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30 points will represent an achievement from this position.
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And the nice thing is he omitted a date that it would happen so get ready for ‘a land of milk and honey’
No doubt fuelled by endless promises of ‘jam tomorrow’!
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I love all these memories, especially as I just missed going to the OSG. It shows how important a ground in the town centre is for clubs.
By the time I started going in the mid-90s, I would take the bus into town and then either walk down to GP or get the High Leys Road bus down to Moors Road. Living in a village, it would also be my only trip into town during the week, so I’d often get an early bus into Scunny and try to ensure I had enough coins left to buy a single from Woolworths on my walk up the High Street. When I got a bit older, I would try (usually unsuccessfully) to get a pint in town.
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You’d have to ask them for the details but I know there’s a lot more of a buzz about Blundell Park this season, just look at their attendances for starters.
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Swann has always talked a good game, that cannot be argued. I’d prefer to see some actions.
Cause for a sliver of optimism as the Chairman bends over backwards to get us back into the league next year?
Out of interest, what would that look like to you? Because obviously “big spending” isn’t the answer, given a) we’ve tried that before and b) there are some other pretty big spending clubs in the Conference already.
So what can we do? Well, make better use of what we have, that’s for certain. Over-achieving against your budget is possible with the right plans and the right minds, as we’re seeing this season with teams like Exeter or Sutton. Accrington & Morecambe could both be two division above us next season and neither gets much bigger crowds than what we’re getting this season.
Then there are all the off the field aspects which help to get fans excited, we could do a lot worse than look at our fishy friends down the M180 for some ideas there.
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I’d be very surprised indeed with his track record if any other football club in the land would want him anywhere near or business come to that.
Sadly that’s not how it works is it? You don’t get to control who owns your club thanks to the complete lack of any meaningful regulation in the Football League. That’s how so many owners have gone through multiple clubs in their time.
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I always think it’s strange the way Sam Winnall gets forgotten about – he had a brilliant season and yet still got disrupted when we signed Madden, who we didn’t actually need at that time.
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I agree but I think Barrie T was referring to a tackle by their right back at the end of the first half which was pretty borderline when it comes to a red.
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Depends how you define it.
This season, we’ve scored 23 in 33 games, 0.69 goals/game
Last season, 41 in 46, 0.89 gpg
In truncated 19/20 season, 44 in 37 games, 1.19 gpg
18/19 relegation season, 53 in 46, 1.15 gpg
17/18 play-offs, 65 in 46 (only 28 at home though), 1.41 gpg
16/17 play-offs, 80 in 46, 1.74 gpg
15/16 60 in 46 (again only 28 at home), 1.30 gpg
14/15 62 in 46 (only 25 at home), 1.35 gpg
13/14 promotion, 68 in 46, 1.48 gpgSo the last 3 seasons, arguably 4, have been pretty dire by historical standards.
What is interesting is that when we scoring more goals, in most seasons we scored more away from home than at home, I wonder if that’s contributed to the general decline in crowds & interest.
This season, we’re on course to score 32 goals, an absolutely miserable total.
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How come their player didn’t walk after his two footed lunge in front of us Mick ?? How many booked for them ?? UTWI
I thought that was borderline – quite low and Thompson got up quickly which maybe helped. I don’t think they could have complained if it had been a red though.
Northampton definitely one of the dirtier sides I’ve seen this season, so many fouls, they deserved all their bookings.
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I thought we look a bit better with Bunn in the side and would like to see him as first-choice forward alongside on the others. But we still won’t do much until we get some sort of structure to our play. Even if that’s just hoofball, it’s still a plan!
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The fact that last night was considered a good performance and an improvement tells you everything about how far we’ve fallen. We were rubbish, never looked like scoring and had to rely on the crossbar and two crucial Millen blocks to save us a point.
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The iron should be a big club in the NFL and will be if Keith stays. You only have to hear the passion in his interviews,I think he sees SUFC as a project a work in process.
I admire your enthusiasm, despite all evidence to the contrary.
I think Tom Newey hit the nail on the head on Saturday, “we need to rebuild from below”
Easy for Newey to say, presumably he still gets paid to turn up whichever league we’re in, whereas ordinary fans have to pay to watch this excitement. We don’t want to go down, even if we all know it’s definitely going to happen, but it doesn’t mean we have to be happy about it.
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but there’s good reasons why fans are not allowed on the pitch, period, and I’d rather not see a return to the 80s fences or before that hordes of malicious opposition fans surrounding us and occasionally kicking a few innocent heads in. For every Hereford you’ve got a Luton v Millwall and it’s impossible to know who’s on the pitch with good intentions and who bad (don’t think you’ve got time to conduct a survey of them before they scale the wall). If everyone stays off the pitch, it’s better for everyone and less chance of an escalation and ugly scenes.
I certainly see where you’re coming from but at the same time I don’t see why such a hard & fast line needs to be drawn: if you are violent or whatever, you deserve what you get. If you go on the pitch briefly in celebration, where’s the harm?
When I was younger, I remember running on the pitch at the end of test matches, it was brilliant. But the authorities frowned on it and now there are massive fines for pitch encroachment, which I think is a real shame because as a young kid I found it so exciting to get the chance to go on the outfield at the end of the match and watch the presentation.
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Quite enjoyed the ” clutching pearls ” comment from Ferrite DM, did it not make you think to check your handbag before tonight’s game, I will be checking mine for sure />
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