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Not exactly too difficult a feat to achieve considering, but I assume you find the fact that we are more than likely going to STILL be playing non league football next season a 'success' - whatever floats your boat.
That would always be the case even if we finished 1 point behind Luton and 15 points ahead of 3rd place. At best a really good team has about a 1 in 3 chance of winning the play-offs, a poor one maybe 1 in 6. So every team who enters the play-offs is more likely to be unsuccesful then they are successful. The key is to get in them every year then you'll eventually succeed. So far PH has done that, and is on target to do so again. |
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What sort of contract is ph on - end of season?
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That would always be the case even if we finished 1 point behind Luton and 15 points ahead of 3rd place. At best a really good team has about a 1 in 3 chance of winning the play-offs, a poor one maybe 1 in 6. So every team who enters the play-offs is more likely to be unsuccesful then they are successful. The key is to get in them every year then you'll eventually succeed. So far PH has done that, and is on target to do so again.
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his team is driving away fans
On the opening day of the season 4,037 were at BP to see Aldershot The last 2 gates at BP have been 4,174 and 4,374. Our average in the two seasons before, one of which PH arrived at when it was too late to get in the play-offs were 3,072 and 3,141. Hard to see that PH is really driving away fans - people are coming in response to our position near the top of the league I would argue more than any other factor. |
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I can't stand the boring bloke and his team is driving away fans. That was about as boring as it gets tonight. Off our seats once in 90 mins and that chance was created by a defensive lapse. I'm finding it harder and harder to drag myself to BP and most of my mates have stopped going altogether.
We can't replace him at this stage of the season. I said at the time Scott went, that we should have cut our losses and got rid of Hurst too, brought in Mills when he was available and given him the time to build a decent footballing side.
Too late now. We have to see this through and hope to god that we get in the play offs and perform better than of late, but to be honest, i can't see it.
I agree about Mills, said at the time we'd missed an opportunity when he went to Gateshead. Could we prize him away from the Heed in the summer? Depends how ambitious Mr Fenty is. |
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people are coming in response to our position near the top of the league I would argue more than any other factor.
I'd argue it's as much to do with the cheap ticket offers we've had to roll out recently. |
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That would always be the case even if we finished 1 point behind Luton and 15 points ahead of 3rd place. At best a really good team has about a 1 in 3 chance of winning the play-offs, a poor one maybe 1 in 6. So every team who enters the play-offs is more likely to be unsuccesful then they are successful. The key is to get in them every year then you'll eventually succeed. So far PH has done that, and is on target to do so again.
So in our current state that's about 1 in 20, we are nowhere near good enough, our club is skint and our manager clueless. We will sell less season tickets next year and be even more indebted to Fenty, if you're happy that that is progress then you mest beon some kind of hallucinatory substance. |
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On the opening day of the season 4,037 were at BP to see Aldershot The last 2 gates at BP have been 4,174 and 4,374. Our average in the two seasons before, one of which PH arrived at when it was too late to get in the play-offs were 3,072 and 3,141. Hard to see that PH is really driving away fans - people are coming in response to our position near the top of the league I would argue more than any other factor.
Good gates but if we were looking more convincing (league tables don't necessarily tell the whole story) we'd be looking at 5k. |
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The ten changes at dartford might just come back to haunt hurst, because that tonight was dire and we might just miss out on the playoffs
But hurst is so negative it's unreal, even on the radio he comes across as boring, so no wonder there's no urgency in the team apart from the last five mins again.
IMHO I think hurst is now showing how out of his depth he really is now were at the business end of the season, he hasn't got a clue
Halifax wanted it more than us tonight and all hurst can do is stand there with his arms folded.
Baffling to me but what do I know
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The end of the season is a lot more than 2 weeks away.
League position brings in the crowds far more than "entertainment". Crowds were up 40% last year, they're a bit down this year but still well up on Hurst's predecessors who got nowhere near the play-offs.
Are gates up purely because the club has cottoned on to how to promote the team with endless offers in the paper? Last year we needed the support to bolster a late challenge, this year we have fared better in a poor league, but the offers seem to have been far more constant than previous years |
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