Welcome to the first Support Your Local Saturday thread - which we will be trialling for the first time today.

The premise is a thread to talk about your local team - something of an amalgamation of the Saturday Non-PL Daily Discussion Thread, and a “match-going fan” thread.

This does not necessarily mean that only comments from fans going to their local that day - but the spirit is a Discussion Thread for people who support their local team, and especially teams from lower or non-PL leagues - who can get drowned out in the pre-existing Daily Discussion Thread.

There is a small but dedicated following in the Non-PL DDT, and we were hoping that something of a re-brand may boost participation and help to build the excellent sub-community there.

We want to keep the focus to Non-PL teams, to prevent it being drowned out by Big 6 fans - but we will soften this slightly, in that comments of PL-supporting fans are valid, providing they were “at the match” that weekend.

It may not work, but worth giving a go, eh…

Rules:

  1. Discussion must be of your local team - whether they were you local growing up, or are your local now
  2. Discussion of PL teams is allowed only if you are attending the match that weekend - and hence focused on the match day experience
  3. Keep a high bar. This is not the DDT. If you want to troll, bait, or shit-talk like it’s Football Twitter, use the DDT. Or even better - Twitter.
  • YadMot@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    We have a chance to win our fifth in a row today, for the first time since 2015.

    If we hadn’t have had a points deduction we’d be fifth. This is despite having something like 15 first team players.

    1,200 away fans are heading to Boreham Wood this afternoon. We’re such a ridiculously well supported and well managed team, and it’s just so embarrassing that Ron Martin has ground us practically into dust. Seemingly Justin Rees and his consortium are intent on being way more active with the fans, but honestly as long as he pays our staff and HMRC I’ll be happy.

    We have the potential, with these players and a sensational manager in Kevin Maher, to go right to the top now. If Luton can do it, if Brighton can do it, if Brentford can do it, why not Southend?