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Pedro wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 6:15 pm

Moribund wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 5:08 pm Gomis is a player unlike any we've had in a long while, Dunne is class, Hall was superb and White nearly had four/five goals.
Very happy.

[SwearFilter] you Pedro.

Glad they won but sad for you and your negative attitude to other peoples opions.
Maybe Moribund is right?

Where are the replacements coming from once we start getting suspensions and injurys?
5 bookings in 3 games.
The Goalkeeper seems to be better than what we have which Ive always said we needed.

RC said they wished it was a video interview with Paul Cox to show his suprise when told that they had asked Casson about players coming in only to be told thats it.They finished it by saying it will be a interesting discusion between Casson and Cox.

Is this another thing Casson forgot to tell Paul Cox

We do not have enough players so keep doing what most Ostrichs do.

What a [SwearFilter] you are Peter. If you haven't asked for medical help I think you need to.

Easy stuff , league will be won by November

Great performance, but even greater to catch up with Paul for the first time since the May 2017 club dinner. Enjoy Germany mate.

mickmike wilson wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 10:11 pm

Big E wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 5:37 pm If folk stop being so negative about the club and spread some positivity, it might encourage one or two more to come along and see what's occurring....

I've wondered bout this since last season, Id the forum Negativity having an effect on attendances?

Getting ridiculous now, fed up of coming on here and reading all the sh1te being spouted...

Big win, if we can win on Tuesday i would consider it a good start.

I doubt the negativity on the forum is having an effect on attendances. There are far more obvious reasons and we shouldn't give the forum powers that it doesn't have and has never had.

What the forum does provide is fertile ground for those interested in whatever gossip or innuendo gets written. The main beneficiaries of this therefore is the press, media and rival club forum members scanning for tittle tattle (I'm guilty of that myself).

Having now been a member of the forum for several years, in my view the content and tone during the close season has been particularly fractious, insults are becoming more personal and it actually feels as if the football club is just becoming an excuse for some to have an argument.

I wasn't at the game yesterday but nonetheless felt a sense of happiness and karma at a 3-0 win. I've never experienced a 3-0 win where my first instinct was to use it as a means of attacking the club so to see it appear again after the game was sad in the extreme. This has got to stop and we need to return to the norm of simply celebrating success and expressing frustration and giving criticism when we don't achieve it. The alternative is not so much that the forum damages the club but that the club and many current users of the forum cease to want to associate with it.

There is a fine line between accepting and encouraging free speech and using it to undermine the primary purpose of the forum itself. Moderators please take note.

One person took the trouble to text BBCRC after the game to say he thought we were short of pace. Not the first thought to enter most people's minds after a 3-0 win...

Another pointed out three games, four points, two clean sheets, positive goal difference. (Could have added top half table place.)

Guess it's the difference between glass half-full and broken glasses.

ARH was a beast in midfield. The promise of a decent footballer when he first arrived has developed into a confident, aggressive roaming midfield dynamo. Gomes was excellent; I'm sure he must have Blu Tack-coated boots - his close-control skills are excellent. Really impressed by Nieskens, too, not only as a player but as a team member supporting, organising, talking and developing a relationship with supporters.

On the evidence of friendlies and the two home games, we appear to have a squad of decent numbers made up of sound performers with a strong team ethos. Promising.

People who come on this forum are dyed in the wool fans and wind up merchants. The Idea that someone read a post from anyone and went 'well no point going now' is ridiculous.

£15 is the issue - I bet if the cost of admission was a fiver then we would get 2000.

bigmac95 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 11:27 am
£15 is the issue - I bet if the cost of admission was a fiver then we would get 2000.

£15 x 1075 = £16,125

£5 x 2000 = £10,000

Nigel Bamford wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 11:33 am

bigmac95 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 11:27 am
£15 is the issue - I bet if the cost of admission was a fiver then we would get 2000.

£15 x 1075 = £16,125

£5 x 2000 = £10,000

Reduce price to £10, and you'd need a 50% increase in attendance. Might be possible. I wonder if the club has researched link between price and demand?

Nigel Bamford wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 11:33 am

bigmac95 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 11:27 am
£15 is the issue - I bet if the cost of admission was a fiver then we would get 2000.

£15 x 1075 = £16,125

£5 x 2000 = £10,000

I am not arguing the figures - I agree and understand why it is £15, but that is a short term gain.

2000 fans - potentially more shirt sale, programme sales, burger sales (although we would have to start self catering), more exposure for sponsors so potentially more £££. Then you can slowly increase prices year on year whilst hopefully retaining fans.

Maybe a fiver is too little

What about Dads and lads for £9 - 'with enough left over for a can and sweets'.

We wouldn't get 2000 every week if it was a fiver

Nigel Bamford wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 11:33 am

bigmac95 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 11:27 am
£15 is the issue - I bet if the cost of admission was a fiver then we would get 2000.

£15 x 1075 = £16,125

£5 x 2000 = £10,000

Reduce price to £10, and you'd need a 50% increase in attendance. Might be possible. I wonder if the club has researched link between price and demand?

HenneysKnee wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 12:20 pm We wouldn't get 2000 every week if it was a fiver

What would we have to do to get 2000 every week?

bigmac95 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 12:32 pm

HenneysKnee wrote: ↑Sun Aug 13, 2017 12:20 pm We wouldn't get 2000 every week if it was a fiver

What would we have to do to get 2000 every week?

A half decent stadium with modern facilities would be a start