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The Voice - Match preview Crawley Town vs Bradford City Friday 7th April @ 3:00pm

Discussion in 'City Talk' started by The Voice, Mar 31, 2023.

  1. Gardscoigne

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    You could hear him scream keepers, and you can hear him on the highlights also.
     
  2. Ulysses S Grant

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    Good Friday will have a far bigger impact on how many we sell that Ifollow. A lot of people don't get Good Friday off and there's Bank Holiday services on trains to consider, god botherers for whom Good Friday is the most important day of the year and families who only see each other at Easter.
     
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    To be fair, even the best keeper in the world would have conceded that penalty as it was all their player was aiming for, he had no intention of getting a shot off, Lewis didn't bring him down as such as he purposefully ran directly into Lewis' arm and went down as soon as he felt contact. It was a foul, it was a penalty, but he went in with that as his aim.
     
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  4. Loyalbantam

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    I’m certain that there’s at least 10% of our fanbase that don’t fall into the criteria above.

    It’s not guilt tripping, it’s a rallying call for anyone with means to do so, to get to games and cheer the boys on in the last 8 games with everything riding on them.
    They’re ALL cup finals.
     
  5. Kevin1954

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    Thanks Idle , I think we can safely say, with certainty , it’s down to Harry on that basis.

    Normally the defender should have hoofed it and he could have done. I would personally assume the keeper was right behind me. He wasn’t!

    It’s hard to knock him on a one off , where a goal was conceded.
     
  6. Kevin1954

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    Southern based ones will drive. Anything to detour away from London!
     
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  7. Offcomedun

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    Not if they live in North or East London. Many people there don't even own a car because the public transport is so good and the Congestion Charge/ULEZ/residents' parking charges are so expensive.
     
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  8. Offcomedun

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    But it's still a very important element of the equation. If iFollow deters, say, 200.people from paying the home club to attend the game, but 2000 subscribe to iFollow, netting our club many thousands, then it's arguably a price worth paying.
     
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  9. Rogered Tart

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    Yeah definitely called for it. Platt would more than likely have cleared it but for the call. It happens, even to quality.keepers like Lewis.
     
  10. Sergio Pinto III

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    Please please please start Derbyshire.
     
  11. Loyalbantam

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    Good point , if only the 4000 fans who went to Doncaster had have paid for a £10 iFollow pass we’d have paid all the players wages this month in one fail swoop.
    I mean we might not have won the game with zero vocal backing but who cares if we’re financially sound.
     
  12. WilsdenBantam

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    I think it was last season when Ederson did a carbon copy of Saturday against Newcastle, I only remember because I had him in my dread team!
     
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    Couldn't agree more. Only Leyton Orient and Stockport have conceded less than out back five. Mistakes happen and notwithstanding the two v Grimsby, Harry Lewis has been League Two's stand out goalie this season, not just for shot-stopping but positional sense, moving the game on and decision making. There will though, without a doubt, be many tweaks further forward to best aid Cook and Walker - Derbyshire, Costelloe, Banks, Manny. Though not, I reckon Oliver unless last-resort. Don't know what's gone on there, little news coming out of VP on that one. Anyone know anything?
     
  14. Offcomedun

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    Obviously, if iFollow were to drastically reduce the away crowd to that extent then it would be a bad thing. But I don't believe it does. I think that most people who want to go away will go anyway, rather than watch it on iFollow. It's a totally different experience. And most who watch on iFollow wouldn't have gone anyway.

    I'll be going to Rochdale, Crewe and Northampton (assuming I have enough points) but not to Swindon or Crawley. I'll watch the other two on iFollow (via VPN). But even if I couldn't watch those two on iFollow, I wouldn't have gone to those games - five away trips in under a month is just too much, both financially and for family reasons. So the club will gain money from me watching the Swindon and Crawley games that it wouldn't have otherwise got.
     
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  15. Rogered Tart

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    Dread team lol. We've had a few of them over the last five years.
     
  16. vin weasel

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    Also affects our bank balance.
    To the tune of £300k
    Im still a believer in travelling and supporting the lads though.
     
  17. Kevin1954

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    True.
     
  18. JonButterfield

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    I can't think of anyone who would ever say 'I'm not going to the game because I can watch it on TV because that's totally the same experience'.

    It's not realistic. If you're going to the game, you're going to the game. You're not going to be put off by watching on a small screen.

    Or listening to the radio.

    Or following on Ceefax.

    It's nonsense.
     
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    You worry to much about other fans @Loyalbantam@Loyalbantam, just be happy your going and forget about what other fans may or may not do.
     
  20. WilsdenBantam

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    Serious business is dream team, cost me £35 m8
     
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