FGR Fans

I've been to to few of their games, they are a very quiet bunch. We used the dark side very well today which wound them up a treat, probably the most noise I've heard from them.

A strange experience, felt like a throwback to an away day FA Cup 1st round game at some unknown non league team.

It was quite surreal to see some Argyle fans having to lay wheelie bins on their side to stand on at the back of the terrace to try and see anything!

Will be mighty glad to get back out of this league again ASAP.

It felt like a pre-season friendly and the non-league type of stadium shows we really shouldn't be in League Two.

The fans were friendly enough before the game.
Nailsworth is a real country-set town with a football club perched at the top of a big hill. Odd.
The infrastructure and roads around the stadium are not equipped for a large away following.

Couldn't get a Quorn pasty at HT due to the two members of catering staff they had on for the sold-out-ages-ago away crowd. Complete overload! At KO there were still huge queues outside the ground for their two turnstiles. Security blamed away fans for 'all turning up at the same time', now where have I heard that before? I was queuing for 15 mins and missed kick off, so presumably hundreds of us were meant to get there an hour early, 45 mins early and half an hour early to avoid queuing up the road in hundreds. How silly of us not to have sorted that out between us prior to arrival. I believe the security opened the gate in the end. The idea of that non league village club in League One facing Sunderland, Coventry and Ipswich seems a little absurd to be honest. Another millionaire's trainset club.

my brother live 50 miles away from nailsworth,he uses public transport.it took him 5 hours to get home.this is part of his experience yesterday;
"How that ever qualifies for a football league ground , it’s a mess top of a hill no car park, only get 2 coaches in there, taxi drivers not interested in going there I can see why traffic never moved for 45 minutes after the game, a good result but a badly organised club"

They are an evolving club. You can’t find yourself in the football league and suddenly make yourself a bigger stadium with all the infrastructure that goes with it. They need to get themselves established in the league and then look to the future and how they develop facilities to match.
It was a bit of a culture shock for us, having been to bigger clubs in the past but to me they were a friendly, welcoming club that will learn from yesterday’s experience.

Steve Evans":3jnf6yf9 said:

my brother live 50 miles away from nailsworth,he uses public transport.it took him 5 hours to get home.this is part of his experience yesterday;
"How that ever qualifies for a football league ground , it’s a mess top of a hill no car park, only get 2 coaches in there, taxi drivers not interested in going there I can see why traffic never moved for 45 minutes after the game, a good result but a badly organised club"

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FGR want to move to J13 of the M5 ...a junction which has terrible queues mornings and evenings with cars dangerously queuing for quite a distance on the hard shoulder. Planning has been refused so far and it’s hard to see how it would currently cope with football traffic.

I listened to BBC radio Glos before kick off. They were impressed with the 1300 travelling supporters but no doubt we could have taken far more if FGR had a better ground. They kept on describing us as a big club and suggested we had a good squad because we were so rich. No sense of irony that FGR is Dale Vince’s plaything and a village setting for a league club is purely due to his finances.

Meanwhile spare a thought for Cheltenham supporters who had the M5 closed at Burnham. Delays were over two hours and many did not make it. The official supporters coach also got a smashed window and turned around, so only a handful of supporters got to see the 0-0 draw.

There was no traffic management after the game, the hill down to the main roundabout should have been made one-way by the police and traffic stopped from entering the roundabout from other directions for 15 minutes after the game.

1,224 Argyle fans had to leave the stadium through one gate the size of a standard door until another gate was opened further back along the stand.

The club and Nailsworth just isn't equipped for league football and you have to feel sorry for the local residents and I guess yesterday was an eye opener for everyone concerned.

Awful club. Pretty sure male stewards aren't able to search female fans, but the Scottish steward on the turnstile was adament about feeling up the wife. F##king perv.

The beauty of Google Maps street view; Parked up at The George Inn (lovely pub with nice view), scenic, if very uphill, 10 minute walk along a footpath to the ground. Easy getaway from the pub after the match escaping the gridlock, dropped Surrey Green off at Stroud station & home in Preston at 8:30. Just in time to miss Strictly Come Dancing....lovely jubbly.

Give them a chance to get the ground right, they have not been a league club for long, until they get established they might go down again at some stage soon. I like the concept of the club, the green agenda is something I believe in and they are shouting it from the rooftops good for them,

To Ian's point I agree it was strange, we sat next to a very nice young couple in the home stand, they apologised in advance for the goon behind us, they weren't wrong....

Screaming at the ref for every decision, we just looked at each other and laughed as the ref clearly got many decisions for the fouls correct even though there was some obvious diving and simulation from both sides, 'part of the game' doesn't make it right...so many of their fans are clearly new to football, it was very different from any other club I've been to

As usual though one or two of our own let us down in the home supporters bar, security were tolerant of you if you behaved but these guys, both of whom were probably late 50's decided to make a scene, as they were being escorted out gleefully telling everyone who would listen they were being thrown out, the shouting green army as they were going out the door, hoping for a reaction. Security dealt with it well and got them out as it could have gone sour....why do we attract these morons

Leigham Green":2nocr2fh said:

They are an evolving club. You can’t find yourself in the football league and suddenly make yourself a bigger stadium with all the infrastructure that goes with it. They need to get themselves established in the league and then look to the future and how they develop facilities to match.
It was a bit of a culture shock for us, having been to bigger clubs in the past but to me they were a friendly, welcoming club that will learn from yesterday’s experience.

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Surely you prepare for the Football League BEFORE you join.

I’d hate to support a club like that. They’ll never be anything.

I didn't attend the game and so didn't experience the ground or fans.

However, I don't begrudge them their moment of glory in the Leagues. They may even make League 1.

It will be over soon enough. When the current bankrolling owner loses interest or his fortune they will quickly fall back to being a small fish in the National League. A bit like Rushden and Diamonds - which ultimately did not end well when they went into Administration.e