Magpie Circle Altrincham Preview

[drillerpie]

I've just had a listen as other posters commenting on it made me curious, but only got 13:50 into it and hard to turn it off. I was tempted to turn it off about 30 seconds in after Scoop's mouth breathing intro, and the other guy's fake belly laugh.

Scoop: I've had my haircut.
Other guy: HAAHAAAHHAAAAHAAMUAAAHHHAHAAHAHAHAHMUAAAHHHHHAAAAH !!!

Anyway the whole tone of the podcast seems like a total overreaction. I think both of them could've quite easily done a similar hatchet job on NA - let's face it, all the same raw material was there; unconvincing interviews showing lack of confidence and intensity? Yep, NA had that in spades.

Dubious presentation of poor results to portray them in a better light? Yep, when we were creating 1 chance roughly every hundred minutes in league games and rolling over pub teams in the cup, NA would often talk about 'only x losses in x games'.

Less than convincing stats from previous seasons? Yep, NA had those too.

Last week Scoop was literally squealing his frustrations about Enzio being deployed in defence (I agree btw), but who started that little experiment? NA spent almost his entire time at the club restricting Enzio's play and burdening him with extra responsibility. Never saw Scoop give him a hard time about it at press conferences either.

Don't get me wrong, IB was a left field appointment both in terms of timing and profile, and he may well turn out to be crap, but nobody's going to convince me that until 8 games ago we were basking in some kind of footballing nirvana with NA.

I don't know about Magpie Circle, I'd call it a Circle Jerk of people with a totally jaundiced attitude towards the new manager and to some extent the owners, trying to foment a fan rebellion out of nothing. Completely unfair and uncalled for IMO, and makes NCM seem positively reasonable in comparison.

And what was all that catastrophism about having trouble selling season tickets? I'd imagine any Notts fans willing and able to go to Meadow Lane from a Covid perspective will be all over it when football reopens.

It actually makes me want to buy 10 season tickets and give them away, not out of altruism but just to spite that guy there.

I'm sorry sad sacks but Nice Guy Neal is gone, and he's not coming back. Don't worry you'll still get your Merry Christmas text, but you're both going to have to make your own sandwiches on matchday from now on. Deal with it.

[queenslandpie]

I've just had a listen as other posters commenting on it made me curious, but only got 13:50 into it and hard to turn it off. I was tempted to turn it off about 30 seconds in after Scoop's mouth breathing intro, and the other guy's fake belly laugh.

Scoop: I've had my haircut.
Other guy: HAAHAAAHHAAAAHAAMUAAAHHHAHAAHAHAHAHMUAAAHHHHHAAAAH !!!

Anyway the whole tone of the podcast seems like a total overreaction. I think both of them could've quite easily done a similar hatchet job on NA - let's face it, all the same raw material was there; unconvincing interviews showing lack of confidence and intensity? Yep, NA had that in spades.

Dubious presentation of poor results to portray them in a better light? Yep, when we were creating 1 chance roughly every hundred minutes in league games and rolling over pub teams in the cup, NA would often talk about 'only x losses in x games'.

Less than convincing stats from previous seasons? Yep, NA had those too.

Last week Scoop was literally squealing his frustrations about Enzio being deployed in defence (I agree btw), but who started that little experiment? NA spent almost his entire time at the club restricting Enzio's play and burdening him with extra responsibility. Never saw Scoop give him a hard time about it at press conferences either.

Don't get me wrong, IB was a left field appointment both in terms of timing and profile, and he may well turn out to be crap, but nobody's going to convince me that until 8 games ago we were basking in some kind of footballing nirvana with NA.

I don't know about Magpie Circle, I'd call it a Circle Jerk of people with a totally jaundiced attitude towards the new manager and to some extent the owners, trying to foment a fan rebellion out of nothing. Completely unfair and uncalled for IMO, and makes NCM seem positively reasonable in comparison.

And what was all that catastrophism about having trouble selling season tickets? I'd imagine any Notts fans willing and able to go to Meadow Lane from a Covid perspective will be all over it when football reopens.

It actually makes me want to buy 10 season tickets and give them away, not out of altruism but just to spite that guy there.

I'm sorry sad sacks but Nice Guy Neal is gone, and he's not coming back. Don't worry you'll still get your Merry Christmas text, but you're both going to have to make your own sandwiches on matchday from now on. Deal with it.

Can I cut you short? If you buy one season ticket for me and the others are about 400 quid each x 9 I can go and watch a few times live and you can pay. Game on?