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ericofarabia

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For us a pretty poor showing. Not helped by a relatively small following for a game that some on here were dubbing Shrewsbury's Cup Final. Maybe they objected to paying so little cash for admission or maybe they found an away draw to a L1 team on the fringes of the playoffs an offer they could refuse!!!

 

BUT, have a look at the rest of the Round 1 crowds and we are the only side to crack the 10000 barrier and were over 3000 more than the next biggest gates.

 

"Local Derbies" at Gillingham v Dover (next highest just under 7500) and Plymouth v Swindon suprisingly less than half our gate, puts it all into perspective how popular this stage of the cup really is I guess. Those other massive south coast clubs Brighton and Bomo could barely beat our crowd with their combined total.

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For us a pretty poor showing. Not helped by a relatively small following for a game that some on here were dubbing Shrewsbury's Cup Final. Maybe they objected to paying so little cash for admission or maybe they found an away draw to a L1 team on the fringes of the playoffs an offer they could refuse!!!

 

BUT, have a look at the rest of the Round 1 crowds and we are the only side to crack the 10000 barrier and were over 3000 more than the next biggest gates.

 

"Local Derbies" at Gillingham v Dover (next highest just under 7500) and Plymouth v Swindon suprisingly less than half our gate, puts it all into perspective how popular this stage of the cup really is I guess. Those other massive south coast clubs Brighton and Bomo could barely beat our crowd with their combined total.

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For us a pretty poor showing. Not helped by a relatively small following for a game that some on here were dubbing Shrewsbury's Cup Final. Maybe they objected to paying so little cash for admission or maybe they found an away draw to a L1 team on the fringes of the playoffs an offer they could refuse!!!

 

BUT, have a look at the rest of the Round 1 crowds and we are the only side to crack the 10000 barrier and were over 3000 more than the next biggest gates.

 

"Local Derbies" at Gillingham v Dover (next highest just under 7500) and Plymouth v Swindon suprisingly less than half our gate, puts it all into perspective how popular this stage of the cup really is I guess. Those other massive south coast clubs Brighton and Bomo could barely beat our crowd with their combined total.

 

I think that bascially sums it up: we are the biggest in what is a poorly-supported event.

 

Heard some *** on 606 going on about "how crap Saints were with big stadium nearly empty" and the bigging up Shrewsbury as tha "next big club to break through" with their "new 10,000 capacity stadium". Yet how many did they bring? 1500? Spare me days, eh?

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For us a pretty poor showing. Not helped by a relatively small following for a game that some on here were dubbing Shrewsbury's Cup Final. Maybe they objected to paying so little cash for admission or maybe they found an away draw to a L1 team on the fringes of the playoffs an offer they could refuse!!!

 

BUT, have a look at the rest of the Round 1 crowds and we are the only side to crack the 10000 barrier and were over 3000 more than the next biggest gates.

 

"Local Derbies" at Gillingham v Dover (next highest just under 7500) and Plymouth v Swindon suprisingly less than half our gate, puts it all into perspective how popular this stage of the cup really is I guess. Those other massive south coast clubs Brighton and Bomo could barely beat our crowd with their combined total.

 

I think that bascially sums it up: we are the biggest in what is a poorly-supported event.

 

Heard some *** on 606 going on about "how crap Saints were with big stadium nearly empty" and the bigging up Shrewsbury as tha "next big club to break through" with their "new 10,000 capacity stadium". Yet how many did they bring? 1500? Spare me days, eh?

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I think that bascially sums it up: we are the biggest in what is a poorly-supported event.

 

Heard some *** on 606 going on about "how crap Saints were with big stadium nearly empty" and the bigging up Shrewsbury as tha "next big club to break through" with their "new 10,000 capacity stadium". Yet how many did they bring? 1500? Spare me days, eh?

 

 

They brought 727 according to saints on twitter

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I think that bascially sums it up: we are the biggest in what is a poorly-supported event.

 

Heard some *** on 606 going on about "how crap Saints were with big stadium nearly empty" and the bigging up Shrewsbury as tha "next big club to break through" with their "new 10,000 capacity stadium". Yet how many did they bring? 1500? Spare me days, eh?

 

 

They brought 727 according to saints on twitter

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"Bearing in mind the opposition and the number of other significant home matches during November, the Club had wished to push through discounted rates for this match, in order to reward our most loyal fans."

 

 

So Shrewsbury couldn't be bothered to bring more than a paltry 727, despite our best efforts to get their fans a really attractive price and our own fans couldn't really be that bothered to go and watch us play a fourth division team either. Rather tends to justify the statement made on the OS, doesn't it?

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"Bearing in mind the opposition and the number of other significant home matches during November, the Club had wished to push through discounted rates for this match, in order to reward our most loyal fans."

 

 

So Shrewsbury couldn't be bothered to bring more than a paltry 727, despite our best efforts to get their fans a really attractive price and our own fans couldn't really be that bothered to go and watch us play a fourth division team either. Rather tends to justify the statement made on the OS, doesn't it?

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I think that was a good crowd considering several factors. a) we are not going to win it b) we will have had 5 home games in 5 weeks come Dec 11th. c) Many of the missing fans are season ticket holders d) Bonfire night weekend, some may choose to put their money into that this weekend? e) Who the **** are Shrewsbury ;-)

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I think that was a good crowd considering several factors. a) we are not going to win it b) we will have had 5 home games in 5 weeks come Dec 11th. c) Many of the missing fans are season ticket holders d) Bonfire night weekend, some may choose to put their money into that this weekend? e) Who the **** are Shrewsbury ;-)

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Not fussed thatvthe crowd was "only" 10,000 ish, especially as it was the largest of the day.

 

It hasn't effected the result, and in these tough financial times isn't it better that people save their money for the next two home games which ate far more important!! Hopefully 24-25k+ at both!!

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Not fussed thatvthe crowd was "only" 10,000 ish, especially as it was the largest of the day.

 

It hasn't effected the result, and in these tough financial times isn't it better that people save their money for the next two home games which ate far more important!! Hopefully 24-25k+ at both!!

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For us a pretty poor showing. Not helped by a relatively small following for a game that some on here were dubbing Shrewsbury's Cup Final. Maybe they objected to paying so little cash for admission or maybe they found an away draw to a L1 team on the fringes of the playoffs an offer they could refuse!!!

 

BUT, have a look at the rest of the Round 1 crowds and we are the only side to crack the 10000 barrier and were over 3000 more than the next biggest gates.

 

"Local Derbies" at Gillingham v Dover (next highest just under 7500) and Plymouth v Swindon suprisingly less than half our gate, puts it all into perspective how popular this stage of the cup really is I guess. Those other massive south coast clubs Brighton and Bomo could barely beat our crowd with their combined total.

 

Agreed - the empty seats never look great, but when you compare with others in a similar situation, the crowd wasn't too bad at all. Didn't look like Shrewsbury had that many, thought they would have brought 1.5/2k down.

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For us a pretty poor showing. Not helped by a relatively small following for a game that some on here were dubbing Shrewsbury's Cup Final. Maybe they objected to paying so little cash for admission or maybe they found an away draw to a L1 team on the fringes of the playoffs an offer they could refuse!!!

 

BUT, have a look at the rest of the Round 1 crowds and we are the only side to crack the 10000 barrier and were over 3000 more than the next biggest gates.

 

"Local Derbies" at Gillingham v Dover (next highest just under 7500) and Plymouth v Swindon suprisingly less than half our gate, puts it all into perspective how popular this stage of the cup really is I guess. Those other massive south coast clubs Brighton and Bomo could barely beat our crowd with their combined total.

 

Agreed - the empty seats never look great, but when you compare with others in a similar situation, the crowd wasn't too bad at all. Didn't look like Shrewsbury had that many, thought they would have brought 1.5/2k down.

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was not interested in yesterdays game at all. It would be better to have a non league team away. This would make it more old style and FA Cup like. We are not going to win the bloody thing and would prefer to get on with the league.

 

Saying that I love the FA Cup and loved watching the giant killings yesterday, the little boys day in the sun, now that is completely different, but a home tie against Shrewsbury to us is a nothing game really. Hard to put into words but would have loved to play a Dover or FC United.... away, and be part of their big day!!

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was not interested in yesterdays game at all. It would be better to have a non league team away. This would make it more old style and FA Cup like. We are not going to win the bloody thing and would prefer to get on with the league.

 

Saying that I love the FA Cup and loved watching the giant killings yesterday, the little boys day in the sun, now that is completely different, but a home tie against Shrewsbury to us is a nothing game really. Hard to put into words but would have loved to play a Dover or FC United.... away, and be part of their big day!!

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Considering that it was a main night for fireworks , the Kingsland and half the Chapel was shut and it was only Shrewsbury then you can't have been surprised at 10,000?

 

Still the biggest in the round , Plymouth had half our crowd - now thats awful considering that's a heavily populated area around there.

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Considering that it was a main night for fireworks , the Kingsland and half the Chapel was shut and it was only Shrewsbury then you can't have been surprised at 10,000?

 

Still the biggest in the round , Plymouth had half our crowd - now thats awful considering that's a heavily populated area around there.

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Let's hope Cheltenham allow us to do £10 tickets for the next round, with peterborough at home on the 20th and Brighton at home on 23rd, both of which are big home games in the context of our promotion challenge, I can see people spending their money on those instead. Cheltenham on 27th should be £10 adults and £1 kids try and get 15k for it.

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Still the biggest crowd in the round, and that includes ties between two League One sides, I don't see the issue.

 

I agree, but in terms of % drop from our average home crowd it was small. I reckon we'll get about the same for Cheltenham. Maybe even less with the other home games that week.

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Thought they could have rewarded ST holders with a free ticket for this round, may have got a few more there but obviously not make any money. Though 10k was a good crowd for this round.

 

I am involved at a non league club and we are not allowed to give out Free tickets for FA Trophy and FA Cup ties. The only people allowed in for nothing are pass holders such as visiting directors.

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For us a pretty poor showing. Not helped by a relatively small following for a game that some on here were dubbing Shrewsbury's Cup Final. Maybe they objected to paying so little cash for admission or maybe they found an away draw to a L1 team on the fringes of the playoffs an offer they could refuse!!!

 

BUT, have a look at the rest of the Round 1 crowds and we are the only side to crack the 10000 barrier and were over 3000 more than the next biggest gates.

 

"Local Derbies" at Gillingham v Dover (next highest just under 7500) and Plymouth v Swindon suprisingly less than half our gate, puts it all into perspective how popular this stage of the cup really is I guess. Those other massive south coast clubs Brighton and Bomo could barely beat our crowd with their combined total.

 

In the same way that Saints game at Notts Co last weekend was a local derby.

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not quite....swindon is slightly closer to plymouth than nottingham is to southampton

 

do you know what geography is..?

 

Driving distance, Plymouth to Swindon: 159.5 miles.

Driving distance, Southampton to Nottingham: 166.5 miles.

 

I suppose those 7 miles make all the difference.

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Southampton to Meadow Lane - 3 hours 8 minutes

Swindon to Home Park - 2 hours 47 minutes.

 

Not sure which "Worlds" you can drive accross in 21 minutes but there you are...

 

it also says 3 hours on my satnav from plymouth to southampton...generally, it takes far longer...

anyway..you are right, I was exaggerating

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