Really they need to rebrand it as league 3 at this point ..far too many big clubs in it to be thought of as non league
My mate is a season ticket holder at partick thistle as he works up there .. he says the standard is pretty shite
Yeah that was what I said in my first post, but I later thought I must surely have been wrong. In hindsight, what a horrible way to spend an afternoon, but I kept going through thick and thin!
Always liked Torquay for some reason, probably because it's in Devon, what's not to like. Hope they can get back up the football pyramid
Watched us scrape through against them in the FA Cup the year we had Chelsea in the 1/4 final
We were turgid and won 1-0 late on
I'm 60 in a couple of weeks. I'm going to get a ST for Racing Club Warwick. It's only £30. I won't go very often, but will on international breaks, etc and I'll be putting a little into the Club. Those further down the pyramid should be supported.
I spent Saturday at Hemel Hempstead v Yeovil in the FA Cup Quals, met a pal who I went uni with who supports Yeovil (He reminds me every year of the date they drummed us 6-2) Hemel won 2-1 and claimed a bit of a scalp
Loved the day - neat little ground, beers by the pitch and a great clubhouse after! Hemel chairman was mingling after and come and shook our hands and thanked us for popping by! They got a good draw away at Wigan in the next round, so chuffed for them
Loved the day - neat little ground, beers by the pitch and a great clubhouse after! Hemel chairman was mingling after and come and shook our hands and thanked us for popping by! They got a good draw away at Wigan in the next round, so chuffed for them
My mate and i were there,enjoyed it.Much better than watching Ingerlund on the telly
£30? Wow!! The early bird price for Folkestone Invicta would have cost me £170. And that's the concession price!
Blimey. Just looked and that was the early bird. Full price is still only £60. Not sure what level either team is at though, Folkestone might be higher.
Went to Torquay last year for a week & even that was too long - absolutely nothing to do for the kids,nothing like it was how I remember it as a kid - most places boarded up too - depressing
Isthmian Premier League.
Not sure how that compares.
I do remember when I lived in Maidstone for a little while, their ST price was on par with the City's
Have enjoyed going to Stratford to watch the ‘Bardy Army’ a few times. Great mascot
Just checked Newent Town ticket prices seeing as I'm their manager in my FM save haha - adults 13 quid per match & that's in the 10th tier
Isthmian Premier is half decent. National League South is the next one up. My local team is Isthmian Prem, i should go more, i was always more tempted when they were in the National League South for a season as i'm a snob like that.
Used to do that at every ground even Highfield Rd. Lots of fans changed ends at half time.
First time I experienced hooliganism was at Blackburn when we were changing ends.
Remember the Blackburn game was in 1967, although I saw but did not experience trouble at non-league friendlies earlier in pre-seasons. Small town mentality.
Don't know when it was changing around at half time at Highfield Rd, or other grounds but there was no segregation in the early years at all grounds and no barriers between the two ends, I would imagine. Remember mixing with Northampton fans at their ground in the early 60s.
Hooliganism meant segregation was necessary. It nearly destroyed football when gates plummeted around the country and fences went up.
Even our all-seater stadium didn't stop it, especially Leeds who tore out the seats.
Heh. I was at HR (in the Sky Blue - chap down the road used to take me as his wife wouldn't go to reserve games, so I always had her seat) the night the Main Stand burned down. Of course, we didn't find out until the next morning.
Loved going to reserve games - and have fond memories of Greeny and Mortimer (I think) doing the donkey kick one night. IIRC it hit the bar.
I don't remember there ever not being segregation between the Sky Blue terrace and the Kop. Me and my dad always stood right by it on the SBT. (60s, certainly, and obviously after the Sky Blue was built.
Not in my lifetime either, but loads of grounds were open all around at first.
Think my grandad said something about Highfield Rd, but I may be misremembering, which is not unusual at my age.
Just realised my family has supported the City for five generations and the youngest is 19. Maybe six, but can't ask anyone if my great grandfather was a supporter.
There were very strong rumours that the stand burning down was not accidental. Especially as Derrick Robbin's company built the new stand.
My first experience of football hooliganism was at Huddersfield in 1967/8 when we won promotion to the First Division.
We got pelted from stands above so moved to the other end at half time.
We won by the way -2-1 I think it was and it was on Match of the Day with Kenneth Wolstenholme commentating.
Happy days- now returning !!
As I live in Gloucestershire I've been to Forest Green Rovers a few times.
A decent experience even though I'm not much of a fan of the mouth Savage.
A decent experience even though I'm not much of a fan of the mouth Savage.
I'm so used to seeing FGR mentioned and someone mentioning the vegan thing I read it as mouth sausage.
As for being a fan of a mouth sausage, I guess it often depends on if you're giving or receiving.