Shooting from the hip there pink.Who's bullets are they?

8 games in and we have only taken 1 point for the top 17 teams.

AL mentioned the lady Sec in reference to the rapid processing of paperwork to get Fin Barnes signed. I think her name is Julie Briggs.

Norman is still the matchday Sec.

is it the match day secretary that has to go to every game home or away?If so I don't think thats norman these days.I don't think we've got a health and safety man in position yet since the last one left.I'm not sure on that one as we don't hear a lot from the club unless its to do with the games which is better than it used to be

Always amazes me that everything is wrong when we lose but everything is fine (assume it is as nobody talks about it) when we win......

Adam Lakeland says he shares the frustration of supporters following the 2-1 defeat to Peterborough Sports in the A47 derby at the Walks.
1) Moan about the supporters although apparently its not a criticism, although if its not its a close run thing.
I have no issue with people who pay their hard-earned money to come and watch us and the crowd today in terms of the numbers was great, but it's the quietest we've been and, yes, we've got to give them something to get behind.
But when you go and concede an early goal, it went very flat in here and obviously they score a second goal and it went flat and it probably wasn't until we scored which was late on that we started to hear them.
That's not a criticism because we've got to give them something to get behind, but sometimes football players need the supporters more when they're losing.
It’s easy for people to applaud when things are going well, but generally in football, you learn more about everybody when times are tough.
We were playing quite well, but it was tough and frustrating there and maybe the crowd could have helped us just inject a little bit more energy and a little bit more life into that performance.
2) Moan about the opposition and the ref.
I thought the better team lost, and we gave away two really poor goals at really bad times and ultimately that cost us.
It just allows the opposition to control the speed of the game and we need to play with energy and tempo and it is so hard to do that when every time there's an opportunity for them to go down, they go down, every time the keeper has got the ball he’s taking an eternity, every time it's off the pitch for a throw-in it's taking an eternity and you need a referee that acts on that, tries to inject a little bit of speed into the game.
3) Moan about the ref continued.
I don't think he did it - I think it took him until the 87th minute to book one of their players, which is just not good enough.
And to only add five minutes on, I just find that bamboozling when there's been, what, eight substitutions and so much break-up of the game.
Because I think if that game went on for a few more minutes, we might have conjured up another chance.
4) Moan about the result.
I feel like a draw was the least we deserved, but I can't fault the players other than the goals we gave away. I thought we worked right until the end, and it wasn't to be.
No mention of the team selection or tactics not working on the day. On to Saturday!

When AL is forced to play McFadden at right back the squad is getting stretched.So it looks as if the money men are needed again to dip into their pockets and bring in a couple of reinforcements as it looks like some players can't do two games in quick succession. Mayybe age is catching up with some of them. And dispite the Chairman and Joe paying for overnight stays when playing away it sounded like that's not enough for AL.How can this result be blamed on Saturdays travelling?    A new team that AL has put together and will get better?Well that back line isn't from what I have seen!

:scarf:hope the other clubs in this league don’t adopt this style of play too much. We weren’t able to deal with it last season and got caught out. 

of course they will but we need to hope that the best manager and best no.2 in the league have enough about them to deal with it.Alfreton won't be the only team who'll play a direct brand of football.If a club hasn't got the luxury of a big Asian investor pumping money in their football will be dictated by what they can afford

I can understand the odd dismal performance from any team half way through a season but not the 2nd game when everyone should be fresh and really up for it

I listened to the excellent commentary which suggested that the Alfreton game plan, of giving Lynn little or no time on the ball, worked to.perfection.

Lakey in edp not very complimentary saying Lynn was not recognisable from team in the opening game of the season and we were outmuscled.Lakeland saying he knew exactly what game would be like and the threats they had but his team didn't stand up to them.