Spired, on 19 February 2016 - 12:48 AM, said:
the day we took 3 sides of their ground was the day any credible argument ended...had our fans not been told so late we'd have outnumbered them (2650 sold south and shoebox on its side stands) we took 3900 in the end...which is more than they have mustered at home in my living memory in any of our fixtures save for 94/95 playoff semi when they massed a huge 4900
4900 at a normal game we'd panic at shrinking gates. We had over 10000 against them. And at Saltergate we averaged 4k sometimes more sometimes a bit less but not much less....the notable seasons were early 2000's for a single year and 99/00 when we ended up with about 30 points under jonny duncan
mansfield are as close to us % wise as we are to sheffield united. and do you see our fans making divs of themselves on their forum? no.
Re 3 sides . It was 2 ends and a hundred or so on the Bishop St stand. Haslam hated us by that time after a lot of protests about him. Crowds were down and all he wanted was the money. That was all he was ever interested in from the beginning, simple as that. We could bring 4,000 to you if you'd give us that many tickets. We had 2000 (our entire allocation) the last time we came to the Proctal on that lovely sun drenched day with the same again who couldn't get tickets.
You even admit the crap attendances you had when the going was rubbish. The same would happen if you went into the conference and there's no point even denying it. We'll see how your attendances drop next year won't we? Especially as unlike the last time when you had a far greater budget than the rest of the league, and were favourites to go up before a ball was even kicked with a new shiny ground.
The glory hunters will be long gone *Newsflash* Footie fans are fickle. That's why you see a lot of Liverpool and Man Utd shirts being worn outside the North West area- but not so many Tranmere Rovers or Bury ones.
Unless you want to argue that Chesterfield is a far greater populated and bigger town than Mansfield? It isn't- they are both roughly the same and you all know it. And that's why Chesterfield FC is no bigger or smaller than Mansfield Town FC. Anyway zzzzzz
Remember we've been down and had our bad times but we're on the way up. Now it's your turn. Starting with certain relegation this season and from there administration. That's what happens when you live outside your means and you are now going to reap what you sow. Let's see how you cope with that shall we?
And when you only used to regularly get 3k yourselves not that long ago to now try and compare yourselves with Sheffield United.. ahahahha absolutely funny as f**k.
Underhanded tricks changing the link in my last post as well from the final whistle of the last match on that sun kissed afternoon the last time we came. The internet moderation version of the brown envelopes for Beckett.
Still what else would we expect from you lot.
PS Crewe will batter you Saturday. Going down going down going down.
This post has been edited by Wooly: 19 February 2016 - 02:52 AM