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« Reply #60 on: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 14:52:28 » |
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Pathetic crowd for a play-off semi. Normally I am totally against the 'double punishment' rule, at it penalises sides twice for the same offece, but as it's aginst Franchise ...it's totally OK, even though it probably wasn't even a foul let alone a penalty.
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« Reply #61 on: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 14:59:24 » |
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pathetic turn out Hmmm........ League one PO SF this year - Att: 12,662 League one SF 1986/87 Swindon vs Wigan - Att: 12,485
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« Reply #62 on: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 15:05:55 » |
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It is surprising these games aren't all sellouts, especially at the smaller grounds.
And for all Huddersfield's (particularly away) support was rightly praised a few pages back, remember being amazed they only got 14k for their semi-final at home to Millwall last year in a ground that holds 24k+
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« Reply #63 on: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 15:07:06 » |
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Must have been 4,000 Posh fans there too.
Franchise can only muster 8,000 odd fans for a play off game, shocking.
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« Reply #64 on: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 15:19:29 » |
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Hmmm........ League one PO SF this year - Att: 12,662 League one SF 1986/87 Swindon vs Wigan - Att: 12,485
Or you could have chosen 2009/10 vs Charlton - Att: 13,560 But 24 years ago was a much better example to emphasise your point.
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Summerof69
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« Reply #65 on: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 15:31:29 » |
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Hmmm........ League one PO SF this year - Att: 12,662 League one SF 1986/87 Swindon vs Wigan - Att: 12,485
Wigan didn't travel in big numbers due to the fact that we were 3-2 up from the first leg in '87. They only used to get crowds of about 4k at Springfield Park.
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« Reply #66 on: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 15:32:11 » |
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But in 1986/87 we were fiddling the gates nearly every game and Wigan brought down about 1k when they could have taken 3k tickets. Town would easily have sold those 2k. When we went to Wigan for the 2nd leg there were more of us than them. Looking at the play off games I'd take that Guy Branston from Torquay to play alongside Cuthbert next season. A real bruiser and a leader.
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« Reply #67 on: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 15:32:40 » |
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Wigan didn't travel in big numbers due to the fact that we were 3-2 up from the first leg in '87. They only used to get crowds of about 4k at Springfield Park.
The away leg was the 2nd leg
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« Reply #68 on: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 15:34:03 » |
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Or you could have chosen 2009/10 vs Charlton - Att: 13,560 But 24 years ago was a much better example to emphasise your point. Possibly. How many Posh fans were there and how many Charlton fans were there though?
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« Reply #69 on: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 15:34:58 » |
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But in 1986/87 we were fiddling the gates nearly every game and Wigan brought down about 1k when they could have taken 3k tickets. Town would easily have sold those 2k. When we went to Wigan for the 2nd leg there were more of us than them. Looking at the play off games I'd take that Guy Branston from Torquay to play alongside Cuthbert next season. A real bruiser and a leader.
Great shout Branston is quality. Exactly the sort of player we need running things from the back. Another reason to hope Torquay don't go up.
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« Reply #70 on: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 15:44:00 » |
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The away leg was the 2nd leg
Wrong. The away leg was first on a Thursday night. We were 2-0 down after 20 mins, but we scored 3 times in the last 20, and the Town fans did the conga on the old bank at Springfield Park. We then drew the second leg 0-0 on the following Sunday afternoon. http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19870401
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« Reply #71 on: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 16:46:47 » |
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Apologies, I'd have wagered a fair amount on that but the 80's were a bit of a haze.
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« Reply #72 on: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 17:03:24 » |
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branston played really well.in previous games i've seen him i thought he was just a slow and clumsy lump.surprised me yesterday. thought torquay were pretty decent,but dont rate their forwards much
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« Reply #73 on: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 17:10:26 » |
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Branston could get us out of a defensive pickle
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« Reply #74 on: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 17:18:04 » |
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good work sir
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