Play off at home crowd 1,560

How shit is the support in this league? Pools would have been sold out if it was us.

Absolutely tinpot, I hate being in this League. The tickets were reduced as well but they were then informed that because the gates receipts were to be split 50:50 they couldn't do this by the National League so they announced they would take a £5 hit and pay the difference for all the home tickets sold but the 90 or so Harrogate fans who had already bought tickets would have to return them get a refund then rebuy them at full price!! Shoddy behaviour, and absolutely amateur stuff in the first place. Surely take the hit on everyone who has bought a ticket or nobody, especially as it was completely Fylde's fault.

I was talking to a Blackpool fan who lives over here last year and he mentioned that a lot of Blackpool fans were going to watch Fylde for a football fix because they wouldn't set foot in Bloomfield Road while the Oyston's were still about. They were set up in the first place by a Blackpool fan who wanted to invest in Blackpool but again the Oyston's got in the way (a very similar story to the investment at Fleetwood.) They have existed for little more than a decade and like a few we've seen before like Rushden and Diamonds (who at least used to get a few watching them) they will do doubt disappear as quickly as the appeared once the bankrolling stops, with the end of the Blackpool boycott I can't see the interest lasting long.

It's an experience down at this level and no mistake. Half the clubs have next to no fans and chairmen indulging in an expensive version of fantasy football.

You'd think what's been happening in Gateshead couldn't be made up, but there's a parallel down at Ebbsfleet, who have also just missed out on the play offs! Ebbsfleet's owners insist there's 'no truth in the rumour' that the club is going to voluntarily drop down to the Bostik League, but according to their own players they are serial liars:
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/ ... in-203432/

Speaking of clubs with next to no fans, I suppose we should be pleased that the 'derby' with Harrogate is back on as they've missed out on promotion. No sign of Michael Woods in their play off squad - presumably he's injured again?

I say good luck to Fylde. If football success was just based on the numbers of fans, Liverpool and man u would dominate today like they did in the 80s and 90s. They hate chelsea and city muscling in.

We used to hate the likes of Leeds and sheff Wednesday fans looking down their noses at us when we were in the same league and trying to get in the championship.

yes, it's a rich blokes play thing but it's all relative IMO.

To be fair I don't 'hate' any clubs Football shouldn't be a closed shop but you just know in a club like Fylde only have a certain shelf life and no real potential fan base, historical core of die hards who would rally if thins got tough or catchment area to be sustainable after the sugar Daddy disappears, as I said the obvious comparison is Rushden who we had a few run in's with but I never had any particular ill feeling towards either. The people who watch these clubs stick in the throat a bit at times though, as you know at some point they have changed allegiance from whoever they claimed to support before. Whatever they achieve is a bit soulless and manufactured. I watched a bit of the game last night and even when Fylde scored the reaction was fairly flat, like it didn't mean that much to those watching.

I loved being in the same League as the likes of Sheffield Wedneday and Leeds, playing at famous old stadiums in front of big crowds watching a decent standard of football, then the Vic being full when they came to our place. I absolutely hate us being in the National League, hate it!! If you look at the play offs this season and the clubs involved they include more plastic than the Indian Ocean, Wrexham aside.

Which makes it even more frustrating that these sort of clubs somehow manage to get teams together that at least make the play-offs while we languish in no-man’s land half way down. Still, that will all change next season?