goodold luthgy Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 If you truly believe that you don't understand the mentality of junior football. A junior cup final is a way bigger game than playing Forfar in a competition neither club is ever going to win, so the Meadow game is the route to the main prize. What a club like Rose are really hoping for out of the Scottish Cup is a game against the Old Firm, Hearts, Hibs or Aberdeen rather than a midweek jaunt to Station Park. Yir spot on lurker, but its not only junior teams that enter the competition that dreams of the big game against the old firm, BIG teams like Forfar fall into this catagory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogs_Dollox Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 Yir spot on lurker, but its not only junior teams that enter the competition that dreams of the big game against the old firm, BIG teams like Forfar fall into this catagoryTrue . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loondave1 Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 If you truly believe that you don't understand the mentality of junior football. A junior cup final is a way bigger game than playing Forfar in a competition neither club is ever going to win, so the Meadow game is the route to the main prize. What a club like Rose are really hoping for out of the Scottish Cup is a game against the Old Firm, Hearts, Hibs or Aberdeen rather than a midweek jaunt to Station Park.If the Meadow game is "bigger" what kind of attendance are we talking ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lithgierose Posted January 17, 2016 Share Posted January 17, 2016 If the Meadow game is "bigger" what kind of attendance are we talking ?? they will bring plenty more than the taxi you brought to prestonfield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogs_Dollox Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 they will bring plenty more than the taxi you brought to prestonfield. Tractor and bogie actually Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auld Heid Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 If the Meadow game is "bigger" what kind of attendance are we talking ?? Think we will be looking for at least 30,000 as Irvine Meadow are a bigger attraction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Specky Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Think we will be looking for at least 30,000 as Irvine Meadow are a bigger attraction. And a bigger club ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 And a bigger club .....In all seriousness do they not only get 200-300 through the gate every week at much cheaper prices than Forfar? There's having a joke then there is going too far. The lowest average attendance in the seniors by a mile is at the Shire and even then I'm sure they're still about 350. There's not one single club out with the seniors that any junior club are bigger than, that's just cold hard facts i'm afraid that have been provided by HibeeJibee time and time again. The only time you become relevant is when you're in with the big boys Scottish cup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Most people outwith Linlithgow Rose know the formulas to calculate their attendances: For an average juniors match - Whatever they say the attendance is, subtract 50. For a juniors match v Bo'ness - Whatever they say the attendance is, add 100. For a big Scottish Cup game - Whatever they say the attendance is, subtract 100. Sure this goes on at grounds everywhere to be honest, do you not have to pay tax on every person through the gate? We're all diddies at the end of the day, but I don't think it's fair for a Rose fan to be saying Forfar are bigger diddies than Irvine. Bit disrespectful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lithgierose Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 it was also stated there is a hardcore of about 60/65 who go to forfar away games.think the rose and boness etc take a fair bit more than that to every away game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlipperyP Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 We're going to f**k you up. Thanks for playing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auld Heid Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 In all seriousness do they not only get 200-300 through the gate every week at much cheaper prices than Forfar? There's having a joke then there is going too far. The lowest average attendance in the seniors by a mile is at the Shire and even then I'm sure they're still about 350. There's not one single club out with the seniors that any junior club are bigger than, that's just cold hard facts i'm afraid that have been provided by HibeeJibee time and time again. The only time you become relevant is when you're in with the big boys Scottish cup. Linlithgow will regularly attract around the 3-400 mark on a good week. Like all teams this can vary depending on weather/holidays etc. On average I would suggest we will take 100-150 to away games. For bigger games (Bo'ness and Scottish Cups) our crowd would head towards 1000. Against both Wick and Forfar the game probably attracted a lot of people who attend one-off games and the ground hoppers/other local junior fans. Tomorrow there will probably be around 500 basically as a result of the previous game giving people optimism and again it's a big one-off game. Why people tend to watch the juniors? - decent competitive standards/local games and cheaper that senior football. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 ...The lowest average attendance in the seniors by a mile is at the Shire and even then I'm sure they're still about 350. There's not one single club out with the seniors that any junior club are bigger than, that's just cold hard facts i'm afraid that have been provided by HibeeJibee time and time again. Pollok have averaged in the 600-700 range in recent years, so that argument doesn't stand up to close inspection even without getting into pedantry over what senior actually means. I'd also be wary of official attendance stats at the SPFL level. In the past they were sometimes inflated by adding in stuff like unused comp tickets. I'm not sure if that practice still happens or not, but I have been at plenty of East Stirling games where I counted the crowd as being in double digits and it was given as 200 or so the next day in the Sunday Post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogs_Dollox Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 1 day until the Rose get boxed up again until next year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogs_Dollox Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Too many crowd wankers in here . Who gives a flying f**k how many folk were there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Auld Heid Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 1 day until the Rose get boxed up again until next year Just imagine if your team fail to produce (as they have done most of this season) how embarrassing it will be to go out to the lowest ranked team left in the competition......!!!!!!!!!!!!! Too many crowd wankers in here . Who gives a flying f**k how many folk were there Whereas you Sir are just a W_ N_E_ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dee_62 Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Whereas you Sir are just a W_ N_E_ I like this game...is it WINNER? or WANTED? WONDER? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HTG Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Forfar are somewhere between 1/2 and 3/10 with the bookies for a reason. They're a league 1 team at home to a junior team. They would be a lot shorter but they're shite for the level they play at. They should still win but Morton maybe thought that last season when Spartans dumped them. Morton were shite too. I hope we can just dish out the gubbing and then you can move on with trying to stay up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grinderbrokeyourhearts Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 Can say it all they want, but you know, and I know, that this is the biggest game in Linlithgows history. A wee note to say we've already played QoS and Raith at this stage of the cup, you this is the third biggest game in our history if you are being pedantic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HTG Posted January 18, 2016 Share Posted January 18, 2016 A wee note to say we've already played QoS and Raith at this stage of the cup, you this is the third biggest game in our history if you are being pedantic. Spartans was bigger too. This is well down the list even in Scottish cup terms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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