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141  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Barrow on: November 04, 2023, 15:51:57 pm
It's surely time we addressed the elephant that's left the room?
142  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Bristol Rovers (a) on: October 29, 2023, 20:24:03 pm
You mention "Catchment area" which a lot of other posters don't even seem is relevant, but of course it is very relevant. Northampton is the 24th biggest place in the UK, not just England, the UK !!!.
    Why do people think our home should be League One or Two ? With our catchment area and no established League club with 30 miles, I don't count MK as established, we really should be a Championship club

I agree but cities with much larger populations can accommodate more than one club before it gets to the 246,000 for Northampton. You are right though we should be comfortably in the Championship. We can only dream.
143  The Hotel End / Other Football & Sport / Re: VAR on: October 29, 2023, 19:46:27 pm
Well all the Liverpool moaning and whining worked a treat as the ref was too scared to send off Konate for one of the most obvious second yellows you’ll ever see.
While in the Chelsea v Arsenal game VAR intervened to award Chelsea a dubious penalty but then doesn’t for Arsenal when the goalkeeper takes out the striker in a far more blatant offence.

Exactly, it's the blame shifting we were warned of by those in the game.
We are stuck with it because it benefits the tv companies who supply the video feeds. Sod the supporters in the grounds left waiting with nothing while tv lords it over them
144  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Redevelopment Closer Than Ever? on: October 29, 2023, 19:38:46 pm
I’ve asked you to stop responding to my posts.
If you can’t work out why I’d try looking a little harder.
One last time please don’t respond to my posts (I only ever respond to yours in order to ask you to stop as I have no wish to interact with you on any level)
Thankyou

Ps
Marvo has you weighed up.


I'm not sure you have fully understood the concept of a public forum.
145  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Bristol Rovers (a) on: October 29, 2023, 19:24:07 pm
In the long term a club's position in the pyramid depends largely on the catchment area. Well run clubs with a bit of history can punch above this and other clubs with poor facilities and no hardcore support are usually below their natural place.

You then get the short term blips. Reading is one example of many. A town much smaller than Northampton but with Madejski bankrolling the club they built a new stadium and propelled themselves to the Premiership. When he got bored of it all he left the club with a massive white elephant of a ground and consequent debts. Their fall is heavy but will settle at League One, their natural home.

There are also the flukes. Leicester's premiership win was a curse for all chairmen of your average Prem club "If Leicester can win it, why cant we?". Well, they are now back to their natural home in the Championship looking for a few seasons in the Premiership sun.

Bournemouth are an example of a club floating way above their natural place and I expect them to fall steeply in the next few season. Luton will be back in League one where they belong within a few seasons.

Our natural place is League One with the occasional flirtation of the playoffs and the odd scare to League Two. Let's enjoy it.
146  General Category / General Chat / Re: Liberal Hellscape on: October 27, 2023, 18:59:01 pm
I had the misfortune to visit New York recently, which had been one of my favourite cities….

As with all progressive right-on woke window dressing, it makes a nice soundbite for the east coast liberals, Hollyweird elites and the MSM but its the millions of ordinary citizens who pay the price.

This has proved the case with New York City Mayor Eric Adams who just a few years ago said he wanted NYC to be even more of a ‘sanctuary’ for illegal immigrants.

Build it and they shall come!

And so they have. 10,000 diverse and enriched Venezuelans, Mexicans, West Africans, Haitians and many, many more are flooding into NYC every month. Of course there is nowhere to put them all so hotels, community centres and even police stations are being commandeered. Mmm…sounds strangely familiar. Protests have erupted with citizens demanding that the mayor put Americans first in a city already plagued with high crime, lack of affordable housing, high rents and a homeless epidemic.

Adams is blaming Sleepy Joe and his administration for a lack of action on the southern border but didn’t seem that bothered when small border towns in Texas and Arizona were regularly swamped by thousands of migrants every week. But who cares about some dusty desert shîthole a couple of thousand miles away full of rednecks who voted Trump?

“Never in my life have I had a problem that I didn’t see an ending to. I don’t see and ending to this. This issue will destroy New York City” said Adams.

Sad to see another one of the worlds great cities turning into a liberal hellscape.

They call it the Big Apple but maybe the tourism chiefs should think about remarketing it as the Big Turd.

When was New York not a place that accepted migrants? When did Southern States not have migrants coming in from Central America?
147  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Bristol Rovers (a) on: October 27, 2023, 18:20:39 pm
Team leaving Sixfields at 13.00 today. Surprised they are having an overnight stop for a journey that is only just over 100 miles ?

That's good news. Much better to travel the day before and avoid potential aggravations on match day.
148  The Hotel End / Other Football & Sport / Re: VAR on: October 22, 2023, 15:49:23 pm
I don’t think he meant that in the context of this one. I don’t think anyone expected them to get the decision right and then not tell the officials/not realise what decision had been given on the game they’re officiating on.  Grin

That's got to be a clear shift of the error. Just let the ref get it wrong. That sounds bad but it's made the game the beauty that it is. Overcomplicating it will ruin it.
149  The Hotel End / Other Football & Sport / Re: Request to support Oxford United’s new stadium for a better away day experience on: October 22, 2023, 15:44:06 pm
If you get any spare change after it all could you bung it our way? We've got a stand that could do with a bit of TLC.
150  The Hotel End / Other Football & Sport / Re: Unwanted quadruple. on: October 22, 2023, 15:24:35 pm
Has there ever been a day when The Cobblers, Saints and Northants cricket all won - or lost?
151  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Bolton Wanderers on: October 18, 2023, 09:45:17 am
I vaguely remember in the 60s when Northampton beat Bolton 2-1 the Green 'Un had the inspired front page headline COBBLERS PUT THE BOLT ON BOLTON!
152  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: FA Cup on: October 17, 2023, 10:55:12 am
Could be worth making a reduction in prices as it is not the most attractive fixture.

You would get the same number of diehards but take less money.
153  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Happy Birthday To... on: October 15, 2023, 14:44:48 pm
Congratulations Karl. Fantastic achievement. As one of the "originals" I dare to say you never expected this still to be up and running some 20 years later. I recall the first few weeks when hardly a post was made. Then fortune played its part when the official message board was closed down and we were all looking for a new "home." Chances are this may never have taken off without that stimulus, fate can be so fickle. I wonder how many of those originals still post? Doesn't seem like that many,  understandable I guess given the passing of time, but they have been replaced by  new generation. The Hotel End. Still the main place to be for all Cobblers fans. Long may it continue.

From my memory it was the natural progression after Cobblers Comments which was run by Ray Clements which thanks to the ease of posting had unfortunately became inundated with spam comments.
The Hotel End has done well over the years and managed to survive opposition coups. Who was it that ran Sixfields Boys that made a serious attempt to annihilate The Hotel End?
154  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Redevelopment Closer Than Ever? on: October 15, 2023, 11:47:13 am
I wonder how much of those results were based around the experience at the actual ground ?

Once at the stadium I really cannot see as an away fan how we would feature that high. - Poor choice and high prices of food, no real bar, no cover, no TV's, etc etc



How many times has any away fans taken any of those into consideration? "I was about to buy a ticket, then I realised they were no tvs"
155  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: FA Cup on: October 14, 2023, 19:11:50 pm

I also agree about the Premiership being reduced.

The knock-on effect of a reduced Premiership is that we will almost certainly be permanently stuck in the fourth tier.
156  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Free Agents and Loans on: October 12, 2023, 20:01:52 pm
I'm sure he would 6/7 years ago I'd have bitten his hand off

That's because he was then playing at top end Championship level.
That has to be the most "come and get me" interview possible and if he's as gym fit as he claims, then I'm sure there's been phone calls made.
Love to see him in a Cobblers shirt.
157  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Shrewsbury Saturday 7th October on: October 08, 2023, 17:23:53 pm
10 corners yesterday and never troubled them, we have to get someone in the team who can attack those balls

Less than 1 in 25 corners result in goals so not to score with 10 isn't so bad.
158  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: The 10 game mark. (Okay, 11) on: October 08, 2023, 17:10:46 pm
Obviously clubs have the odd good or bad year but I genuinely believe clubs have a natural home, a level they are comfortable at. Most are stable, then you have the yoyo clubs. We're one of the better clubs in the fourth tier (our natural home) but find ourselves wanting at the next level up. That doesn't mean we can't establish ourselves as a league 1 club like Shrewsbury, Lincoln, etc but I think something needs to change, probably the owner as this is probably as far as he can go.

The boring and obvious change is to increase the capacity of the ground. It's the only way you are going to get the non season ticket holder fans to come to games. There's probably more of these than people may think and the non-capacity claim is rather a red herring. There may be seats available for popular games but they are often in the corners of the stands with poor views of the games. Unless it's a massive game I wouldn't bother to go if I'm sitting low down in a corner which is pretty much all that's available to those without season tickets.
The higher capacity will have a direct increase to revenue, it's not all about the £1.32 million received from above.
To use the well trodden phrase "If you build it, they will come"
159  General Category / General Chat / Re: Royal and Derngate on: October 08, 2023, 14:15:32 pm
Theres asbestos warning signs in some parts of Npton General Hospital. As you say though, just leave it alone. I know someone who back in the day, used to rip the stuff out and cut it up withy an angle grinder! This was a long time ago, hes now in his mid eighties, has only just retired. He doesnt even wear glasses FFS. I am adamant that there was no way that they found all of the asbestos in the bus station, before they blew it up, and the dust went everywhere.
I cannot get my head around using concrete that only has a 30 year life span though. I thought that sort of thing only happened on Mafia controlled construction sites.

There was a theory back in the 60s-80s that technology would mean any new building would soon be outdated so it would be best to build them with a view to replacement in 20 or so years. I think Euston Station is a good example of that thinking.
This obviously never happened so we are left with these rapidly decaying buildings.
160  General Category / General Chat / Re: Politics on: October 08, 2023, 14:08:35 pm
Exactly this. This is why I believe a party should be held to the promises they make in their manifesto, the ones that get them elected in the first place. If those pledges haven't been fulfilled by say the halfway point of their term in office then another election should be forced upon them.

That's a good point. Each party should issue a list of key promises ahead of the election and the date they will be fulfilled. If this doesn't happen and there's no extraordinary reason why not the party should be forced to implement the item or face a general election.
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