Charlie Chuck
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Good post mate.
We cannot deny the glory hunting JCLs, many of them will get the bug and turn into real blues who decide to stay and bond a proper affinity with the club. Many will be just be day trippers who may or may not come back, this is the nature of the beast, and it seems to many of us that these types are welcomed to the club more than blues who are being squeezed out through lack of points and price hikes, or those that have simply lost connection to the club for a variety of other reasons.
Until fairly recently, I would get emails from the club on the 'match day experience'. All it was basically is to determine how deep or shallow my pockets were. Do I visit the club shop each game? Do I use the car parking? Do I use the catering facilities etc etc.
The answer is no I don't. I go in a couple of pubs 10 minutes walk from the stadium, buy a pint or two of reasonably priced decent beer and can eat free tater hash hot dogs and ham sarnies. Also free street parking. I spend almost nothing in the stadium, maybe a pie and a pint now and again, but I begrudge feeling ripped off by over £8 for an average pie and a pint of pissy flat beer. This is not what the club want, they do not want my type who spend very little.
Eventually, when I've seen us win a few more trophies, I'll probably throw the towel in after going to games since 1970, disillusioned on how unsatisfying the 'match day experience' has personally become for me.
I feel as though the club take us loyal supporters for granted, and many have already left the scene.
The club need to listen to real supporters and address the problem of losing them year on year before it's too late. Cheaper tickets, reasonable food and drink prices and addressing the atmosphere problem would be a start.
The football we play is fantastic, the best I've ever seen. This is all the match day experience I need to keep me attending games, but for many former match attending blues, they can watch most games from the comfort of the pub or their living room nowadays, and unless the club are prepared to listen and act on it, these blues will not return .
We cannot deny the glory hunting JCLs, many of them will get the bug and turn into real blues who decide to stay and bond a proper affinity with the club. Many will be just be day trippers who may or may not come back, this is the nature of the beast, and it seems to many of us that these types are welcomed to the club more than blues who are being squeezed out through lack of points and price hikes, or those that have simply lost connection to the club for a variety of other reasons.
Until fairly recently, I would get emails from the club on the 'match day experience'. All it was basically is to determine how deep or shallow my pockets were. Do I visit the club shop each game? Do I use the car parking? Do I use the catering facilities etc etc.
The answer is no I don't. I go in a couple of pubs 10 minutes walk from the stadium, buy a pint or two of reasonably priced decent beer and can eat free tater hash hot dogs and ham sarnies. Also free street parking. I spend almost nothing in the stadium, maybe a pie and a pint now and again, but I begrudge feeling ripped off by over £8 for an average pie and a pint of pissy flat beer. This is not what the club want, they do not want my type who spend very little.
Eventually, when I've seen us win a few more trophies, I'll probably throw the towel in after going to games since 1970, disillusioned on how unsatisfying the 'match day experience' has personally become for me.
I feel as though the club take us loyal supporters for granted, and many have already left the scene.
The club need to listen to real supporters and address the problem of losing them year on year before it's too late. Cheaper tickets, reasonable food and drink prices and addressing the atmosphere problem would be a start.
The football we play is fantastic, the best I've ever seen. This is all the match day experience I need to keep me attending games, but for many former match attending blues, they can watch most games from the comfort of the pub or their living room nowadays, and unless the club are prepared to listen and act on it, these blues will not return .