by Bomber » 24 Mar 2014, 18:53
hector wrote:
Really good post and I agree with it all. Like you mention, I enjoy going to watch Exeter Chiefs. Like TUFC, they too announced season ticket prices for next season. For an extra £40 I could get a Chiefs season ticket to watch a team that has won a major trophy, play in a full and expanding stadium, playing against the best teams in the country in a match day experience that is in a different universe to the staid, dull, soulless experience you get at Plainmoor.
Because I have a season ticket for TUFC, I watch Chiefs whenever I can if TQY are away and Chiefs are at home but I am giving serious consideration to reversing that for next season. At a time when money is short, I get much better value for spending money I have earned by watching something I enjoy, rather than endure.
Chiefs v Leicester Tigers or Torquay v Braintree? It is becoming increasingly more difficult to justify the latter.
A friend of mine said on Saturday how he now understands why his father no longer attends, and I suspect most of us know people who no longer go. It is one thing for some people to trot out the fair-weather/fickle fan mantra when they are spending someone else's money but it ends up making people feel resentful, handing over a, not insignificant amount of money, to feel poorer and less happy at the end of it.
For me, apathy has largely already settled in. I'm resigned to relegation, to a non-league, long-term future, playing football in an even emptier ground, with even less atmosphere, watching Benyon trip over the ball, whilst teams like Telford come to Plainmoor and win.
Season ticket sales will drop like a stone and there will still be people wondering why.
Agree with what you said about needing a more experienced assistant to help Chris Hargreaves, in fact an ideal person who could have assisted him actually applied for the manager's job itself; Dave Byrne, the ex Argyle winger and more recently assistant and caretaker manager of Swindon Town and is currently Head of Youth at Sheffield Wednesday.
Having seen the Exeter Chiefs a few times this week and also in previous seasons, I can fully appreciate your point of view regarding that, and that's something I'd never thought I'd find myself saying.
The list of players to keep, I would probably add Ben Harding to that list of ones to keep, I still think he could do a job for a team in this league as well as the Conference.
As Damon Lathrope is out of contract at the end of the season, I would offer him the captaincy next year as a sweetener to try and keep him, well it's worth a try!
[quote="hector"]
Really good post and I agree with it all. Like you mention, I enjoy going to watch Exeter Chiefs. Like TUFC, they too announced season ticket prices for next season. For an extra £40 I could get a Chiefs season ticket to watch a team that has won a major trophy, play in a full and expanding stadium, playing against the best teams in the country in a match day experience that is in a different universe to the staid, dull, soulless experience you get at Plainmoor.
Because I have a season ticket for TUFC, I watch Chiefs whenever I can if TQY are away and Chiefs are at home but I am giving serious consideration to reversing that for next season. At a time when money is short, I get much better value for spending money I have earned by watching something I enjoy, rather than endure.
Chiefs v Leicester Tigers or Torquay v Braintree? It is becoming increasingly more difficult to justify the latter.
A friend of mine said on Saturday how he now understands why his father no longer attends, and I suspect most of us know people who no longer go. It is one thing for some people to trot out the fair-weather/fickle fan mantra when they are spending someone else's money but it ends up making people feel resentful, handing over a, not insignificant amount of money, to feel poorer and less happy at the end of it.
For me, apathy has largely already settled in. I'm resigned to relegation, to a non-league, long-term future, playing football in an even emptier ground, with even less atmosphere, watching Benyon trip over the ball, whilst teams like Telford come to Plainmoor and win.
Season ticket sales will drop like a stone and there will still be people wondering why.[/quote]
Agree with what you said about needing a more experienced assistant to help Chris Hargreaves, in fact an ideal person who could have assisted him actually applied for the manager's job itself; Dave Byrne, the ex Argyle winger and more recently assistant and caretaker manager of Swindon Town and is currently Head of Youth at Sheffield Wednesday.
Having seen the Exeter Chiefs a few times this week and also in previous seasons, I can fully appreciate your point of view regarding that, and that's something I'd never thought I'd find myself saying.
The list of players to keep, I would probably add Ben Harding to that list of ones to keep, I still think he could do a job for a team in this league as well as the Conference.
As Damon Lathrope is out of contract at the end of the season, I would offer him the captaincy next year as a sweetener to try and keep him, well it's worth a try!
