Uxbridge News

[Woody SUFC]

Following the recent cold snap, which has left the "Honeycroft" pitch frozen solid, the New Years Day fixture against Windsor & Eton is in doubt.

 

The Club intends to get a lunchtime inspection from the Match Referee to see if the game against Windsor & Eton can go ahead. The Uxbridge Clubline will be updated when the inspection is done (01895 4458300)as will be this website.

 

So please do not travel to the ground without checking whether the pitch will be playable or not. Let's hope the next update tomorrow will yield some more positive news, as this fixture has been eagerly awaited for quite a while.

 

[Woody SUFC]

The site has been updated and states the game is on!

[Jezdog]

Linky: - http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/uxbridge/?section=clubnews

[Woody SUFC]

Won 2-0 and apart from a short spell just before we got our second we were the best side and played some good stuff on the break. Top of the league with a game in hand! Excellent start to a massive month!

 

 

[Baby-faced asassin]

Top of the league and we're avin a larf

[The Hovis Kid]

I didn

[Giant Reed]

A bit boring reading the rambling diatribe from those who couldn't be bothered to go to the game today.

Real supporters make the effort!

Top of the league and most of the "barmy army" were nowhere to be seen!!

[Woody SUFC]

Hovis would you get away with it in the army saying "I'm not really up to standing in this desert today" ?

 

It aint called the barmy 'army' for nothing! 20 laps of stag meadow at half time sounds fair

[Giant Reed]

Fair play to you woody

you'll be there through thick and thin.

Dissappointing turn out though.

[Woody SUFC]

10-15 behind the goal which is more than most sides bring to stag meadow and the more down the sides.

 

Saying that we'll most likely be taking more to truro which makes little sense!!!

[The Hovis Kid]

Originally Posted By: Windsore & beaten

A bit boring reading the rambling diatribe from those who couldn't be bothered to go to the game today.

Not really rambling when there was only two sentences about yesterdays game written is;

Originally Posted By: myself

"Happy to hear we have taken all 3 points and that Chenns made the score sheet again. Glad to also see that possibly our most consistent player Andy Fagan made the score sheet!

As for your comment Woody, you are right... just as well I have now left! But see how drunk I am and maybe one day you'll get 20 laps out of me!

[Giant Reed]

I was out of order posting that rubbish.

 

Please accept my apologies Hovis!

 

I do however think our attendances are low given the standard and quality of the football on offer.

I appreciate the club is doing it's best to attract more people to games,but i think todays offer should be extended to free entry to kids with any adult.

I also think this offer should run for the rest of the season.

Kids will always want a burger and a drink,maybe even a scarf and a fridge magnet.

In fact,i now want a fridge magnet.

[The Hovis Kid]

Originally Posted By: Windsore & beaten

I do however think our attendances are low given the standard and quality of the football on offer.
I appreciate the club is doing it's best to attract more people to games,but i think todays offer should be extended to free entry to kids with any adult.
I also think this offer should run for the rest of the season.
Kids will always want a burger and a drink,maybe even a scarf and a fridge magnet.
In fact,i now want a fridge magnet.

I completely agree, I don't think many women would want to visit Stag Meadow on a cold January afternoon. Adults with children free would be a better idea!

Also, apology accepted... no worries!

[dansilk]

We've been suggesting this for a while - either a blanket children enter free, or at least a 'child free with paying adult' rule, but there were always objections.

Personally I think it a very good plan: children supporters are likely to grow into adult supporters (and maybe even the occasional player), plus a few more men might be dragged along if there's 'free' entertainment for their children which they can also enjoy. Plus we have so few paying children normally we'd hardly be losing much in the way of gate receipts, the extra burger/bar takings would surely help here.

 

Also it might get us a bit better known - a lot of people who've only recently moved to Windsor have no idea there's any local club, still less that the standard of football is so high: I've brought a number of people down over the last few seasons and they've been surprised, I think they've been expecting Sunday league standard or similar. So with an incentive like this we'd be better placed to reach out to schools, after all Trevelyan is only a tiny distance and there's over 1200 children there...

[Fuzzy Royal]

I totally agree that the offer should be put in place for the season, as for the level of support being low, that is epidemic in non league football. Taking into account the level we are at we are reasonably well supported, and if you look at teams at higher levels they do not have great support and are definitley down on levels say ten years ago. There is so much footy on telly all the time it is difficult to persuade someone to come out on a wet and freezing January or February day. What we could have done with is a good cup run or a spot on match of the day. But we have been there before and we just couldn't get a large following, but realistically how many would anyone expect a team in such a saturated area for local teams to be able to attract. Truro have been terrifically successful and have bugger all other local teams around them and manage 500 or so. Personally I think we do okay, yes we could do with a few more and word of mouth and a successful season may push our fanbase up a bit but we need to be realistic and enjoy the fact we can park in our car park.

[Geggy]

interesting thread this. Just to add to points made, since the radio campaigns were launched and the different offers introduced by the club (note there are different offers for every remaining league game this season), we have had three successive games with crowds in excess of 200.

[Woody SUFC]

Clearly the radio campaigns are working but we cannot rest on this. Perhaps a new poster campaign AND getting into the local schools etc with vouchers and such like handed out to the middle schools?

 

 

[Fuzzy Royal]

Gegg, i see what you are saying, but they were all local games around the holiday period and the burnham crowd was 180? Success and local promotions will clearly improve our crowd base, but I wonder how many are new fans and how many are old fans coming back to see a few games now we are playing well. I would love to think we could get 300 regularly, and it is great that the club is trying everything it can to promote the club. Be interesting to see if we can keep our crowd size up, i reckon we should get a bumper crowd next Saturday(didn't a Slough fan once say we have no away support, lets see what the crowd is there!!). Do you know what the crowd was today?

[mal316]

Crowd was 200

[Woody SUFC]

Is that counting all the freeloaders from other clubs or not!?