Oh no 😯 It means I won't be able to swear as much 😭

Fancy making the place I sit into a "family" area without asking me 😾

I'm still waiting for the day that one of them asks dad/mum, "what's a  w***** ?" 😂

All joking aside, it should be a good earner for the club because the lovely little ones will expect food, drinks, scarf, programme etc.

And will hopefully become Linnets of the future 🤗🤗🤗⚽⚽⚽

Rather frustrating to have the information from Oxford before we could get our xxxx together 😾

As much as I appreciate the improvement of some news, rather than none, it still makes us look pretty amateurish. Buck stops with Cleeve or whoever the latest puppet master is, to get the news to the media guy/gal.

With social media being "instant" these days, the back of house needs to get with it.

Many clubs at this level or below seem to have things sorted for match days and get entertainment revenue from social events to bolster the funds.

What the management doesn't seem to get is that they can't keep coming to supporters for more money for this or that. They need to grab some cash from outside the club as well. But I won't hold my breath on that one...🙄

I don't know who or what will be blamed at the next match if/when we next run into trouble 🤔

We regularly get the one about the quality of the pitch. I'm pretty sure the weather has been blamed from time to time as well. Oh, the refs are always against us. The linos clearly don't know their job.

And now it's the supporters who are to blame. Exactly what is he expecting us to do ?

You rarely get singing or chanting from the main stand (whatever it's currently named). I don't know why, but that's just the way it is at Lynn.

It helps, of course, if we see something positive happening on the pitch in front of us to get behind and we become a bit more animated.

If it's indifferent, people start chatting to each other about the size of the turkey and how long it will take to get through it.

If it's negative on the pitch then how can we be expected to give genuine positive feedback to the players ?

Give us something to cheer about, because Lynn fans just don't work that way I'm afraid. If you're playing badly all you'll get in return is... the sound of silence 🤫

Must we all now not only pay good money to watch whatever is performed in front of us, which at times is of questionable quality, but must also give ongoing, but fake, positive feedback to the team during play ? Exactly how is that meant to help the players ?

Apportioning blame to the supporters is easy because we have no way to give "our" side of it.

Unfortunately finding the "right" support AL needs from Lynn fans is about as simple as pushing fog up a cat's bum with a knitting needle 😾

Quote from: Quinn Upstone on December 18, 2024, 07:56:59 PM

Sounds good to me 

I do find it odd that people don't seem to post much after a win. Had we lost there would have been a back and forth trying to work out who did, or didn't do, what.

Perhaps they're all still in a heightened state of euphoria 😉

I shall now return to my own post - match winning "happy place" (which includes Cadburys Dairy Milk and bingeing Gold Rush) Other brands and programmes are available...

It was an away win.

More people comment when it's a home win, presumably because more of them would have been at the game.

Thanks for that B&G. I hadn't thought of that 🤔

Thanks for your kind messages.

I might still be a bit concussed, and I have an amazing collection of bruises, but I'm definitely feeling much better 🙂

I'm already looking forward to Boxing Day's dramas. Hopefully I won't be bouncing around in the stand that day 😕

Only a draw against a big robust team who didn’t want to play football as we know it . Kick and rush, push and pull, time waste, try to fool the ref in getting KLTFC players booked or sent off. We needed a stronger ref and assistants today at times.

Spot on Linnet465. Absolutely agree with your analysis of the match. It was frustrating  and painful to watch in the first half, but we seemed to have the best of the second. It was clear fairly quickly that our opponents were bullies, tried to fool the ref (quite successfully) and they couldn't keep their hands to themselves.

I didn't try to guess the attendance today after recent dramas 😉

But a gate of just over 1000 at this time of year is quite impressive considering all the seasonal pull on people's wallets. 

Quote from: Quinn Upstone on December 11, 2024, 02:29:18 PM

Quote from: kieranuptoon on December 11, 2024, 08:22:42 AM

Quote from: Quinn Upstone on December 10, 2024, 06:09:54 PM

I was at the match and I don't believe that the gate was anywhere near that figure, and neither did the crowd. The chap I sit near to and I regularly try to guess the attendance. We're usually not far off. This time I said 300 and he said 450. A long way off and we just looked at each other and laughed. So did most of the people sitting around us.

But, a genuine question, what would be the purpose of inflating the attendance ?

Kieran

Can I just ask a question? After a win, as opposed to being positive or happy, why do you decide to accuse the club of artificially inflating numbers which do not have any benefits anyway?

I’d also ask you, were you really there and would you consider yourself a fan? I know what 300 fans look like and it definitely wasn’t 300.

Why is it so hard to be happy about the team?

 

Hi Kieran. Many thanks for your insightful and accusatory input.

Despite the waste of my time I will address your comments on my post:

I'm not "accusing" the club of anything. In fact I didn't mention the club at all when I asked a question regarding the possible purpose of inflating attendance numbers. It was a genuine question and you appear to be the only one who has tried to make something else from it.

I was both amused and entertained by the seemingly specious number given out for the attendance. Nothing more sinister than that.

I'm always in transports of delight, nay experience positive delirium, with a win, but I'm struggling to work out why attendance numbers and my ecstasy or otherwise are related to each other. They would appear to be mutually exclusive.

How dare you question whether I was "actually there" ? How dare you question whether I would consider that I was a "fan" ? What gives you the right to thereby imply that I'm a liar ?

I will be sending your libelous and defamatory babblings to my solicitor as I see you have a history of trying to bully and/or insult other posters. You go quiet when you're called out or the answers given exceed two syllables. I'm uncertain whether to consider you an amoeba or just detritus...

Now be a good boy and put your toys back in your pram. I'm sure it's way past your afternoon nap time.

Quinn, thank you for your reply.

That escalated quickly. I asked a couple of questions and suddenly I'm starring in the next courtroom drama on ITV.

If being puzzled at someone guessing 300 fans when it looked more like 811 makes me 'detritus,' then fair enough — I’ll proudly wear that badge (do I get a certificate too?). I must have missed the memo where being wrong about crowd sizes became a criminal offence.

For the record, I didn’t call you a liar — I asked a question. You know, one of those things people do when they want clarity, like, ‘Did you actually see it?’ It wasn’t a court summons, mate.

But listen, I’ll be sure to contact my legal team (aka. my mate Dave down the pub) to prepare for the incoming lawsuit. I’m sure they’ll be thrilled to hear I’m being sued over headcounts at a football match. 'Your Honour, we have reason to believe my client has overestimated human density.'

Anyway, I’ll leave you to your ‘transports of delight’ (lovely turn of phrase, by the way) and your impending multi-million-pound defamation case. If I’m found guilty, I’ll happily serve my time in solitary, counting imaginary crowds for company.

All the best, Kieran (Proud Member of the Amoeba Appreciation Society 🦠)

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I was at the match and I don't believe that the gate was anywhere near that figure, and neither did the crowd. The chap I sit near to and I regularly try to guess the attendance. We're usually not far off. This time I said 300 and he said 450. A long way off and we just looked at each other and laughed. So did most of the people sitting around us.

But, a genuine question, what would be the purpose of inflating the attendance ?