[ Sat 12th Oct ] v Dover Athletic, KO 3pm FACUP3Q AWAY

[Trek]

Would be disappointed if total revenue from the FA Cup run was only £15k. Prize money we know is £10,925 for our four wins in the competition plus shared gate revenue, after match expenses, from 7 matches in total should make the revenue far more. Add also a share of catering and bar revenue, raffles etc. from 3 home matches.

[Olly]

Now I don't usually buy a programme, although Stagman wanted a couple so I kindly obliged. ;)
Had a peek and I thought it was poor for £2.50 and can anyone explain why only 7 of our players had a brief write up? It's as if they only give a couple of pages to the away side and the rest should have been on a third page which wasn't printed. It wasn't a patch on our £2.00 excellent programme.
Only gripe about the day from me was the poor coach arrangements, leaving the Dog and Duck at 10.15am should have given us plenty of time to spend at least an hour pre-match getting a drink. For some reason both coaches met up and stopped at South Mimms services for almost an hour after only 90 minutes of driving for what I believe was an unwanted pit stop and then proceeded to crawl for 4-5 miles to get over the QE2 Dartford crossing arriving at the ground at 2.45pm. The fare was a very reasonable £15, a considerable saving over petrol costs unless there were at least four in a car but at least you are in control of your own destiny when you make your own way there.

I agree £2.00 would have been a better price for it considering there's the same amount of pages and content of our programme, though I still thought it was a good programme bar our cut off pages, some interesting history including the page on the history between the old club and Dover. Although note to their manager, we're in the United Counties league, not the Northern Counties League ;)

On the attendance, while it certainly seemed a little low and the Dover fans on their forum seem to suggest its a common thing for FA Cup attendances to be like that, personally I thought there were no more than 500 home fans there tbh and around 250 away fans seems about right I thought, so maybe the official figure is not that far wrong and they just had fewer home fans for an FA Cup game which does often happen when a team is playing a lower division side.

[Trek]

I believe Chris Kinnear thinks his team beat Runcorn Linnets last Saturday. He mentioned Runcorn in his post match interview after their match against Dorchester and then compounded it again in his programme notes. Not related to Joe Kinnear is he?

[SouthRushdenJFC]

According to some obscure site they are brothers.

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/bob.dunnin ... m#Brothers

No guarantees to the provenance though

[Trek]

.....they are brothers.

That explains his confusion, must run in the family. ;)

[Posh Tart]

Just so gutted I couldn't be there on Saturday and I thought it was going to be a replay as my old mate Judith didn't text me after 1-1. In the end I couldn't bear the suspense so called her about 5.15 and she told me the result. Gutted for the boys and Starms and the rest of the staff. At least Dover cannot say they had a walkover from playing a UCL team!!!!!!!!! Maybe if the draw had been kinder to us we would still be in the Cup but heyho bring on the Vase and let's show the rest of the country just what AFC R&D can do after resurrecting from the ashes. So proud to be an AFC R&D fan and as far as I'm concerned we WILL BE THE BEST AGAIN. See you all tomorrow for another very important game to get 3 more points towards promotion!!!!!!

[Brownie]

.....they are brothers.

That explains his confusion, must run in the family. ;)

Confusion it`s the Dumb & Dumber show :roll: Can understand him having no knowledge of us, after all he has for many years managed at a high level.
We should have started singing, we are Runcorn, super Runcorn, no one..........
that would have confused him.

[rudolph_hucker]

Not long back and what a day, very eventful from the start should I say. First of all a word on the atmosphere in the first half, that is one of the best I have experienced in a while, the volume was immense.

As for the score, predictable in a way. Thought apart from the set piece in the first half we matched Dover and the sheer pandemonium when Alfie scored will be remembered for a while. I thought at half time this could be winnable, and definitely a replay could be on the cards. And then the swap in ends and the atmosphere just went flat, everyone just spread out. That second half terrace was awfully shallow, and even at the back you could just see over the crossbar. But well done to all the lads. Even Tom cross, mistakes happen, heads up you all done fantastic to get this far but well done Dover and all the best for the next round!

Now for the not so good. It was just unfortunate that a few had to spoil today. Now to travel 3 hours and get thrown out on 5 mins was it really worth it? You can all the stewards over zealous, maybe they were, but calling one of them a fat c**t probably wasn't wise. And the scenes in the last 5 minutes was just mad, from Mr jaff on the roof, to running onto the pitch, to one lad I would say confronting starms as he walked off. It's a real shame that alcohol takes over. From what I understand a couple of them were not actual supporters, but either way it don't look good on the people who work every hour god sends to make the club a success...

Now for me to be shot down :lol:

Cor, don't let rumour get in the way of a good story will ya!

I didn't get thrown out for calling anybody a fat so and so, I was obviously a mark man cos I was moaning about the flag incident, I wasn't being offensive I was just getting on my soap box to him about money ruining football (I was probably boring him more than anything! Ha). When I went up and stood on the terrace some oldish fella (who I hadn't seen before so guessing was a dover fan) shoved me in the back and told me to get out his effing way! All I said was if you tapped me on the shoulder and asked me nicely I will, not shove me! The steward to his side and kicked me out, then he might of got a view choice words! Gutted I missed most of the biggest games in out history!

My mate said he heard from somebody who saw his siter talking to his cousin say you were naughty. FFS it's like being at school. I thought it was only women that gossiped. Just for the record how did one ejected fan ( for whatever reason) spoil your day????

[rudolph_hucker]

Only gripe about the day from me was the poor coach arrangements, leaving the Dog and Duck at 10.15am should have given us plenty of time to spend at least an hour pre-match getting a drink. For some reason both coaches met up and stopped at South Mimms services for almost an hour after only 90 minutes of driving for what I believe was an unwanted pit stop and then proceeded to crawl for 4-5 miles to get over the QE2 Dartford crossing arriving at the ground at 2.45pm. The fare was a very reasonable £15, a considerable saving over petrol costs unless there were at least four in a car but at least you are in control of your own destiny when you make your own way there.

It was a complete farce. There was absolutely no reason for the stop, except for the driver to get his free meal. The whole point of me going on the coach was so I could have a couple of beers without the worry of driving. Then to be called a tight arse for not contributing to his whip round, he gets paid anyway for almost ****ing the job up.

[Diamond_ Wolf]

Not long back and what a day, very eventful from the start should I say. First of all a word on the atmosphere in the first half, that is one of the best I have experienced in a while, the volume was immense.

As for the score, predictable in a way. Thought apart from the set piece in the first half we matched Dover and the sheer pandemonium when Alfie scored will be remembered for a while. I thought at half time this could be winnable, and definitely a replay could be on the cards. And then the swap in ends and the atmosphere just went flat, everyone just spread out. That second half terrace was awfully shallow, and even at the back you could just see over the crossbar. But well done to all the lads. Even Tom cross, mistakes happen, heads up you all done fantastic to get this far but well done Dover and all the best for the next round!

Now for the not so good. It was just unfortunate that a few had to spoil today. Now to travel 3 hours and get thrown out on 5 mins was it really worth it? You can all the stewards over zealous, maybe they were, but calling one of them a fat c**t probably wasn't wise. And the scenes in the last 5 minutes was just mad, from Mr jaff on the roof, to running onto the pitch, to one lad I would say confronting starms as he walked off. It's a real shame that alcohol takes over. From what I understand a couple of them were not actual supporters, but either way it don't look good on the people who work every hour god sends to make the club a success...

Now for me to be shot down :lol:

Cor, don't let rumour get in the way of a good story will ya!

I didn't get thrown out for calling anybody a fat so and so, I was obviously a mark man cos I was moaning about the flag incident, I wasn't being offensive I was just getting on my soap box to him about money ruining football (I was probably boring him more than anything! Ha). When I went up and stood on the terrace some oldish fella (who I hadn't seen before so guessing was a dover fan) shoved me in the back and told me to get out his effing way! All I said was if you tapped me on the shoulder and asked me nicely I will, not shove me! The steward to his side and kicked me out, then he might of got a view choice words! Gutted I missed most of the biggest games in out history!

My mate said he heard from somebody who saw his siter talking to his cousin say you were naughty. FFS it's like being at school. I thought it was only women that gossiped. Just for the record how did one ejected fan ( for whatever reason) spoil your day????

People will always find a reason to moan but the stewards were arseholes. Lets be honest when all is said and done it was hilarious, if I ever have grandkids it will be something to tell them.