Alty Game / Ian Craney
 

Should be a good following from Alty this Saturday and a healthy gate overall. Stanley are flying but expect Alty not to roll over for you. Alty have Grays away the following match so perhaps we could do your lot a favour.

I see Ian Craney is banging in the goals for you. Bearing in mind Alty have a sell-on clause, do people generally think he will stay and help you trying to get promoted. Or will a big fish come in and pounce. Any thoughts?

Re: Alty Game / Ian Craney
 

we thought FGR and maybe even Southport might put up a strong fight against us but that didnt happen so were not too bothered about Alty this weekend; no disrespect intended...in response to Ian Craney...
Ian Craney is a red is a red
Ian Craney is a red
He Hates Alty
:D

Re: Alty Game / Ian Craney
 

Of course he hates alty, thats why he was singing his heart out at the play off final, good luck to him, he'll earn us some fabulous money, hate us? I dont think so somehow :D

http://www.star4alty.com/New%20Site/...bourne_013.jpg

Re: Alty Game / Ian Craney
 

can you post a bigger version of that picture please...

Re: Alty Game / Ian Craney
 

i doubt the sell-on clause is big enough to bag you 'fabulous money'
we have a very-err, 'financially safe' chairman you know (trying so hard not to use the words 'tight-arse' lol)

Re: Alty Game / Ian Craney
 

Its well known that Alty have a 50% sell on clause on Craney, so if he goes for 100k we get 50k, I'd call that fabulous money.That was part of the reason you turned down a £50,000 offer from Rotherham for him.

Re: Alty Game / Ian Craney
 

haha..:p Can't quite make craney out there :rolleyes:

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i can make out all those empty seats behind him though....

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I dont think even non league super club accrington stanley would fill a 28,500 capacity stadium for a feeder league playoff final some how.Plus its customery to go for a drink at half time.

Re: Alty Game / Ian Craney
 

I dont reckon he will go in january as i think he is really enjoying it at stanley and i think he will at least do us the honour of playing for us to at least the end of the season....but unlike rory he needs to remember NO player is bigger than the club!

Also think stanley will wait for a very good offer...but like coley has always said he will never stand in any players career!

Re: Alty Game / Ian Craney
 

any stanley fans know if this is true?

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all i know is that they have got a large sell on fee on him but dont know if 50% is right?

Re: Alty Game / Ian Craney
 

Why so preoccupied with money? Who cares? He's an Accy player & if both clubs make cash from the deal if he goes then who cares apart from our Accountant!!!!

He's enjoying his time at Accy, we are treating him well & he is playing fantastic!

Don't think he will go in January but he probably will go eventually if we don't go up but come close

Welcome to the board Alty fans, have a good trip Saturday but hope you get a good royal shoe-ing!

Also, how come you know so much about our club, Rob's the Chief Executive lads so he'll know if you are telling porkies:p

& while we are posting pics of your biggest game in years, if you can beat the amount of colour we got on our terrace......

http://www.stanleyultras.co.uk/gfx/main.jpg
on a run of the mill Tuesday Night I may add, then I'll give you credit !!!!! I'll give you 20 years to beat it!

Jase
Stanley Ultras!

Re: Alty Game / Ian Craney
 

we need big money for Craney. Driving force in our midfield, 7 goals so far, now an England regular who has the benefit of 'captained England' on his CV.

Especially with the sell on clause involved, then £200k would be close to the mark. I would expect Eric to give him away for next to nowt though with a 75% sell on clause attached. Maybe we could swap for a roof, did Rotherham have a nice roof anybody?

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It didn't take long for the wasters from Alty to get a thread started about how they loved Craney so much, well guess what, he doesn't play for you anymore and if we sell him and you get a bit of money out of it then it will help you get out of the conference north next year.

Re: Alty Game / Ian Craney
 

Why the angry post? I'd sooner be a waster from affluent Altrincham than a self grief wallowing plastic scouser.There was no need for you to take that sort of stance, no wonder no one likes you.

Growing Up?
 

I asked a very straight question at the start of this thread about Saturdays game and Ian Craney and all you get is drivel such as :

Ian Craney is a red is a red
Ian Craney is a red
He Hates Alty

Or

wasters from Alty etc etc

Can I ask why?

Re: Growing Up?
 

It's called a sense of humour mate - and I can't see Ian singing his heart out on that photo, just having a brew and a natter as far as I can see :)

Re: Alty Game / Ian Craney
 

Well, to answer your question, no, I don't think he will go before the end of the season, especially considering that Coley has already knocked back Crewe and Rotheram enquires

Re: Alty Game / Ian Craney
 

There's been all different kinds of responses, its our forum, we can say what we like pleasant or unpleasant! You'll find we will have forgotten about Alty as soon as the 3 points are bagged & the goals for tally has been improved

On Stanley On

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I'll start with Bell End.

Re: Growing Up?
 

its called banter you ejit - its a football forum with football fans - IT HAPPENS!!

this is the way it goes; you make a point, i take the michael out of you, you take the michael out of me, we have a laugh and a joke then we beat you and you go back to your own forum with your tail between your legs :D
up the stanley

Sell on clause
 

At a recent Altrincham fans' forum, the manager Graham Heathcote explained that there is indeed a 50% sell on clause written into the Ian Craney transfer deal. He knows because he wrote it in. Eric Whalley turned down the Rotherham money because "half it it would go to Altrincham".

Re: Alty Game / Ian Craney
 

Good on Eric..

Jimbo T :horn8:blower

Re: Alty Game / Ian Craney
 

Ian is a classic example of how the influx of foreign players is restricting the development of homegrown talent. I'm sure fifteen years ago he would have been on the books of a top flight team by now.

Re: Alty Game / Ian Craney
 

when he was 5?

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players in potties....its the future!!

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Like that advert, where the babie scores with his bottom?

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A couple of our more quick-witted correspondents have picked up on this one (thanks for the laugh, lads) , but you make a very significant point.

I share your concern, Resting Collier, that our own backyard is being neglected. I believe that it's all to do with the dying art of scouting.

My old friend Eric Harrison has spent half a lifetime getting up early and watching hundreds of juvenile geniuses (according to their dads !) and using his diplomacy to reject 99.8 percent of them whilst finding that one absolute diamond . . . and Eric's found several of these gems for Man U in his many years of devotion to the art of football.
Where are the new Erics ? Too much like hard work , isn't it ? Much easier to take on hundreds of new players for peanuts and toss most of them aside.
Cynical, moi ?