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..with a comeback win over fellow promotion-chasers Port Vale.
Rowberry must have them going...you'd feel that after a few good seasons but no cigar, they're going to go close again this time.
Match report here: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/59529524
As a younger fan I have no negative feelings towards Newport, I’ve even been to a few of their games when City are playing away games at the arse end of the country. I would love to see them promoted, they’ve got a very passionate and quite big fan base and it would be good for Welsh football too. I was at the “great escape” game a few years back and all credit to the County fans it was a brilliant day out.
Listening to call Rob, it seems Rowberry has got them playing some attractive and effective football as well which begs the question did we get the best out of him during all those years when we were playing long ball crap?
Good luck to County - I wonder if we’ll see some of our youngsters loaned there in January?
Big fan base? Is that a jokeOriginally Posted by Canton Kev
Rowberry was with the youngsters wasnt he? Were they playing long ball crap.??
He was a first-team coach for us.
I guess he coaches what the manager wants though.
Country rise to 4th according to the linked report
Rowberry should’ve got the job ahead of Morison.
why?
Better qualified. One of the youngest people ever to have got their UEFA pro license. Had been coaching at the club for best part of a decade. Has been coaching since 2009.
Big fan base? Really? They average less than 4,000
That’s a fair sized increase on what was the norm before they went bust in the late eighties. Most of the games I sea in the seventies were played in front of crowds of less than three thousand, often less than two thousand. County we’re one of the poorest supported teams in the Football League back then, but that’s no longer true these days.
No doubt boosted by a decent following from Port Vale who were up near the top.
3-3500 home fans at most games it seems. Sold out Rovers away.
As usual boosted by a smattering of City fans when we are away
https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/n...ty/attendances
But Newport still have had a decent increase in their support compared to what it was when they were in the old Division Four.
Indeed ... I went to the game yesterday with a good friend of mine who lives in Newport.
The guy in front if us was bemoaning the fact they were playing it along the back and not hoofing it up field .
They do play nice quick football, generally on the ground. Port Vale played the same way .
Watch their winner , guy takes it so well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABvaSE9z9FU
Classy goal that.
Good luck to them, after working in Newport for two years I know a few County fans. Good lads and really passionate about the club.
If you ever mix with other football fans on a regular basis you soon realise that we're pretty much all the same.......apart from Swansea, they're a different breed.
Is my answer too
They didn’t even manage 8000 to Wembley when they came back into the league
Maybe “quite big” was the wrong term. “Surprisingly big” is perhaps more suited. For a team that’s spent 25 of the last 32 years in non leagues I think averaging 3.5k - 4k is pretty good turnout.
I tend to agree. He (Rowberry) seems the more talented and not obsessed with himself.
Last edited by Dave Blue; 12-12-21 at 09:56. Reason: Clarification
Who are you insinuating is obsessed with himself?
Morison. Just listen to him.
Newport is a rugby town where a few people support County and the rest Liverpool and Man United
It's a big place , 13000 ? , yet struggles to get 4000
You would have thought after the years of heartache County fans had ....and it was shocking ......the population would get behind them
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