tommybooth
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Re: Tonight's stay aways should hang their heads....
We are never going to ram out an early round cc tie, end off.
We are never going to ram out an early round cc tie, end off.
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Sheikh Rattle n Roll
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Re: Tonight's stay aways should hang their heads....
Thank you.... I see the error of my ways now....... Kiam, please accept my sincere apologies when you get home from school.
Thank you.... I see the error of my ways now....... Kiam, please accept my sincere apologies when you get home from school.
Re: Tonight's stay aways should hang their heads....
The crowd was poor but then look at the empty seats at Deepdale who had a potential giant killing opportunity and at the swamp where they used to fill games like that. The Carling Cup is not a crowd-puller until the final stages unless it is a big game..rags/pool whatever. The fact that many teams play their reserves is a factor.
City should introduce a new category D for crappy early Carling Cup matches and FA Cup matches too. Give ST holders the match for free/ £1/ £5. Let them bring along their kids for a quid or an adult for a fiver. Charge everyone else a tenner. Lose money on the gate but make it up at the food outlets/ club store etc. More importantly generate a decent crowd and a better atmosphere and a sense of occasion which will in turn encourage the fans to turn up.
The very fact that the stadium is half full and the atmosphere is flat as a pancake is half the reason that many don't bother to turn up for these games. It's self-perpetuating.
And/or increase the number of loyalty points for these games to around 50.
Radical ideas required.
The crowd was poor but then look at the empty seats at Deepdale who had a potential giant killing opportunity and at the swamp where they used to fill games like that. The Carling Cup is not a crowd-puller until the final stages unless it is a big game..rags/pool whatever. The fact that many teams play their reserves is a factor.
City should introduce a new category D for crappy early Carling Cup matches and FA Cup matches too. Give ST holders the match for free/ £1/ £5. Let them bring along their kids for a quid or an adult for a fiver. Charge everyone else a tenner. Lose money on the gate but make it up at the food outlets/ club store etc. More importantly generate a decent crowd and a better atmosphere and a sense of occasion which will in turn encourage the fans to turn up.
The very fact that the stadium is half full and the atmosphere is flat as a pancake is half the reason that many don't bother to turn up for these games. It's self-perpetuating.
And/or increase the number of loyalty points for these games to around 50.
Radical ideas required.
bluerichwit
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Re: Tonight's stay aways should hang their heads....
my thoughts exactly!!!!
tommybooth said:
my thoughts exactly!!!!
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Re: Tonight's stay aways should hang their heads....
Kiam it is nigh on impossible for a lot of people to attend midweek matches due to various commitments. Instead of beratiing all those fellow fans who couldn't be there why not say thanks to those who could and did make it.
Congratulate yourself for being an Uber fan.
Kiam it is nigh on impossible for a lot of people to attend midweek matches due to various commitments. Instead of beratiing all those fellow fans who couldn't be there why not say thanks to those who could and did make it.
Congratulate yourself for being an Uber fan.
BluePurgatory
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Re: Tonight's stay aways should hang their heads....
The only way to try and fill the stadium for these early cup games is to make it like the Hamburg game. Its better to have a full stadium at a tenner per seat and a pound per kid, than a half empty stadium.
The only way to try and fill the stadium for these early cup games is to make it like the Hamburg game. Its better to have a full stadium at a tenner per seat and a pound per kid, than a half empty stadium.
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