fa cup 2nd round. shrews v millers. at least its not fleetwood town or totton. poor old gas could be on a hiding to nothing against totton. could be their only highlight of the season!
Just looked on the Millers fans forum one of their fans says our ground is the worst one he has ever visited as it is miles away from the pub, the corners arn't filled in and the pitch is miles from the the stands!!!........... has he been to any of their home games???
Corners filled in is great if we were regularly filling the place! Of course the groundsmen wouldn't like it as it causes a lot of hassle regarding the pitch. Two pubs within ten mins walk (is there a pub on the Meole estate?) The pitch is fine as it is!! I know there is a run off area before the walkway area, perhaps he's used to going to Macclesfield where the away fans can pull on the back of the goal net!!
i suspect the way millers are playing they had better get used to forrest green etc pitches. it will shake them playing in all modern stadium by appointment to the fa for internationals. floreat salopia, millers are windy!
I'd rather they spent money first on putting more money-taking facilities under the stand. The south stand could do with another food/drink outlet, or at the very least a few people out the front at half time selling drink/hot food from trolleys. The queues can be horrendous at half time.
To go completely off topic but follow the theme of the thread so far... I personally would like to see an effort by the club to somehow turn the South Stand into a singing stand.
Nice and expensive that is. An engineer told me that the corners in a stadium will usually be the most expensive per seat. Very nice to have, but unaffordable until we're regularly topping 8,000+. Even then, we'd have to look long and hard at whether the cost would ever be paid back.
They have had various requests to re-adjust and set out specific areas, but stated that as there are season ticket holders in these areas they cannot ask them to move. I think people wanted the block 8 area to be specified as a singing block. Attempts were also made to set block 19 as a standing only area - stfc stated that they were not selling tickets for that area due to last seasons troubles, yet they don't seem to be stopping the 'fans' being down there. Having a singing block in Block 8 would be great as it would encourage the family stand to join in.
The attendances would definitely have to be regularly hitting full capacity in the home end for a couple of years to justify the planning, permissions and building to be justified. Perhaps getting promoted might help out. We were getting 6.5k to 7.5k attendances when we first opened but this has petered out recently.
towns long term aim must be the championships, if we cannot get att. of 10k for that then we should make do with what we have and be very grateful for what we have. it is not just football crowds that fill stadia, if town had a regular summer series of concerts, it might pay for corners to be filled in gradually. floreat salopia, millers are windy
well its all relevant really, if we were to move up a division and we started hanging around mid table all season our attendance could drop to around 3.5 to 4.0,with a much higher wage bill, same in this league if we had a bad run of form i think we could easily drop 1.5 over night, we are quite lucky that we have been in the upper echelons over the last few year's to keep our attendance in check...so if we do get promoted this year we would have to spend to get some good players in to keep our attendance high, this always make me query...are we kept in and around the play offs artificially with no real hope of promotion?.......I hope im wrong!!
i hope you are wrong kds, it was a linesman's flag that kept us down last year, a simpson malaise the year before, and gillingham the year before. nobody can accuse the shrews of not trying and with a great squad, an excellent manager and superb chairman and decanter, then surely 2012 must be towns year. i agree with kds when we do go up we need more attendance for town to pay the wagebill. we must not become a yo yo club like the wobblers etc. come on you shrews, breath on 'em, floreat salopia, and rowland steady on with that vintage port
That's a good point - it's often assumed that gates will rise with promotion. In reality, we could be struggling and see gates fall. There aren't many big away followings in League 1 to compensate. However, I don't think we'd drop so many fans overnight. Our gates have held up really well considering we've failed to be promoted and gone through recession. If any supporters have drifted away as we've fallen short of promotion for the last few years they seem to have been replaced. I don't believe for a second the old "can't afford to be promoted" argument. No-one's clever enough to make a whole team fall just short of promotion every season!!! Anyway, we're going up this time.
sorry tinned hats i was responding to you not kds. i am sure rw, gt and the whole squad are ambitious
"No-one's clever enough to make a whole team fall just short of promotion every season!!! "...well Roland's managed it!!...it might be me just having a suspicious mind...but when you see the things going on in other sports ie Cricket, it just makes me think a bit....if you look at Chester: when in the league they were getting crowds of 1.2, now in the Evo-stik 2.5 to 2.8 and far less wages to pay out!!...so in many cases demotion is paying....
One would assume their ticket prices are lower as well though, and when you add into that the lowerincome from sponsorships, less TV rights, the fact they're less likely to be on TV in the first place and the lower amounts of prize money (both from the league and the fact they don't get automatically entered into the FA cup first round - winning that game is apparently more lucrative than winning all the qualifiers and losing the first round combined) I think that the revenues will be lower, so the argument doesn't really hold water.
of course there is one reason why town have not won promo recently, and i have said it before, town will never win anything with that ruddy awful popart badge. rowland time to do something, will you be told rowland!
We have got at least 2k season ticket holders, which I'm sure is probably more likely 2.5k or over. So attendance wouldn't drop over night. I would dread to think that although getting promoted would perhaps gain a few more people through the gates each home game, if we did start losing a lot then attendances might drop off. I just looked at Wycombes stats: http://www.wycombewanderers.co.uk/page/Fixtures/0,,10430~2011,00.html You can switch to look at last seasons top right of the table. Apart from being horrified at the JPT attendances they seem to have on average a thousand more than last season, and they haven't had a great start to this year. I assume that wages would go up, and ticket prices almost certainly (get the early bird season ticket to stop it) but we would also be playing some bigger clubs too.
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