FC United thread

Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Well if they have 700 season ticket holders (I have no idea how many they have I’m using that figure as an example) that is 4,200 off the 9000 as their season ticket money was spunked to keep the club afloat over the summer.
So that leave 4,800 paying to get in, which include kids and OAP rates too.
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Not a bad guess, they have 756 season tickets including adults, concessions, youth & kids
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Beat Bamber Bridge 3-2 in front of 1,485.
Last home game had 2,010 there - a difference of minus 525. A 25% drop.
Did that many Hyde United fans turn up?
Either way, another loss maker. Tick tock
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Looks like they will finish in the top half of their League.
But, although they have had a good recent run, their crowds are definitely not increasing.
They will not get anymore "new" supporters as their supposed unique club (novelty of punk football and a co-operative running the club) is no longer seen as interesting or attractive.
It is a slow and lingering demise.
How long can they survive ?
 
Platt Lane 59 said:
Looks like they will finish in the top half of their League.
But, although they have had a good recent run, their crowds are definitely not increasing.
They will not get anymore "new" supporters as their supposed unique club (novelty of punk football and a co-operative running the club) is no longer seen as interesting or attractive.
It is a slow and lingering demise.
How long can they survive ?
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They'll get an injection of money from someone.
 
Platt Lane 59 said:
They will not get anymore "new" supporters as their supposed unique club (novelty of punk football and a co-operative running the club) is no longer seen as interesting or attractive.
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You are a kid in a Manchester school. No matter if your dad is a Born Again Splitter, on that school playground, you will either be Blue or (Big) red. Kids at school aren't interested in the hows and whys the club started and the faux socialism behind the club. They will never gain a younger following no matter how cheap they make it - especially once these kids are old enough and start earning money and get asked to throw it into the bucket!
When he was polluting these pages, The Sheriff claimed they had a ''student following'' from students from afar wanting a football fix but not wanting / affording either City or the rags.
Personally, I can't see too many students from the heartlands of Withington and Fallowfield being that bothered to make the trip via 4 buses or two buses and 2 trams to Moston and back to watch a rag tribute band while 8 buckets are shoved in your face at different times of the game demanding your money.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
You are a kid in a Manchester school. No matter if your dad is a Born Again Splitter, on that school playground, you will either be Blue or (Big) red. Kids at school aren't interested in the hows and whys the club started and the faux socialism behind the club. They will never gain a younger following no matter how cheap they make it - especially once these kids are old enough and start earning money and get asked to throw it into the bucket!
When he was polluting these pages, The Sheriff claimed they had a ''student following'' from students from afar wanting a football fix but not wanting / affording either City or the rags.
Personally, I can't see too many students from the heartlands of Withington and Fallowfield being that bothered to make the trip via 4 buses or two buses and 2 trams to Moston and back to watch a rag tribute band while 8 buckets are shoved in your face at different times of the game demanding your money.
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I agree with most of your points.
But, there are many more students, especially foreign students, who live in the City centre.
Owens Park in Fallowfield has now been pulled down and there is no MMU site in Didsbury, so less students living in Withington.
So a trip to Moston isn't such a pain.
But, I am surprised that they haven't tried to get an alliance or link to one of the Universities ?
As the Universities seem to be growing, would they hire Pallet Park for Sports-based courses ?
 
Platt Lane 59 said:
I agree with most of your points.
But, there are many more students, especially foreign students, who live in the City centre.
Owens Park in Fallowfield has now been pulled down and there is no MMU site in Didsbury, so less students living in Withington.
So a trip to Moston isn't such a pain.
But, I am surprised that they haven't tried to get an alliance or link to one of the Universities ?
As the Universities seem to be growing, would they hire Pallet Park for Sports-based courses ?
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The club linked up with City College for just that and @Mostonisblue will tell you better than me, that they decided to go it alone and do the courses themselves and messed it up badly (what a surprise).
Yes the Didsbury site was my Alma mater when it was The Poly. Didn’t know Owen’s Park had gone too.
How do students afford to live in the city centre! The whole part of being a student is for living a Young Ones type lifestyle!
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
The club linked up with City College for just that and @Mostonisblue will tell you better than me, that they decided to go it alone and do the courses themselves and messed it up badly (what a surprise).
Yes the Didsbury site was my Alma mater when it was The Poly. Didn’t know Owen’s Park had gone too.
How do students afford to live in the city centre! The whole part of being a student is for living a Young Ones type lifestyle!
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Alright Vivian Rick, Mike Neil, you morissey loving hippy.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
The club linked up with City College for just that and @Mostonisblue will tell you better than me, that they decided to go it alone and do the courses themselves and messed it up badly (what a surprise).
Yes the Didsbury site was my Alma mater when it was The Poly. Didn’t know Owen’s Park had gone too.
How do students afford to live in the city centre! The whole part of being a student is for living a Young Ones type lifestyle!
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Yes, as a student in the late 70's, living in a cold, damp, shared room was a fecking luxury.
But, University life and "digs", seems a different world these days.
There are several city centre high rise blocks of student flats (run by Students Unite ?), that are ensuite. This seems to be what students expect now.

Isn't City College for 16-18 year olds ?
I was wondering why either MMU or Manchester Uni. haven't offered to hire Pallet Park, although hope they don't...
 
With City's result on Friday and the Daddy rags result today, this lot will soon have a full stadium.
When we are cleared of the 130 charges and Daddy rags are 17th they will be applying to the council to extend the ground.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
The club linked up with City College for just that and @Mostonisblue will tell you better than me, that they decided to go it alone and do the courses themselves and messed it up badly (what a surprise).
Yes the Didsbury site was my Alma mater when it was The Poly. Didn’t know Owen’s Park had gone too.
How do students afford to live in the city centre! The whole part of being a student is for living a Young Ones type lifestyle!
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The student life has massively changed mate. I didn't recognise anything on Oxford Rd from the palace theatre all the way to Whitworth St, and up that end it's all takeaways, supermarkets and swanky looking new flats for the students. All looks expensive, but I suppose they leave with so much debt now that another 10-30k on top seems trivial.
 
The latest saga from the parody football club is their manager who they sacked in the autumn after they only just rewarded him with a contract extension has spoken out to the non league paper. Remember that he was there for 6 years. The best thing that could have happened to him was being sacked by the scum (probably helped by the £8,500 compensation they paid out to him & his backroom team) anyway it turns out the problem at FC is the fans, those self righteous pricks…,

NEIL Reynolds is relishing being back in control at Warrington Rylands – and says getting sacked by FC United was the best thing that could have happened to him.

The 48-year-old’s six-year reign at Broadhurst Park came to an end in September when he was dismissed by the fan-owned club following a run of one win in eight matches.

Ironically, his final game was a 1-1draw with Rylands, who at the time were bottom of the NPL Premier with just two points to their name.

Within days, Reynolds had agreed to take charge at Gorsey Lane and is currently orchestrating a spectacular revival, with the Blues beginning the weekend on the cusp of the play-offs – above FC United. And the key to his success?

“Control,” he says simply. “Nothing against FC United, but it’s a unique club. With all the fans being owners, so to speak, they all have a voice. They all prefer a different style of play, and they all want to have an input. They all have access to forums and board reports, so you’re answerable to a lot of people.

“At Rylands, I’m really just answerable to the chairman and the board of directors. They trust you, they let you get on with things and they don’t micromanage you. It’s a really good place to work.

“I’ve had to change the squad around and recruit people that are able to compete at this level of football, but the key thing is I’ve been allowed to sign the players.

“That’s the main thing to get across – that I’ve been allowed solely to sign the players. I haven’t had somebody else pick them for me.

“I told the directors that I have to play in a certain way and that I’ll identify the type of players that are going to come in.

“That’s something I was only able to do for the first couple of years at my previous club.

“When you’re able to pick your own players and work with them and develop the style of play that suits you as a person, things come to fruition. That’s why I’m so happy here and why leaving United was probably the best thing that could have happened to me.”

Reynolds, though, insists he takes no satisfaction in looking down at his former employers.

“No, not at all,” he says. “To quote a famous Manchester band, I don’t look back in anger. I only look forward. I’ve got a lot of happy memories and the club will remain really close to me.

“The only satisfaction I get is from taking Warrington Rylands from the bottom of the table to seventh and repaying the trust this club placed in me.”

Not that Reynolds is getting ahead of himself, insisting his priority remains to avert a relegation that now looks a distant prospect.

“I don’t listen to what people are saying about play-offs,” says Reynolds. “For me, the target is to get to 45 points. We’re up to 43, and if we get to 45 then I’d like to think we’re safe. Anything above that, great.

“I took over on what, two points? To look at 45 points was maybe unrealistic for some people then, but for me it was ‘How quickly can we get there?’ Now we’re nearly there, so let’s just get over that line."
 
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