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Salford City vs Oldham Athletic Secretary Andy Giblin Committee Jim Birtwistle, Pete Byram, Ged Carter, Barbara Gaskill, Terry Gaskill, Ian Malone, Frank McCauley, Paul Raven, 04 09 Counselling Advice Online support George Russell, Bill Taylor, Alan Tomlinson, Dave Wilson Groundsmen George Russell, Steve Thomson Graham Alexander Frankly Speaking Shop Manager Tony Sheldon CSR Co-ordinator Andrew Gordon The Gaffer reflects on the last week’s Our anonymous columnist has an Media Zarah Connolly, Ryan Deane, results in the league and Leasing.com interesting gripe this week... Will Moorcroft Photography Charlotte Tattersall, Trophy. Howard Harrison, Mark Percy 41 First Team Manager Graham Alexander 07 Assistant Manager Chris Lucketti Visitors Speak to one of our experts today GK Coach Carlo Nash Kit Manager Paul Rushton Liam Hogan Head of Performance Dave Rhodes Find out more about Oldham Athletic Physiotherapist Steve Jordan See what the captain has to say and see what supporter Aaron Diskin Club Doctor Dr. Mubin Ibrahim about the last week! has to say about the club. Sport Science Rob Williams Performance Analysis Ross Duncan Director of Football Chris Casper 0800 028 8712 Head of Scouting Greg Strong 10 50 Development Coach Warren Joyce Head of Academy Jamie Russell Match Report Lionesses Assistant Academy Manager Lewis Craig Academy Staff Andy Badby, Josh Coulson, Luke Morgan, Joe Potts, Liam Preece, Read the report and reaction, and see Salford City Lionesses progressed to Sam Tomkins the photos from Tuesday night’s win the Second Round of the Argyle Cup Lionesses Manager Shauna Duffy against Accrington Stanley! last Sunday with a win against Penrith! health assured.org Programme printed by MatchDay Creative www.salfordcityfc.co.uk 4 5 Graham ALEXANDER Good afternoon, welcome to this afternoon’s game against Oldham Athletic at Moor Lane, and I extend that to Dino Maamria, his players, staff and the rest of our visitors from Oldham. Thanks to everyone who came to support us last week standard we need to maintain. at Forest Green Rovers, and also those on Tuesday night who saw us progress again in the Leasing.com Trophy. We still have plenty to play for this season and the Both games gave us welcome wins and showed the true introduction of our new players has shown we are as character of our group. ambitious as ever. We must now show the mentality needed every single day to succeed, and this week can Looking back to last Saturday, to say I was disappointed to be a reference point for what is required to maximise our end up with nine players on the pitch at the end would be future opportunities. an understatement. Considering our very good disciplinary record, and the competitive but good nature of the game in Get behind your team again today and enjoy the game. general, it put us up against it at 2 -1 ahead. The focus and spirit then showed by our players was something else, and Up the Ammies! I thought the final whistle was a moment that strengthens that bond between the team and fans. Graham. On Tuesday we showed the quality of our squad when making eight changes and going on to beat a League One team after going behind early on. The quality of the winning goal was superb and again that determination to win the game shone through when limiting the opposition to no shots on target in the second half. That takes a big commitment from every single player and over those two games every one of them has set the Salford City vs Oldham Athletic www.salfordcityfc.co.uk 7 Liam HOGAN Welcome to The Peninsula Stadium everybody for what is We felt great passion in the performance on Tuesday, and our Derby Day fixture against Oldham Athletic. from the support we keep receiving it always gives the lads a big lift. The game sees us play Oldham for the second time this season, and it was only a few weeks ago we secured an Let’s hope we can get you singing and more importantly emphatic 4-1 victory at Boundary Park. enjoying another three points this afternoon. We have had a great week on and off the field with new See you at the ground, signings being added to continue our improvement, and two Hoges consecutive winning results against strong opposition in the league, winning away at Forest Green Rovers, and in the Leasing.com Trophy, where we progressed to the semi-finals in our first season in the competition with Tuesday’s win against Accrington Stanley. The atmosphere is really upbeat, and we will be confident and looking repeat the result against Oldham today. It’s a good chance for us to record our third straight win, which we haven’t managed to do this season, and we must prove we can be consistent. www.salfordcityfc.co.uk 9 Superfast Fibre Frankly £21.95 a month, fixed for 24 months Speaking SAVING. IT’S NOT JUST Following Aston Villa’s recent defeat at Fulham in the In the last round I listened to the radio broadcast of the third round of the Emirates FA Cup, Villa’s manager Liverpool-Everton tie while I was in the kitchen (I’d like to Dean Smith was reported as saying that the FA Cup had say I was preparing a family gourmet meal but in actual fact FOR CHRIS NEAL. ‘lost its sparkle’. He said it was not top of their priorities I was washing the dishes.). When the commentary finished, (a comment repeated by Nigel Pearson, the Watford they moved on to what is referred to as the after match 606 manager). Apparently, he thought alterations made to the phone-in programme. We had a presenter of the programme competition by the football authorities were the reason and an ex-footballer ‘pundit’. the 40 teams playing in the third round had made a total of 223 changes to their line-ups. As might be expected the opening calls centred on Everton’s performance and one caller suggested that rather That’s roughly an average of six changes per team. Eight than playing squad players in cup matches it would be clubs made nine or more changes and four teams actually better for them to play regularly in a reserve league akin to made 10 or more changes. Not every team was in the something like the Central League from years ago. running to be divisional champions, facing a fixture snarl up, or had European matches on the horizon, so why make so The pundit then made reference to the fact that some of the many unforced changes? If I had had the inclination, I would top clubs entered their Under-21s into a cup competition have trawled each club’s following league fixture to see organised for the lower leagues, the name of which how many of the ‘changes’ had performed well enough to escaped him. He thought it might be the Johnstone Paint be selected. I’m willing to bet I wouldn’t have found many. Trophy but was sure the programme’s production team Enjoy average speeds of 67Mb/s and keep would put him right if this was incorrect. This they rapidly Is it any wonder then that attendances were down by 30%? did as he announced that the competition was called the everything connected with our award-winning If we keep hearing and reading that the FA Cup ‘has lost its Checkatrade Trophy!!! sparkle’ it’s sure to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. And Wi-Fi Hub. Now that’s a deal worth shouting about. if clubs, particularly the top teams, are going to continue If this is a national radio programme covering all levels of to turn out their squad or fringe players things will only get football shouldn’t someone who commentates regularly TalkTalk Fibre worse. on the state of the game around the country know who the sponsor of a cup for 48 members of the Football League is? You can tell I’m a traditionalist. The FA Cup has been a fantastic competition for well over 100 years, I don’t believe And if, at that precise moment in time, he simply couldn’t it’s outdated or ‘lost its sparkle’. Rather than the authorities bring Leasing.com to mind shouldn’t the production team I think it is the ‘elite’ clubs who carry the responsibility. who, one assumes, are supposed to keep abreast of what is going on in the game and who are privy to the regular Attitudes drip down. When the Premier League teams publicity shots be aware of the sponsor’s name? decided it made football sense somehow to field ‘weakened’ teams in cup ties the idea filtered down. Maybe we’re not elite enough! Here at Salford, managers did it when we were at North West Counties level. www.salfordcityfc.co.uk Salford FC Sponsorship Ad4 Jan20.indd 1 07/01/2020 15:10 10 11 Match vs.