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Post by pies on Nov 11, 2006 18:12:47 GMT
Histon bought about 12 fans today, which is quite poor form for a team top of the league. Looking forward to Tuesday's game, hopefully it will be our 1st run of victories this season
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Post by amberaleman on Nov 11, 2006 21:48:29 GMT
And if we win on Tuesday we go above Cambridge on gd (albeit with two more games played). All set up rather nicely, I'd say.
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Post by pies on Nov 12, 2006 1:28:24 GMT
A win would do nicely i would say.
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Post by ambersalamander on Nov 12, 2006 12:26:23 GMT
Histon bought about 12 fans today, which is quite poor form for a team top of the league. Rubbish. You only saw about 12 fans because you were expecting to see about 12 fans. Be fair on them- they actually brought quite a few but they spread themselves very thinly around the ground. There were at least 20 in the bar before the game. And surely being top of the league is a bigger achievement for a team with such a small fan base? They can't win can they*- if they'd brought several more than the 12 they brought last season (and to be fair again that was a Tuesday night far from home for them) you'd have been saying "Oh look, now they're top of the league they've got more fans... I wonder why... where were they when they were s**t"...etc. Not forgetting the fact that they reached the play-off final last season as well. They didn't make ANY noise though ;D Having said all that, Histon still annoy me, although this time their fans were quite pleasant! Apart from one woman dressed as Minnie the Minx who did something that REALLY annoyed me, but the others were OK. Oh my God... I can't believe I just stuck up for HISTON! * Well they certainly couldn't yesterday ;D
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Post by medibot on Nov 13, 2006 0:03:36 GMT
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Post by pies on Nov 13, 2006 13:15:03 GMT
Well considering i was only estimating, and judging by the number of shirts and scarfs i actually saw (and the number of different people i saw wearing them) in Histon colours, i came to my conclusion of somewhere around 12, and to be honest 20 is not that much more, is it?
And the fact remains that 20 away fans from a team with a 680 or so average, (our average is about 480 BTW) on a Saturday when they are at their highest posistion in their entire history isn't exactly top notch now, is it?
Personally i like seeing teams bring loads of fans, and if they bring an increase in the number they did the previous season, then despite the reason for it, all power to them. Even if it is Carshalton (remembering the only time they bought loads of fans was for the demolition derby, when they were 2nd in the league)
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Post by ambersalamander on Nov 15, 2006 20:37:08 GMT
There were actually more than 20 of them- I was referring to how many I saw in the bar before the game. That was just the ones wearing Histon colours.
But sod it, who cares- we beat them! ;D
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Post by stretfordendling© on Nov 16, 2006 0:20:35 GMT
Thats discraceful behaviour!! I still remember our fabulous comeback on our return to Histon after being knocked out of last seasons FA 1 round before 1st round proper. 2-0 down with 5 mins left and win 2-3!! Can't see that happening this season
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