Stockton Heath Blue
Well-Known Member
When your pricing model lends itself to tourists, and there were plenty in EL3 last night, you are going to get flat atmospheres. Last night was an ideal opportunity to price the match competitively and appeal to the lapsed/local/young family fans. Over £100 for a parent & child is bang out of order.We need calling out. It’s not just about tonight. We as fans have got gradually worse as the season’s gone on.
We had three identical games - two before the World Cup and one after it.
Late in all three games it was 1-1 against Fulham, Brentford and Everton.
The crowd were well up for it against Fulham, we were right behind them all game and right to the end when we got the 98th minute winner with just ten men and the whole team did a lap of honour to thank the fans.
But against Brentford and Everton the atmosphere was as flat as a witch’s tit, we ended up losing the Brentford game and drawing the Everton game. We were chasing winners in both of those games, just like Fulham, but we were shit in the stands and didn’t drive the team on to win when they needed it. Drive the team on to win those two and we’d be sitting top of the league tonight.
Tonight if we’d carried on all game like we did in the stands in the first half we’d have lost that game. But when the team came out for the second half we were right up for it, just like Fulham, and we went on to win and the team did a lap of honour to thank the fans.
I think Pep’s right to call us out because we as fans have drifted this season. Just like we’re right to call the team out and him out, because they’ve also drifted.
Tonight is the turning point! For both the fans, the team and him… feels different now.
Roll on Sunday!
It irritates me when multi-millionaire managers/players/owners call out what is a traditionally working class fan base.
We have an aging fanbase and the club need to address enticing the younger fans to the games, who massively add to any atmosphere.
maybe the North Stand expansion will address some of the issues. Who knows?