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This is beyond crackers! No wonder the roads are clogged. I’m now 50 mins away so I now go to watch my new local club instead, I can highly recommend knocking the travelling on its head. I was home by 5.10pm today and I didn’t leave at 80 mins!

Exactly this, we all live in a cult, our whole society is a cult. It just decides to tell you which cults it dislikes more without telling us we’re actually living in a cult everyday of our lives! I can see both sides of the story in this thread, our fan base is ageing badly and the PL literally stinks. It’s not enjoyable anymore so maybe a trip to League One will rid the deadwood. Maybe it would be the worst thing for the club to go down to those depths but maybe it won’t as we may have a club to care about again.

My Dad played for Nomads in 1970s, I’ve never been but they do get spoken about by him still. I should go one day!

I can echo your mates thinking, I lost so much interest in top flight football starting in 2019 and when I went to my first non-league game at Brackley Town in 2020 I fell in love with the sport again. But do we get more joy/despair… Not for me, I just enjoy being at the non-league game, seeing new teams, cheering us on but not getting too worried about results i have to admit I wasn’t too disappointed about losing the play off finals for the past two seasons as NL North is a great level to be at

You are right for sure, I’m easing myself off Leicester City and it’s only the second game I’ll have been at all season. It’s more to meet friends there and that’s it now. If it wasn’t for them I’d not be back.

Just so good! Down here at Brackley the man of the match recently got a box of meat from the butchers! I’m going to the Leicester-WHAM match next week and I can’t say it does anything for me now. Roll on my next home game that I can make at Brackley v King’s Lynn!

Superb win, very pleased, for you - I was talking to Cobblers fans yesterday and thought that if I wasn’t at Brackley today I’d quite liked to have gone. I’ve been living ten mins from Northampton since.2006 and since 2020 a couple of us made the choice to go ten mins west for our local football instead of back to our first clubs (LCFC + Spurs). I was at the Brackley-Braintree game today but missed our ET and penalties as had to leave at 5pm to take my son to Buckingham, another big crowd with over 1100 and Brackley into R2 too Braintree fans were superb, prob 200-250 of them. Noisy, singing irons songs. Good natured too and mixed in with no segregation. Roll on an easy (ish) set of ties for Brackley + Kettering as the target has to be taking Leicester on in R3!

I’d have the 90s Leicester of old back any time over modern football, such a good match and two great goals!

Sounds like you’ve made a great choice and I’ve just been reading up on Ashington AFC. Nice main stand and healthy crowds too. I’m thoroughly enjoying football again since going to Brackley in 2020. Only been to LCFC once this year and I think that is enough for me now. What I like is the players connect with the supporters and are much more like us rather than the ungrateful millionaires on the pitch in PL etc. They have normal jobs in NL North, train twice a week and have time for the fans. Do you get a good atmosphere at Ashington? I have to admit the away fans tend to be louder and sometimes out number the home fans at Brackley!

This is so true and explains the real reason for why we have sport especially football, as it’s designed to distract us and to separate us. I understand that the Rugby head master in the 1800s (Thomas Arnold) help designed modern day sport for this reason. I still love the actual game but could care less about the rivalries now. I appreciate the skills and efforts players put in but now prefer non-league football. I used to love LCFC but the last few years have been dire as a supporter. I think I stopped loving it when they did that first light show and Liverpool beat us 4-0 on Boxing Day 2019. I too wondered if it is an age thing but it’s not at all as I’m now a born-again football fan loving watching my local non league side. Football is good fun again except for the odd visit to Leicester. If my new team loses it isn’t a problem, in fact I don’t want them to get promoted! It makes me sad to say these words after going to 500+ LCFC matches but I just think top flight/big club football has no soul now.

Phew! That will be a real test for Brackley! Big step up taking on NL clubs. Truro the round before was some trek too

Same here, much more enjoying my move into non league since 2020, it’s like going back in time when players cared and speak to the supporters. I was at Brackley v Ramsgate yesterday in the FA Cup, not such an easy game for the Saints. It took until just before 90th min to take the lead and then we won 4-1 with 3 late goals.

Love hearing about trips in the lower leagues, that stadium looked something else back then! My favourite time was 2008/9 seeing so many of those league one away grounds. Visited Scunthorpe United for first time that season, and will be doing the same in the non league this year before they rightly so move up. I didn’t expect to but I enjoyed the Wrexham documentary, so much so that I look out for their results now. Apart from a couple of filler episodes it’s been a good watch. Now watching the AFC Richmond documentary, but I’m struggling to locate them in the league! Ha only joking of course!

My post read wrong, it should say that I can only sell on my ST 4 more times via LCFC official exchange. Certainly not a tout, just using LCFC ticket site to hand it back to the club so they re-sell. I regret buying my season ticket, had it since 1998, and it will be the last season.

Same here! I’ve already lost interest in going this season, I popped my ticket on the official exchange on Saturday and went non-league instead. Only downside is that’s 4 of my 5 official allowances to sell officially gone already!

That’s great you made the trip, as these clubs appreciate your support so much more. Yeah Brackley averaged 800 last year but a typical game with minimal away fans would be 600. On a side note I know Wednesfield well as I used to race for Leicester Monarchs Cycle Speedway team and they were one of our rivals!

Went to Brackley v Scunthorpe this afternoon… 0-3 thumping for Brackley which is quite unusual especially at home. Second best for most of the game, great opening crowd of almost 1200 with half of that from Scunny!

I’m not voting anymore and I’m guessing a substantially large percentage of people will not bother too. I did vote in the poll above and hit ‘other’ as it nearly represented my view! It just appears to be more bread + circus, and tbh I had forgotten about the general election until I wandered into the general chat thread this morning. I used to vote, I used to believe in this system but not any more. I feel sad to see how we really have nobody representing us. Not one politician represents us if we’re honest. All I can see as a political outsider is the Tories deliberately threw their vote to allow labour in. Then the media steer the herd to get labour in. I guess when Labour get in there will be a few small crumbs thrown out to the masses before the continuation of the real policy gets carried out. If I look at this with different eyes I guess they need Labour in to get the next stage of stricter policy through. It will land easier with Labour delivering it instead of Tories. For those voting, have a great day, then back to work for more of the same!

Very sad to hear this, so young too. He was a real bright light in 1989 for the City. A bad day all round with the Millwall GK dying today too

Back from Brackley NLN play-off final, that’s another play off loss for us! Congrats to Boston United for returning to the NL. Over 3000 in and almost max capacity with 900 very happy away fans. If we had won today I’d have been happy but losing is no issue as I enjoy NL North

Just back from Brackley game with a super 1-0 Brackley win, 1880 crowd in today with 300 away fans. Super old fashioned afternoon, hard fought match with 22 players squaring up at the end to top it all off. Roll on next Saturday for the final v Boston!

It doesn’t look so bad from the pictures I can see, from my perspective we should appreciate these smaller clubs/grounds or all we’ll end up with is a small collection of soulless grounds like the KP. Thankfully we’re not like the woeful pyramid structure in France and have such a wealth of clubs. I’ve been to 14 games at Brackley this year, and the ground when it’s not too full or not segregated is very good with super facilities. I think when teams bring big followings and it gets segregated lots of new challenges affect the club as its average crowd pre-2020 was c400 but now we regularly see double that and on occasion 1700+ turn up Anyhow I’m off to hopefully watch a match with no rain as one thing the soulless grounds have is very good shelter! We can’t win them all! Edit: Sorry replying to comment about Solihull ground but my phone isn’t doing too well and failed again!

It’s Brackley v Chorley for me tomorrow in the Play Off Semi Final, winners host Boston at home next Sunday.

It is a shame to see the fanbase divided on all issues these days, I'm all for just enjoying the moment rather than getting too concerned over the future (or too stuck in the past) I don't enjoy the wider match day experience one little bit these days but once the game starts we can ignore any club led nonsense I think we're lucky to have Enzo, he has papered over the cracks ravine that can re-appear very easily and in rapid fashion. even as quickly as next season and then we'd have something to moan about! I actually thought we would threaten the exit out of the Championship downwards rather than upwards before the season started but I was very wrong on that. I don't think the league is any worse or an better but we have new lens on it now after the past ten years and we only have to look at fallen clubs slowly rotting away (Sheff W, Blackburn etc) to realise we fell lucky with Enzo

100% agree, I was at Brackley Town’s magnificent 2-0 win over Scunthorpe United this afternoon To think they were in the Championship ten years or so ago and now they’re in the National League North is some fall from grace. Scunny looked like they were going to dominate the game from the off but it soon settled and Brackley scored a couple of quick goals after the break. My wife is from the Greater Scunthorpe region so I do wish them success. A few other big teams in our league too like Hereford, Chester, Darlington etc £15 to get in is fair but not overly cheap nor expensive, £4 a pint and an attendance of 1008 with 250 Scunny fans included in that figure. Parking gets a little tight for crowds of 1000+ but for 650 crowds which is the norm for typical games it leaves no issues at all. Hope you enjoyed your game? I grew up in Shepshed so look out for their results occasionally. My enjoyment in football was re-kindled in 2020 when I went to my first game at Brackley and enjoy it so much more than heading home to Leicester games now.