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I'm suprised we have sold so many so early after last season tbh . They only go up £20 quid through June so wonder if we can get close to our record with some decent signings etc
I don't really want to break our record, difficult enough getting a seat last season with a decent view if you hadn't got a season ticket like me.
Yeah early bird extended. Mine still cost me £450 and that's not the most expensive.Extra Time for Early Bird Window with 4,000 Season Tickets sold
With high demand for season tickets, we’re delighted to signal a period of extra-time for the Early Bird Window!
Wombles over 4k
Agree completely. I think we were the worst affected club by the Taylor Report in terms of % of capacity lost; our capacity went from 17k to 8.5 as the open terrace corners couldn’t be converted. As is often the case in this country, the legislation was complete overkill. Smaller stadia should have had at least a partial exemption, to require GTFC to demolish the terrace corners was ridiculous and they could never have been unsafe in any way like Leppings Lane. Safe standing linking the Main to the Pontoon would be my number one priority.
Because you’re all upper class Tory voters
If we'd been shit and in a lower division we wouldn't have had to get involved with the Taylor Report, but we were in the second tier and had to conform, bloody stupid really. That and a few years later the TV money not coming did for us!
We’d have to lose the fan zone to get to 12k. We’d still be restricting away fans to 1,800 with the fan zone in place.
If you settle for 11,000 capacity you more or less settle for L1 as the height of ambition. I fully agree about atmosphere and oversized grounds, I've been in Meadow Lane, 20k capacity with under 2,500 against Barnet for a league game and it's terrible. MK Dons this season at their place was ridiculously empty and away at Bradford wasn't great either despite the official attendance it was largely empty. But, we now have an upturn in our fortunes with a couple of 15-16k crowds a season not out of the question and it does sort of elevate your ambitions to thinking that our ground is the right size for us and I'm glad we have the capacity.
Been discussed before but it really wouldn't be anywhere near as bad if more ST holders not turning up actually used the resale scheme.
As mentioned above, I don't think there would have been anyone else as royally shafted by the combo of Taylor Report and ITV Digital crash as we were.
Fucking ITV Digital
I remember we couldn’t honour the contracts that we had and in particular Danny Butterfield, he loved it here and said that he would happily take a pay cut to stay, (what a guy) but we could not offer him anything so he left for Palace and went to the Premier League with them.
I quite enjoy league 2, 1 and NL even outside of supporting town with the sub plots , signings clubs etc the Champ and Prem I have no real interest in and have not for about 15 years tbh . I would rather see what's happening at County , Bradford , Crewe etc than what is at utd , Liverpool or City . I don't know if the champ or higher is a realistic aim for us or many in this league even with a bigger ground - the amount clubs lose at those levels seems silly and some clubs are put at risk - I would rather settle for a lower level that I enjoy without the club at any risk - i think mid to lower end league 1 should be a realistic ambition for us though . I would be happy with that but know some wouldn't .
Over the last twenty years we've pretty much mirrored you, wallowing in the nether regions of the pyramid with a dip into the scrapheap league. Like you I'm way more interested in lower league and non league than the Premier league which now looks pretty much impossible without a huge spend from owners and so distant that barring goals and highlights I don't pay much attention. I actually didn't know a couple of names in the latest England squad and had to look them up as I'd never seen or heard of them.
Slightly different to your view.
it's difficult to quantify but I would say north of 500 possibly even 1k ,all the back few rows of the main stand are awful views as you have to duck down to see the pitch . Same with the back few rows in the osmond /away end .
That's were the capacity issue comes in we will clear probably 5.5k season tickets or whatever leaving just the bad view seats for walk ups in the actual home end - and loads of empty seats weekly because ST holders don't turn up and probably quite a few only buy 1 for a % of games so they have a decent seat . There is a release your seat scheme but it doesn't seem to have a great take up . It would be a right mess if we actually ever do well in the league but recent history suggests that's unlikely lol
Nobody thinks they're going to cope with non league but when it happens you just do. You quickly adjust to going to Woking as second favourite and being content with a hard earned point at Dover.
