The Hotel End
March 28, 2024, 08:51:08 am
Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?

Login with username, password and session length
News:
 
  Home Help Search Arcade Downloads Gallery Links Staff List Calendar Login Register Chat  
  Show Posts
Pages: 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ... 533
21  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Play-off watch on: March 12, 2024, 21:39:33 pm
Lincoln City, after making several signings in January, are another side on a surge, 13pts from a possible 15. They are also hoping for sides to slip up above them. Bolton & Derby both lost tonight, their second defeats on the bounce. It's hotting up.

January 1st, we were 9th, Lincoln were 11th.....4 points behind us having played a game more. Tonight as they currently sit 6-0 up against Cambridge they are 8 points ahead of us now having picked up 26 points from their last 12 games, unbeaten since New Years Day.
22  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Blackpool (h) on: March 12, 2024, 21:03:05 pm
Job done, 50 points, season's objective achieved, last 10 games academic??
23  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Blackpool (h) on: March 12, 2024, 20:41:36 pm
Just 5,472 in attendance, including only 323 Seasiders........ we don't do boring mid-table football do we?
24  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Supporters Advisory Board on: March 12, 2024, 19:10:51 pm
Why pay to park in the Claret car park for £5 when we can park in the field next to the old South car park for £3?

Its £4 now...... when its not flooded that is!  Grin
25  General Category / The Games Room / Re: GTA Game 43 Blackpool (h) on: March 12, 2024, 17:45:20 pm
6281
26  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Derby County (h) 23.3.24 on: March 11, 2024, 22:49:46 pm
Looking at their forum they don't believe they will be affected by callups this time...... there are no African football international fixtures that weekend, and one of their other players who was missing earlier in the season (Cashin) is now overage for the U21's.
27  General Category / The Games Room / Re: GTA game 42 away@ Cambridge on: March 08, 2024, 19:18:08 pm
7198
28  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: The Nene Derby part 2 05.03.24 on: March 06, 2024, 15:29:00 pm
Mate you really shouldn’t have posted this.
Everyone knows you’re a dedicated supporter and you’ve been on the Trust when it was relevant.
However you’ve exposed yourself here, Duston will be adjusting your supporter status downwards for being in America or en route to said nation.

You’re no better than Texas Tom now. 😉😂
Sad times fella


 Grin Grin Grin

It wasn’t me who rearranged the game!! I take your point though, I’ll standby for the brickbats!! Wink

29  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: The Nene Derby part 2 05.03.24 on: March 05, 2024, 20:49:01 pm
Florida?

Vegas!
30  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: The Nene Derby part 2 05.03.24 on: March 05, 2024, 20:18:56 pm
So glad I paid for Virgin Atlantics wi-fi to keep tabs on this!!
31  General Category / The Games Room / Re: GTA game 41 pish away on: March 04, 2024, 16:27:49 pm
8416
32  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: The Nene Derby part 2 05.03.24 on: March 04, 2024, 13:47:18 pm
Here's your preview as we make the 40 mile or so trip east to the edge of the county to play Peterborough......ok ok, they are not in our county anymore as you go over the border on the A605 near Elton!!

The Pish currently sit 5th in the league on 62 points and will remain there regardless of the result tomorrow, however they will be looking for the win to put pressure on those above and with Barnsley (4th) hosting Bolton (3rd) tomorrow too its the chance to make up ground on someone.
They have almost identical home and away records, nine wins and four draws for each, but they have only been beaten three times at London Road this season. Derby, Wigan and Blackpool have left with three points, the latter two in the last three games at the ground.
After a bit of a blip recently (four consecutive defeats) they have now won three in a row, one of those the Trophy semi final at Blackpool which will see them return to Wembley ten years after their success against Chesterfield in 2014. They have stayed out of the bottom tier since 2008 and have spent four seasons since in the Championship. Playoff semi finalists last year after taking a 4-0 first leg lead to Hillsborough they somehow contrived to lose the tie on penalties.

Manager Darren Ferguson is in his fourth spell at the club, Tuesdays game will be his 590th as Posh manager over those spells, 266 wins giving a healthy 45.16% win ratio overall.

Ephron Mason-Clark leads their scoring charts with 17 in all competitions (12 in the League) and he has been ably assisted by Ricky Jade-Jones (11), Jonson Clarke-Harris (10), and Kwame Poku (10) for a team which has scored over 80 goals in all comps.

In the head to head they have 29 league wins to our 15, and we have not won in our last five visits to 'Boro, with our last success coming courtesy of a Scott McGleish goal in April 2006. Our last trip there was in April 2021 when we fell to a 3-1 defeat played behind closed doors, Sam Hoskins scoring from the spot for The Cobblers. We will be looking for only our second ever league double over our rivals having won the home game 1-0 back in August thanks to Mitch Pinnock's "was it a cross, was it a shot" winner.

Craig Hicks should be the man in the middle, he's shown red cards in two of his last four games, with 82 yellow and four red over all in his 21 games this season. We last saw him just before Christmas as we beat Oxford at Sixfields, he was the Posh ref for their Trophy group game defeat at Colchester in November, with this his first visit to London Road since October 2022 where he oversaw a Posh victory over Accrington.
33  General Category / The Games Room / Re: GTA game 40 Charlton @ home on: March 02, 2024, 11:22:31 am
7568
34  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Charlton Sat 2nd March. on: February 29, 2024, 18:41:14 pm
As WSOAP says Charlton have found a bit of form recently, but they still come to us in 19th place sitting 4 points above the drop zone but having played two more games than Cheltenham. Charlton have never played in the fourth tier of the football league although they were in Division 3 South in 1935, this came before the reorganisation of the leagues. The Second World War disrupted their upward trajectory as they finished 2nd, 4th and 3rd in the three seasons before, they've never reached those heights again although they have of course appeared in the Premier League as recently as 2007.

This season has been a struggle, one which culminated in the sacking of our friend Michael Appleton immediately after our victory at the Valley just five weeks ago. Step forward Nathan Jones to see if he can do good work anywhere other than at Luton!

Charlton have won just twice away from home in the league this season, those victories have come at Wigan and in the week just gone at Derby. They have though drawn eight other games and only lost seven which is actually two fewer than we have lost on our travels. Their league cup campaign ended at the first hurdle with defeat at Newport and after being taken to a replay by the mighty Cray Valley Paper Mills in the first round of the FA Cup they succumbed to Gillingham in round two.

Alfie May is their stand out scorer with 21 in all competitions this season but after an eight game scoreless run he actually was on the bench at Derby, cue him scoring within five minutes of his introduction of course! Former MK Dons striker Chucks Aneke has returned to the fold under Jones with Corey Taylor weighing in with nine goals from midfield.

A relatively small sample in the head-to-head with Charlton on top 13 times to our 10 over the years, most of those games were played pre-war at Div 3 S level though. This will be Charlton's fourth ever visit to Sixfields and they have won two of the previous three. In 2017 Michael Smith and John Joe-O'Toole goals propelled us to a 2-1 win, but in 2018 we fell to a 4-0 home defeat with the Addicks coming out on top in 2020 behind closed doors, the score was 0-2 with Jack Sowerby putting through his own net.
We did win that reverse fixture last month, Lewis Apperes injury time winner giving us the three points after Tayo Edun saw red for the home side.

Martin Woods makes a return to Sixfields to referee the game. He was in charge of our late late win against Peterborough back in August. He doesn't appear to have reffed a Charlton game before though, this being only his second season on the league list. 95 yellows and three reds is his card tally so far this season in his 24 games in the middle.
35  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Charlton Sat 2nd March. on: February 28, 2024, 22:10:27 pm
The Addicks have sold out their 1473 allocation.
36  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: The Nene Derby part 2 05.03.24 on: February 28, 2024, 22:07:45 pm
No, that can't be the case because I have read time and again that almost all teams in League 1 would sell our tiny away end out.

Stevenage, Barnsley, Reading, Cambridge, Portsmouth, Oxford, Bolton (7) all sold out the South and took seats in the East too.

Lincoln, Wycombe, Orient, Burton, Fleetwood, Cheltenham, Wigan, Shrewsbury and Bristol Rovers (9) all brought less fans than the South Stand holds.

Charlton (sold out), Blackpool, Derby (will sell out), Port Vale, Carlisle and Exeter still to come.
37  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: The Nene Derby part 2 05.03.24 on: February 28, 2024, 16:07:27 pm
Posh.

Tit for tat is exactly what’s happened.

On the subject of tit for tat, hopefully we reciprocate next year with the ticket pricing.

Sadly we can’t as we aren’t allowed to charge more than we do home fans for ‘similar accommodation’ . That feeds into why we charge the same for match day admission to the north as other areas despite season tickets being much cheaper. If we charged say £20 on the day for the north (a price befitting of the smaller stand, poorer view, lesser catering facilities?) they we would only be able to charge visitors £20 for the South….
38  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: The Nene Derby part 2 05.03.24 on: February 27, 2024, 21:50:06 pm
Do you believe this to be a decision by the club, or the local plod?

I think the club but i'm not sure which club! I asked about the guarantees that might have been put in place....I mean we could have asked for 3800 and only sold 2000.... doesn't look good when you send back tickets that the home club could have potentially sold.

As for plod.... would Peterborough v Northampton on a Tuesday night be a higher (risk) category game than Peterborough v Portsmouth on a Saturday?
39  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: The Nene Derby part 2 05.03.24 on: February 27, 2024, 19:19:14 pm
I'm a bit perplexed as to how decisions are made on ticket allocations for games. Specifically this Boro game..... Derby were given a full allocation of the entire stand behind the goal plus the seats in the main stand from the off. 3,876 allocation and then a further 78 seats were made available later.

Portsmouth visit London Road on March 16th, they were originally allocated 2300 seats, that being the entire stand behind the goal, but none in the main stand. After quick sales they have now been given the 1600 or so in the main stand too, sold block by block.

We only got an allocation in the main stand and none behind the goal.... and sold them out pretty quickly, but no further allocation offered....or requested???  Cambridge also only got the main stand 1600 or so.

There must be some sort of communication between the clubs ahead of games..... do Pish ask the visiting club how many they think they will sell? Do some sort of guarantees of sale have to be given with regards to allocations requested? Is it the Police who set the figures or is it Peterborough reciprocating the allocation that their fans get at the opponents ground?

40  The Hotel End / Cobblers Corner / Re: Burton Albion Victory on: February 25, 2024, 19:18:33 pm
I thought the support yesterday was really something. For what was/is really a nothing game, and I say that in the nicest of terms if we aren't going down or aren't going to make the playoffs, the numbers travelling was really impressive. A good crowd at the Beech before the game, and plenty travelled by train with the noise continuing both at Burton train station, on the train and in Tamworth where a good many of us had to wait nearly an hour for our next train to Rugby.
Pages: 1 [2] 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ... 533
Powered by EzPortal
Parental guidance is urged as this messageboard may not be suitable for all persons especially those under the age of 16 as the forums may contain words, phrases and expressions not considered appropriate for a younger audience so please express caution. If any posts in the forums offend you, please let us know and we will look at them and if we agree with your complaint, we will remove them. You are personally responsible and potentially liable for the contents of your posting and may be sued should your posting contain content of a defamatory or other illegal nature. Every message posted leaves a traceable IP number. We check the forums at various times of the day and remove offending posts. Other supporters are welcome but abusive or silly posts will be removed and the offenders potentially barred from future access to the site. We advise that you never reveal any personal information about yourself or anyone else (for example: telephone number, home address or email address), and please do not include postal addresses of any kind. This messageboard is not endorsed or in any way affiliated with Northampton Town FC. All postings on this board become copyright of The Hotel End & may not be reproduced without the permission of the board administrator. By signing up to this message board you agree to this. The Hotel End cannot be held liable for the actions or postings of its members. The Hotel End reserve the right to edit, delete, move or close any thread for any reason. The Hotel End may disclose user information to government authorities at their discretion or when required by law. The Hotel End may also disclose user information when The Hotel End has reason to believe that someone is causing injury to or interference with its rights or property, other The Hotel End users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. By registering for The Hotel End, you agree to indemnify The Hotel End its representatives, and agents, and hold them harmless from any and all claims (including claims for legal fees) which may arise from your participation on the The Hotel End. You also agree that The Hotel End is not responsible for the materials posted by users of The Hotel End. In addition, you grant The Hotel End and its affiliates, worldwide, royalty-free perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display any message or content posted on The Hotel End and/or e-mail sent by you to The Hotel End (in whole or in part). The Hotel End reserves the right to make the rules up as it goes along. Thank you - The Hotel End I love Quidco
Bookmark this site!
Powered by SMF | SMF © 2016, Simple Machines
Privacy Policy