Hyping up Rochdale
right folks, we took over 800 to Chester, around 900 to Bury on a tuesday night and used to take about 800 to Morecambe every season. How many should we be taking to Rochdale?
How many home fans do we have? about 1300? right then, we need every single bloody one of you. Lets nominate this match as a 'bring a friend' game. I know that technically you should have home matches for this type of initiative but a good away game is theee best drug for a prospective new fan. You lot provide the numbers - the Ultras will provide the noise. Rochdale spouted loads of guff about how many they were gonna bring to the FES, well bully for them they brought a few, fair play to em and thanks for the money. YOU DID NOWT WHILST YOU WERE HERE THOUGH. I have honestly heard more noise in Accy library than what 1200 first time, new derby, away fans made. It was pathetic, it was a shameful effort. Can you really see the Ultras failing to rise above their feeble offering?
You bring your mates, fill a car instead of just your passenger seat. Better still - try to raise a minibus from your local. See if you can get 10 to go. Whoever you stand or sit with at the FES, have any of them intimated that they are not going? Do not let them back out of this. It is a potential dogfight, a six point shootout between the old Lancastrian, perennial losers who have occupied the 89th spot of the Football League for 34 years, and the Pride of Lancashire, new boys in town who absolutely must maintain their hard won Football League status.
Every man, woman and child of Stanley blood needs to be at this one with their heart on their chest and their scarf held high and held proud. Ultra display of the very highest order is required and will be given. After the Bury game (in which almost everybody joined in the singing towards the end) one of the criticisms of the Ultras was that they were not directly behind the goals to help everybody join in. Well this time we will be in the ground earlier and will sit more central. Anybody who sings at all will be most welcome to stand with, beside, in front or behind us. Anybody who doesn't sing but has been known to join in with the occasional chant as the games demands - sit a lot closer to us. Anybody who doesn't want to make any noise at all - sit a little further away just to allow all the noise to be central and not having to bridge gaps.
The drums will be there, the horns will be there, loud hailers, streamers, confetti, every flag known to man, lets have the kids getting their faces painted in the pub before hand.
Can we do this?
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