We had over 10,000 for a youth game v Man Utd a few years back Granpa. Doubt we will get that again for this one.
You may be right Brendan, Chris Eagles was star man if I remember correctly, but I am reckoning on a big Chelsea showing for this. I'll have 10p on it, which of course you will never see.
anyone think staging the game before a home championship match will be possible
Its works very well in Gaelic football with the minors playing just before the seniors. Smaller crowds as they drift in but a crowd none the less. Can't see it happening in football though , what with the warm-ups taking up so much time. But still a good idea imo.
Bearing in mind there are already youth fixtures on a Saturday and that especially in our case youth players can be called into the first-team squad, would Chelsea really agree to this, even if it was feasible?
The cost implications of opening The Valley for a minor match are already prohibitive; they would be different for an add-on match, but for example you could end up paying casual staff for extended hours as you couldn't easily close stands that you wouldn't need. Then there is the consideration of accommodating Chelsea fans, as well as those for the first-team opposition.
It sounds like a nice idea but in practice there are a lot of issues you would need to surmount.
We had over 10,000 for a youth game v Man Utd a few years back Granpa. Doubt we will get that again for this one.
You may be right Brendan, Chris Eagles was star man if I remember correctly, but I am reckoning on a big Chelsea showing for this. I'll have 10p on it, which of course you will never see.
Think your both thinking of when both Teams won their reserve leagues so south played North winners. Rossi got a hatrick and Eagles was the stand out player. Mark Fish actually played in that. Could be wrong though and you maybe talking bout something else.
We had over 10,000 for a youth game v Man Utd a few years back Granpa. Doubt we will get that again for this one.
You may be right Brendan, Chris Eagles was star man if I remember correctly, but I am reckoning on a big Chelsea showing for this. I'll have 10p on it, which of course you will never see.
Think your both thinking of when both Teams won their reserve leagues so south played North winners. Rossi got a hatrick and Eagles was the stand out player. Mark Fish actually played in that. Could be wrong though and you maybe talking bout something else.
Both right, we did play United for a Reserve play off, but we did alo play them in front of 10K in the Youth Cup Semi Final back in either 2002 or 2003
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You may be right Brendan, Chris Eagles was star man if I remember correctly, but I am reckoning on a big Chelsea showing for this. I'll have 10p on it, which of course you will never see.
I think there would be problems with knowing what stands to open for the FAYC too, as you wouldn't want the cost of the north.
The cost implications of opening The Valley for a minor match are already prohibitive; they would be different for an add-on match, but for example you could end up paying casual staff for extended hours as you couldn't easily close stands that you wouldn't need. Then there is the consideration of accommodating Chelsea fans, as well as those for the first-team opposition.
It sounds like a nice idea but in practice there are a lot of issues you would need to surmount.