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The troll and 'Wooly' - absolute proof two half-wits don't make a full wit.
And just for the record:
Field Mill is a dank, decrepit three sided white elephant with catering kiosks open to the elements, offering a pathetic menu (like only one plastic bottled beer), and bogs so inadequate they're a potential death trap. Hospitality consists of a single Iceland style course chucked on a plate in some windowless crypt accommodating a couple of hundred within the bowels of their main stand. What's more a visit to the khazi during their supposedly 'high end' experience means sharing the same cold, inhospitable, Saltergate-esque lavs as every other Tom, Mick and Barry.
But hey, given their crowds at least the queue won't be too long.
On the other hand we have the 'CFC Village', a purpose built collection of flats and apartments to house youngsters from our expanding youth set-up; the 'Community Hub', a multi-million pound extension to our (four sided) stadium which boasts offices, classrooms, a play area, café and fitness and rehabilitation suite which wouldn't look out of place at a Premiership stadium; enclosed yet spacious concourses with outlets serving a wide variety of beverages and locally sourced products, possibly consumed whilst watching Sky tv on one of several large screens, not to mention enough toilet capacity to deal with proper crowd numbers; then the more discerning customer might prefer our plush, glass-walled lounges offering up to six hundred punters top quality, three course wining and dining in a luxurious ambience. Oh, and if 'nature calls' it's just a short walk down a warm, carpeted corridor to clean, modern, exclusive toilets.
No wonder our attendances dwarf our little neighbours' - as they've done for much of our history.
As for on-field events, it's almost tragic the way the Staglets' small band of followers cling to their one win against us per decade like infants clutching cuddly toys. Contrast those isolated and meaningless games with our destroying them in the play offs of 'ninety five, hammering them the next time they visited our's, humiliating them during that hilarious 'three sides to us' episode (which'll never, ever be replicated in Town, let me add), and helping ourselves to an easy six points which helped send them into non league. Alongside other comfortable victories over the twenty one years - an entire generation - since those losers last finished above us in the league. This season? Well their cup final was playing us whilst their trip to Wembley was visiting the Proact. Meanwhile we had the real thing, at the real place.
I guess the term 'Awww, bless' is the most appropriate response.
The bottom line is that whilst our little neighbours continue to hurl sneers and taunts, the facts tell everyone we're a bigger, better supported and more successful club. Wembley visits? League standing? Attendances? History, promotions, cup runs and general achievements? The truth is there for all too see. Infact the more Mansfield fans try to twist and turn things around, increasingly relying on delusion and denial to salve their embarrassment, the more they confirm it.
PS: if anyone would like to post this on the Staglet site for future reference, please be my guest.
And just for the record:
Field Mill is a dank, decrepit three sided white elephant with catering kiosks open to the elements, offering a pathetic menu (like only one plastic bottled beer), and bogs so inadequate they're a potential death trap. Hospitality consists of a single Iceland style course chucked on a plate in some windowless crypt accommodating a couple of hundred within the bowels of their main stand. What's more a visit to the khazi during their supposedly 'high end' experience means sharing the same cold, inhospitable, Saltergate-esque lavs as every other Tom, Mick and Barry.
But hey, given their crowds at least the queue won't be too long.
On the other hand we have the 'CFC Village', a purpose built collection of flats and apartments to house youngsters from our expanding youth set-up; the 'Community Hub', a multi-million pound extension to our (four sided) stadium which boasts offices, classrooms, a play area, café and fitness and rehabilitation suite which wouldn't look out of place at a Premiership stadium; enclosed yet spacious concourses with outlets serving a wide variety of beverages and locally sourced products, possibly consumed whilst watching Sky tv on one of several large screens, not to mention enough toilet capacity to deal with proper crowd numbers; then the more discerning customer might prefer our plush, glass-walled lounges offering up to six hundred punters top quality, three course wining and dining in a luxurious ambience. Oh, and if 'nature calls' it's just a short walk down a warm, carpeted corridor to clean, modern, exclusive toilets.
No wonder our attendances dwarf our little neighbours' - as they've done for much of our history.
As for on-field events, it's almost tragic the way the Staglets' small band of followers cling to their one win against us per decade like infants clutching cuddly toys. Contrast those isolated and meaningless games with our destroying them in the play offs of 'ninety five, hammering them the next time they visited our's, humiliating them during that hilarious 'three sides to us' episode (which'll never, ever be replicated in Town, let me add), and helping ourselves to an easy six points which helped send them into non league. Alongside other comfortable victories over the twenty one years - an entire generation - since those losers last finished above us in the league. This season? Well their cup final was playing us whilst their trip to Wembley was visiting the Proact. Meanwhile we had the real thing, at the real place.
I guess the term 'Awww, bless' is the most appropriate response.
The bottom line is that whilst our little neighbours continue to hurl sneers and taunts, the facts tell everyone we're a bigger, better supported and more successful club. Wembley visits? League standing? Attendances? History, promotions, cup runs and general achievements? The truth is there for all too see. Infact the more Mansfield fans try to twist and turn things around, increasingly relying on delusion and denial to salve their embarrassment, the more they confirm it.
PS: if anyone would like to post this on the Staglet site for future reference, please be my guest.
In light of recent developments at CFC there are some thought provoking comments on this thread regarding MTFC's finances.
