[ Sat 8th Sep ] v Olney Town KO 3pm AWAY

[Pigman]

I think it was Judith that went around and said to me there was 500 or so there, so there was a headcount made by one of us, so in reality I reckon there were probably more than 513 as people were coming in from the rugby side as well, but a great attendance nonetheless.

We won, they lost, we're top - end of !

We'll measure how good we are when we play the likes of Sileby won't we?

I enjoyed my day in Olney yesterday, lovely place, nice and local to me, beautiful weather, great beer/pub (although our numbers did catch the landlady out !!) and but for the bar/post we would have run out 0-3 winners.

Onwards and upwards, looking forward to being back at the D&D for next week, lets hope the weather is kind to us and we get another good turnout and result against what I am expecting to be a very tough Fakenham Town side - next week will be a real tester for us, St Ives could only beat them 1-0 and CRC who they beat in the previous round are a very useful outfit - should be a great game !!

(Edit: just looked at the forecast and its another glorious weekend (fingers crossed this proves to be righthttp://www.accuweather.com/en/gb/bedford/mk40- ... her/326932 ) spread the word and lets get as many as we can down there, be great to beat the previous home game's attendance - we can do that can't we? ;)

[Dirty Boy]

Great turn out, great result, loved it!

Finished off the day with a couple more cold one's from the fridge and a curry! Fantastic day all round, really enjoyed myself. A proud fan, roll on Saturday.

I only had one issue, i did not appreciate the "shoulder barge" given to one of our players in the first 5 mins, he ended up in the crowd, and landed straight onto a child's buggy, could have been nasty, thought the ref should have had a word with the Olney player over that.

[BartonRaz]

I only had one issue, i did not appreciate the "shoulder barge" given to one of our players in the first 5 mins, he ended up in the crowd, and landed straight onto a child's buggy, could have been nasty, thought the ref should have had a word with the Olney player over that.

Could have been even worse if there had been a bar around the pitch, which there should have been IMO.

I read in their programme that they're not eligible for promotion, or allowed to participate in the Vase or FA Cup because of their ground.

[Bobos]

Let's all make comments about the hat! :lol:

I say ban the hooligan

LOLZ..............Who's the Prat in the hat 8-)

[BartonRaz]

Must say I thought their programme was very good yesterday.

[Noddy]

Someone did count and there was over the 500 there

I had a rough count each half, and counted 540 in first half, and 520 in second half (excluding people in the bar), so I reckon the official attendance of 513 was pretty accurate.

[Olly]

I only had one issue, i did not appreciate the "shoulder barge" given to one of our players in the first 5 mins, he ended up in the crowd, and landed straight onto a child's buggy, could have been nasty, thought the ref should have had a word with the Olney player over that.

Could have been even worse if there had been a bar around the pitch, which there should have been IMO.

I read in their programme that they're not eligible for promotion, or allowed to participate in the Vase or FA Cup because of their ground.

Thought that would be the case. I may be wrong but I imagine you have to at least have turnstiles and a few seats to enter the Vase and certainly the Cup. And their programme was very good, extremely professional looking front and inside front cover as well, very impressive.

[Pigman]

.........and our fans were angry about the officials at this match, I wonder what would have happened if this had occured :lol: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19589825

[Olly]

.........and our fans were angry about the officials at this match, I wonder what would have happened if this had occured :lol: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19589825

I seem to remember a similar thing happening at an Exeter game in the conference several years ago with a ball going through a hole in the netting, but this particular incident is far worse seeing as though its in the FA Cup and robbing a non league club of the competition's financial benefits and it would be outrageous if they don't play a replay in such exceptional circumstances.

[Everyweeker]

Was no-one else at Droylsden a few years ago...

At least we won that game!