No reality check at all. FFS we are at our lowest ebb at the moment, we lost our manager and brought in someone who most fans need convincing about. The recruitment has been an utter shambles and the football is turgid. Not to mention the ridiculous 30 quid a pop.
Only problem with that you'd have to offer the same deal to away fans, that's what the club decided this season fleece those who travel which has backfired massively ending up putting off home fans.
Bournemouth in receipt of parachute payments able to keep most of their PL players some on 40-50k+ a week and a Russian close to a Billionaire owner is a bit of a bad example.
Yeah things aren't optimal right now.
I’m not saying attendances have anything to do with performance on the field or whether finances have anything to do with that either. I’m just pointing out our attendances are what they are regardless. Comparing with other teams is pointless as there’s a lot of other factors at play. I don’t think our average attendances or ranking in a table based on average attendances is note worthy. Our current attendances certainly don’t warrant any sort of correlation being drawn between them and our boards action / inaction
*Not to mention when PNE’s own fans are defrauding the club in order to utilise the free / massively cheaper kids ticket prices when adults are already bargain basement as it is. - this inflating the gate.
Good point, forgot about that. Clearly dirt cheap is still too much to watch them.
Still think it's more to do with Appleton and the football we're dishing up. Have seen every game so far this season and whilst there have been games which I have enjoyed because of how they have panned out, I've just not found his style of football enjoyable. Know quite a few who haven't yet been. No buzz around the place and feels like we're almost waiting for him to be potted.
We would sell your ground out if you would give us a decent allocation.
Well done you.
I don’t think any football club admits their ground is “too big for them.”
We don’t have any choice but to replace the East stand or else it will be forced to close. Closure would reduce useable capacity to around 11,500/12,000 - only 10,000 of which would be home fans which is too small even now.
We filled the 3 sides even under the Oystons. we averaged 14k for 4 seasons and were only able to offer 2k to away fans. We gained promotion to the Prem and were well and truly under prepared having to throw up a temporary East stand. The aim always has to be the Premier League but even as a Championship side pushing for the play offs we could quite easily get the 14k again as long as fans are not priced out. 30 quid in the current climate is quite frankly ridiculous. A stadium holding 20k would allow us to give away fans 4 to 5k on a par with the Nobbers.
The club aren’t going to budge on that price, though? So forget the East and invest in the team.
The money for the East is borrowed and will go down as debt on the books so you want us to go that route with players fees and salaries with absolutely no guarantees it's going to work out?
I think you'll find Simon Sadler is more about the infrastructure of the club. That seems to be his priority and maybe it's the best for the long term future of the club. He keeps pointing out that he's only the custodian of the club and I'm sure he'd love to leave a legacy of a new East Stand and Training ground for possibly a wealthier owner to build on and invest in new higher calibre players.
I thought we were “sustaining” the club under SS? If we can’t afford a stadium redevelopment, don’t do it. We don’t need a new east stand. We can’t sell our 3 stands we have now, until Preston come to town. Which is ironic, that everyone moans about £30 ticket prices but buys one for Preston.
£30 is too steep, yet, I bet we sell out for Preston.
Where you putting the away fans then if we don't need the East and how is the club expected to grow if we don't have enough seats to be sold?I thought we were “sustaining” the club under SS? If we can’t afford a stadium redevelopment, don’t do it. We don’t need a new east stand. We can’t sell our 3 stands we have now, until Preston come to town. Which is ironic, that everyone moans about £30 ticket prices but buys one for Preston.
If redeveloping the East stand means we’re going to get a load of day tripper supporters, who aren’t bothered about the team then for me it can go back to the old Gene Kelly.
We HAVE to development the East. It’s NOT optional. The safety certificate will not be renewed and without that the stand will be closed for good. Without the East capacity doesn’t satisfy current demand. It’s pretty simple.I thought we were “sustaining” the club under SS? If we can’t afford a stadium redevelopment, don’t do it. We don’t need a new east stand. We can’t sell our 3 stands we have now, until Preston come to town. Which is ironic, that everyone moans about £30 ticket prices but buys one for Preston.
If redeveloping the East stand means we’re going to get a load of day tripper supporters, who aren’t bothered about the team then for me it can go back to the old Gene Kelly.
This is where ambition comes in and also not judging our current situation right now as the maximum.I thought we were “sustaining” the club under SS? If we can’t afford a stadium redevelopment, don’t do it. We don’t need a new east stand. We can’t sell our 3 stands we have now, until Preston come to town. Which is ironic, that everyone moans about £30 ticket prices but buys one for Preston.
If redeveloping the East stand means we’re going to get a load of day tripper supporters, who aren’t bothered about the team then for me it can go back to the old Gene Kelly.
Who said we’re spunking money on players to get fans in?
Prioritising investment in the squad over the stadium is foolhardy. If we were successful on the pitch this season we’d have demand for tickets which would outstrip supply. We’d then not be able to actually capitalise on the success for the medium and long term and would still find ourselves having to demolish and replace the East stand regardless - only doing it at that point would mean locking out thousands of home and away fans in the meantime.
We'll I never mentioned that, you want development projects stopped to be spunked on player's.
Too late transfer window is closed and won't those players come back at some point season shuts down for a month in November.
But you want to close the East and not redevelop it that makes no sense.
