Gimps

[quote=33]As much as it'd be hilarious if they bottled it - looking at that leagues top few you'd favour Lincoln and Tranmere coming up for the good of the FL. FGR becoming a league club would be a travesty.

Why would it be a travesty ? Hardly mk divvy's are they ? Fleetwood are a similar club to village green rovers and they are doing well and appear not to be hated .

If Lincoln were to get promoted id like it to be the auto route rather than going to wembley. its too nice a day out for the gimps.

160 away at a clash of the top 2 in the league and circa 4000 (four thousand!) at Wembley for a play off final? Nothing to add to the football league other than another egotistical owner. Plus we'd have all the 'fairy tale' balderdash for a few weeks once they got up.

FGR have a great history in Non-League and for them to stay in the Conference so long before the arrival of Vince's millions speaks very well of them. However, the moment you become a rich man's plaything you're guaranteed to lose credibility. No surprise that they aren't getting higher attendances despite their challenges for promotion with Vince's money because Nailsworth is just a really small place.

Look at recent 'moneybags' clubs who won promotion from Non-League and Fleetwood aren't doing badly, but they are still averaging less than 3,000 fans this season, despite the fact that there are a good number of clubs in League One close enough to them to provide large away followings. Crawley aren't even getting 2,300 and Newport are only getting a few more. Ultimately, these clubs will end up dropping down and out of the League at some point when they are not being funded by a wealthy owner.

Credit to the likes of Morecambe and Accrington for still being around in the League for so long on such tiny attendances. I don't think they have particularly wealthy backers, do they?

(Note, I don't count GTFC as a rich man's plaything despite Fenty's 'benign loans' because we're getting the attendances to pretty much fund ourselves - the debts came in great part due to years of crappy appointments by the non-Chairman!)

Quoted from Maringer

FGR have a great history in Non-League and for them to stay in the Conference so long before the arrival of Vince's millions speaks very well of them. However, the moment you become a rich man's plaything you're guaranteed to lose credibility. No surprise that they aren't getting higher attendances despite their challenges for promotion with Vince's money because Nailsworth is just a really small place.

Look at recent 'moneybags' clubs who won promotion from Non-League and Fleetwood aren't doing badly, but they are still averaging less than 3,000 fans this season, despite the fact that there are a good number of clubs in League One close enough to them to provide large away followings. Crawley aren't even getting 2,300 and Newport are only getting a few more. Ultimately, these clubs will end up dropping down and out of the League at some point when they are not being funded by a wealthy owner.

Credit to the likes of Morecambe and Accrington for still being around in the League for so long on such tiny attendances. I don't think they have particularly wealthy backers, do they?

(Note, I don't count GTFC as a rich man's plaything despite Fenty's 'benign loans' because we're getting the attendances to pretty much fund ourselves - the debts came in great part due to years of crappy appointments by the non-Chairman!)

Don't forget that they should have been relegated in 2010 and only survived due to Salisbury going pop.

Quoted from Les Brechin

Don't forget that they should have been relegated in 2010 and only survived due to Salisbury going pop.

No different to us in the 2008/09 season!

Still creditable that they managed to avoid the drop the other years.

Quoted from Maringer

No different to us in the 2008/09 season!

Still creditable that they managed to avoid the drop the other years.

Shiver!

Quoted from moosey_club

Matt Rhead must play truant some days then  

Parkin playing for York now he is over weight his belly wobbled as he ran but still not a bad player just like Mcnulty  at Tranmere.
Both look like pub players but are quality at this level.

Quoted from Les Brechin

Don't forget that they should have been relegated in 2010 and only survived due to Salisbury going pop.

FGR survived for a number of years in the Conference exactly because other clubs overspent and went pop. So fair play to their old incarnation as Maringer said. 2010 was probably only the last occasion when this happened.

Quoted from Helgy

Parkin playing for York now he is over weight his belly wobbled as he ran but still not a bad player just like Mcnulty  at Tranmere.
Both look like pub players but are quality at this level.

I remember watching him when he was at Luton. A great reader of the game and nothing got past McNulty. And not just cos he was a fat bar steward. He even had the good grace to laugh when he was told his shirt sponsor was Billy Smart.