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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? ;)

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.

Dirty Boy wrote: 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.

rudolph_hucker wrote:

Sara Pascoe wrote:

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

I say ban the hooligan

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

Must say I thought their programme was very good yesterday.

bozzer wrote: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.

BartonRaz wrote:

Dirty Boy wrote: 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.

.........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

Pigman wrote:.........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.

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

At least we won that game!