LEAGUE 1 PROMOTION! POLL!

[gosling]

Chelsea of the lower leagues LOL. Yeah you're true about us getting out of the league, just hope that when we do it's the correct way .
Going with what you said about R&D, we were the "Manchester United of the Conference" .

Very good point, outnumbering teams at their own grounds just seems...bizzare! And your attendaces were miles above others You've got a great catchment area though, you're the only professional club in the whole county. I'd imagine your attendances would rise significantly if you got any closer to the top flight. You're the only deep North-Western club anyone knows about...heck you might even get fans coming down from Scotland! We've got the likes of Chelsea, Fulham, Spurs & Brentford to battle off for crowds, but they're still decent at 12,000-15,000 a week.

[Grainger@CUFC]

Very good point, outnumbering teams at their own grounds just seems...bizzare! And your attendaces were miles above others You've got a great catchment area though, you're the only professional club in the whole county. I'd imagine your attendances would rise significantly if you got any closer to the top flight. You're the only deep North-Western club anyone knows about...heck you might even get fans coming down from Scotland! We've got the likes of Chelsea, Fulham, Spurs & Brentford to battle off for crowds, but they're still decent at 12,000-15,000 a week.

Half of our fans run off to Gretna when we're away :@. Which is bad in my eyes. The only thing about being the only club is, we're all on our own in a sparsely populated area . There's nothing (apart from Gretna) between us and Glasgow, Preston, Newcastle or Darlington. We only get people from West Cumbria etc.

We also have good away support (taking 3,000 to Rochdale once ). We have a big London branch which helps when we have massive trips to Brighton, Bournemouth, Brentford (all B's ) etc.

[gosling]

Half of our fans run off to Gretna when we're away :@. Which is bad in my eyes. The only thing about being the only club is, we're all on our own in a sparsely populated area . There's nothing (apart from Gretna) between us and Glasgow, Preston, Newcastle or Darlington. We only get people from West Cumbria etc.

We also have good away support (taking 3,000 to Rochdale once ). We have a big London branch which helps when we have massive trips to Brighton, Bournemouth, Brentford (all B's ) etc.

Haha, I forgot that most of Cumbria's the Lake District. I also forgot about Gretna, it's amazing to think they were playing in the English Unibond League and last season they played at Hampden Park in the Scottish cup. What does that tell you about the football North of the border? ol: Anyway, 3,000 to Dale? Impressive.Nice to hear you've got a branch in the capital. Sunderland have also got one. Not even Colchester or Ipswich could fill the away end but thanks to their London branch, Sunderland did on a Tuesday night. I do have a bit of sympathy for Carlisle though, being practically away from everything in terms of football. It's a bit like Plymouth, but that's what makes Carlisle and Plymouth hard places to go because for a lot of teams, it's the furthest place to travel. :p Away games must be a bummer though! :eusa_sile

[Grainger@CUFC]

Haha, I forgot that most of Cumbria's the Lake District. I also forgot about Gretna, it's amazing to think they were playing in the English Unibond League and last season they played at Hampden Park in the Scottish cup. What does that tell you about the football North of the border? ol: Anyway, 3,000 to Dale? Impressive.Nice to hear you've got a branch in the capital. Sunderland have also got one. Not even Colchester or Ipswich could fill the away end but thanks to their London branch, Sunderland did on a Tuesday night. I do have a bit of sympathy for Carlisle though, being practically away from everything in terms of football. It's a bit like Plymouth, but that's what makes Carlisle and Plymouth hard places to go because for a lot of teams, it's the furthest place to travel. :p Away games must be a bummer though! :eusa_sile

Yes away games are a bummer lol, Darlington has been our closest for a while. Great result last time, took 4,000, filled one whole stand behind the goal and won 5-0 . Couldn't really have been much better. Only thing was: 8,000 people at that game in a 25,000 seater stadium. Darlington weren't expecting that and the kick off was delayed haf an hour :eusa_wall. Then, it took us an hour to get away from the ground because of the traffic getting out of the car park :@. When Gretna were in the Scottish 3rd they played against Queen's Park at Hampden anyway . But yeah, to reach a Scottish Cup final whilst in Scottish 2nd AND only get beat on penalties against Hearts is a massive achievement.
Plymouth at least have Torquay and Yeovil fairly nearby lol.

[gosling]

Yes away games are a bummer lol, Darlington has been our closest for a while. Great result last time, took 4,000, filled one whole stand behind the goal and won 5-0 . Couldn't really have been much better. Only thing was: 8,000 people at that game in a 25,000 seater stadium. Darlington weren't expecting that and the kick off was delayed haf an hour :eusa_wall. Then, it took us an hour to get away from the ground because of the traffic getting out of the car park :@. When Gretna were in the Scottish 3rd they played against Queen's Park at Hampden anyway . But yeah, to reach a Scottish Cup final whilst in Scottish 2nd AND only get beat on penalties against Hearts is a massive achievement.
Plymouth at least have Torquay and Yeovil fairly nearby lol.

Yeah but they haven't been able to play Torquay and Yeovil in the league for a while I know what you mean abotu Darlington. It's outrageous that they're playing at a 25,000 all-seater stadium and they're not even filling 1/4 of it, only when Carlisle and Hartlepool come to town, it seems! Sounds like a fantastic turnout from your lot, probably had the same amount of fans there as they did! Sounds like a cracking game though, great away support and a 5-0 away win to top it off!

During match pic: Packed to the brim as always! :rolleyes:

[Grainger@CUFC]

Yeah but they haven't been able to play Torquay and Yeovil in the league for a while I know what you mean abotu Darlington. It's outrageous that they're playing at a 25,000 all-seater stadium and they're not even filling 1/4 of it, only when Carlisle and Hartlepool come to town, it seems! Sounds like a fantastic turnout from your lot, probably had the same amount of fans there as they did! Sounds like a cracking game though, great away support and a 5-0 away win to top it off!

During match pic: Packed to the brim as always! :rolleyes:

Lol, the end that picture is facing was where we sat, and we packed it out. Darlington don't deserve a stadium like that when theyre languishing mid-table in League 2 with no view really that theyre going anywhere. I think it's the same with MK Dons. I mean it's a tad premature to build a 30,000 seater stadium when, again theyre only in League 2. I just see no point, and with Darlington it doesn't work.

Below, a selection of images from the game

[gosling]

Lol, the end that picture is facing was where we sat, and we packed it out. Darlington don't deserve a stadium like that when theyre languishing mid-table in League 2 with no view really that theyre going anywhere. I think it's the same with MK Dons. I mean it's a tad premature to build a 30,000 seater stadium when, again theyre only in League 2. I just see no point, and with Darlington it doesn't work.

Below, a selection of images from the game

Hehe, great support. I know what you mean about MK Dons and Darlington. It's ridiculous! Doncaster had a 15,000 stadium opened the other week but that's understandable. 30k is just ridiculous. Apparently, Police have restricted Darlington from selling more than 10,000 tickets (as if they're ever going to), anyway due to major congestion...so a seemingly pointless decision to build a new stadium by their former chairman, who's now in jail for laundering drug money! The business side of football's become corrupt beyond belief. Poor old Darlington!

[Jamie!]

Grainger, where abouts did you get them pics, are they off that mark-fuller.co.uk? Cause tried looking for the Darlo game pics cause theres a one with the whole stand with us lot in it but couldn't find it!

On the subject of stadiums though, me thinks they should start building big modern terraces aswell in the new grounds instead of all these concrete bowl designs, bring back the atmosphere!

And Brad, Reynolds was a 'best' friend of our infamous ex-chairman/manager Micheal Knighton, so no wonder he got into that ****! :p

[gosling]

Grainger, where abouts did you get them pics, are they off that mark-fuller.co.uk? Cause tried looking for the Darlo game pics cause theres a one with the whole stand with us lot in it but couldn't find it!

On the subject of stadiums though, me thinks they should start building big modern terraces aswell in the new grounds instead of all these concrete bowl designs, bring back the atmosphere!

And Brad, Reynolds was a 'best' friend of our infamous ex-chairman/manager Micheal Knighton, so no wonder he got into that ****! :p

Haha, that would explain EVERYTHING! Agreed about the huge terraces, they're brilliant for atmosphere. It's got so bad in this country now when you compare it to our European counterparts.

Just LOOK at the Terrace Kop at Dortmund (Westfalenstadion, Germany)

Atmosphere must be electric!
Another pic

[Jamie!]

Wow...

Don't know why the FA have introduced that rule of CC clubs having to have an all-seater stadium by 3 years time, don't know if they will be strict with it though. Like them pics, they should look at the likes of Germany who have huge terraces to see that they are safe.