Good Luck Sillsy

[nickbrod]

Tim Sills plays for little Gosport Borough, Skrill South, against Cambridge United in Sunday's FA Trophy Final at Wembley.
Can history repeat itself and Sills be on the winning side, and scoring, against Cambridge in a Wembley Final?

[ferrarilover]

Might be nice to amend the thread title to spell his name correctly.

Bloody good luck to him. He scored three of the four goals in his semi-final, so he's done lots to deserve a place. Is it on the gogglebox?

Matt.

[diamondgirl]

Good luck Tim. Will be hoping for a Gosport win and a Sillsy headed hat trick.

And, no Matt. Cant find it anywhere on TV. Very annoying.

[sam_]

Haha, we should have got a coach of Sills lovers to go and cheer him on

[ferrarilover]

Tickets are £30. For ****'s sake. It's the FA Trophy Final, it's not going to sell out, so it's a buyers market. Make the tickets a fiver and get 80,000 people through the door. An afternoon's sport for five quid at the national stadium. I'd go (if I lived in London) and so would plenty of others. Just like anything, if it's good value, you'll get bums on seats. I have no specific interest in ice hockey, but I once went to watch Peterborough because I found myself in the area and it was cheap to get in. I like sport, and sport was on offer at good value entry. The beer/hotdog was well priced too, so I had one of them as well. So, instead of charging me £30 to get in and £10 for a pint and a 'dog (and raising £0.00 in the process), why not charge £5 to get in and £5 for a pint and some lunch. That way, not only do I get what I want (an afternoon of good value sport) you get what you want (a tenner).

It's not like a club side, which has costs to pay by the barrel load. Wembley doesn't have weekly costs. It's mainly empty and costing basically nothing (standing water and gas bill, some minimum wage jonny to watch the security cameras and that's about it) so it's not really a risk to take a chance on getting more people in for less money.

Despite having half a degree in it, I don't really get business. It all seems like bollocks to me, if I'm honest. But PED analysis here really does suggest that, given Wembley's geographical location, the availability of substitutes and supplementary goods, charging a low price and achieving high sales ought to be the way to go. That's not to mention the implied obligation upon the FA to make football accessible to the general public. Although it has a private sector label, football is such a part of our national identity that providing access to it is a public service. The FA ought to be compelled by Government to be much more focussed on providing a service and much less focussed on profiteering by extorting loyal fans who will pay through the nose to watch their team. It's the same thing all over football. Ticket prices for the likes of Man City are obscene (but since it's City, I don't care, that's your own stupid fault for jumping on the bandwagon) and the FA should be clamping down on it, but they don't, because the more you pay, the bigger the FA's margin on their 5 or 10% cut of all gate receipts.
If the FA need the money that badly, then they should start taking it from those who can afford it the most. So, introduce an income indexed fine for bookings and red cards. Instead of charging Wayne Rooney £70 every time he gets booked (the same as, say Lee Mansell), start charging him a hundred grand. He won't miss it and it'll raise a shit load of cash. Cash which can be used to offset a reduction in ALL ticket prices for Wembley games, as well as providing a fund into which small clubs may dip (but only the once) if they have trouble with the tax man. That way, King's Lynn FC need not go out of business over the matter of fifty poxy grand and you and I need not pay £30 to watch the FA Trophy final.

Sorry, what was the question...?

Matt.

[hector]

Yes - good luck to Tim Sills. A Torquay legend, in my view!

[Dave_Pougher]

Good luck Tim. rest assured THAT goal is in Torquay folklore, not sure the same can ever be said about Paul Buckle.

[oxgull]

Would be great if Tim could repeat what he did for us and against Cambridge as well. Now they would be hacked off if he repeated that! Best of luck to him

[SuperNickyWroe]

Would be great if Tim could repeat what he did for us and against Cambridge as well. Now they would be hacked off if he repeated that! Best of luck to him

Carlisle checks instead..............

He's looking for Benyon.............

SILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

would love him to score the winner against them again!

[Glostergull]

I was just wondering if Sillsy had a computer with windows on it. Yeah ok i'll get my coat.

[cambgull]

So poor, you said it twice?

[sam_]

Carlisle checks instead..............

He's looking for Benyon.............

SILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

would love him to score the winner against them again!

That quote is on my pop side pathway plaque!

[oxgull]

That quote is on my pop side pathway plaque!

I was there on the half way line only separated from hordes of Cambridge fans by some covered seats and a couple of stewards. What a moment that was and what a goal!!! Back to the Green Man to continue the celebrations (HIC!) But I will always enjoy the commentary of that goal.

[ferrarilover]

We had a Cambridge fan in the box immediately behind us (we were in the very back row, in Club Wembley, right on the 18 yard line). That goal went in and he came out of his box onto his balcony and started giving it mouth. He suddenly found a block of about 500 Torquay fans chanting "just because you're losing" at him over and over. He told us all to **** off and then got back in his box, both figuratively and literally.

Matt.

[Gullscorer]

We had a Cambridge fan in the box immediately behind us (we were in the very back row, in Club Wembley, right on the 18 yard line). That goal went in and he came out of his box onto his balcony and started giving it mouth. He suddenly found a block of about 500 Torquay fans chanting "just because you're losing" at him over and over. He told us all to f*** off and then got back in his box, both figuratively and literally.
Matt.

How delinquently juvenile..!!