Massimo Giovanni
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With two midlands/northern clubs (all 6 iirc) involved in play offs and no Wembley it is a mistake also not to use a better geographically placed stadium like at Leeds or Leicester.
To be fair to the National League (not that they deserve much credit). At the time of deciding the location the final could have easily been Notts County V Wrexham (or Stockport, Grimsby, Chesterfield) which would have pulled a much bigger crowd than the 30,000 and 35,000 capacities that Leicester and Leeds have.With two midlands/northern clubs (all 6 iirc) involved in play offs and no Wembley it is a mistake also not to use a better geographically placed stadium like at Leeds or Leicester.
Ha! I used to stand in the South back in the day,when it was a proper stand, -never fancied the NB for some reason.Gravitated to the West and always loved it there only left when they put the seats in.These days when I go back to RH I tend to get seats in the East-far fewer stanchions..Par for the course I suppose since my parents used to be season ticket holders there.Once a West Stander always a West Stander. I stood on the North Bank in the early 60's till the nuts dropped and then over to the West, standing middle back and then finally in a seat in T Block. Great view of both goal mouths and only the one stanchion to peep round. Heaven, when the West rocks there is no better place to be. And yeah I'm but it just had to be said.
When we were in the finals at Wembley and Cardiff tickets were only available via the two finalists. Why they can't have a designated area for neutrals for these types of matches is crazy. I wonder what would happen if you turned up at the London Stadium and asked for a match ticket. If they turned you away it would make a mockery of so called customer service.@Danshrimper, how about Old Trafford, ManC, Anfield, Villa?
I thought Leeds was 40k?
The FA really don't give FA about lower league clubs or fans.
And why the big prices and SO hard for neutrals to buy tickets?
To be fair it’s a top class athletics stadium. Just rubbish for football.To be fair to the National League (not that they deserve much credit). At the time of deciding the location the final could have easily been Notts County V Wrexham (or Stockport, Grimsby, Chesterfield) which would have pulled a much bigger crowd than the 30,000 and 35,000 capacities that Leicester and Leeds have.
You’d have probably been looking at 50,000+ had Solihull or Halifax not made the final which would have limited the venues available. Although anywhere would have been better than West Ham’s ****hole athletics stadium.
Shame Southend United never made the playoff final, we taken 35,000 plus to the London Skip ...To be fair to the National League (not that they deserve much credit). At the time of deciding the location the final could have easily been Notts County V Wrexham (or Stockport, Grimsby, Chesterfield) which would have pulled a much bigger crowd than the 30,000 and 35,000 capacities that Leicester and Leeds have.
You’d have probably been looking at 50,000+ had Solihull or Halifax not made the final which would have limited the venues available. Although anywhere would have been better than West Ham’s ****hole athletics stadium.
We can win itNo it isn’t. It’s a perfect illustration of how Wrexham are a complete outlier. Do we have a realistic chance of winning the league? No. Wrexham probably will and even if they don’t it won’t be us.
But there aren’t 6 other Wrexhams in the league, so we have a decent enough chance of making the top 7 if we can continue to make good signings.
Stratford is only 40 miles from Southend , with direct trains ....and only 30 Miles from Wickford ....Southend United FC may be non league these days, but our Potential to attract local supporters is massive.If Southend made the play off final, we probably bring 25k or 30k to West Ham.
I'm inclined to agree with you on this, Wrexham threw money at this season but have a problem at the back and will miss out this season to clubs that have spent far lessWe can win it
I agree the hopes for last season were exaggerated.
I was never in thrall with the signings, although one or two: Arnold and Bridge, for example, proved the exception.
But aiming for the play-offs? Surely, we need to be aiming for automatic promotion? If we end up in the play-offs, so be it.
The money helps, but try telling Wrexham that this morning...
Just this.To be fair it’s a top class athletics stadium. Just rubbish for football.
Good IMO. One less big ex-EFL team in the running for the playoffs/automaticNext season's NL line-up is complete. Bloody Grimsby!