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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2014 9:58:08 GMT
My suspicion is it's all about health and safety and the fact that we're now in a nanny state. If our ground was built 20+ years ago it would easily be a 3k capacity.
How many turnstiles does CH have? Only a couple that I know of
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Post by tim on Sept 8, 2014 11:12:10 GMT
It has turnstiles that Big Mick cant get through!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 8, 2014 11:40:25 GMT
If you let 3000 in, a fairly large percentage would not be able to see most of the pitch. The ground was designed with 800 attendances in mind, and many (including myself) argued we should just build anything to get home. It is good the club spent more on quality, and are making long term plans to improve this even further. The days of making a pile of soil and plonking concrete on top disappeared decades ago. People paying money expect to see the game.
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Post by pmh on Sept 8, 2014 16:39:21 GMT
i Wonder if they would do it again..From what ive read most of the regular fans still paid the proper price.
They will know the total match day takings from this match ,compared to the normal 600-700 gates.
i wonder if they increased catering outlets or had an outside bar,or had the club shop well stocked to cope with extra fans,to take revenue in other ways.
Im not sure if they were bothered about it financially it was more to let London know they are going well,its non league day please come and see what you think.
I bet a lot more clubs will try this next time around
Not sure if its a love in, we have with those lovely chaps in pink,more a mutual respect we have had massive games especially RS1,a championship depended on it,we had very big crowds in all the games with no silliness from fans or bitching on forums.
As said they couldn't understand the fuss about not accepting 3G,and were our main football rival at the time .No bitterness or petty jealous comments that we used to get mainly from Kent clubs.I like lots of stones like the brand of attacking football they always play,and an admiration of local footballers that they develop.
Ive heard it said for a few seasons now ,if its not us i hope its you,or i hope we go up together.
If we do part ways i hope we have a PSF with them on a regular basis.
Dover fans have always been brilliant with us ,and im also Liking Tunbridge wells fans who turned up for our annual PSF with more than most will do for a league game
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Post by jdl on Sept 8, 2014 17:59:11 GMT
Lot more space around the pitch. The covered terrace opposite the main stand, for instance is bigger (or at least deeper) than both our goal-end ones. I would guess their capacity is at least 3,000 - probably more, but maybe limited (like ours) because of elf and safety.
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Post by jdl on Sept 8, 2014 18:21:24 GMT
Anyone ever go to a game at their old ground? It was incredible - a huge bowl of terracing, like nothing I've ever seen at NL level. It was mostly wood and cinders, from memory, but still bloody impressive, and they had Palace's old lights, so it looked like a 'proper' ground, with 'proper' lights. They had well over 20,000 there a few times in the old days - imagine that for a 'non-league' game....
Back in the old Conference days, we were dreaming of Football League, and they were languishing (so it seemed to us)in the Isthmian something-or-other (which I don't think was even a feeder to the Conference in those days). We drew them in one of the cups, it was a local game and a ground I've never been to, so I went along. It was a midweek game, so we got there in the dark, and a bit early. We were milling about just inside the gates, not able to see much, when suddenly the lights came on.
We found ourselves at the top of what seemed like a huge bank of terracing, which I had had no idea was there just seconds before (if I'd have walked forward a few steps, I'd have gone arse over tit down to the pitch - in the dark!). I've been to dozens of League grounds, most much bigger than DH's old ground (although not all!), but none have made the initial impression that ground did.
Very, very sad that it no longer exists.
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Post by pinkpanther on Sept 9, 2014 12:14:17 GMT
Lot more space around the pitch. The covered terrace opposite the main stand, for instance is bigger (or at least deeper) than both our goal-end ones. I would guess their capacity is at least 3,000 - probably more, but maybe limited (like ours) because of elf and safety. I think ground capacity is fixed by the local council, so for a start Stones & Hamlet's capacities aren't going to be set by the same authority, and as someone mentioned earlier Hamlet's was set twenty years earlier than yours and people tend to become ever more cautious about these sort of things over the course of time. The true attendeance figure for Hamlet v Hampton was around 400 more than the official figure, but the club revised the figure downwards to avoid drawing attention to the fact that the official capacity was exceeded by around 250. I hasten to add that I saw nothing resmebling a safety hazard, there was plenty of flat open space within the ground for people to move and circulate, the only issue is that the limited terracing means a lot of people wouldn't have had a great view. But as it was "pay what you want" rather than charging everyone a tenner anyone cheesed off by the restricted view could simply not stick any cash in the collection buckets. Several Premier League clubs plugged the game on their websites, with Palace giving it particularly extensive coverage, and it was one of four matches nominated by the Kick Racism Out of Football campaign so they helped promote it too. Throw in the fact that we're closer to Central London than any other non-league club of note, right next t a train station, ten minutes walk from another on a different line, each of which is only a ten minute journey from Central London terminii, and many bus routes pass or stop close to the ground, and Champion Hill is ideally placed to pull in a big crowd from all points of the compass for a one-off occasion. The atmosphere felt a bit muted, with a large proportion of the crowd being 'spectaors' more than 'supporters', but hopefully some of them will like what they saw and come back. This is what it looked like: www.brixtonbuzz.com/2014/09/record-breaking-crowd-of-2856-at-dulwich-hamlet-witness-exciting-2-2-draw-with-hampton-richmond-borough/footballexclusives.com/video/dulwich-hamlet-2-2-hampton-richmond-borough-match-highlights-with-commentary/
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2014 12:25:27 GMT
The atmosphere felt a bit muted, with a large proportion of the crowd being 'spectaors' more than 'supporters' This sounds somewhat familiar
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