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Post by aforce on Sept 7, 2019 18:11:48 GMT
Regardless what you think about his abilities to get us into the championship or stay in league 1. One thing that can’t be denied is our plummeting attendances that don’t wanna watch his football. The attendance today was the worst league attendance since our non league days. So I’d say graham is on borrowed time we need these fans back
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Post by axegas on Sept 7, 2019 18:16:35 GMT
We are unbeaten at home with a striker scoring goals, I can’t speak on behalf of others but I found today entertaining.
The performances aren’t great and need to improve but the biggest thing that could reverse the decline in attendances are new facilities and more money spent on the playing side to bolster our chances, both of which are beyond GC’s control.
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Post by gashead1981 on Sept 7, 2019 18:17:26 GMT
I think a lot of it actually has to do with the last 18 months of nothing but disappointment off the field combined with a poor DC second half of 17/18 and then the poor season of 18/19.
According to the ticket office, we are 1500 season tickets down on last year.
If those season ticket holders occasionally bring a partner/family member/friend as well then you can be down as much as 2000 people per game. That’s a huge amount of lost revenue.
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Post by aforce on Sept 7, 2019 18:17:58 GMT
We are unbeaten at home with a striker scoring goals, I can’t speak on behalf of others but I found today entertaining. The performances aren’t great and need to improve but the biggest thing that could reverse the decline in attendances are new facilities and more money spent on the playing side to bolster our chances, both of which are beyond GC’s control. We had the same if not worse facilities for the last 4 years
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Post by aforce on Sept 7, 2019 18:22:05 GMT
I think a lot of it actually has to do with the last 18 months of nothing but disappointment off the field combined with a poor DC second half of 17/18 and then the poor season of 18/19. According to the ticket office, we are 1500 season tickets down on last year. If those season ticket holders occasionally bring a partner/family member/friend as well then you can be down as much as 2000 people per game. That’s a huge amount of lost revenue. If you look at the stats today we had less possession, less shots, less corners at home against a 10 man Accrington Stanley. I think if we were doing well the crowds would come personally. Could be wrong but for us to be getting worse crowds than in our lowest point speaks volumes
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Post by axegas on Sept 7, 2019 18:23:00 GMT
We are unbeaten at home with a striker scoring goals, I can’t speak on behalf of others but I found today entertaining. The performances aren’t great and need to improve but the biggest thing that could reverse the decline in attendances are new facilities and more money spent on the playing side to bolster our chances, both of which are beyond GC’s control. We had the same if not worse facilities for the last 4 years Very true. Just think that the fact nothing off the field is progressing quickly is putting a dampener on supporters enthusiasm for the club. Today also wasn’t helped by Gloucestershire playing just after and England Cricket/Football being on at the same time.
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Post by axegas on Sept 7, 2019 18:30:25 GMT
Either way it’s sad to see the decline in attendances but I will be there no matter what.
If you can support Rovers in the Graydon/Penney/Buckle/McGhee years and in Non League, you can support them through just about anything.
Fair enough if you can’t attend for financial reasons though, no one can criticise that.
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Post by Icegas on Sept 7, 2019 18:43:57 GMT
Our drop in crowds arent due to GC as such.But when we had DC and thoses promotions,then we got new ownership we were given new hope!
Thus far in there 3/4 years - Weal was carried down Glod rd and lived off the hipe of being a fake Billionaire based on nothing he put towards it (He loved it) .They took 6 months to put up the butcher truck family stand.The same time to put a Medium sized big screen,sold our 3 best players - which lead to our best ever manager losing hope/heart,or the plot and then losing his job.
We lost our dream of the UWE (proberly for the best in hindsight) and we are now £17 million in debt.
We have had no investment of any note in our side, and look at best we will stay up in L1.FFs..
Our fanbase is large,but we have lost 3k on last years avg and the years before that also, and thats not all down to GC or the on the field sh**.
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Post by Gas1977 on Sept 7, 2019 18:47:46 GMT
Imo he is the making the most out of what he’s got. A lot of these players aren’t up to the standards so as long as we stay up I’ll be firm with that.
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Post by corfugas on Sept 7, 2019 18:51:32 GMT
What a ridiculous thread title. Like anyone has any say. (Nor should they).
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Post by aforce on Sept 7, 2019 18:54:29 GMT
Imo he is the making the most out of what he’s got. A lot of these players aren’t up to the standards so as long as we stay up I’ll be firm with that. He quoted live on radio that he was happy with the budget and facilities
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Post by baggins on Sept 7, 2019 18:56:11 GMT
Regardless what you think about his abilities to get us into the championship or stay in league 1. One thing that can’t be denied is our plummeting attendances that don’t wanna watch his football. The attendance today was the worst league attendance since our non league days. So I’d say graham is on borrowed time we need these fans back What would you rather have, confirmed Lg1 status, or more fans?
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Post by aforce on Sept 7, 2019 18:56:17 GMT
Our drop in crowds arent due to GC as such.But when we had DC and thoses promotions,then we got new ownership we were given new hope! Thus far in there 3/4 years - Weal was carried down Glod rd and lived off the hipe of being a fake Billionaire based on nothing he put towards it (He loved it) .They took 6 months to put up the butcher truck family stand.The same time to put a Medium sized big screen,sold our 3 best players - which lead to our best ever manager losing hope/heart,or the plot and then losing his job. We lost our dream of the UWE (proberly for the best in hindsight) and we are now £17 million in debt. We have had no investment of any note in our side, and look at best we will stay up in L1.FFs.. Our fanbase is large,but we have lost 3k on last years avg and the years before that also, and thats not all down to GC or the on the field sh**. Whilst I agree with most of what you say our lowest point as a club was being in non league. So the only reason we had better crowds there than what we have now must be down to performances.
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Post by aforce on Sept 7, 2019 18:57:51 GMT
Regardless what you think about his abilities to get us into the championship or stay in league 1. One thing that can’t be denied is our plummeting attendances that don’t wanna watch his football. The attendance today was the worst league attendance since our non league days. So I’d say graham is on borrowed time we need these fans back What would you rather have, confirmed Lg1 status, or more fans? Surely there’s a correlation there tho, if you get bigger crowds you have a bigger budget and should therefore have a better team
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Post by baggins on Sept 7, 2019 19:13:45 GMT
What would you rather have, confirmed Lg1 status, or more fans? Surely there’s a correlation there tho, if you get bigger crowds you have a bigger budget and should therefore have a better team Not when you're losing £3 million a year.
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Post by aforce on Sept 7, 2019 19:23:34 GMT
Surely there’s a correlation there tho, if you get bigger crowds you have a bigger budget and should therefore have a better team Not when you're losing £3 million a year. Other than a few discprencies here and there if you look at the average attendance football teams in England it’s near as dammit top 20 teams prem, next 24 champ etc etc
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Post by baggins on Sept 7, 2019 19:26:44 GMT
Not when you're losing £3 million a year. Other than a few discprencies here and there if you look at the average attendance football teams in England it’s near as dammit top 20 teams prem, next 24 champ etc etc Unfortunately, we don't have a huge budget, and when you roughly do the math, an increase of 2000 through the turnstiles every other Saturday makes very little contribution.
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Post by gregsy on Sept 7, 2019 19:29:33 GMT
The way I see the situation is that we can't possibly get promoted, therefore we can only at some point be relegated.... The managers job at rovers is a thankless task, play champaign footie and compete at a level which is our maximum is practically impossible to achieve indefinitely....
Cut the guy some slack, keeping rovers in league 1 won't be pretty no matter who is manager....
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Post by aforce on Sept 7, 2019 19:30:34 GMT
Other than a few discprencies here and there if you look at the average attendance football teams in England it’s near as dammit top 20 teams prem, next 24 champ etc etc Unfortunately, we don't have a huge budget, and when you roughly do the math, an increase of 2000 through the turnstiles every other Saturday makes very little contribution. Whilst I appreciate your comments I strongly disagree that 2000 people paying £20 per 2 weeks makes little difference. And like I said before it’s no coincidence that the biggest supported sides are generally in the higher league
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2019 19:31:58 GMT
When your team is poor and the football is dire only the die hard true fans go to games. When i see a team with 3 defensive midfield players and 2 wing backs i never feel optimistic about watching exciting football. Ps i know rodman was in midfield today but it must have been painful for GC to select him. If the team can get in the top half with a play off chance the 6-7,000 fans will accept it.
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