Ascoli Calcio 1898 Thread

aussie_ascoli · Post by **aussie_ascoli** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:03 am

juventino_4_ever wrote:
vigilante wrote:dio bon a provincial fanatic like rigoni, alabardiere and myself. good to see some of us supporting the town of our ancestors not just jumping on the 'sing when your winning' juventus bandwagon!
This ain't true for myself..I became a Juventus supporter during the time of Milan dominance, if I really wanted to be baandwagoner, I would have supported Milan!

Let me guess Juve were losing nearly every game, and battling to stay up???

Juventino · Post by **Juventino** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:05 am

No they weren't.

But my going for Juventus has nothing to do with success for me personally, it has to do with my dad being a Juventus fan, and the rest of my family being Juventini. Easy decision to make to continue that.

aussie_ascoli · Post by **aussie_ascoli** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:10 am

juventino_4_ever wrote:No they weren't.

But my going for Juventus has nothing to do with success for me personally, it has to do with my dad being a Juventus fan, and the rest of my family being Juventini. Easy decision to make to continue that.

I guess thats the same with me, with my old man and my zio being a supporter of Ascoli. They were regulars to the games, when Ascoli were playing in the regional league.

Juventino · Post by **Juventino** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:24 am

Yes there are plastic supporters, but there are some who aren't it must be remembered.

For me, I didn't know much better, Juventus could have been a team with a few good seasons behind them or a team that hadn't won a trophy for 50 years, but that didn't matter, that wasn't in my thought process.

vigilante · Post by **vigilante** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:37 am

.For me, I didn't know much better, Juventus could have been a team with a few good seasons behind them or a team that hadn't won a trophy for 50 years, but that didn't matter, that wasn't in my thought process.

fair play juventino. the bunson burner flame of the serie b has been applied and you have not melted. both you and the grandpostmaster baggio (i would not have hounded him to change his name from platini if i'd known he'd choose the top cat himself baggio instead) do appear to be in actual fact true juventus supporters.

Juventino · Post by **Juventino** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:54 am

Not supporting Juventus simply because of demotion never entered my mind. This is the hour of need, not the hour to abandon, just as my username, says, I'm Juventus forever.

aussie_ascoli · Post by **aussie_ascoli** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:01 am

vigilante wrote:
.For me, I didn't know much better, Juventus could have been a team with a few good seasons behind them or a team that hadn't won a trophy for 50 years, but that didn't matter, that wasn't in my thought process.
fair play juventino. the bunson burner flame of the serie b has been applied and you have not melted. both you and the grandpostmaster baggio (i would not have hounded him to change his name from platini if i'd known he'd choose the top cat himself baggio instead) do appear to be in actual fact true juventus supporters.

Yeah true you do find absolute passionate ones, but i'm afraid to say, these guys do not know the emotional pain we go through, and the amout of sticking up we do for our clubs. You don't know what suffer really means unless you support a small club. Cause the big clubs are "meant" to win, a win has less meaning to them than a small club. Now lets not get into relegations and so on. Worst feeling i've suffered was when Ascoli lost the promotion play-off game against rivals Ancona to go to Serie B. All the hard work for the year taken away by the bitter rival. Another year in C1 now a 7th year in C

, the bastards go through on our expense, we were so close to progressing.

Reggina10Cozza · Post by **Reggina10Cozza** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:02 am

Well in Ascoli! as a Reggina fan I can relate to your passion! Nice Work.

aussie_ascoli · Post by **aussie_ascoli** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:14 am

Reggina10Cozza wrote:Well in Ascoli! as a Reggina fan I can relate to your passion! Nice Work.

Cheers Buddy

. Finally a Reggina supporter i may like

.

Juventino · Post by **Juventino** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:18 am

Do you like any other fans??

Reggina10Cozza · Post by **Reggina10Cozza** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:24 am

Na that is awesome to see. I get bagged by my mates 4 supporting Reggina- even the calo ones. But it is the passion of Reggina that hooked me, I knew this is my team, when they caused upsets back in 99/00 when I was still pretty young. I always supported Milan and Inter b4 this but Reggina took me to that next level. You dont just hope they win, you pray they win- it means so much to u.

aussie_ascoli · Post by **aussie_ascoli** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:27 am

juventino_4_ever wrote:Do you like any other fans??

honestly NO, the best they can get from me is respect, and thats hard to get out of me.

But in terms of Reggina, its not that i hate people cause they support Reggina, but their are alot of fake Reggina supporters, that sh1t me off and probably even sh1t off people like Reggina10Cozza. You saw an influx of them when they were in Serie A, never saw them beforehand. And all they can say about Reggina is Forza Reggina - Reggina is the best - Reggina are more successful than Ascoli - and so on. They didn't know sh1t about the club, nothing about their fans, couldn't name players other than Cozza and Nakamura, and some were even from Catanzaro (fierce rival). If i were Reggina10Cozza i would commit suicide at the site of these guys, they are a disgrace - disgrace they even say they support the club when really they only care about their milan or juve.

When people say they support a club, they have to mean it. Respect to you Reggina10Cozza but not to many of your so called supporters.

Juventino · Post by **Juventino** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:29 am

Quite true.

aussie_ascoli · Post by **aussie_ascoli** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:35 am

Reggina10Cozza wrote:Na that is awesome to see. I get bagged by my mates 4 supporting Reggina- even the calo ones. But it is the passion of Reggina that hooked me, I knew this is my team, when they caused upsets back in 99/00 when I was still pretty young. I always supported Milan and Inter b4 this but Reggina took me to that next level. You dont just hope they win, you pray they win- it means so much to u.

Tell them to fark off, they have no farken idea.

Reggina10Cozza · Post by **Reggina10Cozza** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:36 am

It is true! But these fans are fickle and now they are the ones who pay me out 4 supporting Reggina and support Juve/Milan/Inter. I am surprised these guys new Cozza- he wasn't big untill De Canio took over at Reggina and dropped Nakamura completely out of the squad and slotted Cozza in as trequartista! Cozza didn't look back taking over as captain and saving Reggina 3 years as Captain! I love Cozza coz of what he has done 4 the club, and his heart! He is everything Reggina stand 4!

aussie_ascoli · Post by **aussie_ascoli** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:43 am

Reggina10Cozza wrote:It is true! But these fans are fickle and now they are the ones who pay me out 4 supporting Reggina and support Juve/Milan/Inter. I am surprised these guys new Cozza- he wasn't big untill De Canio took over at Reggina and dropped Nakamura completely out of the squad and slotted Cozza in as trequartista! Cozza didn't look back taking over as captain and saving Reggina 3 years as Captain! I love Cozza coz of what he has done 4 the club, and his heart! He is everything Reggina stand 4!

Its a little unfortunenate that Cozza had that massive injury and was subsqently loaned (i think) to siena. Even more so, to see how the team is playing now. Modesto as the left wing back and Mesto as the right wing back, could possibly occupy the NT positions for the next WC. love them. Especially Modesto, as i said to my mates, when he was at Ascoli - he will be the next big club player to come from Ascoli and will play NT football, and i still stand by that. Such an energetic player, plays for the supporters as well - he is a energizer battery. IMO Modesto > Barzagli comparing to their stints at Ascoli.

Reggina10Cozza · Post by **Reggina10Cozza** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:52 am

Yeh they will be Mesto to Lazio next year though and Modesto to Roma. Reggina have such an awesome side this year. So sad the penalty had to occur when we finally have a team to go 4 Uefa cup spot. Cozza is owned by Siena! after 7 or 8 years at Reggina in 04/05 he was sold to Genoa as he felt he was holing up the youth and Reggina had to look to the future, he then got picked up by Siena coz De Canio was in charge aa siena coach. He had a good season but in 05/06 returned to Reggina on LOAN, he said he missed the warmth and passion of the Reggina tifosi and he again had a stellar season and saved us. But this season despite Reggina trying to buy him from Siena- bad relations between reggina and siena president resulted in Siena putting stupid price on cozza's head, reggina could not afford. Cozza threatened to walk out on Siena and join Reggina as a free agant. But that didn't happen in the end.

vigilante · Post by **vigilante** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 6:31 pm

when will the players that we smaller clubs produce refuse the lure of the bigger teams and stay helping build the side? we take all the risk and get little reward

Juventino · Post by **Juventino** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:18 pm

When the small clubs get some cash to give these players big contracts. Unfortunately, that is how it is for a lot of players nowadays.

aussie_ascoli · Post by **aussie_ascoli** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 12:56 am

Goodbye Serie A, hope we visit you sooner than later. Thats it, as a supporter you take the good seasons with the bad, unfortuentely this season is the bad. Many positive will be taken from the year 2001-2007 where Ascoli has progressed back into the highest catergory. I'm sure as this season end, the squad and the fans will be raring to go, for campionato serie B 2007/2008, I can't wait, honestly. Its a time when the passion Ascolana comes through, and we back the team through thick and thin. Unfortunetely i cannot see Ascoli, competing to promotion next season nor in the near future. I think Ascoli need to establish themselves once more, and keeping fighting, and once that opportunity arises we'll forsure take it with open arms. End of the second era - i think not, but a preview of the second coming. All those years ago (serie C1), i believed i would never see Ascoli in Serie A, but what a way to prove me wrong - sensational seasons in C1, Serie B, and Serie A, where back in Serie A (1st season) Ascoli showed the true Ascoli, the Ascoli of the past, the same Ascoli who were well respected in the 70's and 80's. From a person never believing he'll never, see Ascoli's name just in Serie A, to seeing them beat Treviso live, is a memory that will never be forgotten, a memory of the great Ascoli in A, i truly thought the only people to say they saw Ascoli play in A, would be the people of the 70's 80's and 90's. Although its hard to ever believe i will ever see Ascoli play in A again, it will certainly not be a dissappointment to see Ascoli just competing at any level. As we just cannot be a supporter of good times, but what makes you a true supporter is when your there for the bad.

FORZA PICCHIO PER SEMPRE.

delfino_1936 · Post by **delfino_1936** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 1:29 am

r u guys mathematically gone now aussie??

aussie_ascoli · Post by **aussie_ascoli** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 1:59 am

Rigoni 10 wrote:r u guys mathematically gone now aussie??

no, but defensively gone - Ascoli's defensive is in a terrible mess. Sometimes you need a good beating or two to wake up, like Pescara have, but its very difficult now.

CroCop · Post by **CroCop** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 2:05 am

aussie_ascoli wrote:As we just cannot be a supporter of good times, but what makes you a true supporter is when your there for the bad.

Tell that to some Adelaide United fans. 15,000 for the big A-league games and then 7,000 for an ACL game on the back of our GF defeat.

Imagine what it does to the players walking out to a half empty stadium compared to a full one at a time they need support.

Some in this country can't comprehend what 'support' really means.

vigilante · Post by **vigilante** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 9:57 am

getting into the serie a for some sides is like winning the campionato. I'll never forget watching vicenza beat bologna live back in 97. we then went on to win the coppa italia. then the heartbreak of losing the cup winners cup semi against chelsea away in the dying mins to a mark hughes wonderstrike. what a season. relegated the year after though! unbelievable! such is the life of a small town supporter. wouldn't change it for anything. it aint plastic that's for sure

aussie_ascoli · Post by **aussie_ascoli** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 10:39 am

vigilante wrote:getting into the serie a for some sides is like winning the campionato. I'll never forget watching vicenza beat bologna live back in 97. we then went on to win the coppa italia. then the heartbreak of losing the cup winners cup semi against chelsea away in the dying mins to a mark hughes wonderstrike. what a season. relegated the year after though! unbelievable! such is the life of a small town supporter. wouldn't change it for anything. it aint plastic that's for sure

Thats forsure, we celebrate wins, like we've won the campionato, no other big teams can claim that. All for the people.

delfino_1936 · Post by **delfino_1936** » Sun Apr 08, 2007 12:12 pm

aussie_ascoli wrote:
Rigoni 10 wrote:r u guys mathematically gone now aussie??
no, but defensively gone - Ascoli's defensive is in a terrible mess. Sometimes you need a good beating or two to wake up, like Pescara have, but its very difficult now.

that thumping at home 2 modena has woken us up lol

im lookin at 3 pnts away to treviso and 1 pnt at napoli....i think confidence is high at the adriatico after 2 gr8 performances....im confident we can stay up

aussie_ascoli · Post by **aussie_ascoli** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 2:17 am

Interesting to see Guberti playing on the right hand side, and Pesce on the left, this combination can be awesome in Serie B, with also Perulli (all young players). I love Fini, but he's getting on now. Hopefully next season Ascoli can keep Fini as well, especially if we can develop Pesce into a left wingback, and play Fini on the right. Guberti could also got on the right, and Fini on the left, like the famous Fini-Foggia combination last season. Hopefully keeping these guys ensures a decend mid to high finish in Serie B. I honestly can't see Ascoli making A in while, simply because of the $$$$ factor.

delfino_1936 · Post by **delfino_1936** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 11:07 am

vigilante wrote:dio bon a provincial fanatic like rigoni, alabardiere and myself. good to see some of us supporting the town of our ancestors not just jumping on the 'sing when your winning' juventus bandwagon!

love it vigilante....its just a gr8 feeling when the team you love wins cause they mean so much to you and ur family

delfino_1936 · Post by **delfino_1936** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 11:08 am

vigilante wrote:
.For me, I didn't know much better, Juventus could have been a team with a few good seasons behind them or a team that hadn't won a trophy for 50 years, but that didn't matter, that wasn't in my thought process.
fair play juventino. the bunson burner flame of the serie b has been applied and you have not melted. both you and the grandpostmaster baggio (i would not have hounded him to change his name from platini if i'd known he'd choose the top cat himself baggio instead) do appear to be in actual fact true juventus supporters.

when u see Baggio just look at this back left shoulder and u'll see that he's a true Juventus supporter

aussie_ascoli · Post by **aussie_ascoli** » Thu Apr 19, 2007 3:43 am

Attention ALL Ascoli supporters.

Lets enjoy ourselves for the last few weeks of Serie A. Time to enjoy football in Serie A - the paradise for us supporters. Never in my wildest dreams would i of said Ascoli will be in A 5 even 2 years ago. As our time comes to an end, we know a swift return in Serie A is highly unlikely, so lets really treasure every moment. Even though we were beaten today, we were beaten by one of the greatest teams in the world, playing against such opposition, in the greatest league should be an honour, and knowing in the last two seasons Ascoli have pulled some major results, even against the best. We are lucky, like our fathers and grandfathers to have witnessed Ascoli in Serie A, and i can't wait to tell my children, of such an great era - Ascoli one of the most exciting teams in the year Italy won the world championship. Now only a handful of clubs can say such a thing, let alone a tiny tiny club. We are also part of this new era being built in Italian football, which we can be so proud about. The spirit of Rozzi lives on.

BE PROUD ASCOLANI'S OF SUCH A BEAUTIFUL CLUB.

Lets make the last moments in paradise, a memorable one

As my emotions are high and the tears welling in my eyes, I shout - FORZA ASCOLI, FORZA PICCHIO PER SEMPRE

Wherever we go we will follow, FORZA PICCHIO IN A, FORZA PICCHIO IN B - SIMPLY FORZA PICCHIO IN CALCIO ITALIANA.