Beaney
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Post by Beaney on Jun 20, 2009 14:31:02 GMT
Smite this man!
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Post by Del on Jun 20, 2009 15:50:10 GMT
I think we may see more open football next season with the players we have signed up and Billy's 6-2 may become a reality.
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Post by Andy K on Jun 20, 2009 16:05:25 GMT
All i seek is for the referee to blow the whistle and both teams to go forward and try and win the match.Of course this idea disappeared a long time ago. Football followers are probably the most gullible people on the planet and will swallow anything. Whilst you are obviously swallowing a very bitter pill..... If you've never seen this before, I'd have a look at it www.gandermonium.co.uk/html/bother.htmlTHIS is the reason we follow football (a lot of what you read can be transferred to any club you choose to follow). As Sherlock Holmes  said earlier, its not just about being entertained. If thats what you are looking for, just tune into ITV. Its the whole package, being part of something, being part of a community, having a sense of passion and pride and sticking by your team through thick and thin. THIS is why we bother. |
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billy
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Post by billy on Jun 20, 2009 17:36:55 GMT
Have you ever wondered why there's only a few of you left ? The most common response i have encountered on asking football fans in the local pubs,shops etc about watching Sutton is this.....................
1. "You must be XXXXing joking"
2. "I wouldn't pay money to watch that rubbish"
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billy
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Post by billy on Jun 20, 2009 17:39:49 GMT
I think we may see more open football next season with the players we have signed up and Billy's 6-2 may become a reality. It's not my 6 -2. os used it as an example in the first instance,i just picked up on it. |
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Post by Andy K on Jun 20, 2009 18:23:21 GMT
the most telling word there is 'you' not 'us'. I can imagine how exhaustive your survey is. And i wonder how many people you asked had been to ggl and are even aware of football existing outside the prem. Someone said to you about being so negative, anyone would think you are posting on the bobbins board!
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billy
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Post by billy on Jun 20, 2009 18:53:22 GMT
Most of the people i asked had previously attended games at GGL.These are all local football fans after all.
Besides buying a season ticket and attending games when only 100 or so others bothered to turn up i also took it upon myself to try and get a few more people through the gate as i was surprised at how attendances seem to have dwindled since my last visit/s.
I started by recruiting our two sons and their mates but they said "thanks,but no thanks" after enduring two games ,one of which,Carshalton away,i thought was a decent game.
The best part of the other game,can't remember which one,was my first cup of Bovril for twenty years.
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Post by fox on Jun 20, 2009 19:43:22 GMT
what pubs? I ask because lots of people are brainwashed the other way and think that chelsea is sutton's local club. The majority of those people would not have a clue about non-league football.
I am not saying you are not entitled to your opinion but andy is right when he says you buy the package not just the goals.
Maybe your £10 per week, sorry make it £15 to include the award winning program, transfer to stand and bovril, would be better spent on a 'goals of the season' from a top flight club. You know there will be attacking football, goals galore and you'll be warm.
I'm not saying i am right and you are wrong but we want different things, its just like i would not consider entering a mosque and preach christianity, both believe in a supreme being but in different ways.
I really can't wait for the season to start so there is actually something to discuss!
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billy
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Post by billy on Jun 20, 2009 20:51:10 GMT
I don't want to watch "top flight" football thankyou very much. 40/50 quid to get in and the ball is in play for 40 odd minutes. Goals galore ? Do me a favour it's worse than non league.Please don't cite the 4 - 4 games last season as they are the exception rather than the rule.
I try and avoid Chelsea fans.In my experience a massive percentage of them are tattooed skinheads with earings,ludicrous replica shirts and ferocious dogs and are forever talking tripe on mobile phones. I am tripping over "life long" Chelsea fans,who didn't go of course before the gangster put the crooked money in.
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Post by Andy K on Jun 21, 2009 0:56:37 GMT
I don't want to watch "top flight" football thankyou very much. 40/50 quid to get in and the ball is in play for 40 odd minutes. Goals galore ? Do me a favour it's worse than non league.Please don't cite the 4 - 4 games last season as they are the exception rather than the rule. I try and avoid Chelsea fans.In my experience a massive percentage of them are tattooed skinheads with earings,ludicrous replica shirts and ferocious dogs and are forever talking tripe on mobile phones. I am tripping over "life long" Chelsea fans,who didn't go of course before the gangster put the crooked money in. Just out of interest Billy, because I don't think this has ever been asked - Which team do you support??? |
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Rax
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Post by Rax on Jun 21, 2009 8:49:53 GMT
OK so some matches you may find that people watching is more entertaining than what's going on on the pitch but you have to be realsitic about the standards of the players (and pitch now I come to think of it). You're not going to get two sides who play neat, passing, attacking football very often as the players who are capable of this style of play have been snapped up at a higher level. Yes there's the odd few but they don't last too long in the Ryman Prem.
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frakey
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Post by frakey on Jun 21, 2009 10:56:40 GMT
Billy, you're sounding more like Jeff Powell of The Mail everyday. He harks on about the glory years of Bobby Moore et al.
If those you spoke to no longer attend, how do they know its rubbish, perhaps because you're telling them so?
Most people who watch nl football do so 'cos they support their local club, irrespective of the fare on offer. Those you have spoken to obviously don't fall into that category. Gates are down everywhere and only Dartford & Dover had a better average gate in the RLP last season. One won the title, the other has a new ground & great xpectations after years of living a nomadic existence o/s of their local community.
We ain't doing that bad & have begun to attract a younger element too.
By your own admission you had not been to GGL for a number of years and as a result, while you are welcome to your opinion, I'm not sure that it is one that could be considered well informed.
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billy
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Post by billy on Jun 21, 2009 17:37:30 GMT
OK so some matches you may find that people watching is more entertaining than what's going on on the pitch but you have to be realsitic about the standards of the players (and pitch now I come to think of it). You're not going to get two sides who play neat, passing, attacking football very often as the players who are capable of this style of play have been snapped up at a higher level. Yes there's the odd few but they don't last too long in the Ryman Prem. One such occasion was brilliant,i forget which game it was.I was sitting in the front row of the stand and a chap was standing,facing me,talking on a mobile phone. I took no notice as he wasn't bothering me that much but as the game went on i found myself ignoring it (the match) as i was intrigued to see if he could get to half time talking on a phone while facing away from the "action" presumably after paying a tenner to get in. He almost made it,putting the phone away with about three minutes to go.To be fair to him he didn't miss any goals. |
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Post by vern on Jun 21, 2009 17:56:15 GMT
What axe are you grinding, exactly, 'billy'?
You're spending a lot of your time on a messageboard of an Isthmian League team which you plainly dislike, harping on about sh1t and sounding pretty bitter. (You could almost be a Man City fan really)
What would make you happy?
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billy
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Post by billy on Jun 21, 2009 18:59:05 GMT
What axe are you grinding, exactly, 'billy'? You're spending a lot of your time on a messageboard of an Isthmian League team which you plainly dislike, harping on about sh1t and sounding pretty bitter. (You could almost be a Man City fan really) What would make you happy? Hello Vern.How kind of you to devote your first post to enquiring about my happiness.Thankyou but there is no need to worry ! I am extremely happy especially on a lovely sunny day like today when the birds are singing and there are two games of Cricket on TV. I spend a few minutes most days on here as i like talking over events surrounding Sutton United but i certainly have no axe to grind. I find all the people in here to be a very pleasant bunch indeed,sorry if i've caused you any problems or distress. |
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said earlier, its not just about being entertained. If thats what you are looking for, just tune into ITV. Its the whole package, being part of something, being part of a community, having a sense of passion and pride and sticking by your team through thick and thin. 
