Re: Stadium and other issues : Tue Mar 14, 2023 11:07 am  

If the pitch is the same as Manchester city the laugh is ,if it was as bad as the S L team say, I do not think you would see footballers,sliding on the pitch when they score a goal

Re: Stadium and other issues : Tue Mar 14, 2023 2:11 pm  

altofts wildcat wrote:

They are just words though and actions speak louder than words and since Minnards has come in every action has been to take the cheap option on the coaching front and fail to invest in the playing squad to the point where we have by far the weakest squad in the league in terms of quality and depth.

The reason for not spending enough money has been explained by JM, in his latest update posted this morning. I suggest you listen and digest what he’s saying. It was being either booted out of SL or improving the Stadium.

Re: Stadium and other issues : Tue Mar 14, 2023 2:19 pm  

Dunkirk Spirit wrote:

The reason for not spending enough money has been explained by JM, in his latest update posted this morning. I suggest you listen and digest what he’s saying. It was being either booted out of SL or improving the Stadium.

I have listened but I was under the impression that the club were not funding the refurb bar the £2mil we got from the council so unless something has changed in that respect then what he is saying is bending the truth. They may well have kicked us out and I wouldn't blame them but by having the coach and players that we have we are effectively kicking ourselves out of SL.

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Re: Stadium and other issues : Tue Mar 14, 2023 2:30 pm  

altofts wildcat wrote:

I have listened but I was under the impression that the club were not funding the refurb bar the £2mil we got from the council so unless something has changed in that respect then what he is saying is bending the truth. They may well have kicked us out and I wouldn't blame them but by having the coach and players that we have we are effectively kicking ourselves out of SL.

He explains we are £500k less income from central funding and crowds are lower so less income there.
Others have benefactors to plug that gap.

Maybe need to listen again.

Re: Stadium and other issues : Tue Mar 14, 2023 2:38 pm  

PopTart wrote:

He explains we are £500k less income from central funding and crowds are lower so less income there.
Others have benefactors to plug that gap.

Maybe need to listen again.

No i heard all that but you cannot bemoan poor crowds when the product on the field is not worth paying to watch. I may be wrong but I think it is £26 for a standard match ticket, floating fans are not going to want to pay that to watch a team who cannot score a point never mind win a game.

Re: Stadium and other issues : Tue Mar 14, 2023 3:48 pm  

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Re: Stadium and other issues : Tue Mar 14, 2023 7:49 pm  

altofts wildcat wrote:

No i heard all that but you cannot bemoan poor crowds when the product on the field is not worth paying to watch. I may be wrong but I think it is £26 for a standard match ticket, floating fans are not going to want to pay that to watch a team who cannot score a point never mind win a game.

He's not bemoaning it. He's saying why we don't have as much money, which was your question.

Re: Stadium and other issues : Wed Mar 15, 2023 8:57 am  

altofts wildcat wrote:

They are just words though and actions speak louder than words and since Minnards has come in every action has been to take the cheap option on the coaching front and fail to invest in the playing squad to the point where we have by far the weakest squad in the league in terms of quality and depth.

I bet MC is gutted to have lost the blame for everything before he's even walked out of the door.

Re: Stadium and other issues : Wed Mar 15, 2023 10:34 am  

altofts wildcat wrote:

No i heard all that but you cannot bemoan poor crowds when the product on the field is not worth paying to watch. I may be wrong but I think it is £26 for a standard match ticket, floating fans are not going to want to pay that to watch a team who cannot score a point never mind win a game.

But you can, no money means a poor team unless you hit lucky and we have not in recent years. We have been signing bargain basement players for years and have been very fortunate in that most paid off - that now seems to have gone the other way, a mixture of injuries and players who just don't seem to mesh. When things go that way you just don't get losses you also get poor rugby to watch.

There is a lot of pressure on Applegarth and Ford to create something from very little, they need our support not our scorn.

Re: Stadium and other issues : Wed Mar 15, 2023 10:48 am  

altofts wildcat wrote:

No i heard all that but you cannot bemoan poor crowds when the product on the field is not worth paying to watch. I may be wrong but I think it is £26 for a standard match ticket, floating fans are not going to want to pay that to watch a team who cannot score a point never mind win a game.

That is your choice.
Just because it is, it doesn't mean to say that some of us won't continue to support the team and coaching staff in the hope that it improves and we get some wins on the board.