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Let’s get right behind Chris and the team tonight, it’s about full support. Let’s get those 3 points.

Be interesting to see home attendances tonight and Monday. A barometer as to the effect of the Legends match and results to date. I predict 350-400 tonight and 550-600 Monday. The 1pm ko could hurt Mondays attendance, do we know why the early ko.

Would imagine there will be more than that at the Corby game but we shall see.

Tonight i agree with Sussex about 350= , its a nice day so that will help but Monday about 750 +, be good to have a big gate to put a few pounds in the coffers

I think 750+ Monday . Maybe the police have advised a 1pm so less alcohol is consumed?? Corby vs harborough had trouble after the game , and wasn’t that their 1st ever meet up? Maybe they think something might happen here.

But I could be talking bs lol

Didn't expect to have a worse start to this season than under Burge but here we are.

Only positives were the 2nd half in the de banke was entertaining and a good amount of young fans at the game. Not a lot can be said for the entertainment on offer on the pitch however, but lets stick behind the boys and Chris!

Rushdenjim wrote: Tue Aug 22, 2023 8:50 pm Didn't expect to have a worse start to this season than under Burge but here we are.

Sadly yes, after 3 games last season we hadn't won a game but did at least have a point and scored a couple of goals as well, a truly abysmal result tonight against a mid table team of cheats.

Having said that, as poor as we were and despite some dreadful defending, I wouldn't say 3-0 was a fair reflection of the game, unlike the first two games we did actually look a bit more threatening on the attack and did have some better passages of play, big shame Will missed a penalty which is uncharacteristic of him but it wasn't easy against such a huge keeper it could have been different had we scored that. And also, the way we really put in the effort and had a few chances towards the end even at 3-0 was good to see, there were some, albeit small, signs of improvement at times tonight.

Definitely would give Tom and John Dean a start on Saturday, they made quite a difference when they came on, we went from neither of our strikers winning a single header to Tom winning pretty much every one when he came on, why we kept on playing high balls to Pharrell and Ethan half the night I have no idea...

Poor start for our opponents on Saturday as well, we need to get this season up and running and get a point at least on the board, otherwise we could be looking at the ignominy of a relegation battle at step 4!