Dave Wallers, on 13 February 2012 - 01:03 PM, said:
To be fair mate, I'm losing my hair anyway.....
I'm not gonna slate you for coming on here, I enjoy the banter, and at least you have provided some facts unlike the Millers that come on here.
I intimated that your support would be slightly higher, the fact you have no larger clubs on your doorstep, and you seem to be a larger 'Town' than Chesterfield.
1000/1500 hardly makes you massive when compared to us. We're both relatively small places, who have a football club in residence, and we've both encountered relatively little success in our existence. Just accept the fact you're a similar size club to ourselves. It's just we're in a higher division. (for now

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In essense, we are two clubs of similar size (though we are bigger than you) .... With one major problem ....
Yes we have no clubs near us, but Swindon is full of young kids in their Arsenal, Chelsea or Spurs shirts who rather than coming to the County Ground and watching us take the train into London and as such the support we have these days is largely made up of kids who have had Swindon slapped into them through a Swindon fan parent. I am guessing Chesterfield is the same and kids can easily get to any number of Premier League grounds.
This isnt a Chesterfield/Swindon problem, just a wider issue ...
Your right 1000 isnt a large number in the general scheme of things however ... 1000 people, 23 games, at £20 a head is £460,000. Now is a serious amount of turnover that I suspect could get you 3/4 new players especially at league 1/2 level where a clubs are restricted to spending a fixed proportion of their turnover on players salaries.
Yes on the 25th we will have around 25k at Wembley, but most wont have known a club existed in the town prior to there being a trip to Wembley in it for them.
It will be a terrific day and yes I expect us to win. Chesterfield fans can label that as me being arrogant if you so wish, but I dont watch my fottball team ever expecting them to lose and doubt any other real football fan does.