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[TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe]

Alas, just like an Alty away win, there's no sign of my tea here!

What a depressing afternoon.

[Bath Alty]

Could have been worse - I spent it repairing shed roof and whacked my finger instead the nail and now have whopping blood blister, and we're out of trophy

Still next week is Woking and that's not too far from Bath so my first game for a while beckons

[Amsterdam Alty]

agreed gaz, poor game with very little from either team, gled we dint get through if i'm honest, league safety is more important this year, next year i see more of a need for a cup run but this year is survival survival survival.

[Unemployed Coalminer]

We've lost the match, its very disappointing......

We are in a league we have no right to be in...
We are more than holding our own in that league....
We are almost out of debt.....
We have a stable & enthusiastic squad who want to play for Alty.....
We have a first rate board......
We have a first rate coach......
We have a good ground and very professional set up....

Thats 2 negatives and how many positives?

Lets just get on and support our team!

Wanting to be the best you can be isn't not supporting your team.

[Unemployed Coalminer]

agreed gaz, poor game with very little from either team, gled we dint get through if i'm honest, league safety is more important this year, next year i see more of a need for a cup run but this year is survival survival survival.

How on earth can you be glad we didn't get through? Don't you want to win anything ever again? Too many Alty fans are getting immune to defeat which is very disturbing.

[Amsterdam Alty]

no but look at it this way; were due a slide in form, that is if we take last year into account, and a team stuck in the relagation mire with us will be playing at least one more game than us, and theres no risk of a fixture pile up now the trophy is out of the way, believe me i am not immune to losing and have left several places this year majorly pissed off with the results, but today was a trophy game and like i said this year the trophy is not nor should it be our main aim.

mabee you disagree but we all have the choice here to place open and self opinionated views, and this is mine.

[kidlad]

I don't think that the throway remark by Cult about the manageris really called for. His remarks about the poor attendance at the original game have been taken a little out of context and open to misinterpretation. I don't think for one minute that Graham intended to ridicule those who did attend. I do believe that Graham was bemoaning the fact that the atmosphere was not as great as the club's heyday when the FA Trophy was seen as an important competition. No-one can deny that the Trophy has become relatively unimportant to Conference national Clubs (less than 50% ramain this year and that has been the norm over recent seasons). Edited from the original interview was Graham's statement that maybe he should not be so passionate about the competition if 40% of the regular support could not be bothered to attend. However it was evident that he is very much passionate and he will be distraught at the defeat. A bit of a reality check though. Tamworth have become something of cup specialists. Hopefully they will not be League specialists

[Amsterdam Alty]

Tamworth have become something of cup specialists. Hopefully they will not be League specialists

nothing specialist about their performance today thats for certain. but never mind 6 pound saved on tuesday thats a whole 3 pints 6 if i go to the SU!

[Unemployed Coalminer]

no but look at it this way; were due a slide in form, that is if we take last year into account, and a team stuck in the relagation mire with us will be playing at least one more game than us, and theres no risk of a fixture pile up now the trophy is out of the way, believe me i am not immune to losing and have left several places this year majorly pissed off with the results, but today was a trophy game and like i said this year the trophy is not nor should it be our main aim.

mabee you disagree but we all have the choice here to place open and self opinionated views, and this is mine.

So would finishing 17th in the Conference and going out of the Trophy in the first round constitute a good season to you? How about finishing 17th in the Conference and winning the Trophy? Sound better. If you can guarantee Altrincham will now stay up due to losing today i'll let you put a tenner on for me at Ladbrokes. It is never ok to lose. Develop that mentality and you will never win anything.

[markecky]

Didn't UC say he'd prefer to be in the Conference North?  What ambitious about a statement like that?

[Amsterdam Alty]

no finishing 17th would not be ok for me, but it would be better than winning the trophy and being relagated, surely you realise that playing another possible 8 games would cripple our squad, already fighting week in week out against full time opposition and i might add doing well, but that would change with the extra physical exertion required for a strong cup run. I would have loved nothing more than a bender in the capital topped off with an alty trophy victory to bring back the glory days of the 70's and 80's, but is just not viable this year.

Next year with more funds to spend on the squad due to our debts being clear and TV money coming from setanta yes a trophy run would be nice and greatly enjoyed. but i'd rather see us secure these 1000+ crowds and TV money before I worry about how our team are doing in non essential competitions, be it FA Trophy, Cup, Senior Cup.

Any road woking next week i think we owe them a stuffing they robbed us @ our place earlier this season.mabe that could be the elusive first away win???

[Jimmy Hill]

Thing is, I know how sh*t Tamworth are having seen them twice. We should be getting turned over by such sh*te.

Alty away and Tamworth at home are two very evenly matched sides. Today both were very poor.

Given our away form we really can't expect to beat Tamworth at the Lamb, although it is/was certainly a possibility.

[Leon]

I don't suppose that 17th in the Conference is the limit of any Alty fan's ambitions. But it would be our highest league finish in over ten years. Is there no achievement in that?

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So would finishing 17th in the Conference and going out of the Trophy in the first round constitute a good season to you?

[Jimmy Hill]

I'm seething. Can't imagine how i'd feel if i'd gone to the game.

This is how I felt immediately after the game;

Mildly deflated.

Breathless.

Sleepy.

[Amsterdam Alty]

nothing, actual nothing!the only thing which left me seething was the wanker who thought jumping on denis birch after their second goal, whom promptly when approached sh*t himself,

on a more comical note was the motormouth motorhead fella whom  got increasingly more up for a ruck as people got between him and us! lol me thinks someone could have held him back with one finger and he would have still feigned the hard man act!