NATIONAL LEAGUE NORTH PLAY-OFF WINNERS 2019-20

By CHRIS DUNLAVY
NEITHER Shaun Densmore nor Jake Moult can fully explain why Altrincham hit rock bottom in the spring of 2017.
Relegated from the National League 12 months earlier, the Robins had shot through National League North like a dose of prune juice.
Altrincham had played in the NPL before, of course. Yet never at Step 3. This, by common consensus, was the pits. The lowest ebb in the club’s 125-year history.
“Those two seasons were awful,” says Moult. “We tried. We fought. But it just felt like we were sinking an...