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Rene Artois wrote:

Record Highest NLN Attendance
7,488
21 May 2022
York City v Boston United

Let’s mark our short stay in the NLN by setting a new highest attendance record.

Sat 13th April – we MUST sell every seat as it’s our last home game of the season and we can celebrate winning the league in front of a capacity New Show Ground.

Other potential games (to tie in with pay days) could be:

Sat 3rd Feb v Rushall Olympic
Sat 2nd March v Chester FC

Let’s celebrate the rebirth of Christ and our Club:

Fri 29th March (Good Friday) v Kings Lynn Town

Plenty of opportunities to leave our mark on the league.
Get the marketing heads on and let’s celebrate!

Nb
9-0 is the largest margin of victory in this league.

Highest Home Win
Chorley 9-0 Gloucester City
4th September 2021

Highest Away Win
Redditch United 0–9 Boston United
21st August 2010

We can do a decadance (sic) of joy if we thrash someone 10-0

Are you up for the challenge Jimbob and your merry men?

An Iron for life – Life is Iron!

All red blooded creatures contain Iron.
We are all Iron!
Iron is the most common ‘heavy’ element on the planet.

Pack the park – let’s smash it!

So, they choose the Chester game on 2nd March.

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Will the Swanster have any runners?
lol.

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Fingers crossed it’s not tonight.

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New or Roast Potatoes?
He’s dogged, you’ve got to give him that.

Football Clubs are generally rich people’s play things.
No one gets rich owning a football club.
Football clubs don’t make money.

Community clubs are exactly that, only of interest to a limited number of people.
A small pool of potential customers means that sponsorship will most likely only come from smaller local independent businesses – it’s a low ceiling.

The easiest way to redistribute wealth through the leagues is to rehash the amount of clubs relegated and promoted each season.
I’ve said that before in another thread.

4 automatically relegated from PL.
3 & PO Winners promoted to PL.

5 automatically relegated from Championship.
4 & PO Winners promoted from L1

5 automatically relegated from L1
4 & PO Winners promoted from L2

NL becomes EFL L3

5 automatically relegated from L2
4 & PO Winners promoted from L3

5 automatically relegated from L3
4 & PO Winners promoted from NL

6 automatically relegated from NL
2 & PO Winners promoted from NLN
2 & PO Winners promoted from NLS

You can’t hope to survive on whip rounds & begging bowls.

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Northumbiron wrote:

Wrexham and Notts promoted from the NL last season are more than holding their own in EFL L2.

The NL is stronger then many people think. Arguably stronger than L2!

I’ve being saying for many years that it should be EFL L3 with four down to (new) NL / four up from (new) NL

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Match odds:

Darlo: 4/1
Draw: 9/2
Scunny: 14/5

Correct score:

0-1… 5/1
1-1… 11/2
0-2… 6/1
1-2… 7/1
0-0… 17/2

Bookies seem to think a 0-1 or a 0-2 to us. Happy days!

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4 goals from last 10 games.
1 goal from last 6.

1 win at home all season.

Joint bottom of the home league table with 10 pts.

The most frequent score at home for them is 1-1 (4 times)

1-1 (4 times)
1-2 (thrice)
0-0 (twice)
0-1 (twice)
2-2 (once)
0-2 (once)
3-1 (once)
1-3 (once)
3-2 (once)

They’ve lost 3 on the bounce at home without scoring and have lost the last 2 home games 0-1.

So…

Head: Darlo 0-1 Scunny
Heart: 0-0
Gut: 3-0

The gut feeling is because they’ve only won once at home this season, haven’t won by 3-0 yet and haven’t scored at home for 3 games. It’s one of those weird things that you can’t predict and you end up saying “I didn’t see that coming!”

A wet & windy night in Darlo. It’ll be a tough watch.

Hopefully we will secure the three points that we so desperately need!

Fingers crossed that Boston can grab a point at Tamworth.

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lesgeo wrote:

I am quite old; struggle to drive at night; can’t cope with cold weather because my Warfarin makes me feel like a block of ice when temperatures are in single figures – and what cold does to my arthritic body is a horror story.
I don’t usually complain.
But, I am Iron to the core and miss far, far too many matches.
Vanarama televised matches keep me in touch.
Incidentally, in my younger days I watched the Iron on 120 different grounds. I reckon that I’ve earned the right to watch as many televised games as is humanly possible.
There are many more from my generation just like me.

Hear, hear.

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And if we don’t go up… crowds will be smaller… income will be lower… ouch… we could run aground and be stuck in NLN for a while?

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Looks as if he’s digging himself a hole?

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Thought that he’d previously said that he was invited to a meeting at the Round Table for discussions.
Either he’s jumped the gun or hasn’t listened?

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Dark horse coming up the inside rail.

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Yeovil are now 13 points clear and have a game in hand.

Average attendance: 3,719
Highest attendance: 6,301 v Taunton on Boxing Day.
They’ve had 6,000 plus twice this season so far.

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Rene Artois wrote:

Earlier today, Real Madrid were 0-2 down at half time to bottom of the league Almeria, who haven’t won a game all season.

Real Madrid scored in the 90 +9 minute to win the game 3-2

Girona are 4-1 up against Savilla after 56 mins.

It seems Almeria were ‘robbed’ by VAR?

Girona won 5-1 and are a point in front of Real Madrid at the summit of La Liga, though Madrid now have a game in hand.

VAR Robbery?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68047660

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Earlier today, Real Madrid were 0-2 down at half time to bottom of the league Almeria, who haven’t won a game all season.

Real Madrid scored in the 90 +9 minute to win the game 3-2

Girona are 4-1 up against Savilla after 56 mins.

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Great stats!

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For your tenner, you can watch:
Monday – Chelmsford v Welling
Tuesday – 19 games available.
I wonder if you can watch say our game on one device, say ours; and a different game on a second device?
You wouldn’t think so but I’ll try it on Tuesday.

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Winterton, App Frod, Barton, Brigg, Bottesford and even Gainsborough & Goole are all away today.

Lincoln v Derby
Harrogate v Grimsby

No thanks to either of those.

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Today (Iron v Lambs off):

“There was a time when there was nothing at all
Nothing at all, just a distant hum”

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£15 to stand in the open.
£5 to park the car.
£3 program.
Burger & chips £7
Petrol £30
A couple of pre match pints £10

Total = £70

NLTV = £10

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Rene Artois wrote:

I watched this a few days ago!

Maybe our cold is the wrong kind of cold?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/67982205

The wind chill factor produced a minus 34.5 degrees Celsius environment for the Chiefs and Dolphins to play in last Saturday.

10 people were hospitalised with frostbite or / and hypothermia during the Kansas Chiefs v Miami Dolphins NFL playoff game last weekend.

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Manure.
Generates heat.

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I watched this a few days ago!

Maybe our cold is the wrong kind of cold?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/67982205

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Tent the affected area and use industrial LPG heaters/blowers on the morning of the match?

Or, ask us all to donate our electric blankets and lay them down?

Narrow the pitch a metre cutting out the ‘frozen’ area?

Or, fit those ice grip devices that you see in SAGA type sales catalogues to the players boots and don them in head guards.

Or, settle the game on the PlayStation or Xbox… lol.

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Is pushing fixtures of this ilk back 24 hours akin to reordering jupiters moons?

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Deereyme66 wrote:

Oh, it’s definitely off. That should ramp up the conspiracy theorists to max

NO!

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BarnardFoxtonBarker.. wrote:

On Tamworth site game is off.

https://www.tamworthfc.co.uk/tfc-news/20240119-scunthorpe-game-off

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That will have ruined a lot of people’s weekends.
Gutted that it’s off.
A big financial hit for the club.
Who was the L3 ref who made the decision?

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cassidystash wrote:

Rearranged game on a Tuesday night won’t attract an equivalent crowd. Tamworth won’t bring 500+ and the match will be streamed.

Absolutely. A Tuesday night game would probably see a 1,000 less through the Turnstiles.

Any news yet?

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Play.
What time is the PI?

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