2022/23 Relegation Thread

[Ainsty]

Wow another Harrogate fan on here. One more and we're outnumbering our away followings.

Greetings brother, will you be leaving God's Own County to go south on Monday?

 

[Marbles]

Greetings brother, will you be leaving God's Own County to go south on Monday?

No I can't make it unfortunately. Yourself?

 

[Ainsty]

No I can't make it unfortunately. Yourself?

Yes, I'll be on the coach going down. 7.30 am start, it's a long way to go to watch your team get brayed.

 

[shoddycollins]

Where are all these Harrogate fans coming from all of a sudden. There was one guy who was active on the non league forum before you got promoted but isn't a fan of the Weavers and didn't ever really post here.

 

[shoddycollins]

First time we played them at their place it was called off and abandoned like 10 times and of course we never beat them and gifted them 3 points up here with one of the worst own goals we've ever seen.

Only thing decent about them is them being northern, but unfortunately a proper bogey team.

I'm sure if we're in the same division as them and have to play them again next season, we'll probably see our entire starting line up sustain season ending injuries or something.

 

[Chief Rocka]

Where are all these Harrogate fans coming from all of a sudden. There was one guy who was active on the non league forum before you got promoted but isn't a fan of the Weavers and didn't ever really post here.

He's too busy running this account https://twitter.com/HarrogateDown mad as a box of frogs he was.

 

[Soup Ladle]

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[Soup Ladle]

We are hated because we are not,

a) from a declining industrial area, or
b) a soleless new town, or the
c) the arse end of a big city.

We

a) have zero history in the football league, and
b) are a beautiful town of happy, healthy people

How dare we, clearly we can't be a "proper club"

We are a town of waiters, hairdressers, care workers and chefs from rural North Yorkshire. You used to be fishermen, dockers or manufactories. Now you are in a league with baristas and barbers - it's messing with your heads. Oh the shame, look how far you have fallen to have to play a team where the major industry is tea bags.

Our wages bill is £5.45/ week, the average height of the team is 5'6", a good gate is 2800, the owner has not ploughed in £millions, and yet here we are. A tinpot club of all the people you look down on so you can feel superior. We are friendly and open but most of all grateful and surprised to be in the football league. Will we stay here long term, probably not. Are we having a great time while it lasts? Oh yes.

Up the waiters, up the chefs, up the care workers, up the shop assistants, up the cleaners, up the bartenders, up the hotel staff. It's bloody good while it lasts, and long may it continue.

Has Joseph Smith resurrected as a Harrogate fan?

 

[Ainsty]

If he knows Silver Service or how to make a bed he is welcome here.

 

[Casey]

Still holding out hope that Dale can pull off a miracle. Don’t think they’re anywhere near as bad as the sides that usually go down. Will use some Cockney Voodoo and try and send Crawley & Col U down.

Reminder to self. Next time Leyton are in trouble don't sympathise.

A message to Harrogate et al. To be deemed a "proper" league club you have to have been elected to it. Any teams winning promotion are beyond the pale...it also helps if you treat away fans like shit and make sure the area around the ground is akin to a dystopian novel.

Casey

 

[BarraMatt]

Had a go at that fishy predictor thing, got Rochdale and Colchester going down.

 

[THE LAST WALTZ]

Personally I hope. Crawley stay up.
One of the few grounds that isn’t a 5-6 hour round journey for us.
It seems that anywhere you go up north, be it Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, Cumbria etc. it is “Gods own county”. The people all believe that they are ‘ salt of the earth’ and bastard hard.
Gets a bit tiresome to be honest.

 

[Gills4years]

Personally I hope. Crawley stay up.
One of the few grounds that isn’t a 5-6 hour round journey for us.
It seems that anywhere you go up north, be it Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, Cumbria etc. it is “Gods own county”. The people all believe that they are ‘ salt of the earth’ and bastard hard.
Gets a bit tiresome to be honest.

Hard to see round their flat caps and whippets, as well

 

[Monkey Tennis]

Personally I hope. Crawley stay up.
One of the few grounds that isn’t a 5-6 hour round journey for us.
It seems that anywhere you go up north, be it Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, Cumbria etc. it is “Gods own county”. The people all believe that they are ‘ salt of the earth’ and bastard hard.
Gets a bit tiresome to be honest.

Not like going round calling yourself the “Garden of England”, when really it is more like a car park.

 

[GEORGE]

Everyone hates us - we don't care.

I don't -- You gave us Belshaw.

 

[DearneValleyRover]

Not like going round calling yourself the “Garden of England”, when really it is more like a car park.

I thought we’d come to the conclusion that Gillingham was the compost heap of Kent

 

[joethegill]

£4.4M to date, with losses of £1.2M last season.

Agree though, enjoy it while you've got it, Rushden did.

I went to see the newly reformed Rushden a couple of weeks ago, 200 odd fans on a Tuesday night watching a comfy 2-0 home win. Nice burgers and a lot of friendly people down there - probably the same people who were at the original club before the money came in the first place!

No real issue with Harrogate personally, but this is only the first season we've played them so the novelty is bound to wear off if others are anything to go by. What I would say is that the pie, mash, peas and gravy I had there was pretty much the best football food I've ever had, so bonus points. In theory being a Gills fan I should want Col U and Crawley to stay up as they're local games for the club, but seeing as I live in the Midlands I couldn't give a monkey's toss if Crawley is nearby or not, so sod em. Colchester is at the arse end of nowhere (or Essex, as it's commonly known) and takes an age to get to regardless of where you come from, so I wouldn't mind them going. I don't have any strong feelings towards either Hartlepool or Rochdale, but think Dale are probably cooked now. Them + Crawley.

As an aside, Yorkshire is mainly like France in my experience - beautiful countryside, some fantastic things have come out of there, but the people who live there really ruin it.

 

[Ainsty]

I couldn't go when we played Gillingham but I did meet a couple of good lads from down there having a drink after the match in Harrogate. I think they were father and son. We agreed it had been a poor game between two poor teams.

I hope to have the opportunity of travelling to see Town v the Gills next season.

BTW, Cheshire isn't really the north

 

[ForzaCounty]

We are hated because we are not,

a) from a declining industrial area, or
b) a soleless new town, or the
c) the arse end of a big city.

We

a) have zero history in the football league, and
b) are a beautiful town of happy, healthy people

How dare we, clearly we can't be a "proper club"

We are a town of waiters, hairdressers, care workers and chefs from rural North Yorkshire. You used to be fishermen, dockers or manufactories. Now you are in a league with baristas and barbers - it's messing with your heads. Oh the shame, look how far you have fallen to have to play a team where the major industry is tea bags.

Our wages bill is £5.45/ week, the average height of the team is 5'6", a good gate is 2800, the owner has not ploughed in £millions, and yet here we are. A tinpot club of all the people you look down on so you can feel superior. We are friendly and open but most of all grateful and surprised to be in the football league. Will we stay here long term, probably not. Are we having a great time while it lasts? Oh yes.

Up the waiters, up the chefs, up the care workers, up the shop assistants, up the cleaners, up the bartenders, up the hotel staff. It's bloody good while it lasts, and long may it continue.

Unfortunately for you, it's those post-industrial towns which tend to be the ones that have a strong supporter base for their local teams, through thick and thin. And as yourselves, Salford etc have shown, a rich businessman can take any random outfit from the lower reaches of non-League and spend their way into the Football League, but you can't make the locals care.

If you do go back down then maybe Weaver will stick with his hobby once the going gets tough, like the bloke at Fylde; maybe he'll give up and you'll be another North Ferriby. Either way, nothing of any value would be lost to the utterly indifferent town of Harrogate, or indeed the world of football in general, just like every other hobby club. And you can keep telling yourself that everyone was just jealous of how many hairdressers live nearby or whatever else you cling to in the non-league weirdo scene.

 

[Ainsty]

Unfortunately for you, it's those post-industrial towns which tend to be the ones that have a strong supporter base for their local teams, through thick and thin. And as yourselves, Salford etc have shown, a rich businessman can take any random outfit from the lower reaches of non-League and spend their way into the Football League, but you can't make the locals care.

If you do go back down then maybe Weaver will stick with his hobby once the going gets tough, like the bloke at Fylde; maybe he'll give up and you'll be another North Ferriby. Either way, nothing of any value would be lost to the utterly indifferent town of Harrogate, or indeed the world of football in general, just like every other hobby club. And you can keep telling yourself that everyone was just jealous of how many hairdressers live nearby or whatever else you cling to in the non-league weirdo scene.

Haters gonna hate, if people in the run down towns get meaning in their lives by supporting a League 2 football club, good on them I say. It probably stops them from thinking about how they used to have industries.

...unfortunately for you..? I was a "non-league weirdo" for years, "through thick and thin", mostly thin. If the Weavers get fed up and leave it will have been good while it lasted. Up the hairdressers. At least we have the satisfaction of not calling ourselves after dead industries.

 

[Soup Ladle]

Haters gonna hate, if people in the run down towns get meaning in their lives by supporting a League 2 football club, good on them I say. It probably stops them from thinking about how they used to have industries.

...unfortunately for you..? I was a "non-league weirdo" for years, "through thick and thin", mostly thin. If the Weavers get fed up and leave it will have been good while it lasted. Up the hairdressers. At least we have the satisfaction of not calling ourselves after dead industries.

Middle class snob from North Yorkshire in talking condescending shite shocker.

 

[Soup Ladle]

Not like going round calling yourself the “Garden of England”, when really it is more like a car park.

The South East is just expensive concrete, do not get the appeal at all. South West is nice mind.

 

[ForzaCounty]

Middle class snob from North Yorkshire in talking condescending shite shocker.

An obstinate Yorkshireman, who'd've thought it

Must be fun in the hairdresser's. "Yer having a blue rinse, Edna, and that's final"

 

[Soup Ladle]

An obstinate Yorkshireman, who'd've thought it

Must be fun in the hairdresser's. "Yer having a blue rinse, Edna, and that's final"

Nah he wouldn't even touch Edna's hair. 4 generations ago her Great Great Granda was a coal miner.

 

[JaredSUFC]

The truth is in the grand scheme of things we’re all considered relatively tinpot in the consciousness of the average football watcher, who is more concerned about which £50-60 million player a Premier League club is going to sign, or which streaming service they’re going to watch this weeks super Sunday game.

And in regards to your club’s location, compared to the paradisical glory that is Sutton, you’re all from dull as dishwater hell holes

 

[Salvador]

Haters gonna hate, if people in the run down towns get meaning in their lives by supporting a League 2 football club, good on them I say. It probably stops them from thinking about how they used to have industries.

...unfortunately for you..? I was a "non-league weirdo" for years, "through thick and thin", mostly thin. If the Weavers get fed up and leave it will have been good while it lasted. Up the hairdressers. At least we have the satisfaction of not calling ourselves after dead industries.

Why do you keep wittering on about dead industries? Do you think us oiks in the less salubrious northern towns all clamour for a return to mill work and coal mines?

 

[Ainsty]

Why do you keep wittering on about dead industries?

Oh, grow up! Why do you think? it's a wind up and it clearly works. I'm surprised by how triggering it is. Too easy.

 

[Gills4years]

The South East is just expensive concrete, do not get the appeal at all. South West is nice mind.

BIzarrely, according to recent TV programme I was watching, 85% of Kent is still undeveloped green land. Lot of building going on though, and a lot of miles of motorway. The main reasons I have recently moved to Suffolk for my twilight years.

The Medway towns are pretty grim, I admit, and neighbouring Chatham is worse than Gillingham. The area around the football ground is particularly dire, with endless roads full of tired terraced houses and no street parking. Not sure whether that is better or worse than being in the middle of a soulless industrial estate or business park.

 

[Salvador]

Oh, grow up! Why do you think? it's a wind up and it clearly works. I'm surprised by how triggering it is. Too easy.

Fair enough. Hard to tell if someone is being serious on here!

 

[Chief Rocka]

We're currently tracking a lot better than I'd predicted, 7 points from three as opposed to my prediction of 4 points and out of the bottom two, still unbeaten under Askey.

Stonking win for Colchester, edging closer to safety, two more wins, maybe one and a draw or two should be enough.

Harrogate proving again that they have this knack of getting a result from nowhere, did the same against Carlisle and face a pulseless Donny on Saturday.

Crawley's had a bit of a kicking in recent weeks after a mini revival, their season will be decided in back to backs with Colchester/Pools

And finally what would've been a great point for Rochdale in any other circumstance just doesn't seem like it'll be enough, probably need four wins from their last five to have a chance?