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The B-Ark / Re: BUFC Programmes for sale
« on: January 06, 2025, 09:08:00 AM »
I may have the Stamford one Doug, its a single sheet as I do have a copy in my own collection.
The others definitely not.
The others definitely not.
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The B-Ark / BUFC Programmes for sale
« on: January 02, 2025, 12:18:18 PM »
I'm looking to offload all of my spare BUFC programmes from the 60's to present, home and away with a heavy emphasis on Late 90's to 2006/7 FL issues.
There is a lot, probably a couple of thousand and perhaps BUSA might be able to sell them on and make money from them, or an individual will want to ebay them as part of an online programme shop.....
Anyway, contact me if you are interested, I'm not looking to sell my collection BTW, and I'm always looking for 40's/50's/60's items I don't have, especially handbooks, season tickets, badges and postcards/team photo's. I'm always fair with prices paid for items I want.
There is a lot, probably a couple of thousand and perhaps BUSA might be able to sell them on and make money from them, or an individual will want to ebay them as part of an online programme shop.....
Anyway, contact me if you are interested, I'm not looking to sell my collection BTW, and I'm always looking for 40's/50's/60's items I don't have, especially handbooks, season tickets, badges and postcards/team photo's. I'm always fair with prices paid for items I want.
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The B-Ark / Re: Quiet Forum
« on: December 23, 2024, 08:11:07 AM »If I'm going to an away game then I'd go to the home teams website and get tickets in the away fans section.
So why isn't it on the Offical BUFC page in good time?
They must know ticket prices well in advance, surely its advantageous to get more clicks on our website than the opposition.
I couldn't care less what the usual suspects say, the regular match attending fan is an inconvenience to this club since the stadium opened, its all about corporate hospitality and getting a nice family audience in, David Newton said as much at the last Shareholders meeting I attended, hence why I don't attend home games any more, I don't go where I'm not wanted.
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The B-Ark / Re: Quiet Forum
« on: December 19, 2024, 10:27:32 AM »
The club has never had so many staff, yet the information coming out of it is on a par with the 80's and 90's when JB was on his own doing the lot.
They don't even bother putting links up for away tickets which to my mind shows exactly where the loyalest fans rank in their list of priorities.
But you can get a link from the website to major sponsors no problem.
I think the club has lost touch with its fan base, they need to be careful because there's a lot out there that have only discovered Utd since the ground switch, and if they start feeling alienated they'll soon find other things to do on Saturday afternoon, rather like a growing number of legacy fans disillusioned with the direction the club has taken in the last few years.
They don't even bother putting links up for away tickets which to my mind shows exactly where the loyalest fans rank in their list of priorities.
But you can get a link from the website to major sponsors no problem.
I think the club has lost touch with its fan base, they need to be careful because there's a lot out there that have only discovered Utd since the ground switch, and if they start feeling alienated they'll soon find other things to do on Saturday afternoon, rather like a growing number of legacy fans disillusioned with the direction the club has taken in the last few years.
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The B-Ark / Re: FA trophy draw
« on: December 10, 2024, 12:32:06 PM »
Although I've not done the ground I'm giving it a miss, there's 5 away games between now and the end of January and I intend to do Forest Green, Wealdstone and Tamworth,I've been to Rochdale 3 times and never seen us score there so by missing it I'm hoping we get something!
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The B-Ark / Re: Worst game you've seen
« on: December 03, 2024, 09:09:05 AM »Gresley 1 BUFC 0 1998.
I think the goal was a penalty, terrible pitch, terrible game, small crowd. I think the one game I can ever remember thinking I might give up going even though I could afford to carry on. Evans came shortly afterwards - at the time we thought this was a good thing. Be careful what you wish for etc
My first away game. Things I remember from that day are
Me and dad getting refused into a pub as they didn't allow kids
Same day di canio pushed the ref over after getting sent off
Having to sheepishly ask dad for more money as I brought too much from the snack bar!!!
Their main stand being so thin
Well remembered John, an absolutely dire game, we'd been to Congleton a week or so prior to this too, that was no better. Congleton does have the redeeming quality though of the seeds being sown for the birth of BUSA on the way back. Christ that was a grim time to be a Utd supporter.
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The B-Ark / Worst game you've seen
« on: December 02, 2024, 05:09:23 PM »
The general consensus on the bus home and at the game was that it was just about as poor a game as it its possible to watch with 2 seemingly doomed teams generally working hard but producing very little in the way of entertainment.
But was it THAT bad?
What was the worst game you've EVER seen?
My personal favorite was a 4-0 home defeat to Gateshead at the fag end of 1983 which was so bad John Froggatt resigned straight after and only 600 odd turned up. It sticks in my mind as it was my Grandad's funeral the next day and the game matched my mood.......
But was it THAT bad?
What was the worst game you've EVER seen?
My personal favorite was a 4-0 home defeat to Gateshead at the fag end of 1983 which was so bad John Froggatt resigned straight after and only 600 odd turned up. It sticks in my mind as it was my Grandad's funeral the next day and the game matched my mood.......
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The B-Ark / Re: Ebbsfleet away...
« on: December 02, 2024, 09:26:05 AM »
On that showing we'll do well to get 30 points all season, genuinely one of the worst games of football I've ever had the misfortune to attend.
Feel for GC, he's on a hiding to nothing, he'll get lads in but lets be honest, anyone half decent will look at the league and give us a swerve, by the time New Year comes we could be 10-12 points from safety and then its time to build for next season, assuming GC wants to stay.
The only positive for me in all this is the manager is fronting up after games and coming over to the fans, and to be fair there seems to be a togetherness.
But the summer recruitment has come back to haunt us massively, I can only see heavy defeats in the next two away games even if we get a few more bodies over the line.
Feel for GC, he's on a hiding to nothing, he'll get lads in but lets be honest, anyone half decent will look at the league and give us a swerve, by the time New Year comes we could be 10-12 points from safety and then its time to build for next season, assuming GC wants to stay.
The only positive for me in all this is the manager is fronting up after games and coming over to the fans, and to be fair there seems to be a togetherness.
But the summer recruitment has come back to haunt us massively, I can only see heavy defeats in the next two away games even if we get a few more bodies over the line.
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The B-Ark / Re: Oldham tickets
« on: November 28, 2024, 08:07:02 AM »I have friends who live in Rotherham, who tend to watch United with me when we play in the area. Last night was the first time that they were disappointed with the performance. Men against boys was the comment ( exactly what GC said in his interview ). I thought we were bullied off the ball all over the park. They had a game plan and it worked. As always we worked hard, but fell short. We have to make the January transfer market without too much damage. I agree with Pete, we wasted the summer without bringing in players to keep us up. Boundary park lived up to it's reputation as the coldest stadium in the country, it was bloody freezing.
And that was exactly my comment at half-time when I WhatsApp messaged two friends back home, and then at fulltime I commented to them:-
'Our players looked so small compared to the majority of the Latics players, got brushed off the ball far too easily and dithered a bit with our speed of
thought nowhere near the level of the home team. We had more possession in the second half and have no complaint about the effort displayed and
the willingness to run and run. I think some of our passing went astray simply due to the Oldham's players' ability to anticipate and intercept them"
As for the cold, I was parked near the Premier Inn just up the road from the away end of the ground and, as I walked back, you could see it was freezing and frost forming on car windscreens and roofs.
I wonder if it was even too cold for some of the natives, as it was their lowest gate of the season at 5,013? Our 194 (and a few of us sat in the Main Stand too) certainly wasn't the reason. Their biggest crowd to date was on Saturday 5 October v. Solihull Moors at 7,030 with only 89 visiting fans. Other Saturday opponents have taken fewer than us last night too : v. Braintree 5,552 (97 away) and v. Dagenham & Redbridge 5,651 (67 away). When AFC Fylde visited on a Tuesday night it was 5,682 and, despite only having a 50 miles journey (and all motorway too) just 198 of their fans travelled.
Unfortunately we were there on a CL night with a load of EFL games on too which would have impacted on the gate.
And lets be honest, we're hardly a big draw on a freezing night in East Lancs are we?
But never underestimate our support, its been magnificent away from home, just a shame we've being repaid by the poorest of recruitment policies for many a season.
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The B-Ark / Re: Woking away..
« on: November 19, 2024, 08:15:30 AM »And as much as Cully takes the biggest proportion of the blame the board have to be held to task for for providing what is looking like a wholly inadequate budget for the manager to operate with.
Would you rather DN had set the budget at a level which the club couldn't afford to pay? Money doesn't guarantee better players - look at Marriott and Mooney, presumed to be our 2 highest paid players. DN has said that Cully didn't spend all that was given to him, and a factor in getting rid of him was his lack of eagerness to bring in more players to improve the situation.
I do believe we'll have a bottom four budget in the division, but I guess we were hoping that the same team spirit that got us over the line at the end of the season would see us in good stead this season. Several bad results, mainly due to the lack of a goalscoring forward, has seen what is looking like almost irrepairable damage to the confidence and consistency of the team.
Here's hoping any new manager comes in soon, and has a couple of tricks up his sleeve...
I'd rather we had a go at staying up and if it hadn't worked out then regrouped for a couple of seasons rather than this absolutely abject failure. We've all waited for this season for well over a decade and now we're here its a massive anti climax not helped by a club who seem to treat the fans as an after thought and an inconvenience, not a valued asset. As you say the new manager needs to hit the ground running but this saga has dragged on for 3 weeks now, does anyone really think we've anybody lined up?
Stop defending the club Scott, they'll not think twice about fleecing you at every opportunity.
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The B-Ark / Re: Woking away..
« on: November 18, 2024, 08:22:44 AM »
The damage was done in the summer with a massively underwhelming recruitment policy that saw us recruit above average NL North players into an admittedly above average NL North side. And as much as Cully takes the biggest proportion of the blame the board have to be held to task for for providing what is looking like a wholly inadequate budget for the manager to operate with. Quite simply this side isn't up to NL National level in any way shape or form, we can point to injuries, especially to Cameron Gregory but that's putting a sticking plaster over a gaping wound.
Saturday was unforgivable though, Woking were poor and on a terrible run but they didn't have to break sweat, we genuinely didn't muster a single effort on target all afternoon. Whoever comes in has a massive job on to avoid finishing bottom, let alone staying up which I think can be written off already.
After all the summer optimism about promotion I and plenty of others feel really let down by those running this football club, we're back where we rightfully belong but it seems under investment and a lack of empathy with the fans means this is going to be a one season legacy.
Saturday was unforgivable though, Woking were poor and on a terrible run but they didn't have to break sweat, we genuinely didn't muster a single effort on target all afternoon. Whoever comes in has a massive job on to avoid finishing bottom, let alone staying up which I think can be written off already.
After all the summer optimism about promotion I and plenty of others feel really let down by those running this football club, we're back where we rightfully belong but it seems under investment and a lack of empathy with the fans means this is going to be a one season legacy.
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The B-Ark / Re: Sunderland Game
« on: November 08, 2024, 08:19:42 AM »Interesting post. I attended as -
1. I wanted to.
2. I wanted to support Martin Woods and note any tactical or personnel changes he had made ready for Saturday.
I’m pleased I went as it was a good game of football during a quiet period for the club and we played quite well! A tenner well spent thanks.
As you've every right to, and I'll not criticize anyone for going its personal choice.
If I were attending home games I'd have probably gone on the basis it'd be interesting to see what's coming through the academies of the top end Championship clubs.
But as a competition it needs binning, complete waste of time
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The B-Ark / Re: Sunderland Game
« on: November 07, 2024, 09:55:03 AM »145 at Maidenhead!
Apparently it's free to air on NLTV but there's as much value in these games as watching David Newton play chess with a gerbil. Sooner it's cancelled the better, but Mark Ives will point to "encouraging" crowds like ours and say it's got a future. As I Boston fan I find that a bit humiliating and embarrassing.
Unfortunately nothing will change, while you've clubs like ours supporting this farce the league will say there's a demand for it.
Meanwhile clubs are denied lucrative FA Cup replays on the back of this.
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The B-Ark / Re: Cully sacked
« on: November 05, 2024, 04:48:16 PM »And most likely never the right man for the Chairman again, having ditched us unceremoniously last time.
Agreed, apparently he and Rob blocked David and JB's calls once they'd spoken with Grimsby, they were un-contactable for several days.
Very poor form, football can be a fickle mistress