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  • Redvaliant
    Redvaliant Posts: 514
    That is shocking, surely Pennocks days must be numbered.
  • R0TW
    R0TW Posts: 1,673
    Let’s hope not.
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,497
    edited October 6
    Saw Hendon win 1-0 at Dulwich in the FA Trophy on Saturday.

    Funny old game.....the Hendon keeper saved two penalties, with the second one being in the 92nd minute! Real heroic stuff from him. 

    Crowd was very low by Dulwich standards, 1,185 and it seems that the malaise regarding early rounds of the cup has now filtered into certain parts of non-league football. 1,185 is probably less than half of the expected attendance for a similar-sized Dulwich league game. Sad to see that. 
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,497
    Back down to earth last night for Hendon.

    Our hero goalie rolled a ball straight to a Harrow Borough forward, took him down, conceded a penalty and got a red card. Another red card followed and so did a 4-1 thumping. 

    Sadly, some real unpleasantness in the form of anti-semitic comments from some blokes old enough to know better, further soured the evening. We don't need that sort of shit anywhere....least of all at non-league football. 
  • CAFCTrev
    CAFCTrev Posts: 5,964
    Simonsen said:
    Saw Hendon win 1-0 at Dulwich in the FA Trophy on Saturday.

    Funny old game.....the Hendon keeper saved two penalties, with the second one being in the 92nd minute! Real heroic stuff from him. 

    Crowd was very low by Dulwich standards, 1,185 and it seems that the malaise regarding early rounds of the cup has now filtered into certain parts of non-league football. 1,185 is probably less than half of the expected attendance for a similar-sized Dulwich league game. Sad to see that. 
    I went to an early round FA Trophy game at Dulwich during the 2012/13 season, there was around 250 there for it back then. Getting over a thousand for any kind of Dulwich game was a pipe dream back then! 
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,497
    CAFCTrev said:
    Simonsen said:
    Saw Hendon win 1-0 at Dulwich in the FA Trophy on Saturday.

    Funny old game.....the Hendon keeper saved two penalties, with the second one being in the 92nd minute! Real heroic stuff from him. 

    Crowd was very low by Dulwich standards, 1,185 and it seems that the malaise regarding early rounds of the cup has now filtered into certain parts of non-league football. 1,185 is probably less than half of the expected attendance for a similar-sized Dulwich league game. Sad to see that. 
    I went to an early round FA Trophy game at Dulwich during the 2012/13 season, there was around 250 there for it back then. Getting over a thousand for any kind of Dulwich game was a pipe dream back then! 
    Yeah...100% agree. When I first went to Dulwich back in about 1991 (Jim Cannon was playing CB for them) the crowd was 125.

    Just a bit sad that the modern fan doesn't seem to want to know about cup football unless it's a big game or the latter stages. That didn't used to be the case but a combination of Premier League and Champions League has been bad for domestic cup competitions and there is a whole generation of fans now that doesn't know how good cup football can be. 
  • CAFCTrev
    CAFCTrev Posts: 5,964
    Simonsen said:
    CAFCTrev said:
    Simonsen said:
    Saw Hendon win 1-0 at Dulwich in the FA Trophy on Saturday.

    Funny old game.....the Hendon keeper saved two penalties, with the second one being in the 92nd minute! Real heroic stuff from him. 

    Crowd was very low by Dulwich standards, 1,185 and it seems that the malaise regarding early rounds of the cup has now filtered into certain parts of non-league football. 1,185 is probably less than half of the expected attendance for a similar-sized Dulwich league game. Sad to see that. 
    I went to an early round FA Trophy game at Dulwich during the 2012/13 season, there was around 250 there for it back then. Getting over a thousand for any kind of Dulwich game was a pipe dream back then! 
    Yeah...100% agree. When I first went to Dulwich back in about 1991 (Jim Cannon was playing CB for them) the crowd was 125.

    Just a bit sad that the modern fan doesn't seem to want to know about cup football unless it's a big game or the latter stages. That didn't used to be the case but a combination of Premier League and Champions League has been bad for domestic cup competitions and there is a whole generation of fans now that doesn't know how good cup football can be. 
    I agree, when I was a kid/teen (we are talking the 90s, yes Im old) a cup game of any kind FA Cup/League Cup would get a crowd that was around the same as a league game, maybe a tiny bit lower for the league cup, but nothing dramatic. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,816
    Dulwich get ludicrous crowds for that level. Hard to understand why FA Trophy attendances would be well down on normal gates, as it's not as if they get 2000 fans along just to see the scintillating football played at Isthmian League Premier Division level!
  • MarcusH26
    MarcusH26 Posts: 8,016
    killerandflash said:
    Dulwich get ludicrous crowds for that level. Hard to understand why FA Trophy attendances would be well down on normal gates, as it's not as if they get 2000 fans along just to see the scintillating football played at Isthmian League Premier Division level!



    All I can think is cup games not being on Season Tickets but I don't see that basically halving the gate because it's FA Trophy 
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,497
    Don't get me wrong....a share of 1,185 gate money is serious money for a club like Hendon and away to Dulwich was absolutely the best draw we could have got for financial reasons (and also because Dulwich have always welcomed us). 

    I really do put it down to "modern-fan syndrome" ....early rounds of cups are seen as an irrelevance. At non-league level, it's not like teams are routinely putting out weakened sides in the FA Trophy. 
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  • R0TW
    R0TW Posts: 1,673
    Watched Welling go down 3-2 at VCD last night.
    Very seldom I couldn’t care less about losing, but to go out early in the Kent Senior Cup (won it last season), didn’t bother me in the slightest.
    Nice ground and set up at VCD. The groundsman certainly knows his job
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,004
    R0TW said:
    Watched Welling go down 3-2 at VCD last night.
    Very seldom I couldn’t care less about losing, but to go out early in the Kent Senior Cup (won it last season), didn’t bother me in the slightest.
    Nice ground and set up at VCD. The groundsman certainly knows his job

    Of them, Welling and Dartford I'd always prefer going to VCD for those reasons.
    A very different place to when I went there about 30 seasons ago.

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