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Originally Posted by Alvin the chipmunk
As per gates...unfortunately Accrington just isn't a football town. In the same way that despite winning the FA Cup and being in the Premier League for years didn't attract the gates Wigan hoped for as they were and are a rugby town.
For all their faults, I admire the town of Burnleys siege mentality. Us against the world and the football club as a symbol of that. The club is the one thing around which everything revolves. Accrington just doesn't have that. There's no pride in the town...never mind the football team.
Point in case being the Calder pub in Accy centre erupting when Stevenage bagged against us in the play offs.
I don't know what the answer is. All we can do is keep winning and make match day a better experience facilty wise, to take away the excuses the Accy public frequently cite for not coming.
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Agree with a lot of what you say, Alvin, although I would say that Accy is a football town - it's just that most locals support football clubs outside the town.
Sadly, this weekend most football-minded Accringtonians will be more concerned with what happens at Turf Moor rather than what happens at Wimbledon.
Even local councillors who keep banging on about supporting town centre businesses go and support football clubs elsewhere.
The incident in the Calder with Accringtonians cheering the misfortune of Stanley sums up this town to a T. If a similar match occurred involving any other small town, even those locals who supported bigger clubs elsewhere, would want their home town club to do well. Not Accrington; go into any pub in town wearing Stanley gear and watch the reactions ranging from sullen indifference to derision and hostility. Go to most other places in the country (apart from Satanage and a few other places!) and your Stanley shirt will elicit interest and affection.
Anyone who takes over this club has to face the fact that gates are never going to improve to any significant extent...because hardly anybody in Accy really cares.
