Post by hector on Oct 24, 2022 19:22:48 GMT
Seeing Rags’s confirmation on the Pat Kruse thread that the own goal was at the Mini Stand end, then that must have meant that Torquay were attacking the Babbacombe End in the first half, back then as they do now and have always done as far back as I remember.
It happens so rarely that we attack the Ellacombe End in the first half that the majority of fans who migrate between ends during the game automatically go towards the Babbacombe End on arrival at the game but has this always been the case?
If I was the away manager, I’d potentially want to negate that “advantage” by making Torquay kick the other way in the second half but it very rarely seems to happen. Are Torquay just lucky winning the toss and choosing ends or do the other teams just want to kick towards their own fans, even if (as so often is the case at this level) there aren’t even any behind the goal?
I suspect there was a time when there was no segregation and fans were scattered all over the ground (I remember frequently walking around the entire ground when I first started watching in the 79/80 season, perhaps one of the last before segregation) so there would not have been any advantage necessarily of kicking towards home fans only. Has the Ellacombe End always been the end of choice to attack for the second half?
It happens so rarely that we attack the Ellacombe End in the first half that the majority of fans who migrate between ends during the game automatically go towards the Babbacombe End on arrival at the game but has this always been the case?
If I was the away manager, I’d potentially want to negate that “advantage” by making Torquay kick the other way in the second half but it very rarely seems to happen. Are Torquay just lucky winning the toss and choosing ends or do the other teams just want to kick towards their own fans, even if (as so often is the case at this level) there aren’t even any behind the goal?
I suspect there was a time when there was no segregation and fans were scattered all over the ground (I remember frequently walking around the entire ground when I first started watching in the 79/80 season, perhaps one of the last before segregation) so there would not have been any advantage necessarily of kicking towards home fans only. Has the Ellacombe End always been the end of choice to attack for the second half?
