FACTS ABOUT SCARBOROUGH from Rugby Man AND THE TRUE PICTURE from Me.

It seems that along with that other so called football team named Scarborough Town who consider themselves to be at least on equal terms with Scarborough Athletic that we also have a post on the "Surfing Seadog" from 'RUGBY MAN' trying to convince us all that the rugby union club are bigger and more important than Scarborough Athletic FC, he is saying that as the best supported sporting team in Scarborough they (Scarborough Rugby Union Club) deserve more back page newspaper coverage than Scarborough Athletic or anyone else for that matter. Get a grip Rugby Man, why all of a sudden do you want more back page coverage, it has not been a problem until now. Scarborough Athletic have brought much needed sporting optimism to the town, the town is buzzing, we are hoping to achieve promotion this season and we could be playing at Wembley Stadium in May in the final of the FA Vase plus we are still in 2 other cup competitions as well.
His argument is simply that as a club they have a higher attendance average than we at Athletic and they have a larger club membership, therefore they are the towns "senior sports team". His words.
The rugby union club have been around for 82 years, we are in our 2nd season of existence, and forced to play "home" games 20 miles from "home" do I have to say anymore.
I expect idiotic comments from people at the other football club but I was surprised at this particular post on the forum (thread 5464).
Scarborough FC have always been the best supported of any sporting club in the area and thanks to the initiative of the seadog trust in forming "Athletic" just a couple of years ago in spite of "Town's" interferance, we are and I think always will be the top sporting club, the people at the rugby club should remember that they were not the best supported during those 82 years that the old Scarborough FC were around, and as we progress as we surely will then it will not be long before we pass those figures that 'rugby man' appears to be so excited about.
We will not need 82 years to get to the level of 1,ooo members and a highest gate of 847.
It should also be remembered that back in 1926 it was Scarborough Football Club who helped out the rugby club by letting them play home games at the Athletic Ground for a period of time.
UP THE BORO.......
Scarborough's premier sporting club............