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[Willie Miller]

Originally Posted by Driller

s'cuse me if I put a downer on the celebrations, i've been an "armchair supporter" for years! of course you can still support your team even if you don't go to the games and the more successful the team is the gates go up, but it would be no surprise if next season Accy Stan are sruggling at the foot of the league (playing teams no better than the conference) and the gates are back down.

Erm no we won't excuse you!

Maybe we will struggle, maybe we will get relegated, who knows. But nobody, especially an anonymous internet goon, can put a downer on "our" celebrations

Also on the subject of glory hunters, we welcome everybody to ASFC & we all had a first Accy game whether it was this week or like Gordon Reid in 1940-odd. Just try get behind the team when you are here, buy a pir & a programme, a raffle ticket etc etc & if a grey haired bloke is struggling with a big flag - give him a hand

On Stanley On
John Coleman is God!

[Henry Morton]

Please, please, may we have lots and lots of glory hunters coming through the turnstiles.

There were quite a few at the Scarborough game and I hope that we managed to make them feel most welcome.

We need all the glory hunters we can get - not least because we're hunting even more glory ourselves.
The newspapers of the last three days have elevated Accrington Stanley to a level of which we could only have dreamed just three years ago , and as a result there has been a wonderful influx of new people.

I spoke to several hundred of them at the Scarborough game and I must say that it was an absolute pleasure. They'd never been to Stanley , or - if they had - it was ages ago .

Their bright-eyed enthusiasm and their desire to be part of this great new era were very evident.

From Buckinghamshire, Peterborough and Leicester there were families who'd made an enormous (and expensive) effort to be with us.

I sincerely hope that all small-minded Little-Accringtonians will please shut up and let market forces come into play.

[Oggy]

Well said Henry.

Sadly, I've had to listen to boring blokes from Blackburn, one guy spent 10 minutes explaining to his mate he thought the kick off was 2:30, then this, then that, then the other, we'd all nearly lost the will to live by then.

I think it even affected the team.

But, yes, new blood, enthusiasm, more than welcome.

[fettler]

I think the announcer should have told the "new" suppoorters that Stanley play in the red shirts....one of the people sat in front of me was already moaning that Stanley would not survive in the league etc then he said "what has boco done" just before the Todd goal.... he shut up after that. We will have to buy and we will have to maintain and improve the standard, but Eric has a vision.... to Div 1 and on!!!

[John_Timmins]

Originally Posted by Willie Miller

Just try get behind the team when you are here, buy a pir & a programme, a raffle ticket etc etc & if a grey haired bloke is struggling with a big flag - give him a hand

Think we had too many of them "pir" last night willie

hehehe - thats getting u back for the "lsit"

[Kisser]

Never - Stanley through and through, oh and of course England.

[smudgie]

id have to agree with a number of points made, however it is bound to happen with the success the club is having.

obviously the more the merrier, and id love to see 3000 on the ground every week, however some people that claim that they are die hard stanley fans when they have only been coming to watch since the club was in the conference need to wake up IMO.

im only 21 but have been going on the stanley for 11 seasons, including the dark days of billy rodaway etc , who remembers being bottom of the unibond prem losing 3-0 away to bamber bridge?, i was there and am proud of it

[Willie Miller]

Originally Posted by John_Timmins

Think we had too many of them "pir" last night willie

hehehe - thats getting u back for the "lsit"

Should have been pie John..............

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[garinda]

Originally Posted by smudgie

...however some people that claim that they are die hard stanley fans when they have only been coming to watch since the club was in the conference need to wake up IMO.

Wake up?

What's that mean.

If we are going to get attendances of 3,000+ next season we should welcome everybody through the turnstiles, whilst acknowledging that you 'older fans' are owed a great deal of respect.

Sometimes this forum reads like a teen music forum, with some people complaining that 'their' indy band, that they've followed for years, now has more fans now they are in the charts. IMHO.

[Willie Miller]

I think he means people who tell lies about how longthey been "die hard" Accy.

It means nothing, fans come & go, circumstances sometimes mean lifelong Accy can't get to as many games as they'd like (finance, starting a business or HM Forces spring to mind)

But as I said, just put as much time, effort & money in as you can, when you can.

We should all welcome the new fans & make sure they stay....

[garinda]

Originally Posted by Willie Miller

I think he means people who tell lies about how longthey been "die hard" Accy.

It means nothing, fans come & go, circumstances sometimes mean lifelong Accy can't get to as many games as they'd like (finance, starting a business or HM Forces spring to mind)

But as I said, just put as much time, effort & money in as you can, when you can.

We should all welcome the new fans & make sure they stay....

I wasn't having a go at Smudgie, l know what he means.

I am a new fan. I've posted before how Lindsay Ormerod took me to see us against Bamber Bridge last Febuary. From that first moment I was hooked, by the standard of Stanley's football, and the atmosphere provided by you fans.

I hope everyone coming to see Stanley for the first time enjoys it as much as I did, and appreciate all the work that a lot of you people do to make it what it is.

[Wynonie Harris]

From the way some people talk, you'd think that they wanted to keep Stanley as an exclusive little club for those "in the know".

Well, I say, the more new fans/glory hunters/whatever you want to call them the better. I don't care if they've been watching Stanley for 50 years or 7 days. I don't even care if they've been watching the Reds for 7 days and PRETEND that they've been watching for 50 years. As long as they're paying their money and supporting the team, they're welcome!

[maccawozzagod]

personally I preferred the days of old when you could get to the bar at least twice at half time. Alas the price of success now means that you have to get two or three at a time and end up drunker.

[Kisser]

That's if you can get in the bar - it was closed at half time on Monday Missed my pie and pint!

[maccawozzagod]

so which bar did I spend most of the match in yesterday Kisser? They probably shut the doors cos it was that full!