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Pretty silent like, must be the atmosphere escaping out into the Newcastle sky

Is this not textbook D according to cf's rating system in the op though? Are people just rating them as if the players have just taken GCSE Being A Footballer rather than the original senses of Solid Starter C vs. Could Be Upgraded But Keep Him Around D? If we're just going with a general sense of what A-E means then aye he's at least a C all day long

Dream play off on the cards. Would give anything for them to deny Sunlun promotion in dubious circumstances

We've been turned over pretty handily by all four of those in the last few years, they're doing ok without him walking into their midfield By cf's scheme I'm OK with a D loved his redemption but he's absolutely in my Needs To Move On list

harsh digging out but fair do's. I've posted about him elsewhere. I love his attitude, I love his work rate, I love his smiley face as much as I loved Miggy's smiley face. I don't think he's good enough any more though, and I like what he brings to the midfield a lot of the time but I think he's too prone to losing his composure. I don't see him as a solid PL starter hence D. We don't have many better options but that doesn't move him up the rankings for me

It's great to see it filling up but I don't understand the biggest game narrative they're pushing (unless they mean prospectively biggest but not yet; or biggest in the sense of the importance and level of the game). They had 22k vs Alnwick, and 28k vs Barnsley. edit Oh, league record. I see

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

Lasted a lot longer than I thought mind, but I reckon I was right at the time

Sounds like he knows he was getting the bullet if he went out

The two Alnwick lads I know are Sunderland and Liverpool fans, must be something about that town. Mind Rothbury are my local team and I go to watch Alnwick so I'm just as bad

Good God