New owner confirmed…

You're too kind.

 

Cheers ****y chops

 

Are you saying he's got a face like piss flaps? Tut tut

 

and I can do all three of them Ernie

 

I agree to a point Ernie, but IMO McCann is not playing him in the most effective way, he is often isolated and doesn't see enough of the ball. In a better side, I feel he would do much better.

 

If he played for Chelsea reserves he would be on the fringes of the England squad.

 

91 clubs don't have (and never have had) the Allams as owners so that observation is pointless.
When I was stood in a crowd of 2,059 at the last match of the 80/81 season or there were 1,750 there against Torquay was it the fault of the Allams? When we finished 6th in the 85/86 season in Division Two, our 2nd highest finish in the league since WW2 and ended up the season with a paltry crowd of 5,459 and only had crowds of over 10,000 twice, when loads of visiting fans from Grimsny and Leeds boosted the crowd to 11,000 and 12,000 that was all the fault of the Allams?

 

I remember it well and that you would rather piss your pants than use the toilets .

 

Nail on the head.
Your either a supporter or your not.

 

So how would you suggest we get more supporters?

 

Move to another city?

 

I thought "city" was irrelevant?

 

No. A city with a small c isn't, only ones with a capital C.

 

got back off hol and trawled back over the last 3 or 4 pages but found nothing of our impending new turkish owners.
did i dream it?

 

Like Cardiff?

 

Yep
Where you go anywhere good??

 

We had 20,000 plus regularly when we were winning at Boothferry Park, more when we could fit them in. In Carters days, then the Cliff Britton era 64, and briefly under Terry Neill. On all occasions when the team stopped winning the crowds stopped coming.
This was repeated when we moved to the new stadium.
So we could show a bit more loyalty, as Newcastle, Derby. Forest, Norwich and Sunderland fans do and not be so fickle. Whilst we remain fickle the club is built on sand.
More could have been done by the club recently when we did reach the Premier League and were selling out to build on that success and mistakes were obviously made off the field and not just by the Allams. Either way it was a glorious opportunity lost.
The club did really try to reach out to the public during the quieter times at Boothferry Park with cheap tickets for kids, open days, even factory tours and school visits etc but it didn't do much good because the crowds never increased and we never did build a solid fanbase of more then 8,000. Who did more in that field then Don Robinson and crowds during his reign were up and down like a yo yo too ?
Perhaps some of us should look at ourselves for a change as to why our crowds are so bad and not always look to the club for the excuses ?
I keep repeating that you are either a supporter or your not and it's as simple as that.

 

-> "More could have been done by the club recently when we did reach the Premier League and were selling out to build on that success and mistakes were obviously made off the field and not just by the Allams. Either way it was a glorious opportunity lost."

Agreed. But who and what do you mean with the bit in bold?

 

Maybe we've been going at it the wrong way round? reaching out to the fans when attendances are low, cheap tickets and school promotions get a few more to go but they end up seeing crap football and probably see us lose which just reinforces their view that it's not worth going. We should be reaching out when we are doing well and getting the newbies hooked.

 

When we reached the PL for the first time the club abolished Away Direct for a start. So fans who had followed the club throughout all the **** years and supported them all the way from the bottom of the 4th division to the PL meant nothing to the club. Loyalty should mean everything. Every supermarket in the land rewards loyalty to keep their most loyal customers, but for some strange reason City did the opposite. It wasn't just those members of Away Direct either, fans of five, ten, twenty and more years standing suddenly had to become part of a ballot with someone who had only become a fan when we beat Bristol City in the Play Off Final at Wembley to get tickets for away games. To make it worse the 'new ' fans' only wanted away tickets for the glamour away games. Tickets for WBA away for example were plentiful, but tickets for Anfield and Old Trafford were like gold dust. The new PL fans deserted us as quickly as they found us when the novelty wore off. The more faithful loyal fans were left feeling pissed off. So that was a huge mistake by the club at the time and that was on Duffens watch.