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Is this the most boring Boro team ever?
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Yet another serving of haramball from Revell
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I've never been a 'Revs In' kind of guy, I made that pretty clear when he was reappointed and through the beginning of the season.
However, being realistic, I'm now torn on this. Yes, we're not the most exciting team to watch, especially away from home. However, for a club the size of ours, to be comfortably mid table is actually a great achievement and we should be proud of that.
On average attendances, we're 23rd in L1 and I'd imagine we'd be fairly low in L2 as well, yet on the pitch we're punching and we should embrace this.
So now I'm a 'Rev's not in, but not out either' kind of guy.
And my pre season bet on us going down looks really silly now!
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I think Chuds has had the numbers to prove that whilst our attendances this year are poor for League One, they're still good for Stevenage Football Club.
I think some of the frustration at Revs over attendances should be aimed at the good people of Stevenage - putting down roots in a town where a huge chunk of the population has only been here for two generations at most is tough.
Southend are midtable in the National League and had 6,800 show up to a 0-0 with Hartlepool, for example.
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putting down roots in a town where a huge chunk of the population has only been here for two generations at most is tough.
And the club is only two generations old too.
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? Strictly correct but imo really a lot of old Athletic fans continued to follow Boro in me , was 9 when Athletic folded .That being said. We will only get complete Prem L converts by being successful
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In reality, no-one will 'convert' from their Prem team - they will still follow that team on tv and get all the merchandise, and tell people that's who they support when people ask them, as it means they can have a conversation.
But the more people we can also get coming to our games too and buying our gear too, the better. I see it happening more and more. The school voucher and football team stuff has been brilliant.
My son loves coming to Boro, always asks when we're next going, checks out the table and our fixtures and knows all the teams positions in League 1 etc.
But as soon as any person asks him what football team he supports he says Arsenal, because it's just expected he has a Prem team, and they do, and they can talk about top level footballers.
I then have to pretend I'm David Beckham talking to Victoria, and point out 'be honest, tell them who you REALLY support'...
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In reality, no-one will 'convert' from their Prem team
I supported Leeds and my daughter supported Arsenal when we first started attending 16 years ago.
Now neither of us could give more than a passing hoot about them. A view we formed within a year or so at most.
I'm sure we are not that unusual.
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This is the same as me. I'd had a season ticket at Leeds for 10 seasons straight before I moved to Stevenage for a new job in 2017.
7 years later, I'm now on my 5th season ticket and 7th year watching the Boro and when people ask who I support, I say Stevenage.
If they can't chat about football below the PL/Championship then that's their problem
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No, you are not that unusual.
We were West Ham season ticket holders for many years. Just happened to get invited to Boro by a workmate. West Ham were then consigned to history.
What grabbed me was the family atmosphere, the raw nature of the football which the players bought into. It was telling they were playing for the love of the game....it really showed!
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For me it was more that i couldnt afford to take her to Arsenal beyond the odd PSF or testimonial.
Remember testimonials? Not sure theyre a thing anymore.
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About time we had a Testimonial for Robin Trott, been waiting for the announcement for yrs
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You're unusual. Katie is quite normal... 😉
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Anyway, must sign off, Arsenal are on soon.
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Why is he expected to though to support a PL team,? Genuine question by the way and not criticising your Son or kids in general . Wonder if all smallish clubs like us eg Crawley youngsters have to support a bigger club as it's expected .
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Because it's everywhere in the media (normal and social), news, games, FPL etc. You can always start up a conversation about the premier league and someone has a view.
As soon as someone asks and I say 'Stevenage', I only ever get 2 more questions:
1) no, but who's your real team
2) oh, how they doing this season?
That's it, they then don't know anything else to continue on a conversation.
So kids starting out at school feel like they need to have a Prem team so that they're not set out as different or not able to get involved.
As I say, it's improving, lots of his mates go to games when their school gets the voucher, and they are interested, but you won't stop 99% of them also having a prem team at primary school
Even worse, most of them also have Real Madrid, Messi LA Galaxy all manner of other kits and affiliations too, to look cool
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Fair play, pressures on kids.
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I've had a long hard think, and I've decided that being on course to finish comfortably mid table in League One is bad, actually.
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Absolutely inexcusable league position.
By now we should be playing Liverpool, Arsenal and Spurs in the Premier League.
Wallace out!
Ha bit the bait!
Edited by Telboy at 14:08:06 on 6th January 2025
Edited by Telboy at 14:09:48 on 6th January 2025
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Wish we were playing spurs…a certain three points.
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Football in general is boring now! All hail Pep-ball
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Boring is better than relegation.
We are putting in some good defensive performances and should take pride in that, as well as our league position.
We have something to build on, and I'm sure we'll strengthen in January.
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Agreed boring is better than relegation, but boring will push the floating supporters who have shown an interest over the last two years away and our attendances will drop again..
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We're basically the reverse Spurs and people probably wouldn't like it if we kept scoring and losing by the odd goal either.
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Only just. If it continues to be this boring I might start thinking rugby is entertaining.
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Actually one good thing I like about RU is you have a drink in crowd and most fans ok and mingle .Shame there are some idiots at footy who can't be trusted.
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Don't see many of these "idiots" at the Boro TBF. For sure we have some enthusiastic younger fans, who IMO are almost all very well behaved. (I'd be surprised if many of the older fans didn't go through the wannabe 'Top Boy' phase at some point!) Although I'm not really sure why I've just brought younger fans into this discussion, as it's primarily *older* folks who can't behave around booze.
And on rugby, never known a bunch who behave so badly around alcohol! I'm no fan.
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Irrespective of the alcohol, rugby is a fugging boring sport to watch.
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It's all about rugby league!
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Amen WASP ;-)
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Peter Taylor’s team was worse. But the games I’ve seen have been fucking shit.
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Enjoyed the first half. Mostly in their half, good passing, attacking intent. Simpson was a handful. Reverted to a bit boring in second half but Lincoln were always going to come out better than the the first half performance.
Obviously still struggling to score but clean sheet and point away from home generally take that. Burton at home would be disappointed with anything other than a win.
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To steal my post from X and pose the hypothetical question in this thread also...
Peterborough have scored 23 more goals than us this season. However, they have also conceded 26 more goals, are six points and six places below us in the table, and we have a game in hand on them.
Would you swap places with them?
It's a no for me.
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I’d rather watch next door’s dog having a dump than Revellball. But it’s all about opinions and supply and demand. If people are happy to part with their hard-earned to watch that week in week out then fair enough. For all I know Wallace might love watching it. Perhaps he’s not even bothered that attendances are dwindling. There will always be a hardcore who aren’t bothered about entertainment. Trouble is when the hardcore is only 2,000 fans and the floating fans have gone because they are bored shitless then finances will suffer.
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Rotter-n to the core is Phil
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Our attendances are the second-highest they have ever been in our history.
Edit: Which isn't to say they couldn't be better, and wouldn't be if we were scoring more, of course.
Edited by Chuds at 21:28:01 on 4th January 2025
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…. and would be better if the Sky deal wasn’t in place.
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Yes by far
Great were 13th but these matches are throughly depressing and boring.
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Ummmm...people have very short memories.
What was wrong with that win against Bristol Rovers?
I witnessed many, many happy, smiling fans!
A couple of 0-0 bore draws away doesn't paint the complete picture.
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Depressing. Alright 😂
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No
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Revball. The fans seem to be happy with it. It’s status quo. (Not the rock band)
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Would prefer us to score a few more, but equally would much prefer this than getting pasted every other week as we have endured across a number of seasons recently, something we ought not forget.
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Goal scoring is a problem. Has been for ages now.
It will end up costing Revell his job and his reputation if he cant solve it because the fanbase will turn. Especially if we cant improve our goal return at home.
That said 0-0 away from home is almost always a good result. I'm more than happy with the point. I'd have preferred a 2-2 maybe but i shall not be complaining.
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It's a fair point. Chances were there today. But outside the chances, Reid had an opportunity to get a shot away, List the other side doesn't attack the box one on one to get a shot away. Must be very very frustrating for a coach to watch these opportunities literally go begging. I'm not sure what you do to coach two players to actually go on and have a shot.
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Made the same comment to my son during the game - we don’t shoot enough! So many times there’s an opportunity to have a go and we look for an extra or safe pass.
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Its the modern way. Man City and Arsenal do the same.
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Both of whom are boring to watch IMO.
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I agree. As a neutral, I much prefer Spurs, Forest and Liverpool this season, bit of jeopardy.
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But still half of Nidge sit at home watching one of these two.
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Arsenal spend 85 mins of every match faking horrendous injuries.
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That tall centre half for Lincoln must have been taking tips from the Emirates then
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Quite, except I would actually prefer a 0-0 to a 2-2 as I am loving our record setting clean sheets records.
13 clean sheets in 23 games (Cooper has 13 from 20 games and had conceded just 11 times), it's brilliantly nuts.
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I definitely agree! I wonder what the record in League One is because we surely have a chance of beating that this year. If we continue our current record we'd end up with 26-27 clean sheets!
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Based on previous winners of the Golden Glove award, 25 is the figure to beat. But that's just one goalkeeper...
/en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFL_Golden_Glove
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I love the 0-0s away because we get a point and it winds up both sets of supporters, I think it's funny.
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Yes! I'll take a boring point away from home most times. It does put a bit of pressure on home performances though, would like to see us be more expansive against shit teams at BW
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Two very winnable home ties coming up next to put us just outside the playoffs.
Tidy.
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Can't argue with our position/relative points so far - 10 points off the play offs, but 11 clear of the relegation zone.
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Three goalless draws away on the spin now. Four consecutive away clean sheets including Burton in the FLT.
Drawn 0-0 in 27% of away league games under Revs across both spells.
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Personally thought the game was far from boring. On the scale of 0-0's, one of the better ones!
And to answer the OP: one of the human brain's coping mechanisms is to "blank" traumatic memories. Maybe this has affected your assessment?!
Edited by Clogger at 17:51:42 on 4th January 2025
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It was much better than Northampton, but then so are most things this side of self harming.
We have a superb defence, and I can't help thinking that with a little bit more nous, and fewer square pegs in round holes, we would be in the top six now.
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