Ivor cannot be taken seriously. Last week he was not going ever again and he was squashing today's £80 ticket from DHSSXHAM, an about turn shows him getting the A-Z out! #flipfloppingdoesnottakeyouseriously
Reams is correct though, today wasn’t great & we beat yet another dogsh1t visiting team. Along with Ward, Cullen & Bielik, Taylor has been one of our best 4 players this season. His absence will be a big blow.
Why does Seriously Deluded keep pedalling this sh1t about our attendances ? Even Stevie Wonder could see that there were barely 7,000 fans in the Valley yesterday - making it over 70% empty Kevin - we know you look in mate, and you know full well that our attendances are remorselessly down. We also know that the fault for that lies solely with your Belgian arsewipe of a mate
This really pi55es me off. We'd already lost 10,000+ by the time Roland appeared, which was bad enough, but to lose another 8,000 or so on top of that is catastrophic. Only a small percentage of them are boycotters, so rebuilding the club is becoming more and more of a Herculean task. Still, never mind.
Who else thinks that the No.1 priority of the next owner, equally as important as investing in the team, is to announce an initiative to start getting the fans to attend again ? Something like the Bradford City owners £100 ST is imperative, IMO. Buying a couple of players to perform in front of 20,000 empty seats is futile. Something drastic is going to be needed because a new owner who wants to rebuild incrementally - while sensible - is not going to bring people flocking back any time soon. Any fan who thinks the risible attendances are not important is an idiot.
I agree with this, but what will bring fans back is players who can stick the ball in the net. Like my all-time favourite, Killer, or Super Clive, or Yann. Curbs understood this when he bought in de Canio. Another step would be to stop our reliance on loanees. No more than two in the squad, and no agreement that they have to play. Fans want to see players they can rely on to give 100% to the cause, like the strikers I've mentioned, or Kinsella, or John Robinson, both bought from lower league clubs for paltry sums. Then we had a manager who would watch a player 6 or 7 times, mainly in away games, after he'd been recommended by the scouting team. BTW, has the £100 S/T at Bolton done the trick?
Definitely agree on the loans ...apart from a few weirdos on ITTV, who really cares about them? It’s great that Bielik and Cullen are doing well and I’m chuffed that Arsenal and West Ham will get the benefits. Special players will get some fans back, but it’s unlikely that such talent would drop down to League 1 level. Chicken & egg. I saw a couple of photos from yesterday taken from the Doncaster end...it’s sobering just how small the crowd is.
Not even the kid-a-quid day recently raised the crowd by much, 10,000 tops. The traditional football-for-a-fiver would not fare much better, and I wouldn't be surprised if they scrap it this season to avoid embarrassment.
