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Big deal we have been relegated and if fans say they never saw this coming at least 3 seasons ago i will call them a liar to their face......The Americans have spent 90% on off field matters and not enough on the playing side.....Ok they released £60m for players but they allowed the worst management in history to run the club. We started with Bob who would be out of his depth in L2 and then we employ useless No2 and Finally Useless No3....Now i defy any club to do well under that set up.......Now we will have to see what changes will be made if any. Will they decide to change the manager or not, Will they sell our best players when under contract,
Will they release enough money for new players which needs to be a substantial amount, Have the owners finally learned from the mistakes they now have admitted too
The answers to that is none of us know and we all have our opinions what should be done but at the end of the day we have no say on the matter and all we can do is hope.....
 
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swanseaandproud said:
Big deal we have been relegated and if fans say they never saw this coming at least 3 seasons ago i will call them a liar to their face......The Americans have spent 90% on off field matters and not enough on the playing side.....Ok they released £60m for players but they allowed the worst management in history to run the club. We started with Bob who would be out of his depth in L2 and then we employ useless No2 and Finally Useless No3....Now i defy any club to do well under that set up.......Now we will have to see what changes will be made if any. Will they decide to change the manager or not, Will they sell our best players when under contract,
Will they release enough money for new players which needs to be a substantial amount, Have the owners finally learned from the mistakes they now have admitted too
The answers to that is none of us know and we all have our opinions what should be done but at the end of the day we have no say on the matter and all we can do is hope.....
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Dai, Bob would have struggle at Conference level!! He's got to go down as one of our worst ever managers, and we've had some belters over the years. :)
 
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What's the situation like for season ticket sales for you guys?

I know with ours, once the 5 years price freeze finished (which from memory was the 2nd year after we came down) the numbers dropped dramatically.

With the lack of Sky cash coming in you'll need all the money you can get, so bums on seats will be a big factor.
 
Obviously ST have been affected but surprisingly not by that much and we have 8 thousand on the waiting list that some of those will replace those who dont want to renew. We are blessed with those wanting ST and i cant see it affecting us much if at all.....
 
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What's the situation like for season ticket sales for you guys?

I know with ours, once the 5 years price freeze finished (which from memory was the 2nd year after we came down) the numbers dropped dramatically.

With the lack of Sky cash coming in you'll need all the money you can get, so bums on seats will be a big factor.
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Why didn't you ask us the same question last season, or the season before...or any of the seven seasons we were in the Premier League?
 
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PGFWhite said:
Why didn't you ask us the same question last season, or the season before...or any of the seven seasons we were in the Premier League?
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Why arent you guys as active on our board as you have been for the last 7 seasons?

Don't think is was an unreasonable question given we've experienced a relegation before and might be interested in comparing notes.

Touchy touchy.
 
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PGFWhite said:
Why didn't you ask us the same question last season, or the season before...or any of the seven seasons we were in the Premier League?
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Oooh, ark at eeee! !!

I actually was just curious fella. No sleight intended at all....

The point you make is EXACTLY why I asked. It's easy to sell seats in the Prem and the only reason we managed half decent crowds in our 1st season back in the Championship is because quite a few fans were still on a good offer. ....
Once that ended, and very much as I said in my post, our crowds fell away rapidly.

Granted we had poor football to watch too (well, worse than normal!) and an uninspiring manager who was on a cost cutting mission as contributing factors, but yes, my question was a genuine one as I don't know what your situation is...

In all honesty , if you don't want to tell me that's fine as I don't give enough of a stuff to care.....

Polite conversation is obviously something that has passed you by!
 
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BrizzleBluebird said:
Oooh, ark at eeee! !!

I actually was just curious fella. No sleight intended at all....

The point you make is EXACTLY why I asked. It's easy to sell seats in the Prem and the only reason we managed half decent crowds in our 1st season back in the Championship is because quite a few fans were still on a good offer. ....
Once that ended, and very much as I said in my post, our crowds fell away rapidly.

Granted we had poor football to watch too (well, worse than normal!) and an uninspiring manager who was on a cost cutting mission as contributing factors, but yes, my question was a genuine one as I don't know what your situation is...

In all honesty , if you don't want to tell me that's fine as I don't give enough of a stuff to care.....

Polite conversation is obviously something that has passed you by!
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I'm just mystified where you're polite conversation has been for the last seven years.
 
swanseaandproud said:
Obviously ST have been affected but surprisingly not by that much and we have 8 thousand on the waiting list that some of those will replace those who dont want to renew. We are blessed with those wanting ST and i cant see it affecting us much if at all.....
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Cheers fella..... that's good news for you guys.

(And nice to see someone recognises an honest question when they see one!)
 
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History shows how Swansea and Cardiff have changed places a few times and now it is Cardiff's turn to be above Swansea. Cardiff have had a bit of a wait this time as im not counting the time they were nowhere near ready to come up but they look better this time around i think......For the Swans then our stint in the premiership lasted much longer than anticipated which we amassed a hell of a lot of money but we never really used that money wisely as we allowed Our best players to dictate things when bigger clubs in the same league wanted them......We should have said no if we needed them but we didn't and that was the start of our downfall. This is just one of the mistakes we did, Another was employing a succession of managers who had no experience and could not play our system and we lost our way.... Another big factor was big players like Leon, Rangel, Dyer and routs were not the players they once were so we lost that element of our game......So there was not just one thing that got us relegated there was an accumulation of things that happened all together.......This will do us a world of good and is a blessing in disguise as we can now repair the wrongs and get back to the premiership a more organized club, A stronger side playing the way we use to play that gave us the success we have had......
 
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PGFWhite said:
The ones that have been hiding underground and suddenly reappear with a bit of success are obviously held in high esteem by yourself.
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And you obviously hold in high regard those swans posters that at the first sign of adversity have gone missing in action. <doh>
 
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