by Dave » 03 Jan 2013, 11:10
Yep understand cash flow, the biggest blow was losing the Exeter game it's likely we would have seen a 5000+ crowd for that game the club will have to factor in the cost of the postponement and take into account shift wokers and exiles who may not be able to attend the new date. However as said this game will be played and with an unexpected £10,000 (sky)coming in from City away any losses from this game will be in part made up.
MavGet excatly where your coming from, I dont intent this thread to turn into another "what can the club do to increase gates figures" They have that in hand, bristows bench should have helped increase gate figures up to now it has not in fact our current ave gates are about the same as Jan 2011 and 2012. This could well be down to the standard of football being played, the worry is if this continues the attendances will fall further, it's not all about winning or achieving 80% possession, but atleast dominate long periods of the game, force a number of corners, sting the gloves of the other teams keeper, overall we are not doing that no where near enough.
I have said it a number of times and mean it, I am no fan of bringing in loan signings for the sheer sake of it, however we have gone through the season with a large number of injuries mainly to our attacking options, thats when clubs in our postion that can not go out and sign players permanently here there and everywhere need to go into the loan market. Another problem to me is we as a club seemed to have wasted a large chuck of our budget signing Thomas Cruise what on earth was to point, he seems to offer nothing to the squad, he cant play at centre back, Nicho's had an up and down season, Cruise cant seem to challenge him for the left berth either, had we signed a left back /stroke centre back the money thats was allways in the pot for loan top ups could have brought in an attacking option for December rather than Angus McDonald.
Finaly I feel the chairman, Directors and team manager must get over the same message publicly, we have seen Simon Baker talking things up and the same time Lingy talking things down. Chairman says the clubs ready to move on to the next level, team manager says we cant we have no money..huh? We must stop as a club right through the management and down to the fans feeling so sorry for ourseves and constantly bleeting on about having no money, look at the likes of Aldershot, Morecambe and others who are working of the same even lower gate figures than us, dont see them bleeting on, just getting on with the job doing the best they can with what they have. We have to do the same.
Yep understand cash flow, the biggest blow was losing the Exeter game it's likely we would have seen a 5000+ crowd for that game the club will have to factor in the cost of the postponement and take into account shift wokers and exiles who may not be able to attend the new date. However as said this game will be played and with an unexpected £10,000 (sky)coming in from City away any losses from this game will be in part made up.
[color=#FF0000]Mav[/color]Get excatly where your coming from, I dont intent this thread to turn into another "what can the club do to increase gates figures" They have that in hand, bristows bench should have helped increase gate figures up to now it has not in fact our current ave gates are about the same as Jan 2011 and 2012. This could well be down to the standard of football being played, the worry is if this continues the attendances will fall further, it's not all about winning or achieving 80% possession, but atleast dominate long periods of the game, force a number of corners, sting the gloves of the other teams keeper, overall we are not doing that no where near enough.
I have said it a number of times and mean it, I am no fan of bringing in loan signings for the sheer sake of it, however we have gone through the season with a large number of injuries mainly to our attacking options, thats when clubs in our postion that can not go out and sign players permanently here there and everywhere need to go into the loan market. Another problem to me is we as a club seemed to have wasted a large chuck of our budget signing Thomas Cruise what on earth was to point, he seems to offer nothing to the squad, he cant play at centre back, Nicho's had an up and down season, Cruise cant seem to challenge him for the left berth either, had we signed a left back /stroke centre back the money thats was allways in the pot for loan top ups could have brought in an attacking option for December rather than Angus McDonald.
Finaly I feel the chairman, Directors and team manager must get over the same message publicly, we have seen Simon Baker talking things up and the same time Lingy talking things down. Chairman says the clubs ready to move on to the next level, team manager says we cant we have no money..huh? We must stop as a club right through the management and down to the fans feeling so sorry for ourseves and constantly bleeting on about having no money, look at the likes of Aldershot, Morecambe and others who are working of the same even lower gate figures than us, dont see them bleeting on, just getting on with the job doing the best they can with what they have. We have to do the same.
