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Post by Del on Apr 6, 2019 17:54:16 GMT
Was this Bairdy's first win when taking the Sutton team ?
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Post by Andy K on Apr 6, 2019 18:24:57 GMT
Was this Bairdy's first win when taking the Sutton team ? Someone in the crowd said Bairdy wasnt there today! |
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Post by Del on Apr 6, 2019 19:10:59 GMT
Was this Bairdy's first win when taking the Sutton team ? Someone in the crowd said Bairdy wasnt there today! Lol. Was he in the stands serving out his ban from the sending off? |
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Post by georgieboy on Apr 6, 2019 19:17:33 GMT
Nothing better than a last minute winner.
Revenge is sweeeeeeet!
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Post by oxford on Apr 6, 2019 21:57:07 GMT
Nuneaton Borough v Chester for me. Just in case they don’t make to next season. I couldn't face it either.Kidderminster v Bradford PA for me. |
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Post by os on Apr 6, 2019 22:45:34 GMT
The official update says the game is segregated. BW are obviously a bit round the twist. So you have noticed, I been saying that for years, the only club who actively drive fans away, and then build new stands to accommodate fresh air. To suggest that Boreham Wood maybe just be a bit around the twist suggests an improvement there  |
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Post by tonyd on Apr 7, 2019 0:06:12 GMT
I think the new stands are to accommodate Arsenal supporters, not Boring Wood.
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Post by markf on Apr 7, 2019 11:55:32 GMT
If any new circus is looking for a troupe of clowns they'd be advised to look no further than the FA's list of NL referees; there's plenty of choice after all. Add another to that depressingly long list after yesterday's match where one team it appeared could no right the other no wrong.
The above para was how I opened for the H&W match and it remains here because it is relevant to yesterday as it was to the previous Saturday. Another awful refereeing performance where a player is booked for alleged time wasting (where the hell did that come from - best ask pinewalker, who appears to know?) yet another can swing two punches and only get a yellow then cuff another opposition player after and end up only leaving the field to be substituted, Luke Garrard's best management decision of the afternoon. Easty gets booked for a foul but earlier a similar challenge is ignored because advantage was played. Dean B gets booked for a raised boot but a BW player is allowed to body slam a SU player with no card shown. And so it goes on. U's are up to 90 yellows now and there is no doubt in my mind that there is some sort of conspiracy going on between the complete cretins purporting to be NL referees. It's a disgrace and while it continues I reserve the right to call the perpetrators out in the manner I (and a fair few others) did yesterday. That wasn't incompetence it was blatant bias to the home side.
The guy who wrote the nlp report gave him 7 but then the reporter thought we were playing for a draw as the game closed out; because BW had so much attacking play in the second half? Not a clue, mate, not a clue.
As for the match, U's had Jon B at left back and Tom B right and the makeshift defence did well save for a couple of hairy moments in the first half one in which Jamie B stood up well to save with his shoulder. U's first goal came from Gime T having acres to cross low for Harry B to arrive and net. BW's goal came from a fine run by one wing back to cross for the other to volley home a well taken goal. U's winner, for the umpteenth time this season arrived in the last minute with a quick corner routine involving James D and the impressive Nesit B who demonstrated a fine array of passing with both feet for the former to plant the ball on Easty's head who did the business from six yards.
The reaction from the U's fans was brilliant and the impromptu chant of "F the Wood" unusual but borne out of a collective sense of injustice for what had been endured before. It was great for the players who must have felt like they were up against twelve men throughout. Well done to them all for a sticking it out.
A victory that meant this match considered by some as less meaningful than Lewes v Merstham (wtf?) a couple of divisions below put U's back with an outside chance of the play-offs.
Interesting to read Danny Hunter's four page update in the prog (that's a page for every 100 BW fans in attendance yesterday). Things don't appear to be all that great at Meadow Park, although Arsenal's apparent influence is turning it into a very tidy stadium.
Onto next week's invasion from the east. I wonder what clown will turn up in the middle for that?
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Post by Del on Apr 7, 2019 15:31:18 GMT
If Phil Neville has his way Arsenal ladies will soon be playing at the Emirates so where will that leave BW ?
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Post by Andy K on Apr 7, 2019 15:42:58 GMT
If Phil Neville has his way Arsenal ladies will soon be playing at the Emirates so where will that leave BW ? Where they belong. Charging £20 for isthmian league football and wonder why no part turns up |
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Post by jr on Apr 7, 2019 16:05:00 GMT
If Phil Neville has his way Arsenal ladies will soon be playing at the Emirates so where will that leave BW ? Where they belong. Charging £20 for isthmian league football and wonder why no part turns up £22 next season apparently |
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Post by Del on Apr 7, 2019 16:19:46 GMT
No student concessions and prices higher than League 2 football.
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Post by pinewalker on Apr 7, 2019 20:02:22 GMT
If Phil Neville has his way Arsenal ladies will soon be playing at the Emirates so where will that leave BW ? Probably not losing as much money as Arsenal. I do not know what it costs to open the Emirates - even partially - but I remember the Chelsea CFO talking to local radio about why their U-23 side would play at Aldershot and Chelsea would invest in that pitch. Even a half-full Stamford Bridge was a loser. So unless Phil can guarantee far more spectators than the spectacle warrants for the Arsenal Ladies, the money men might not agree.
PS for Mark F. I was one of the absentees. I am afraid Aintree was a more compelling Saturday afternoon than Borehamwood. I did manage to listen to the BBC local radio commentary since SUTV was denied transmission rights, and it was their commentators who around the hour mark said Butler was booked for time-wasting.
BW should read up on the Laffer curve, or ask AB who put it neatly into practice. As you increase the price (or tax) from zero the revenue curve takes a parabolic shape. At zero you earn nothing in profit or tax. At a very high price you sell nothing - so again earn nothing in profit or tax. In between there is a level at which your 'take' reaches a maximum. Borehamwood are pricing the crowd out of existence.
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Post by VCLXI on Apr 7, 2019 20:19:35 GMT
It's not just the cost of opening a stadium. It's the number of people who would attend. Who remembers the debate last season when Sutton could have been promoted and the consequence of that?
My point is one of the proposed answers to the above was to groundshare with Crystal Palace. A stadium which holds nearly 30,000. With not even 2,000 supporters in it would have made for a terrible atmosphere.
Not slating women's football in the slightest as I really enjoy watching it, just being a realist.
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Post by Andy K on Apr 7, 2019 22:38:21 GMT
If Phil Neville has his way Arsenal ladies will soon be playing at the Emirates so where will that leave BW ? Probably not losing as much money as Arsenal. I do not know what it costs to open the Emirates - even partially - but I remember the Chelsea CFO talking to local radio about why their U-23 side would play at Aldershot and Chelsea would invest in that pitch. Even a half-full Stamford Bridge was a loser. So unless Phil can guarantee far more spectators than the spectacle warrants for the Arsenal Ladies, the money men might not agree. PS for Mark F. I was one of the absentees. I am afraid Aintree was a more compelling Saturday afternoon than Borehamwood. I did manage to listen to the BBC local radio commentary since SUTV was denied transmission rights, and it was their commentators who around the hour mark said Butler was booked for time-wasting. BW should read up on the Laffer curve, or ask AB who put it neatly into practice. As you increase the price (or tax) from zero the revenue curve takes a parabolic shape. At zero you earn nothing in profit or tax. At a very high price you sell nothing - so again earn nothing in profit or tax. In between there is a level at which your 'take' reaches a maximum. Borehamwood are pricing the crowd out of existence.
Then perhaps you could be more clear about it when you state "odd when Us were time wasting with half an hour to go" as if you were there when in fact you go on something you've heard about one player. Then perhaps Markf, Stewart, myself and countless others who were watching the game won't feel any need to correct you. |
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