Crowd at Livi yesterday was 723, including 80 Dumbarton fans, in a10k stadium. They’re going back to their Meadowbank days with crowds like that.
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28-01-2018 10:25 AM #1
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28-01-2018 10:31 AM #3
Remember when Scottish Football had that 10,000 seater rule.
Falkirk couldn’t get promoted for about 3 years due to this rule.
Aberdeen also avoided relegation due to restructuring of the leagues also.
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28-01-2018 10:41 AM #4
Fake team. Hate Livingston. Can’t wait until they go pop again and there won’t be any coming back this time
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28-01-2018 10:45 AM #6
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Had a dislike for livingston ever since the 2004 cis cup final, was only about 12 at time. remember being absolutely devastated as had knocked both old firm out on run to final.
suppose it was good experience for what was to come being a hibs fan!
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28-01-2018 10:45 AM #7
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Another team restricted in crowds due to Glasgow overspill in Livingston!
I believe it will take at least 2 generations, till people realise that they have a local team????
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28-01-2018 10:52 AM #8
Probably referring to the fact that they were created out of Meadowbank/Ferrari Thistle and got a place in the league when there were other clubs arguably more deserving at the time (either of the Inverness clubs for example). The SFA took the easy way out selecting the 'handy' team. Now, I may be talking bollocks however, that's how I remember it.
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A good mate of mine is a livi fan though so I follow their results. They're having a very good season - timed their form well to wait until Hibs, rangers, hearts were gone, Falkirk should have taken note. 😂
This is about as good as they'll get in the absence of throwing money at it again and they still can't get 1000 in attendance which is a shame.Mon the Hibs.
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28-01-2018 11:02 AM #11
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We were taken through on the old Ferranti Blue Transit buses.
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28-01-2018 11:15 AM #12
Devolped a lot of good players through the years
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28-01-2018 11:16 AM #13
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28-01-2018 11:18 AM #14
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28-01-2018 11:30 AM #15
Doesnt help they regularly postpone games without even trying to get them on.
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28-01-2018 01:04 PM #20
It just goes to show how hard it is to manufacture a football club and more pertinently manufacture support for it. The Milton Keynes metropolitan area has a population of over 250,000 but MK Dons still only get an average of about 9,000 in a 30,000 capacity stadium and that's without having two of the countries biggest clubs within less than an hours travelling distance.
Livingston has the 7th biggest population in Scotland, but doesn't come close to the attendances towns of a similar size afford their clubs, even Hamilton do better and so does Inverness a town which also has a manufactured club.
Whoever owns the Toni Macaroni arena could do worse than flog it to ICT or Ayr Utd and move the club to a public park.
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28-01-2018 02:15 PM #22
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That would be like letting Gretna play their games in Motherwell, an absolute disaster!
As I said on an earlier post it takes generations for people to realise they are their local team, much as Livi have tried to encourage school kids to come along free, but to many families have strong ties with other teams, and would rather travel to Glasgow or Edinburgh to see other teams???
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28-01-2018 02:37 PM #23
Originally from East Lothian but lived in Livingston since the age of 7, all this fake club stuff is utter nonsense they might not get great attandences but that’s to be expected when 4 of the 5 biggest teams in the country play within an hour of the town, throw into the mix that they have had horendous owners over previous years and have been in the bottom 2 leagues a lot in the last ten years it’s no surprise. The club do a lot of great work for local kids in schools and youth teams and always look to bring youth and especially local youth players through the system.
Always wish them well other than when they play us and hope they keep this form up and get up in the play offs, they play good football and always came out and played at ER when we were in the championship.
The argument about the under soil heating is interesting, the talk round the town that I’ve heard come from a director is that it costs 5k to turn it on and they simply can’t afford that.
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