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Alloa Athletic were founded in 1878 as Clackmannan County but changed to Alloa in 1879,play at Recreation park although its been named as Indodrill Stadium since 2014 due to new sponsorship with a capacity of 3,100.Nicknamed the Wasps due to the orange and black stripes. 

ALO has had 6 previous managers
Rob Lye Seasons 30 to 48
Paul Roseblade: 2nd half of Season 22 to 29
Navid Samadpour: 1st half of Season 22
Paul Butterworth: Season 11 to 21
unknown manager: Season 9 to 10
Martin Van de Bosch: Season 1 to 8

​Season 62

We managed to stay up quite comfortably though it did get a bit hairy at time. Similar relative T11 and T17 to last season so it looks like being another average season. The best players are getting a bit old now and this will need sorting soon but at the minute I don't have the enthusiasm for these games. That will return as it always does.

Season 61

And we're back in Division One. The end of the season was a bit of a damp squib after a promising start that looked like we'd be champions but I needed a new GK and he came late in the season. Hopefully we can stay up, which shouldn't reallty be a problem. My main wish is to be treted fairly by the refs who always seem to hit us hard even though I never play aggressive.

As I type we are equal 5th in T11 and 11th in T17 but I don't know when Mark takes the start of season T17 for over-achievers. We were probably 10th before East Fife's big transfer, but I'm not sure Bosmans will have that much of an effect.

Season 60

Wow, what a season. After a slow start we just kept winning. The side was set up nicely to compete in nearly every game even with 3rd WG and 3rd FW playing. A couple of thrown Cup games helped the League campaign once promotion looked a possibility.  1000k in bonuses helped the finances: Donnelly walking away with the Silver Boot being the highlight.

For season 60 we are around 3rd in T11, with plenty of CP, though T17 is back around mid-table.  Promotion? Well I didn't think we were strong enough last season but were fortunate with trades. I'm not sure that will happen this season.

Season 59

And we're back in Division Three but at least it's a record for the club as it was six seasons ago when we were last here. We're mid-table in T11 and T17 so this season won't be anything special but the team is hopefully shaping up for Early Cross. We have a couple of agreed trades, which will help the bank balance but not the team strength. Technically just a holding season as we coach up players for season 60. Cup runs will be a bonus.

Season 58

Not a good season just finished, as we fall back to Division Two. One problem was not having an out and out striker, something I hope to have addressed for next season if not this. We're still low in T11 (13th) and T17 (12th) so have a fight on our hands again. The past few seasons I've spent all my cash on pre-season CP but decided to go back to my old tactic of buying just the 35 to give some flexibilty in the auctions. I'm undecided whether to carry on with ball control as the midfield is getting a bit old.

​Season 57

Well we made it, surviving in Division One for the first time ever. We are no longer the team with the worst Division One record (East Stirlingshire for one have just two seasons here). Cecil Cup was the same as the previous season with 3 rounds, but the SESL Cup was our best for 6 seasons reaching the last 8 - and this time we tried to win. We've improved on last season starting 10th in T11 (4 of the 5 promoted teams are higher) and 14th in T17.  I don't think we're as rich as last season but it's now time to build the team properly but try and stay around mid-table. Ball Control served us well last season and with only an age 5 up front I wouldn't be surprised to see more of the same.

Season 56

Wow, what a season that was. After a very ordinary start we fought our way up to around 7th place for most of the last two-thirds of the season. It wasn't until the very last game that we managed to get into 4th place, a result that gave us the over-achievers and  manager of the season awards. The Accounts went pretty OK - we start this season with about 1200k more than last, but this is partly down to selling 10 TP for 800k, rather than using them on an apprentice costing an extra 300k. We did buy Jerry Armstrong for 600k but he secured promotion for us. Although we start much richer 1000k is going to be spent on a Bosman from Deveronvale. We start 12th= in T11 (pre-Bosman signings)  and last in T17 so it's going to be a struggle to do what Alloa have never done: stay in Division One for more than one season.

Season 49

New Manager and I hope to turn around Alloa's SESL performance. Alloa have been in division 3 for 18 of the last 19 seasons and only made it to division 1 once, only to be relegated immediately. In the Cups they've had some success of late, quarter final of the Cecil in season  45 and also the quarter final of the SESL Cup in season 46, We start the season 11th=  in T11 and  14th in T17 but a decent amount of cash compared to some others. I have some difficult decisions to make: the age 1 are fine, as is keeper, Parry, at 2/23 but the other age 2 are never going to be stars. I might spend half my CP on OTF.

Season 62: Fouteenth season as manager of Alloa after 16 seasons at Deveronvale. I maybm quit at 17.

Married to Elaine for 11 years  (our anniversary was on June 13th with a 20 year old (step) daughter and Jacob who is 19. I'm 67, due to have retired by now, and am ready - the boss says he's packing up in April so I'm hanging on for my redundancy. Apart from work and family, I spend my spare time mostly on the phone playing these games and every now and then try to find more on my ancestors. Just lately I've been enjoying tinkering around with the software changing some stuff on the sites, which I'm trying to expand to the Java code.

Other gaming is now back to Ingress -and Fortnite again as I have finally got my PS5 fixed. Jacob continues to surprise me with how clever he is, especially at Maths. And when he downloads a new game he just seems to know how to play without looking at instructioins. We found out that Jacob's red hair and blue eyes is supposed to be the rarest combination in the world  His mum is the same, of course, and I must be recessive for both, which is a 25% chance itself that I'm passed both on to him. Both my grandmothers were redheads and my dad had sandy coloured hair when young (but brown as an adult) but there's no blue eyes in my parents nor siblings. And yes Jacob is further rare for a redhead in that he tans easily.

The holiday in Netherlands was great despite the women getting stressed over wasps. Before Efteling we stopped at Beekse Bergen, a safari park, and fell in love with it. So much that we're going back this year for a week. Jacob surprised us all the other day: he flatly refuses to fly and when his mum said it would be quicker to fly than drive he said, "I'm not going on a plane until we go to Disney." So in 2028 that's where we hope to go.

I live in a little known town called Ilkeston (the 3rd/4th biggest town/city in Derbyshire). The Borough of Ilkeston was swallowed up into the larger Borough of Erewash where I've lived all but the first few months of my life. Erewash itself is a pretty nice place with lots of green space. I'd known for a long time that my mum's mum's maiden name was Disney and eventually, with somebody else starting me off, found a lot of my ancestors going back to my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather Samuel Disney who was born in the 17th Century. One day I will visit Norton Disney where it all began.

I've managed several teams in the past: Beleriand in PSFA, Inverness and Deveronvale previously in SESL, Nottingham Forest in SaSo, Asteria Kromatos in MSWL and New England/Fall River in OASL where I'm back again with Dave Dowson's old teams, Beleriand previously in SFLSL and A.C Sapone now,. I have a couple of teams in Al Sellers' United leagues (Ilkeston and Forest) . I am also in his and Max's Volleyball league which I'm loving. And more recently the United World Cup 2026