Welcome to the first Support Your Local Saturday thread - which we will be trialling for the first time today.
The premise is a thread to talk about your local team - something of an amalgamation of the Saturday Non-PL Daily Discussion Thread, and a “match-going fan” thread.
This does not necessarily mean that only comments from fans going to their local that day - but the spirit is a Discussion Thread for people who support their local team, and especially teams from lower or non-PL leagues - who can get drowned out in the pre-existing Daily Discussion Thread.
There is a small but dedicated following in the Non-PL DDT, and we were hoping that something of a re-brand may boost participation and help to build the excellent sub-community there.
We want to keep the focus to Non-PL teams, to prevent it being drowned out by Big 6 fans - but we will soften this slightly, in that comments of PL-supporting fans are valid, providing they were “at the match” that weekend.
It may not work, but worth giving a go, eh…
Rules:
- Discussion must be of your local team - whether they were you local growing up, or are your local now
- Discussion of PL teams is allowed only if you are attending the match that weekend - and hence focused on the match day experience
- Keep a high bar. This is not the DDT. If you want to troll, bait, or shit-talk like it’s Football Twitter, use the DDT. Or even better - Twitter.
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Went to start my car this morning to drive to the Town game. Nothing. Currently got my mechanic jacked up on the strongest espresso hoping he’ll fix it faster, stay tuned. Will be fuming if I miss it
Also good to see this thread finally be a thing, been asking for it forever
I’ve moved away from Birmingham this week but I def wouldn’t be going to the southampton away game away game anyway, 12:30 on a Saturday is a huge pain, as it’s when the cruises go as well trying to get down to southampton in time means you’d have to leave at about 7am and that’s scraping it
Love this, mods!
After 17 games, we stood dead last on 10 points with everyone writing us off. But after picking up 16 points in the following 10 games, we now find ourselves at one of the play off spots with 3 games remaining!
Our most recent game was against Jönköping Södra where we, for the first time since the opening game, pulled a respectable away following! We managed to fill our bus (fuck me, organising bus journeys for a bunch of drunk football fans, is fucking stressful!) and plenty of cars drove down as well meaning 80+ on the away stand. It’s still a shamefully low number, but for us, it’s a massive step in the right direction!
Tomorrow, we face Utsiktens BK at home in a game where sponsors and supporters pay for the entrance fee, meaning it’s free entry for the public. Should be a decent attendance despite the horrible weather. Utsikten were once top of the league by some margin but have had a horrendous second half of the season. Their top scorer also managed to get himself suspended in the last game because he went over to the away fans and started shouting abuse after the game was over!
On a personal level, it looks like I’ll finally be able to get my perfect season after missing out 2 years in a row by one single game. My old man is heading for his third consecutive perfect season! If we manage to keep our position, the first play off game will be his 100th competitive game in a row he sees in person, mad respect for that!
A perfect season in Sweden is really impressive, I’ll probably reach 28/30 this season but Belgium is tiny lol
What’s the furthest away game?
I’m from Queens, NY. We were supposed to have a soccer team called Queensboro FC and plans were approved for a new stadium for them. However, it got nixed because a rival plan - a new stadium in Queens for NYCFC (speaking of NYCFC, they were also shit this season but it was nice to see them play).
Shame. Queensboro FC would have played in USL but it’d be nice to expand soccer in the city.
I live in Baltimore now and sadly this city is heavily baseball and American football. DC United is the local team for me and the management is shit currently. Though I do enjoy going to Audi Field.
While not in the spirit of this thread… how on earth does someone from Queens become a Betis fan? haha
Off to Mechelen today on an away game, the first one we’re allowed to do by car and not by a mandatory bus
Up the greens
Not sure if it fits here, what’s the worst situation you’ve been at the stadium?
This thread comes at the perfect time for me. Our next game is Botev away (our derby) and there will be no away fans, because the derby at our ground was on the first round and the stadium is under construction. The away stand wasn’t ready for the game. The solution was simple - switch the derbies. First round at their ground, second at ours. Our club refused. Fuck them for that. I haven’t been at an away derby since 2012, cause their stadium got demolished in 2013 and it took them a while to build the new one. Can’t fucking wait for next season’s derbies.