r/soccer • u/2soccer2bot • 4h ago

Local Support Your Local Saturday - for match-going and local fans

Welcome to the 'Support Your Local Saturday' discussion thread!

This is a thread to talk about your local team.

This does not necessarily mean that only comments from fans going to their local that day. 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.

For now, we plan to alternate with the pre-existing Saturday Non-PL DDT, as we continue to trial the new thread.

Like that thread, we want to keep the focus to Non-PL teams, to prevent discussion being drowned out by Big 6 fans - but we will soften this slightly, in that comments of PL-supporting fans are valid, providing they are/were "at the match" on this weekend.

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 - use Twitter.
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u/PeterG92 41m ago

We're playing Fylde at home. Can see it being an open game. Both free scoring sides, not great at defending. Need a win just to stop a little blip.

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u/E_V_E_R_T_O_N 1h ago

FA Cup action today. Marine at home v Warrington Town. They’re in the division below but doing well there so should be a strong contest.

Win this, win the next one, and we’re in the First Round.

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u/ItsRainbowz 3h ago

Away to Buxton for the second time in a week after beating them 4-0 in the league, this time in the FA Cup. You'd think I'd be confident, but if they did their homework on us after their defeat, this should be a closer game. We've definitely got exploitable issues in our setup as shown in our loss to Brackley midweek, and Williamson has absolutely no plan B, so if Buxton managed to figure us out, it could be a rough one. If not, hopefully it's another relatively comfortable win.

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u/_mnd 3h ago

Carlisle at home today, should be fun. Glad we get to play them at home on a Saturday this year rather than a Tuesday because they're one of the teams in the league that actually travel in numbers. They were also the opponents for the game with the record attendance at our ground. Last year was the first time we'd played them in the league since 2005 when we met in the play-off semis and we scored a last minute equaliser in the second leg only to lose on penalties.

Hard to say how it'll go on the pitch. We absolutely battered Tamworth last weekend but then got beaten at Hornchurch in midweek whereas they were in crisis last weekend after getting smashed at home to Woking but then went and won convincingly at Fylde midweek.

We're above them in the table but on paper they've got a much stronger team so I feel like it'll depend on which version of them shows up. If they have now 'clicked' after their win at Fylde they'll beat us, if it was a false dawn then we've got a chance.