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This sort of thing is exactly why I stopped going, aye

Yeah, it's done then and there by the home team, or supposed to be. That's NL2 policy anyway; I don't think they're quite at the stage of fining clubs that don't do it in a timely enough manner but if I know my non league bureaucracy, it'll come

Yeah this is the one the Alnwick Town cognoscenti swear by. Secretary is tapping away at it all match long.

Aye it's obviously a great part of London, I just don't see it as that great a place for tens of thousands of football fans at the same time we'll see I guess still half considering going down just to document the prematch goings on

Aye, I guessed it mustn't be. I can't imagine a lot of businesses at Covent Garden will be over the moon with it as a replacement though

Aye, no way that's as good a time as the just-five-minutes-away Trafalgar Square imo

Aye of course what I'm against is the idea that there's some way to determine through science and maths how extensive those gaps should be

bang on Where does the Isle of Man fall? Spurs glory hunters I reckon

You'd need as a bare minimum a Glory Hunter Modifier, a Rugby Area Coefficient, a Regional Wealth Adjustment, a How Many Clubs Calculation, a Nissan Back Shift Bearing. Even with these I'm not sure the Catchment Calc is any better than xG Maybe xAt for attendances will be next

You don't have to factor in any seas unless you're a mackem clutching at straws this concept of a perfectly circular catchment area from which it's reasonable to assume fans will flock is compromised in most ways at best, and it's way more complex in virtually all scenarios. Mackematics indeed

Not quite a one man team but not that far off I reckon. They're still good without him but only exceptional because of 90 year old Mo Salah

I don't think you can understate how much VAR has changed the feel of premier league games as well. Time was, all you had to do was make sure you weren't the only one bouncing around like a loon in a silent Gallowgate with everyone else looking at the raised offside flag. All the traditional stuff that fans used to make a noise about is now up for debate. The game has changed and the fans that are going have changed. I honestly don't think it's any more complicated than that; epic atmospheres can still exist but are the result of exceptional circumstances rather than the rule now. At lower league games where it's cheap and easy to get in and the goals and blood and thunder challenges are decided on then and there, you still get some of that old atmosphere given enough spectators and a bar, I think.

Be fair, they got promoted a mere three years ago

Getting biffed 3-blanc HT in a league cup against higher league Shildon (who I'm told might be even higher than NL div 1 but demoted on ground restrictions). Great ground but the music man