We're well thought of.

I went to Blackpool Tues/Weds for a coast walk which due to the weather and a foot injury turned into a tram hop and pub crawl.
Fleetwood were playing Altrincham so I thought why not although I did think it was an FA Cup game rather then that pizza cup balderdash, still it was only a fiver.
A crowd of 600 in the one open stand tried to make a decent atmosphere but what made me laugh was the two blokes next to me deriding the dozen away fans and wishing it was Grimsby as there'd be a decent away crowd.
I told them who I was and pointed out we're not really keen on the competition.
The buggers started telling everyone around and suddenly there was a chant of "Is that all you take away" directed at me rather than the Altrincham fans.
Comedy gold but I suppose you had to be there.
Talking to them in the pub it seems we're well thought of though.

You realise it was Accrington Stanley rather than Altrincham?

Quoted from GollyGTFC

You realise it was Accrington Stanley rather than Altrincham?

And you were at Fleetwood Rugby Club, not football?

The beer must be strong in that part of the world!

Quoted from GollyGTFC

You realise it was Accrington Stanley rather than Altrincham?

Schoolboy error but as DB suggested, the beer was strong.

How things change...there was a time when a club would have dreaded 800+ Town fans descending on them.

This is a club going in the right direction (at last).

Before Covid each year back end of August would take the kids to Blackpool for a week.  I always wear one of my GTFC tops, the amount times I would be stopped by fans from other clubs (Man City, Sheff Utd, Barnsley, Coventry, Nottingham Forest, Birmingham to mention a few) for a chat, missus fed up come the end of the week.  Many would say they miss not playing us, always surprised by the amount fans we took to the away games.

I got stopped at Sloane Square tube station on a Saturday morning last year with my GTFC shirt on, i went into a pub down the Kings Road, obviously full of Chelsea fans,  so many comments about a club bringing 5,000 fans on a Tuesday night and taking over the old shed end, said to me many times in that pub, you've got bigger support than most Premier league clubs that come here by miles, my head swelled so much I couldn't get out the door.

I've told this story many times...

After 'that' Wimbledon game me and 2 mates were in a pub in Covent Garden and a table full of Chelsea fans, who were a little the worse for wear, started going round the pub asking blokes who they supported and what game they'd been to. We were dreading them coming to us as we thought we might get a kicking. Anyway they did come to us and we thought we better go down in flames so told them we supported Grimsby and we'd been at Wimbledon.

We were treated like royalty. The Chelsea fans were full of respect and told tales of when they'd played us and what a good team we were. There was also a little bit of 80's football thuggery mentioned but even then...we got massive respect because out 'lads' didn't run from the Chelsea boys.

A strange and slightly surreal evening. Unsurprisingly I was home much later than expected and Mrs CummingsTackle was not impressed with me falling through the door in the middle of the night with tales of derring do.

Also After 'that ' Wimbledon game a coach load of us were in a pub which turned out to be a Millwall pub. The keyboard player was blind but somehow found out about us lot, he said he could smell fish it must be the Grimsby fans. We were all a little bit worried but there was no bother in fact just a healthy respect for us.
I remember being in the loo at the end of the night when a couple of Millwall fans came in and had a bit of a chat, they also told of some skirmishes with Town fans, great night in the end.