So they drop 2 divisions and lose 25%. Let's do the maths next season and see if their support holds worse than ours in relative terms.
5 k was a good turnout back when. Pre haynstock and pre Pearson. Anyone else's shoehorned in the away end that night against bratfud? I'm sure I remember some crowds under 3.k when things were really ****ed.
I was match ball sponsor for one of the auto windscreen trophy games when the crowd was under 1,000 and Martin Fish told me that night that he didn't want supporters like me there because I said something he didn't agree with. This was in the sponsors bar under the Best Stand after the game and 95% of the people in there were guests of mine. If we hadn't of bothered turning up there would have been less then ten people there, yet Fish didn't want our sort, spending money and supporting the club.
That's what you get when your owners hold supporters in contempt. We came back from that and we'll come back again. I'm not about to start romanticising it though. It was mostly ****ing ****e.
My fond memories of Boothferry Park were the packed terraces during the 1965/66 season, being part of a 40,000 plus crowd v Millwall over Christmas 65, the biggest crowd in the country on the day and for a third division game with no away fans. Being proud of the club and our ground with the best floodlights in Europe, our huge home crowds and us breaking attendance records playing away. We all dreamt of reaching Division 1 and got nowhere near it.
Whilst I don't wanna go back there, I do sometimes miss that combined smell of piss, pies, **** coffee and *** smoke on a freezing terrace in January....
I'm getting a bit bored of the whole "When I first started going, there was Pterodactyl's flying over the West Stand. If a kid aged 5 has been going for six weeks, is that kid not a fan? Every inch as much a fan as us?
Of course theyre every bit a fan, and whilst I'm happy to reminisce, I'll never get my dick out and try to call out newer fans, and I don't get the whole 'it was better then ****e'. It mostly wasn't. They'll get their chance when we've shuffled off to the great kop in the sky though, so give us old ****s a break too.
I don't think any of that was intended that way but you obviously took it as such for some obscure reason? Nobody is saying anyone is a bigger fan than anyone else,it's reminiscing?
Do you think getting hit by pteradactlyl **** every day in training was how Billy's head got so hard? .... Or was it the coal he used to eat for breakfast?
We got there in the end Wonder if that 5 year old kid will, in fifty years time, still be every an inch a fan as us? Sat along the row from me at one of our Wembley games (sorry, I don't know whether to laugh or cry, fookin one of) was a family of four. I wonder what those kids think right here and now. Probably like being told there isn't a Father Christmas. All the magic gone.
You need to check out that ginger kid on YouTube. Then you'll know there are enough mugs coming through just as masochistic and afflicted as us. Search grandpa Joe. The next gen is alive and well haha! That kid wuz me once (except the ginger....)
What a bizarre argument. You're right we should just sell off all our first team and bring in a bunch of non leaguers and pay them pennies and hey, we'll be fine! Since Bowen definitely just popped straight into our team from the non-league system and didn't take multiple years in our U23s to develop.
Gotta give the young players a platform to start from. Can't expect them to do it all without being shown how.
100% and I think it's criminal that KLP has had so little game time, but it's wild to suggest that because we had a success with Bowen it's fine to look at all non-league signings as good first team signings that don't point to asset stripping.
I don't get your point about non league signings cos we've only signed 1 for the future so far, but agreed that klp needs to start, preferably up front with a big lad next to him. Oh and play wingers not wide forwards. Keep 2 strikers in touch with each other. Keep 2 'wingers' (shock horror) in touch with their fullbacks and keep 2 banks of four in a line and able to squeeze out an attack. Keep in the game for 75 minutes and then go and get a point or 3. Guess what? Won't happen. But at least you've redefined Barnsley as non league, cos our last signing was from them. Guess that means we jump a place in the table?
