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Post by sword65 on Nov 22, 2019 19:44:19 GMT
Is Abingdon really that dull of a town for you to get that bored ? I was at work. It's a thing where you sit in an office and... oh never mind. Jerome K Jerome comments in Three Men In A Boat on how dull Abingdon is... Really? Well he would know having such an unimaginative name.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2019 19:54:06 GMT
I was at work. It's a thing where you sit in an office and... oh never mind. Jerome K Jerome comments in Three Men In A Boat on how dull Abingdon is... Really? Well he would know having such an unimaginative name. Tell that to William Williams...
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Post by sword65 on Nov 22, 2019 19:55:35 GMT
Really? Well he would know having such an unimaginative name. Tell that to William Williams... No thanks I have had my nose cracked once that is enough🙂
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Post by jdl on Nov 22, 2019 20:59:39 GMT
Over a cuppa, I've compared teams' league positions and attendance rankings in the Nat and Nat South... So their league position, attendance ranking, difference between the two. CLUB LGE ATT DIFF Barrow 1 15 14 Bromley 2 10 8 Solihull Moors 3 14 11 FC Halifax Town 4 9 5 Yeovil Town 5 6 1 Torquay United 6 7 1 Harrogate Town 7 22 15 Woking 8 8 0 Notts County 9 1 8 Dover Athletic 10 21 11 Stockport County 11 3 8 Dagenham & Redbridge 12 17 5 Boreham Wood 13 24 11 Hartlepool United 14 5 9 Barnet 15 19 4 Eastleigh 16 11 5 Maidenhead United 17 20 3 Chesterfield 18 4 14 Aldershot Town 19 12 7 AFC Fylde 20 18 2 Sutton United 21 13 8 Wrexham 22 2 20 Ebbsfleet United 23 23 0 Chorley 24 16 8 Average difference 7.42 Wealdstone 1 7 6 Slough Town 2 10 8 Havant & Waterlooville 3 3 0 Weymouth 4 4 0 Bath City 5 6 1 Hemel Hempstead Town 6 15 9 Dorking Wanderers 7 11 4 Braintree Town 8 19 11 Maidstone United 9 2 7 Billericay Town 10 9 1 Hampton & Richmond Borough 11 16 5 Chelmsford City 12 8 4 Concord Rangers 13 20 7 Dartford 14 5 9 Welling United 15 17 2 Oxford City 16 22 6 Chippenham Town 17 13 4 Eastbourne Borough 18 18 0 Dulwich Hamlet 19 1 18 Tonbridge Angels 20 12 8 Hungerford Town 21 21 0 St Albans City 22 14 8 Average difference 5.36 I've done this partly because I'm bored, and partly because JDL and others equate big attendances with league success in a "say it often enough and people will think it's true" kind of way (ignoring Bournemouth, Wycombe, Portsmouth, Accrington, West Ham, Tottenham and others who prove that it isn't)... See you next week [or the week after...] at Oxford City... Others may equate big attendances with league success in a "say it often enough and people will think it's true" kind of way, but JDL doesn't. In fact I have produced almost exactly the same tables in the past to prove just the opposite. My interest in attendance figures is at least partly due to the fact that attendance is NOT a predictor of league success! But carry on...
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Post by Benny on Nov 22, 2019 21:03:29 GMT
Just look at you know who. Couldn't win a game to save their lives, but bursting at the seams.
Even Bromley had a full house the other day for a cup game.
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Post by jdl on Nov 22, 2019 21:23:17 GMT
And, taking of attendance figures...
Analysing them this season is even more frustrating than usual because we've played so few home league games recently. When we play Chippenham on 10/12, it will be the first home league game since Billericay on 26/10 - over 6 weeks ago. And our next Saturday home league game will be eight weeks after the last one. How do you derive any pattern from gates two months apart?!
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Post by jdl on Nov 22, 2019 21:24:46 GMT
Just look at you know who. Couldn't win a game to save their lives, but bursting at the seams. Even Bromley had a full house the other day for a cup game. I thought 'you know who' was JS1!
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Post by sword65 on Nov 22, 2019 21:39:24 GMT
And, taking of attendance figures... Analysing them this season is even more frustrating than usual because we've played so few home league games recently. When we play Chippenham on 10/12, it will be the first home league game since Billericay on 26/10 - over 6 weeks ago. And our next Saturday home league game will be eight weeks after the last one. How do you derive any pattern from gates two months apart?! I know JDL it's enough to drive a man to drink but be careful it's illegal to drink and derive
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Post by sword65 on Nov 29, 2019 3:12:02 GMT
I've been a bit bored recently and so I have been looking at some old games I have been too. Whitley Bay v Accrington Stanley (now EFL2) att 109 , 8 away fans in a minibus Fleetwood Town (now EFL 1 or 2?) V Whitley Bay att 76 Seaham Red Star v Jarrow roofing and Boldon colliery welfare att 11 for a 3-5 thriller Morpeth Town v Team Northumbria att 6 for Northumberland senior cup game Bodmin Town v St Austell att 4 + 2 German shepherd dogs When our attendances get like this it maybe time to worry
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Post by Better things to do in life on Nov 29, 2019 11:14:50 GMT
Does the club have a grassroots scheme with local junior sides? Leeds (obviously much bigger) put up a block of 945 seats for every home game which are issued to a few kids football clubs. Not an income generator in itself, but a neat way of growing the next generation of (paying) supporters. Excellent idea. Over to you, Mr Ash!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2019 11:48:52 GMT
I've been a bit bored recently and so I have been looking at some old games I have been too. Whitley Bay v Accrington Stanley (now EFL2) att 109 , 8 away fans in a minibus Fleetwood Town (now EFL 1 or 2?) V Whitley Bay att 76 Seaham Red Star v Jarrow roofing and Boldon colliery welfare att 11 for a 3-5 thriller Morpeth Town v Team Northumbria att 6 for Northumberland senior cup game Bodmin Town v St Austell att 4 + 2 German shepherd dogs When our attendances get like this it maybe time to worry Is Tonbridge really that dull of a town for you to get that bored ?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2019 12:27:50 GMT
Just look at you know who. Couldn't win a game to save their lives, but bursting at the seams. Even Bromley had a full house the other day for a cup game. It's a statistic that is a sad reflection of where their club REALLY are. People go round and round in circles arguing about where they're at but it always bottoms out with one thing - they have a small fan base. Any club with a support that small will never 'go places' unless a rich benefactor throws money at it... permanently.
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Post by sword65 on Nov 29, 2019 13:10:31 GMT
I've been a bit bored recently and so I have been looking at some old games I have been too. Whitley Bay v Accrington Stanley (now EFL2) att 109 , 8 away fans in a minibus Fleetwood Town (now EFL 1 or 2?) V Whitley Bay att 76 Seaham Red Star v Jarrow roofing and Boldon colliery welfare att 11 for a 3-5 thriller Morpeth Town v Team Northumbria att 6 for Northumberland senior cup game Bodmin Town v St Austell att 4 + 2 German shepherd dogs When our attendances get like this it maybe time to worry Is Tonbridge really that dull of a town for you to get that bored ? It was 03.00 hrs not a lot happening apart from the noisy smackheads
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Post by Benny on Dec 10, 2019 20:21:19 GMT
With barely a dozen Chippenham fans in the away section, in a total of 1337, what on earth is the point of segregation?
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Post by rollingstone on Dec 10, 2019 21:09:03 GMT
With barely a dozen Chippenham fans in the away section, in a total of 1337, what on earth is the point of segregation? Ask a certain fan of worthing
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