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Post by lostinspace on May 28, 2022 12:51:27 GMT
Grimsby at Wrexham... currently Grimsby 2-1 to the good, after going behind to a penalty,, some rather suspect refereeing at this level continues ....... and in the space of 3 minutes it's all gone tits up for the Mariners, now 3-2 Wrexham
The game went into extra time after a 4-4 90 minute game, Grimsby won with a late extra time goal,back to Wembley again for another play off final
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Post by bluetornados on May 28, 2022 16:45:42 GMT
FT 4-4 Grimsby won it in the 119th min to win 4-5.
Will play winners of Solihull Moors v Chesterfield, Sun 12.30 ko.
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Post by lostinspace on May 29, 2022 14:37:17 GMT
Solihull Moors will play Grimsby Town after a 3-1 win over Chesterfield. In front of an attendance of less than 5,000.Final will be at West ham's London Stadium,5 june, I would expect Grimsby to have more fans in attendance at this one ,hope they get back to the FL
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Post by eppinggas on May 30, 2022 8:03:30 GMT
Solihull Moors will play Grimsby Town after a 3-1 win over Chesterfield. In front of an attendance of less than 5,000.Final will be at West ham's London Stadium,5 june, I would expect Grimsby to have more fans in attendance at this one ,hope they get back to the FL I think Grimsby took around 17k to the Rovers play off final in 2017 (out of a total of 47,029) Solihull won't be taking many. 8-10k at best? So very likely supporters will be rattling around the London Stadium. A short trip down the Central Line for me, so might go along. Depending on the ticket prices... |
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Post by lostinspace on May 30, 2022 8:22:57 GMT
Solihull Moors will play Grimsby Town after a 3-1 win over Chesterfield. In front of an attendance of less than 5,000.Final will be at West ham's London Stadium,5 june, I would expect Grimsby to have more fans in attendance at this one ,hope they get back to the FL I think Grimsby took around 17k to the Rovers play off final in 2017 (out of a total of 47,029) Solihull won't be taking many. 8-10k at best? So very likely supporters will be rattling around the London Stadium. A short trip down the Central Line for me, so might go along. Depending on the ticket prices... Grimsby were only allocated 2000 for the game again Notts county and Wrexham, caused a bit of a stir amongst the ranks !! They are anticipating an allocation if 15,000 for the L S, and as you indicate if Solihull get as many as 8000 i will be very surprised,at least Grimsby make some noise!! |
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Post by eppinggas on Jun 1, 2022 9:14:23 GMT
I think Grimsby took around 17k to the Rovers play off final in 2017 (out of a total of 47,029) Solihull won't be taking many. 8-10k at best? So very likely supporters will be rattling around the London Stadium. A short trip down the Central Line for me, so might go along. Depending on the ticket prices... Grimsby were only allocated 2000 for the game again Notts county and Wrexham, caused a bit of a stir amongst the ranks !! They are anticipating an allocation if 15,000 for the L S, and as you indicate if Solihull get as many as 8000 i will be very surprised,at least Grimsby make some noise!! Looks like tickets are £40-£45. It's not even Wembley... No thanks. I've attended 28 games this season at an average price of £7.86. So I will be watching this one in the pub. |
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Post by lostinspace on Jun 1, 2022 9:25:03 GMT
Grimsby were only allocated 2000 for the game again Notts county and Wrexham, caused a bit of a stir amongst the ranks !! They are anticipating an allocation if 15,000 for the L S, and as you indicate if Solihull get as many as 8000 i will be very surprised,at least Grimsby make some noise!! Looks like tickets are £40-£45. It's not even Wembley... No thanks. I've attended 28 games this season at an average price of £7.86. So I will be watching this one in the pub. Those prices are bloody ridiculous!! Wembley is an OK stadium,but for a national stadium is in the wrong place.....asfor the LS it's even worse,best thing about it is the green space around it |
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Post by lostinspace on Jun 1, 2022 16:36:55 GMT
League sponsors Vanarama have donated a total of £20,000 to both clubs in an attempt to reduce the overall cost of match day travel and ticket prices, Grimsby supporters have raised £15,000 to also help reduce the cost of travel and tickets for those wishing to attend the play off final.....me thinks the National League need to review their pricing policy for these games, realize this league is not the PL prawn sandwich brigade but bread and butter support , the foundation at the upper echelon
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Post by eppinggas on Jun 2, 2022 9:08:32 GMT
League sponsors Vanarama have donated a total of £20,000 to both clubs in an attempt to reduce the overall cost of match day travel and ticket prices, Grimsby supporters have raised £15,000 to also help reduce the cost of travel and tickets for those wishing to attend the play off final.....me thinks the National League need to review their pricing policy for these games, realize this league is not the PL prawn sandwich brigade but bread and butter support , the foundation at the upper echelon Yup. Massive balls up on pricing a tier 5 game of football. It's always this way. Can't remember what I paid for Rovers tickets in the last two play-offs there - I was going to go regardless. I'm guessing Sollihul/Grimsby 20-25k and a flat atmosphere. There are loads of neutrals they could have sold tickets to to bolster the crowd. Price point for me - ideally £20, maybe go to £25. But £40? Absolutely no chance. |
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Post by lostinspace on Jun 4, 2022 10:06:41 GMT
and upon going into the Fishy forum this morning, i learn that the seating behind the goals has been removed!!! [music concert scheduled for 24th June apparently] so no availablity there!! it just gets better!! so just who sets up this type of thing without looking at the state and condition of the venue beforehand?.... Someone from the NL should be making a BIG apology to both teams attending and then resigning.."unbelievable Jeff"!!!
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Post by lostinspace on Jun 4, 2022 10:16:16 GMT
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Post by eppinggas on Jun 4, 2022 11:00:45 GMT
Good article and rightly damning of the National league. The whole point of lower league football (IMHO) is that it should be cheap, local and engages the local community. The Olympic Stadium venue is expensive, and hard to travel to. People struggling with the cost of living have been priced out of it. Wembley was available. To expect supporters to travel to Stratford and pay a hefty premium on top of normal ticket prices is disgusting. |
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Post by lostinspace on Jun 4, 2022 15:35:07 GMT
Good article and rightly damning of the National league. The whole point of lower league football (IMHO) is that it should be cheap, local and engages the local community. The Olympic Stadium venue is expensive, and hard to travel to. People struggling with the cost of living have been priced out of it. Wembley was available. To expect supporters to travel to Stratford and pay a hefty premium on top of normal ticket prices is disgusting. 20,000 booking fees @ £3.99 = £79,800 20,000 delivery fees @ .99p = £19,800 Total £99,600 from the Grimsby forum, someone has broken down the "chargeable fees per ticket purchase" So who gets this? Ticketmaster ? The National League ?.... i can recall in the play off when Rovers played Grimsby that this was also a thing that a lot people griped about, surely these things are [or should be] built into the ticket price |
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Post by warehamgas on Jun 4, 2022 21:37:07 GMT
Good article and rightly damning of the National league. The whole point of lower league football (IMHO) is that it should be cheap, local and engages the local community. The Olympic Stadium venue is expensive, and hard to travel to. People struggling with the cost of living have been priced out of it. Wembley was available. To expect supporters to travel to Stratford and pay a hefty premium on top of normal ticket prices is disgusting. 20,000 booking fees @ £3.99 = £79,800 20,000 delivery fees @ .99p = £19,800 Total £99,600 from the Grimsby forum, someone has broken down the "chargeable fees per ticket purchase" So who gets this? Ticketmaster ? The National League ?.... i can recall in the play off when Rovers played Grimsby that this was also a thing that a lot people griped about, surely these things are [or should be] built into the ticket price Well said both of you. The organisation of the final, it’s location and the pricing for the fans is poor, bordering on criminal. Little thought has gone into it despite the plea that they started planning last October. Blimey if that’s the case it just shows how inept and how out of touch the NL is. On no level can any of the arrangements be justified. And, as you said, lis, where does that £99,600 go? But since the embarassment of the Fylde v Salford final at Wembley when it was just literally one man and his dog attending I wonder if the NL have decided on smaller venues to offset smaller crowds looking not such a good advert for the NL. With the pandemic and now the World Cup in next mid-season I think it’s given them an excuse not to use Wembley and charge high prices. But overall the ending of this season has been staggered and seemed to last a lifetime. Presumably by design not accident. All EFL divisions and the PL finishing on different weekends meant that the poor NL would be really disadvantaged by finishing so late. Add to that the need to arrange extra play offs with quarter and semi finals means it’s almost a season in itself! Whoever wins will really deserve it. The winner will have little time to put a squad together in readiness to ko on 30th July. I know if you questioned the NL it would all come down to trying to maximise income so perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. But the prices for tomorrow really does stink. They know they have a captive audience in a sense and that the fans of both clubs will, after having a moan, still pay up. True fans always turn up for the big occasion if they can. UTG! |
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Post by eppinggas on Jun 5, 2022 9:08:54 GMT
20,000 booking fees @ £3.99 = £79,800 20,000 delivery fees @ .99p = £19,800 Total £99,600 from the Grimsby forum, someone has broken down the "chargeable fees per ticket purchase" So who gets this? Ticketmaster ? The National League ?.... i can recall in the play off when Rovers played Grimsby that this was also a thing that a lot people griped about, surely these things are [or should be] built into the ticket price Well said both of you. The organisation of the final, it’s location and the pricing for the fans is poor, bordering on criminal. Little thought has gone into it despite the plea that they started planning last October. Blimey if that’s the case it just shows how inept and how out of touch the NL is. On no level can any of the arrangements be justified. And, as you said, lis, where does that £99,600 go? But since the embarassment of the Fylde v Salford final at Wembley when it was just literally one man and his dog attending I wonder if the NL have decided on smaller venues to offset smaller crowds looking not such a good advert for the NL. With the pandemic and now the World Cup in next mid-season I think it’s given them an excuse not to use Wembley and charge high prices. But overall the ending of this season has been staggered and seemed to last a lifetime. Presumably by design not accident. All EFL divisions and the PL finishing on different weekends meant that the poor NL would be really disadvantaged by finishing so late. Add to that the need to arrange extra play offs with quarter and semi finals means it’s almost a season in itself! Whoever wins will really deserve it. The winner will have little time to put a squad together in readiness to ko on 30th July. I know if you questioned the NL it would all come down to trying to maximise income so perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised. But the prices for tomorrow really does stink. They know they have a captive audience in a sense and that the fans of both clubs will, after having a moan, still pay up. True fans always turn up for the big occasion if they can. UTG! National League: “To be clear, he National League will not be taking any profits from Sunday’s final – 100% of the proceeds will go back to our member clubs.” But that's not the point! Surely they could have generated the same profit with a fairer pricing strategy that puts supporters first. est attendance today 20,000 X £48 (av. ticket + scandalous boking fees) = £960,000. Sh*t atmosphere, poor advert for the National League. vs potential 50,000 X £20 = £1,000,000. Tremendous atmosphere. Plus more programmes, beer & food sold. I don't think 50,000 is unrealistic as you're going to pick up a lot of general football supporters who want a good day out. When Orient played in the FA Trophy final a few years back 20 of us went from the local pub (only 1 was a fully fledged Orient supporter). Hopefully the massive backlash will have the National League sorting it out for next year. (And well said Jeff Stelling!) |
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Post by lostinspace on Jun 5, 2022 16:37:32 GMT
90 minutes and 1-1.... Mariners go 2-1 up in second half of Xtra time with 10 minutes to go ( 21,000 or very near)
Mariners get the job done,3 games on the trot with extra time, BACK to the FL after relegation last season
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Post by warehamgas on Jun 5, 2022 20:13:12 GMT
Well done Grimsby, they did it the hard way. Don’t mess it up this time!!
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Post by bluetornados on Jun 5, 2022 20:55:47 GMT
Well done Grimsby, they did it the hard way. Don’t mess it up this time!! UTG! Solihull Moors finished 3rd, 10 points better than Grimsby, but that is the beauty of the play-offs, look at us in 2007. Good luck to them in L2 next season. |
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Post by lostinspace on Jun 5, 2022 21:17:12 GMT
A ( I gather( new ownership is now on board with a more positive outlook than Fenty and the fans have a more positive vibe coming back to them , looking to be an upward moving period for them ,
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Post by warehamgas on Jun 5, 2022 22:20:32 GMT
Well done Grimsby, they did it the hard way. Don’t mess it up this time!! UTG! Solihull Moors finished 3rd, 10 points better than Grimsby, but that is the beauty of the play-offs, look at us in 2007. Good luck to them in L2 next season. It’s a dilemma isn’t it? Over the season Solihull Moors deserve to go up by a mile, 10 points ahead in a long season that lasts from August to June. They’ve beaten Grimsby twice, have shown themselves to be the better team yet don’t go up. Shouldn’t come down to a final match but it is what it is. Everyone knows the system and have to deal with it. Still doesn’t seem right but I’m the wrong side of 50 so have always thought that if you finish the season higher you deserve more. And a team finishing so far behind don’t really deserve it, but it happens so we have to accept it. And they did do it the hard way, 3 games away from home and winners in all matches in the last 5 minutes. Great character. |
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