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« Reply #20 on: March 31, 2016, 10:17:58 am » |
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Please don't forget the heavily manned West Sussex enclave  Or the East Hants where my Cobblers car flag is 'warmly' acknowledged by the Pompey faithful... |
“They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.” Laurence Binyon
The Hotelend Grand National Sweepstake Champion 2009
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« Reply #21 on: March 31, 2016, 11:07:07 am » |
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Does it actually matter, being one of a few places in the country to have professional football, cricket and rugby in the town all in one town makes us a sporting town.
Yes, be grateful for that. I now live in north Kent where any kind of top class sport is unheard of (except for hockey). |
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« Reply #22 on: March 31, 2016, 15:32:46 pm » |
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Sorry, I used some actual provable facts in support of my argument rather than details of my Sunday afternoon drive.
Yeah, but attendances where? Home capacities obviously flaw that arguement to a large degree. The Cobblers have always taken more to 'finals' than Saints, generally more away. As mentioned, factor in all the juniors and adults playing footie over rugby each weekend in the town, then those who travel to Prem games (and those that don't but profess allegance to Liverpool United of Arsenal)...then it's a no contest! You'd quite honestly struggle to get many more than the serial offenders at Franklins Gardens to even explain Rugby Union! #steelbacks  |
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« Reply #23 on: March 31, 2016, 15:38:27 pm » |
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I don't really care....
I drive past Saints sometimes..... that's it, unless I get offered a 3 course meal and free lager.
I don't care if they win the league every year or never win again, although the former is clearly better for the local economy.
We are the only town in the UK (I believe) to have Prem rugby, League One Football, 1st Class Cricket....oh, and a stones through to two world class motor racing venues.
I think we live in a great town for choice of sport....
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« Reply #24 on: March 31, 2016, 15:47:08 pm » |
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I don't really care....
I drive past Saints sometimes..... that's it, unless I get offered a 3 course meal and free lager.
I don't care if they win the league every year or never win again, although the former is clearly better for the local economy.
We are the only town in the UK (I believe) to have Prem rugby, League One Football, 1st Class Cricket....oh, and a stones through to two world class motor racing venues.
I think we live in a great town for choice of sport....
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“They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.” Laurence Binyon
The Hotelend Grand National Sweepstake Champion 2009
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« Reply #25 on: March 31, 2016, 17:41:54 pm » |
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I don't really care....
I drive past Saints sometimes..... that's it, unless I get offered a 3 course meal and free lager.
I don't care if they win the league every year or never win again, although the former is clearly better for the local economy.
We are the only town in the UK (I believe) to have Prem rugby, League One Football, 1st Class Cricket....oh, and a stones through to two world class motor racing venues.
I think we live in a great town for choice of sport....
True Leicester are top of the prem and in Europe next year, no L1 football for them losers |
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« Reply #26 on: March 31, 2016, 17:49:24 pm » |
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Oh I get you. So from 1897 up until the dawning of professional rugby union, we were a football town, but now that the egg chasers have higher gates we are suddenly a rugby town?? What bull. I guess if we ever get our arses in the championship and pull in 15,000 every other week 🙏 then we'll be a football town again?  Generally speaking Mr tuks the wider UK public currently feels we are a Rugby town - it is as the great one says defined more or less by attendance. |
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« Reply #27 on: March 31, 2016, 20:22:03 pm » |
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Please don't forget the heavily manned West Sussex enclave [/quote But then again ANYTHING is better than the local S**T down there  (I had to live in Seaford many moons ago) I drove through Seaford today! It didn't look overly appealing. |
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« Reply #28 on: April 01, 2016, 06:35:02 am » |
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I don't really care....
I drive past Saints sometimes..... that's it, unless I get offered a 3 course meal and free lager.
I don't care if they win the league every year or never win again, although the former is clearly better for the local economy.
We are the only town in the UK (I believe) to have Prem rugby, League One Football, 1st Class Cricket....oh, and a stones through to two world class motor racing venues.
I think we live in a great town for choice of sport....
Leicester and Leeds are the other two I can think of, and Leeds have Rugby League too. |
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« Reply #29 on: April 01, 2016, 07:44:51 am » |
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Leicester and Leeds are the other two I can think of, and Leeds have Rugby League too.
They are cities. Northampton is the ONLY town in the country to have all three professional sports. |
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« Reply #30 on: April 02, 2016, 13:14:12 pm » |
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I don't really care....
I drive past Saints sometimes..... that's it, unless I get offered a 3 course meal and free lager.
I don't care if they win the league every year or never win again, although the former is clearly better for the local economy.
We are the only town in the UK (I believe) to have Prem rugby, League One Football, 1st Class Cricket....oh, and a stones through to two world class motor racing venues.
I think we live in a great town for choice of sport....
Very good point. Sir. |
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« Reply #31 on: April 02, 2016, 17:30:50 pm » |
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Generally speaking Mr tuks the wider UK public currently feels we are a Rugby town - it is as the great one says defined more or less by attendance.
Please quote your source as the only people i hear stating we are a rugby town are saints fans. I'm not able to prove with stats the following, but based on personal experiences I have seen many 'local' people on a saturday drive/get on a train/bus to their home grounds of their team of choice (all major prem sides have a local supporters club in the town), based on that we, like the rest of the uk are and always will be a football town. |
if you hate peterborough clap your hands and Fxxk off poxford.
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« Reply #32 on: April 02, 2016, 20:47:29 pm » |
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I don't really care....
I drive past Saints sometimes..... that's it, unless I get offered a 3 course meal and free lager.
I don't care if they win the league every year or never win again, although the former is clearly better for the local economy.
We are the only town in the UK (I believe) to have Prem rugby, League One Football, 1st Class Cricket....oh, and a stones through to two world class motor racing venues.
I think we live in a great town for choice of sport....
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« Reply #33 on: April 03, 2016, 07:09:22 am » |
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Greetings Flamenco..great post..perhaps you can appear on the pitch fully dressed in your Flamenco outfit whilst leading the singing? I would be happy to sponsor the event!
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