FGR 8-0 up and counting

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Barnes-Homer on the score sheet.

Will they do it this year?
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I guess the new formation of 1-1-8 worked for them then.
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RegencyCheltenhamSpa wrote:Barnes-Homer on the score sheet.

Will they do it this year?
Be very afraid, with a good squad and financial clout they will become a threat to us in the near future.
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Silly question here, but I saw a picture from the game.
One of the teams was playing in a hideous shade of green.
Neither of them played in Black & White Stripes.
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leohoenig wrote:Silly question here, but I saw a picture from the game.
One of the teams was playing in a hideous shade of green.
Neither of them played in Black & White Stripes.
Leo, where is the question? :lol:

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Sorry - have FGR changed from their traditional colours?
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leohoenig wrote:Sorry - have FGR changed from their traditional colours?
Yes Leo. Home colours are green strip and black shorts. Away is white strip and shorts I believe.
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As shown on here: http://www.forestgreenroversfc.com/first-team" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

If they do get to the League, they have the website for it - better than ours.
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Fortnately for them, newcomers to the Football League are not tied into the contract we were forced into.
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Ralph wrote:
leohoenig wrote:Silly question here, but I saw a picture from the game.
One of the teams was playing in a hideous shade of green.
Neither of them played in Black & White Stripes.
Leo, where is the question? :lol:
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Pretty presumptuous of you Ralph !!
I haven't been in a pub on a Sunday for about 20 years, in fact other than when I go to football or special occasions I never go in a pub.
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leohoenig wrote:Sorry - have FGR changed from their traditional colours?
The new strip is also the colour of "Ecotricity" the power behind FGR.The kit looks really good and i expect we will be seeing it often in the coming seasons as they progress up the football ladder.
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I refer the poster to my original description of the colour as hideous.

Yes, I imagine that they will rush up the leagues with the same hurry as our friends in Rushden, and like our friends in Rushden, they will end up reformed back in the league I first saw them play. I saw Irthlingborough Diamonds as a United Counties League team, and Forest Green Rovers in the Hellenic.
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leohoenig wrote:I refer the poster to my original description of the colour as hideous.

Yes, I imagine that they will rush up the leagues with the same hurry as our friends in Rushden, and like our friends in Rushden, they will end up reformed back in the league I first saw them play. I saw Irthlingborough Diamonds as a United Counties League team, and Forest Green Rovers in the Hellenic.
That is a possibility,given their limited gate potential as a village team,but at the moment things are looking good including the strip ?
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Do they get around 1,500?
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With the team they had on show and the super win 8-0 with the attendance only 1,158 it’s a good job the guy’s proved he’s no fool, because it would be difficult not to call him a fool for pumping his money into a club and trying to buy success for a club that in truth should be no more than a village team with the support they get.
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Their crowds have increased tenfold in the past twenty years, yours are three or four times as big.

You're the fool :)
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Neil wrote:Their crowds have increased tenfold in the past twenty years, yours are three or four times as big.

You're the fool :)
And how do Gloucester's "crowds" compare??
I suppose you can call 80 fans a crowd??
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I take it Neil is not a statistician.
FGR joined the Southern league in 1982 - they were getting 200-250 at that time, and at least 100 in the Hellenic, so over 20 years the crowds have increased fourfold, and over 30 years around 10 fold. Our crowds are, as we would admit less than ten times what they were 10 years ago (more like around 8 times). We would get around 400 in 1983-4, the first season I lived in Cheltenham. Gloucester, who were of similar size to Cheltenham in 1983-4, have less support now (or even in the last season they played in Gloucester) than they did then
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Leo, it's 2013, not 2002.
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...and your statistics are still wrong.
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My actual error was a typo - Cheltenhams crowds are up around 8 fold on 30 years ago (not 10 years ago). The increase is slightly less if taken over Neil's target of 20 years. FGR's crowds are about four fold up from either 1983 or 1993 as they did not change massively in that decade. Glos. City crowds declined marginally, and the drastically when they left their home city.
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leohoenig wrote:My actual error was a typo - Cheltenhams crowds are up around 8 fold on 30 years ago (not 10 years ago). The increase is slightly less if taken over Neil's target of 20 years. FGR's crowds are about four fold up from either 1983 or 1993 as they did not change massively in that decade. Glos. City crowds declined marginally, and the drastically when they left their home city.
Interesting to read Leo in my opinion. I love some good long time series data and some change over time stats.

CTFC really did take on the mantel as the County's club, with FGR finding a nice niche as number two and still on an elite plain compared to Ciren, Gloucester, Cleeve and the rest.
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My point is still the same, in recent years their outgoings far outweigh their incomings but their attendance have nowhere near increased accordingly, it seems they need league players to compete in the Conference, if they made it to the league I dread to think what their wage bill would be to sustain league status, but like Rusden found out when the golden eagle stops laying they will drop like a stone.
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Luckily for them gas and electricity generating and selling is likely to carry on being a licence to print money for many years to come in a way well made shoes just never were.
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RegencyCheltenhamSpa wrote:Luckily for them gas and electricity generating and selling is likely to carry on being a licence to print money for many years to come in a way well made shoes just never were.
But no one lives forever RCS and who knows what the future brings, we are here today and sometimes gone tomorrow.
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Indeed Trickster, it could well go belly up. Who knows.
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FGR in the league is surely no different to Fleetwood? If they did make it and we failed to get back into league one it would be a strange derby just as it was in the conference.
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"Back into League One" as if that's where you belong!
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We've been in League 1. Hence "Back". Crawl "back" under your rock.
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29% of our football league history has been spent in L1, so of course we can hope to go back there.
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