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Post by slepe12 on Nov 9, 2008 18:18:08 GMT
Bittons average attendance so far this season is 90. From what I've heard on the forum Dolphins will outnumber them easily........not to mention, El Flago ( like that term). Wish I could be there..............please shout for slepe, loudly  |
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Post by dave2 on Nov 10, 2008 8:26:57 GMT
Bitton Vilaage has a population of about 1,400 and about 9,000 within the stated parish of Bitton. They still can support a team that is currently top of the Western league!
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Post by Bay Dolphin on Nov 10, 2008 13:09:30 GMT
Thanks for that dave2, we can't forget that we are the second largest conurbation without a professional league team. Also, there are plenty of good small town and village sides in our league and other Step 5 leagues. Many of these used to be in county leagues. We are still a long, long way from the Southern League days when we wer just below Football Laegue status. Roll on two or three promotions eh?
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Post by m3dolphin on Nov 10, 2008 13:13:52 GMT
Along similar lines, if Leeds beat Northampton Town in the FA Cup replay they travel to Histon of the conference national. Not too many years ago Histon were just a village side while Leeds Utd were in the Champions league - How fortunes change.
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Post by cookiemonster on Nov 10, 2008 13:40:27 GMT
Lets hope the boys continue to do well and we can get back up to that status again.  |
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Post by sterteroad on Nov 10, 2008 16:29:26 GMT
After Frome, Willand, etc, don't think we can take them lightly. Sorry I can't make it though. It's now time to look forward, look at what Rushden have achieved, albeit with Doc Martens money, think we'll have a fun journey up though.
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Post by slepe12 on Nov 10, 2008 19:08:48 GMT
Bitton Vilaage has a population of about 1,400 and about 9,000 within the stated parish of Bitton. They still can support a team that is currently top of the Western league! They can support.......but the facts say that they don't ;D |
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Post by Bay Dolphin on Nov 11, 2008 9:49:41 GMT
Right enough sterte. Many a team has risen and fallen with a rich sponsor who has later gone away, for example Barry and Gretna. Better to have a sound financial basis with some permanency. And right again - it is fun on the way up.
Wise words slepe - as always!
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Post by sterteroad on Nov 11, 2008 11:18:06 GMT
Hull are lucky as they've benefitted from the Kingston Communications sell off, far sighted council up there, so I don't think we can use them as a guide. Charlton is the way to go i think, very community based. Sadly they've gambled a bit too much recently. Argyle copied their method, building slowly from the bottom.
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Post by Bay Dolphin on Nov 11, 2008 19:54:38 GMT
Lucky indeed sterte. Lucky that Hull retained the telephones in the city. I lived in Hull for a while many years ago so I'm quite fond of the tigers. It used to be a quiz question:- what is the largest city in England never to have a top division football team? Answer (used to be) Hull. Not any more!
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Post by sterteroad on Nov 12, 2008 8:52:12 GMT
Sadly, that old favourite of a pub question now has the answer- Plymouth. And unless the board there ( one reason i finally gave up going to Home Park) stop pocketing 000,000s they will be the answer for a long time. Still well run though, just sad there's no ambition. That's Plymouth as a city in general though and why I joined up and now live in Poole.
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