Not somewhere I'd want to go regularly, but if Dulwich can finance themselves as a Saturday afternoon beer park, then it seems a bit churlish to criticise them.
Unless the rules change, I can't see them wanting promotion, as in the NL you can't drink in view of the pitch
It has stopped being fun at Dulwich now - just too many people there, in big groups, in a ground that really can't handle those numbers. I honestly think that for many of them, queueing for everything is part of the experience they go for - like those who line up outside branches of The Breakfast Club on a Sunday morning.
Wasn't there on Saturday, but I think the team doing well is helping hold back some of the complaints. There's also a lot of bad feeling about the Peter Crouch "club in crisis" fly-on-the-wall doc that's being made.
Going to be fascinating to see how a promotion push goes if the club's finances depend so heavily on selling vast amounts of beer.
I'm just relieved that the Welling match on Boxing Day is at PVR rather than Champion Hill (especially as that looks like being a good one as well).
Will be the first time in 49 years I've not been to watch the Hamlet, just not for me anymore. Grounds not fit for purpose, it just can't handle 3k people. I miss the days of chewing the fat on a cold, wet Tuesday night with my best mate, walking endlessly around the ground buying a lukewarm tea everytime we passed the tea hut, seeing Dulwich lose 0-1 to Harrow Borough with no more the 150 fans there.....those were the days. Pleased my Grandad's not around anymore to see what's become of them, he'd have hated it. Oh well, that's progress I suppose. Pleased they're still going and hopefully will be for some years yet, just not for me.
Will be the first time in 49 years I've not been to watch the Hamlet, just not for me anymore. Grounds not fit for purpose, it just can't handle 3k people. I miss the days of chewing the fat on a cold, wet Tuesday night with my best mate, walking endlessly around the ground buying a lukewarm tea everytime we passed the tea hut, seeing Dulwich lose 0-1 to Harrow Borough with no more the 150 fans there.....those were the days. Pleased my Grandad's not around anymore to see what's become of them, he'd have hated it. Oh well, that's progress I suppose. Pleased they're still going and hopefully will be for some years yet, just not for me.
A decade ago getting around 600-1k regularly and a long spell in the conf south would have been the dream scenario for Dulwich. Now it seems like the fan base has grown far too quickly, and theres something artificial about it as a result.
FFS, Welling already 2 0 down at Ebbsfleet. Long afternoon ahead.
Such a weird season for Welling, got done 6 nil twice, once by 5 another by 4, and its not even the half way point of the season. Yet they're still lower mid-table.
Heres hoping they can strengthen defensively and stop these sort of score-lines.
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Give me 600 die-hards at Park View Road any day over that!
Unless the rules change, I can't see them wanting promotion, as in the NL you can't drink in view of the pitch
Wasn't there on Saturday, but I think the team doing well is helping hold back some of the complaints. There's also a lot of bad feeling about the Peter Crouch "club in crisis" fly-on-the-wall doc that's being made.
Going to be fascinating to see how a promotion push goes if the club's finances depend so heavily on selling vast amounts of beer.
I'm just relieved that the Welling match on Boxing Day is at PVR rather than Champion Hill (especially as that looks like being a good one as well).
Heres hoping they can strengthen defensively and stop these sort of score-lines.