have been absolutely nowhere near the heights that he accomplished with them - but I do suspect he'd have plugged the gaps, and I think we'd have scraped survival. Which would have been more than enough to see him rightly sacked regardless.
Does Neil Young's recruitment have a role to play in what happened after he left? Of course. It left a lasting impact that successors had to deal with. But, to place the entirety of that season on the shoulders of him when those players were managed by another man during the crucial stage of the season seems a bit daft to me.
Would also agree that the problems started in 15/16 and the Tolson era.
I'm no defender of Jim Harvey's spell as Alty manager but I think it's a bit odd to point to picking Hobson and Hattersley at centre half at Nuneaton as his biggest mistake - I don't think we had any fit centre halves available, so the team was always going to look a bit odd. Incidentally, Nuneaton's keeper that day was Christian Dibble.
I think we need to be little patient with McDonald - he's jumping up quite a few divisions to play for us so will need time, not to mention better service. I hear PP has been very impressed with his finishing in training so fingers crossed he'll get us goals.
Then we should loan him out like Salmon
Phil and Neil have a very solid record with loanees.
Have made or are making an impact:
Connor Hampson - gone on to become a first team regular
Chris Merrie - valuable contributions alongside Moult during the NPL run-in
Yusifu Ceesay - big part in the 18/19 run-in
Owen Dale - quality during his time here
Ashley Hemmings - solid
Joe Piggott - solid enough
Billy Sass-Davies - looking like he'll be solid
Josh Lundstram - class
Andy Dales - potential is there
Joe Robbins - tidy enough
Alistair Smith - looks a player
Didn't make an impact for whatever reason:
Brendon Daniels
Josh Langley - didn't play a first team game?
Chris Sang
Nathan Waterston - got injured a few minutes after coming on?
Ethan Walker
Was Josh Ginnelly a Parky signing too pal?
Is the game a 7.45 kick off?
A bit later than that (second half 😉)
So that should release some more wages, hopefully to supplement the transfer money in our coffers.
You still seem to be avoiding the fact that Sweden is doing far worse than all the countries that surround them.
