Wimbledon match thread

Crown Grounder said:
Cashy, Andyd.......I really hope you are both right...and by the way I'm so pleased we have a points tally that makes us safe with 7 or 8 games to go. But we weren't playing a big club on Saturday....not a Sunderland or a Peterborough or a Charlton or Portsmouth or Ipswich. We were played off the park for most of the game. I just didn't see any of Stanleys desire or fight...that's all...I just don't get it. And McConville's delivery's from Corners and free kicks are such poor quality. We have some big lads but can't get a head on a ball...I wan't the team to prove me wrong and I really hope they do.
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You're right, we weren't playing a 'big club - we were playing a team who are fighting for their league 1 survival & that's always dangerous. They out-fought & out- muscled us into submission & their tactics worked but from beating Oxford away last Monday, we haven't suddenly become a bad team & there's every likelihood we'll get something at Bloomfield Road tomorrow, Blackpool play good football & hopefully so will we
 
I think most players, and management, are just running on empty after exceeding expectations for two-thirds of the season.
 
Chimer said:
I think most players, and management, are just running on empty after exceeding expectations for two-thirds of the season.
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so many injuries and a disrupted side has not helped either. think at this time of the season its more about whats in players heads rather than their legs. players of all teams have played more or less the same amount of games now. no one mentioned stanley running on empty in late play off pushes or great escapes.
 
Crown Grounder said:
Cashy, Andyd.......I really hope you are both right...and by the way I'm so pleased we have a points tally that makes us safe with 7 or 8 games to go. But we weren't playing a big club on Saturday....not a Sunderland or a Peterborough or a Charlton or Portsmouth or Ipswich. We were played off the park for most of the game. I just didn't see any of Stanleys desire or fight...that's all...I just don't get it. And McConville's delivery's from Corners and free kicks are such poor quality. We have some big lads but can't get a head on a ball...I wan't the team to prove me wrong and I really hope they do.
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they were not what i call a big club but they are a damn site bigger than us, they were in the premiership when we were non league. dont forget that.
 
cashman said:
true but if we ever got to the top doubt if our gates would be as good. ground aint big enough.

possibly thats a good reason to have missed out on the play offs this season and winning that lottery and getting promoted. the wham just isn,t big enough for championship football if the crowds are back fully. there would not be full houses every game either once the novelty quickly wore off with new age home fans. best stanley can ever hope for are decent cup runs and staying in this division with a team playing decent positive football.
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monkey hanger said:
cashman said:
true but if we ever got to the top doubt if our gates would be as good. ground aint big enough.

possibly thats a good reason to have missed out on the play offs this season and winning that lottery and getting promoted. the wham just isn,t big enough for championship football if the crowds are back fully. there would not be full houses every game either once the novelty quickly wore off with new age home fans. best stanley can ever hope for are decent cup runs and staying in this division with a team playing decent positive football.
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Not very positive doubt Coley would ever see it like that and don't forget there is another end of the ground to finish with plenty of room their to build something that could be expanded for demand if required.
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Novelty of league 1 would wear off with fans in a relegation battle quicker than one in the Championship me thinks.
 
andyd said:
Novelty of league 1 would wear off with fans in a relegation battle quicker than one in the Championship me thinks.
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well the novelty of league football did when stanley were struggling in division 2. you expect crowds to drop some way if the team is doing bad but not to the extent they do nowadays at all clubs including stanley.it always seems for some reason i,ll never undertand is that its far easy to lose fans but much harder to recruit them.
 
cashman said:
thats my opinion andy, im a realist andy holt is magic but sure he aint made of money.
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and money to waste at that. no matter what division any club in the country are in there is a maximum number of home fans it will ever get. could the wham ever get 10,000 home fans in like morecambe and others.
 
monkey hanger said:
and money to waste at that. no matter what division any club in the country are in there is a maximum number of home fans it will ever get. could the wham ever get 10,000 home fans in like morecambe and others.
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I think that the old Accrington Stanley,s biggest ever seasonal average gate was about 9200 ish back some years which was quite an achievement with our population bigger than Rochdale's highest average and their population is much higher.
 
cashman said:
we have always struggled with gates simple reason 5 or 6 miles either way 2 much bigger clubs. and you will always get glory hunters.
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Same as your Rochdale's, Oldham's and Bury all surrounding by so called " bigger clubs".
 
andyd said:
Same as your Rochdale's, Oldham's and Bury all surrounding by so called " bigger clubs".
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rochdale is possibly the furthest away than stanley and the other 2 clubs are from another big club alternative yet their gates have always been much lower than bury,s and oldhams have been. in the early 70,s if you wanted to see a crowd in rochdale you either had to go to the shops or a hornets rugby league game at their old ground which was far superior to spotland.
 
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