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Post by niels on Aug 21, 2012 21:03:18 GMT
Boston 6 Histon 0 Brackley 5 Hinckley 0 Halifax 0 Colwyn Bay 1 Gloucester 0 Oxford City 1 Guiseley 7 Droylsden 1 Harrogate 1 Altrincham 2 Solihull Moors 3 Corby 0 Stalybridge 1 Gainsborough 1 Vauxhall Motors 1 Bradford PA 3
City down to 6th with Chester v Workington to come tomorrow.
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Post by Tim Munslow on Aug 22, 2012 9:35:02 GMT
That's an excellent start by newcomers Brackley: nine goals in their first two games!
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Post by niels on Aug 22, 2012 21:17:24 GMT
Wednesday's result.
Chester 1 Workington 0
City in 7th after 2 games.
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Post by nuffinbettatwodo on Aug 23, 2012 9:17:21 GMT
Wednesday's result. Chester 1 Workington 0 City in 7th after 2 games. WOW 3007 and turned up for this game Becuase it was the first game at this level they only charged us £7 to get in. The same price as it was 20 years ago when we last played at this level. What an atmosphere! I think City charging £12 stops a number of people coming It is that extra £2 that puts people off. Guarantee if the price was £10 they would get an extra 2 or 3 hundred in! Would make up for the extra £2 and the atmosphere would be electric! Chester holds only 50 more than SGL too
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2012 12:13:04 GMT
Guarantee??? I don't think it would make a blind bit of difference, and certainly not an extra 2 or 3 hundred. If you want to guarantee it, then let the board know, I'm sure they'll give it a try, and if it doesn't bring in equal gate money then you'd make up the difference?? Taking £2 off the admission price means you'd need at least an additional 150 to bring in the same gate money with a smaller crowd. Its a risk the club can't take, unless there is a guarantee
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Post by voiceofreason on Aug 23, 2012 13:44:06 GMT
We can guarantee it if we play Chester...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2012 19:20:58 GMT
or can they? say the crowd is expected to be 2000, with 1500 paying full admission.
1500 x £12 = £18,000 1500 x £10 = £15,000
So the number of additional fans needed to turn up on top of an already very large crowd would be 300 paying full whack. I'm not sure the difference in crowds would be that much, at least, it can't be guaranteed.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2012 21:08:46 GMT
Don't forget one of the crowd will be Boddy, so you'll need 301 paying full whack.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2012 8:02:00 GMT
Good point M'Lud!!! However, I'd excluded him from the initial calculation, I only included those paying full admission. So children and Boddy (its the same thing isn't it?) don't count!!
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Post by voiceofreason on Aug 24, 2012 9:44:29 GMT
300 could be a stretch. 150 extra from Chester is pretty much a given I reckon...
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Post by bj on Aug 24, 2012 15:24:40 GMT
Can somebody tell me why we still play our night matches on Monday when most other teams play on Tuesday? I believe in the past that it something to do with skittle nights. But an extra day of rest to get over traveling and injuries must be a benefit to the players. I realise it's too late for this season, and next season will depend on Kiddy (or whoever). This week our game clashed with Man U on Sky. I reckon that must have cost us somewhere between £500 and £2000 in receipts. If we were competing with Wigan vs. QPR that's another story.
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Post by niels on Aug 24, 2012 15:56:51 GMT
Tuesday and Wednesday will be champions league in a few weeks time while Mondays will be Wigan v QPR or whatever.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2012 16:17:45 GMT
I think City have an advantage over other teams playing on a Monday night. If City might be a bit tired after a Saturday game, then how about an opposition team who have played on a Saturday AND travelled down to Worcester for a Monday game? With Sky running the fixture lists for Premiership football, there will always be clashes on any night of the week. and as Niels points out, Champions League will take out Tuesdays and Wednesdays, so Monday looks a good option.
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Post by JohnInglisIsGod on Aug 24, 2012 17:26:23 GMT
I think City have an advantage over other teams playing on a Monday night. If City might be a bit tired after a Saturday game, then how about an opposition team who have played on a Saturday AND travelled down to Worcester for a Monday game? With Sky running the fixture lists for Premiership football, there will always be clashes on any night of the week. and as Niels points out, Champions League will take out Tuesdays and Wednesdays, so Monday looks a good option. Spot on!
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Post by DazaB on Aug 24, 2012 17:30:42 GMT
I think City have an advantage over other teams playing on a Monday night. If City might be a bit tired after a Saturday game, then how about an opposition team who have played on a Saturday AND travelled down to Worcester for a Monday game? With Sky running the fixture lists for Premiership football, there will always be clashes on any night of the week. and as Niels points out, Champions League will take out Tuesdays and Wednesdays, so Monday looks a good option. Agreed. I would absolutely love City to get Billy Big Bollocks FC away in the third round of the Cup, get a draw then insist that the replay is the usual Monday night. They do like a good moan when they have to lay twice in three days.
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Post by oxford on Aug 24, 2012 20:04:49 GMT
Can't remember what it was in but I was reading an article not very long ago which said that a lot of clubs were thinking of transferring to Mondays!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2012 22:05:06 GMT
The memory of Monday night games down at St George's Lane under floodlights will be one of the joys of life that I take to my grave. I feel privileged to have been blessed with evenings like that. They were one of the wonderful experiences that made growing up and living in Worcester such a joy.
That's why I get so furious about what Boddy and co. have done. SGL isn't a just a piece of real estate, to many of us it's a spiritual home.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2012 11:45:01 GMT
Agreed Ealing, my very first match was a Monday night against Rugby Town. I'd never smelt anything quite like it in my life. A mix of damp, and electricity, and burgers, and Ralgex, and people, cigarettes, beer, and sweat! It was amazing, and that smell stayed in my nostrils, in my lungs, right up through beating Billy Big Bollocks Aldershot Town at SGL in the Cup on a Monday night, to beating Slightly smaller Bollocks Accrington on a similar damp Monday night. They rate as some of the finest memories of my life, and have so little to do with football!! Boddy & Co. never quite got it! For some reason he thought what we wanted was to be playing in the Football League! and all we really wanted was a Monday night having banter with our mates trying to identify what scolding hot drink was in the polystyrene cup, where else could you get a coffee that tasted so much like Bovril??
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2012 19:44:05 GMT
"I'd never smelt anything quite like it in my life. A mix of damp, ....."
Sorry about, I take tablets these days that help the problem.
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