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Post by willo on Mar 7, 2015 12:51:09 GMT 1
Me & Junior will be renewing cos I can't think where I'd rather be every other Saturday afernoon for 10 months of the year. It's in the blood. Yes, some of this season has been tough to bear/watch like plenty of other seasons I can remember down the last 35 yrs of watching Town and night games are a struggle to get to because of work committments but that anticipation of turning up and seeing my team put in a committed and spirited display is still there. The games where I've swapped where I normally sit to go stand with the NSL have also added something to our matchday experience and brought back memories all those years back of standing in the Cowshed. There's a great camaraderie in there and kudos to those that got it off the ground. And let's be fair, if we don't go, we'd probably only be listening on the radio at home. DH has done some great things and hey, we may be at best a mid-table Championship side but there's always hope...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2015 13:28:24 GMT 1
I agree entirely with Willo and have been watching town for 40 years so yes, I'm renewing for me and my lad!
UTT!!!!!
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Post by shawsie on Mar 7, 2015 13:42:03 GMT 1
Interesting and reasonable moans on this thread. The thing is, what can the club DO to reverse the trend?
You can't just magic up entertaining football, an awesome atmosphere, and a world class event attendance experience that people are compelled to attend overnight, especially when you're losing £5m a year.
I don't know the answers, although I could think of a few difficult suggestions that I wouldn't write down on here as they wouldn't be fair to people whose job it is. And most importantly, I don't really know what could be done that would encouraged me as what I would now class as an "occasional supporter" to come more often, spend money outside of the core ticket price (on merchandise, food, programmes, whatever), and be actively engaged with the club and effectively resell it to others....(I USED to invite a few Liverpool, Man City and Leeds supporting mates along to a couple of games a year and "show off" the club, and we'd have a day out of it, but we've not done that for about 4 seasons now)... and eventually become a possible future returning season ticket holder.
So what would Mary Portas or Gordon Ramsey do?
Or... do we write me off as a lost customer, and target some NEW potential ticket buyer?? As someone wrote elsewhere, people stop attending and people start attending all the time. The only difference since 1990 and earlier is that those that have stopped attending still have a voice.
Maybe Sky and the Premier League didn't spoil the game, maybe the popular growth of the internet did? Football needs to reinvent itself or it will die like the dinasaurs did. In the US there are just 32 NFL teams. They sell out week after week. The real fact is our tiny population just cannot sustain 92 professional teams. Then when you consider the hostility, the violence the non family atmosphere is it any wonder modern young family's have no time or enthusiasm for the game when they can watch premier league on TV. It probably can't Keith......but only because the ruddy premier league has forced it that way! I don't want to follow the USA - team goes bust or ceases to exist, hey presto here comes another franchise team to take their place, or worse still the owner just moves the ground miles away! Bums on seats in the stadia no longer seem to matter at the top level......so long as the TV cash and worldwide fan base grows.
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