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corby diamond wrote: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!

Dover were drawn at home to Oxford City.

Bob's Bitch wrote:Dover were drawn at home to Oxford City.

From our point of view I'm glad that they didn't draw one of the conference big boys.

Bob's Bitch wrote:Dover were drawn at home to Oxford City.

Bet Oxford don't take half the amount of fans we had at the Crabble.

Trek wrote:

Bob's Bitch wrote:Dover were drawn at home to Oxford City.

Bet Oxford don't take half the amount of fans we had at the Crabble.

If you look at the average crowd at The Crabble this season and the STATED CROWD :oops: for Sat think we only took about 30 Still a new first for us we normally help to improve teams home gates, either every team in the Skrill South takes 400+ away or a lot of Dover fans went on a day trip to France :roll: On the Dover forum they even have a thread regarding the STATED ATTENDANCE, which is referred to as a Classic Cup one, think we all know what that means, please Dover either buy an abacus or hang your head in shame. Sure all normal excuses can be given, but the attendance is the total number of people who attend the game paying or otherwise excluding, players, officials and working members of staff, so please give us that number (as some may-did have a bet on it) you can then argue the toss with our treasurer about how many freebies the may have been and why our 50% is less than we had expected, as fans we don`t need to know about that, but as fans I think we are all
pis ed of with hearing a attendance announcement around half time at away games which IMO we all think/know is bo ocks.
On the plus side bar and food were decent and sensibly priced and most of the Dover fans were fine. Shame about the prat in front of our main support during the 1st half who spent most of it turning round and giving the V, sure the half whit was desperate for a reaction, well he got one, A Diamond special goal celebration :lol: :lol:
Though does the Dover Manager think he was doing Starms job :?: having in post match interview made mention to the exceptional support & how it helped the team, they made more noise in the bar after the game than they did during it.
Ignoring the fact some, though not many at Dover felt the need to treat us like a bunch of 2nd class citizens, though they actually knew sod all about us, reformed Club :?: from Merseyside playing in the Northern Premier, good from a Club that has been reformed once for every letter in it`s name, but besides that. A great day out to add to the growing list and happy to say iv`e not missed any of them.
We were beaten by a better team on the day, to have a chance we needed to have everyone close to 100% and it didn`t quite happen, but gave it a bloody good go for 45 mins, and the 12th man was IMO MOTM :lol: :lol:
Good luck Dover against Oxford in the next round, and I look forward to seeing the revised attendance figure ;) ;)

Still not happy that they stopped Adam broadcasting for seemingly no other reason than they could. Perhaps it's a Dad thing.

SouthRushdenJFC wrote:Still not happy that they stopped Adam broadcasting for seemingly no other reason than they could. Perhaps it's a Dad thing.

Sorry forgot to mention that in my "all things Dover got wrong article" Yes appears no other reason, and as only 30 of us made the trip sure lots would have loved to have been able to tune in, my Mrs tried the Radio Hops option and ended up in Turkey, not literally sadly :lol: maybe someone from Dover could explain why when contrary to the party line, Radio Kent were NEVER going to be doing a live broadcast and Dover don`t do a live radio feed we were not allowed to supply commentary to all our fans back home who didn`t make the trip, and for that matter those Dover fans who were unable to attend.

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.

Trek wrote: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 have to agree trek, 15pounds was a superb saving on fuel. Don't really want to criticise the coach, but feel that the 45 minute stop was slightly excessive. The 5 mile crawl was painful to be honest, and could of been avoided had the stop been 25 mins. It wasn't pleasant turning up 15 mins before kick off, and running up the hill to the ground. Felt Dover lost out massively, wouldn't of minded a pre match drink beforehand, and Dover probably wouldn't had minded either felt there was no time to soak up the pre match atmosphere. Apart from that a good day anyhow

All in all a very good cup run and some nice income for the club. Estimates around £15k in total would we think ?