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Post by surge on Jan 28, 2024 16:50:52 GMT
I know the BBC want risk of an upset but really Maidstone beating Ipswich focussed the minds of every other favourite this afternoon. Ref not giving County soft free-kicks isn't helping them either.
It's been pretty disappointing viewing so far. Is this the regular back 5? Where is the midfield?
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Post by manulike on Jan 28, 2024 17:09:31 GMT
That goal is worth TWO GOALs - a stunning strike! Must check it out on MOTD
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Post by surge on Jan 28, 2024 17:22:32 GMT
Significant deflection off Martinez which they're not talking about after showing it once.
It's a bit like when politicians raise heated points irrelevant to the ongoing discussion for the social media clicks.
Doesn't really matter, County looking more confident now.
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Post by gimli on Jan 28, 2024 17:46:01 GMT
There must be some Welsh in Bryn Morris?!
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Post by surge on Jan 28, 2024 18:23:55 GMT
Kiban Rai has looked promising since coming on.
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Post by jbt95 on Jan 28, 2024 18:48:56 GMT
Excellent performance. The score line doesn’t reflect the game really. I thought Newport were better than Man Utd for the rest of the game after they got to 1-2.
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Post by rncfc on Jan 28, 2024 20:12:26 GMT
We were brilliant today, paid them too much respect first 15 minutes which cost us.
Great day out, those boys have done our city and country proud.
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Post by surge on Jan 28, 2024 20:27:26 GMT
Big (relatively) cash prize from today but hopefully also a community falling (back) in love with their local team.
Mike Flynn said in the BBC program on Saturday that, due to County going out of business, 80% of football fans in Newport support a premier League team instead of County.
Winning 20% plus of those fans back would be massive for County going forward.
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Post by erasedcitizen on Jan 28, 2024 20:43:18 GMT
Big (relatively) cash prize from today but hopefully also a community falling (back) in love with their local team. Mike Flynn said in the BBC program on Saturday that, due to County going out of business, 80% of football fans in Newport support a premier League team instead of County. Winning 20% plus of those fans back would be massive for County going forward. Two big performances in a row in front of 2 sellout crowds. If that doesn't inspire supporters to turn up then nothing will. |
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Post by jimexotic on Jan 28, 2024 21:39:03 GMT
6 of us went nuts in the pub earlier, we all believed it was on, even at 0-2, Newport were brilliant and did themselves proud.
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Post by jimexotic on Apr 28, 2024 20:50:28 GMT
2 points off the play offs with 8 games to go, Will Evans looking really good, they then lost their last 8 games, Evans finishing the season playing left wing back and Coughlan and Jenkins with a hell of a lot to think about over the summer as massive changes to the playing staff will now start to happen. I really hope Huw Jenkins can help turn the clubs fortunes around, out of the four Welsh clubs in the English football league I find Newport the most likeable.
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Post by aberbeeg on Apr 29, 2024 7:19:12 GMT
2 points off the play offs with 8 games to go, Will Evans looking really good, they then lost their last 8 games, Evans finishing the season playing left wing back and Coughlan and Jenkins with a hell of a lot to think about over the summer as massive changes to the playing staff will now start to happen. I really hope Huw Jenkins can help turn the clubs fortunes around, out of the four Welsh clubs in the English football league I find Newport the most likeable. Unfortunately the people of Newport have never supported the Club. |
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Post by iot on Apr 29, 2024 11:39:23 GMT
2 points off the play offs with 8 games to go, Will Evans looking really good, they then lost their last 8 games, Evans finishing the season playing left wing back and Coughlan and Jenkins with a hell of a lot to think about over the summer as massive changes to the playing staff will now start to happen. I really hope Huw Jenkins can help turn the clubs fortunes around, out of the four Welsh clubs in the English football league I find Newport the most likeable.Not for me, pretty sure their avg. attendance is below 5k which is pretty poor for a city with 160k people, more than three times the size of Wrexham. I want them to do well obviously, but I tend to take less interest because the lack of local interest / ability to push on. |
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Post by aberbeeg on Apr 29, 2024 18:09:48 GMT
History will show that the City of Newport have never supported the Club. I think even during their most seasons in early 80s they struggle to get many crowds over 10k. The exceptions being the Cardiff City 18k Portsmouth 16k games in the old league 3 ( now League1) . This was when Newport were also fighting for promotion plus the Cup Winners Cup match against Carl Heinz Jenna.
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Post by jimexotic on Apr 30, 2024 10:26:33 GMT
Let's hope Huw can work some pr magic, get more kids to games and interested in the club, they really need their own stadium though. I'm guessing he knows better than anyone what he's up against and wouldn't have taken this on if he didn't think he could make a success of it. I'm sure that if Newport got out of League Two and remained competitive and held it together the fanbase would grow.
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Post by aberbeeg on Apr 30, 2024 15:55:23 GMT
History definitely suggests differently Jim
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Post by jimexotic on Apr 30, 2024 22:07:34 GMT
Yeah, I'm being wildly optimistic but imagine the four Welsh clubs in the football league all doing considerably well, possibly all in the same division, that would be quite something and with footballs popularity there's a chance Newport could grow, very wishful thinking though I know.
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Post by jbt95 on Apr 30, 2024 22:30:33 GMT
History will show that the City of Newport have never supported the Club. I think even during their most seasons in early 80s they struggle to get many crowds over 10k. The exceptions being the Cardiff City 18k Portsmouth 16k games in the old league 3 ( now League1) . This was when Newport were also fighting for promotion plus the Cup Winners Cup match against Carl Heinz Jenna. Newport half the size of Cardiff nowadays and only one season second division straight after the war. Pretty good going I’d say 😜 |
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Post by jbt95 on Apr 30, 2024 22:31:46 GMT
2 points off the play offs with 8 games to go, Will Evans looking really good, they then lost their last 8 games, Evans finishing the season playing left wing back and Coughlan and Jenkins with a hell of a lot to think about over the summer as massive changes to the playing staff will now start to happen. I really hope Huw Jenkins can help turn the clubs fortunes around, out of the four Welsh clubs in the English football league I find Newport the most likeable. Unfortunately the people of Newport have never supported the Club. None of the Welsh clubs can vouch ‘the people’ have supported them if you wanna be down about everything!! |
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Post by aberbeeg on May 1, 2024 7:27:45 GMT
Unfortunately the people of Newport have never supported the Club. None of the Welsh clubs can vouch ‘the people’ have supported them if you wanna be down about everything!! I’ll definitely call you out on that JB. I spoke about the people of Newport historically not supporting their club ( including their most successful season in 80s ) compare that historically to the likes of CCFC who regularly pulled in crowds of over 60k in the 60s and more recently over 30k throughout their premiership seasons. (Even this season there has been a gate of over 28k )Granted during much tougher times it’s not been great. likewise SCFC regularly pulled in 20k in their premiership seasons. |
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Post by jbt95 on May 1, 2024 9:53:11 GMT
None of the Welsh clubs can vouch ‘the people’ have supported them if you wanna be down about everything!! I’ll definitely call you out on that JB. I spoke about the people of Newport historically not supporting their club ( including their most successful season in 80s ) compare that historically to the likes of CCFC who regularly pulled in crowds of over 60k in the 60s and more recently over 30k throughout their premiership seasons. (Even this season there has been a gate of over 28k )Granted during much tougher times it’s not been great. likewise SCFC regularly pulled in 20k in their premiership seasons. Have you just compared First Division Cardiff City with Third Tier Newport County? Cardiff never got 30k in their first PL season as the new stand wasn’t built then. Gates in the 60s were higher everywhere, the 80s was during peak hooliganism where even the First Division clubs were struggling to get gates over 20k. www.worldfootball.net/attendance/eng-premier-league-1983-1984/1/ |
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Post by aberbeeg on May 1, 2024 9:58:27 GMT
JB,I’ve compared crowds between various South Wales clubs HISTORICALLY. Purely because you said the people of South Wales have not supported their clubs.
Well history shows that the likes of Swansea and Cardiff have been supported ( upto a point).whereas Newport have never been supported decently.
The best comparison purely because Newport have rarely played Swansea or Cardiff on a regular basis. Is the 82/83 season when both County and Cardiff were both going for promotion from the old Div 3 ( now league 1). County had an average of 4k their lowest gate was 993!! Cardiff had an average of 9k . County were above Cardiff up until Easter that season but County finished 4th and missed out on promotion to Div 2 ( Championship).
Of course all 3 clubs have also had terrible crowd figures over the years as well.
PS I’ve just checked CCFC first season in prem was 28k ( you are right the new stand wasn’t built) all bar one game sold out and second season average 32k all bar 3 games sold out.
yes crowds were much bigger in 60s yet County never averaged over 11k. You have to go all the way back to the 40s for their biggest ever average crowd which was 14k.
So history certainly does prove that Newport have never supported their club in whatever form it’s been in.
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Post by winsumluzsum on May 1, 2024 10:12:08 GMT
It is a bit strange that they're so badly supported. The city is slightly bigger than Ipswich, who have no trouble selling out 30,000 capacity Portman Road.
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Post by CrackityJones on May 1, 2024 10:30:07 GMT
Difference being Ipswich have had a lot of success in their history, Newport have had quite the opposite. Regardless of that, a city of their size should expect to have bigger attendances historically. Not sure what the reason is to be honest
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Post by fiveattheback on May 1, 2024 12:05:29 GMT
Difference being Ipswich have had a lot of success in their history, Newport have had quite the opposite. Regardless of that, a city of their size should expect to have bigger attendances historically. Not sure what the reason is to be honest It's no real surprise when you think the issues they've had with the financial troubles and eventual winding up, reformation, having to play in England, issues with the FAW and spending a big chunk of time in tier 6 and below. It's what, only 14 years since they were in the Conference South and 10 since their return to the Football League? It also doesn't help them that they have Cardiff about 10 minutes away |
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Post by winsumluzsum on May 1, 2024 13:38:55 GMT
With all the valid caveats Newport must be one of the most poorly supported teams in the English leagues. The rugby is another excuse I suppose but the city should be big enough to get average gates close to 10,000.
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Post by jimexotic on May 1, 2024 16:30:24 GMT
Let's not forget that Newport, the place, is on its arse. There's a lot of factors but I still believe that an upturn in fortunes on the pitch over a prolonged period of time could be the foundation for increasing the fanbase, you need generations to follow Newport.
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Post by aberbeeg on May 1, 2024 22:08:24 GMT
Difference being Ipswich have had a lot of success in their history, Newport have had quite the opposite. Regardless of that, a city of their size should expect to have bigger attendances historically. Not sure what the reason is to be honest It's no real surprise when you think the issues they've had with the financial troubles and eventual winding up, reformation, having to play in England, issues with the FAW and spending a big chunk of time in tier 6 and below. It's what, only 14 years since they were in the Conference South and 10 since their return to the Football League? It also doesn't help them that they have Cardiff about 10 minutes away Their troubles only really began in the 80s. The 82/83 season was their pinnacle ( average crowd 4k) but even upto that point the club had never really been supported. So no excuses really. Yes Cardiff is 10 miles or so away but that works both ways. |
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Post by aberbeeg on May 1, 2024 22:09:42 GMT
Let's not forget that Newport, the place, is on its arse. There's a lot of factors but I still believe that an upturn in fortunes on the pitch over a prolonged period of time could be the foundation for increasing the fanbase, you need generations to follow Newport. What about the previous 80 odd years? There are more Liverpool fans in Newport than County fans. |
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Post by fiveattheback on May 2, 2024 8:49:34 GMT
It's no real surprise when you think the issues they've had with the financial troubles and eventual winding up, reformation, having to play in England, issues with the FAW and spending a big chunk of time in tier 6 and below. It's what, only 14 years since they were in the Conference South and 10 since their return to the Football League? It also doesn't help them that they have Cardiff about 10 minutes away Their troubles only really began in the 80s. The 82/83 season was their pinnacle ( average crowd 4k) but even upto that point the club had never really been supported. So no excuses really. Yes Cardiff is 10 miles or so away but that works both ways. Yeah but they've been prolonged troubles that saw them miss out on a large part of football's boom by being in the depths of the lower league. I do agree though to an extent that Newport have never properly backed the club, but there are mitigating factors And without wanting to piss off County fans, the Cardiff thing doesn't really work both ways. Cardiff is the bigger city and bigger club, all around more attractive prospect as a fan |
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