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attendences in the fa cup yesterday....

Uncle Urchin

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poor all round but the most surprising was the ponytails at home to burnham ramblers....787...?

dear oh dear...the league team elect need to do better than that.... grin

no wonder peter foster has gone missing fromm the message boards.... bolt


Here's some statistics, Karl, which I brought to the attention of Ms. Cliff when she made an almost identical point yesterday on the Ryman Fans' Forum....

I believe it's quite easy to establish a case for the argument that attendances in early rounds of the FA Cup will tend to be materially down on comparable league attendances where clubs are at home to "minnows."

Here's a list of clubs in our division at home to "minnows" last Saturday. The first figure is Saturday's attendance and the bracketed figure is the appropriate average home league attendance this season (ignoring fixtures against AFCW, for obvious reasons)-

City 787 (1176)
Hornchurch 368 (740)
Hendon 128 (235)
Boreham Wood 156 (143*)
Wealdstone 153 (255*)
Harlow 212 (299)
Ashford Town (MX) 77 (208)
Horsham 326 (367)
Folkestone 289 (375)
Maidstone 351 (431)

*Average ignoring home game against AFCW.

On average, Saturday's attendances at these ten games were down one third on the average home league attendances of the home clubs this season after adding back attendances for visits of AFCW to Boreham Wood and Wealdstone.

Certainly, City's attendance was about a third down on our average home league attendance this season, in line with the average of the sample above....
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"yeah whatever. some good bait laid by Unc..."

 

So according to you, Kaiser Jnr, anyone who responds to a post on a messageboard is "taking the bait...."

 

Might I respectfully point out that without such "bait-taking" messageboards would be very dull places indeed as they would consist solely of a number of stand-alone postings with no interaction....

 

Or is that what you would prefer?

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So according to you, Kaiser Jnr, anyone who responds to a post on a messageboard is "taking the bait...."


the practice of taking the bait derives from the roman occupation of these isles and the old anglo saxon term wergang petious bete nal which translates losely to
worrying about the present activity hence the reason why anglers talk freely about bait and the taking of and not having set the bait in the event of lack of a catch.

In the early part of the middle ages during the spanish inquisition, the priests against the persecution of the christian soldiers set traps for the inquisidors and this term (using pure latin) was known as catchius arsyius numptious

in ancient greece, it was well known that the senate employed three spies, levius, activus and septius and they (along with the much lorded philosopher archimedus) had a secret code for protecting the messenger scrolls, in effect they used invisible ink and wrote false messages above the real missive....this was known as smartius baitius excelsius and led to the modern day practice of intelligence services laying traps to catch enemies of the state.....

in modern times the laying of bait on forums has become a much practised art and attracts much debate as to the merits of answering such posts...... grin
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