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Post by Topper Gas on Aug 15, 2016 18:56:17 GMT
Shame there isnt the same enthusiasm for Rovers home matches! To have below 5k for Cardiff with reduced prices and fail to sell out on Sunday, is in my opinion very poor. I really do wonder what more Rovers have to do, given that we have won 14/15 last home games, and the last game of last season will probably go down as the most memorable ever. Lots on here are so quick to criticise the club, the team and individual players....we all know if we had lost on Sunday that there would have a clamour to ged rid of Clarke/Mildenhall/Lines.......and yet our biggest problem in progressing would seem to be our apathetic support........yes the usual 6k may increase to 8k but that is still not great considering all that has happened over the past 6 months. So forgive me for not giving a sh*t if we have 4 or 6k tickets, or when or if we sell out against Chelsea....I just wish there was more support for our club at home to correctly recognize the teams efforts. If I was Wael, I would be seriously wondering if a 22k capacity is necessary...as it stands I would far perfer a smaller revamped Memorial stadium with a max of say 16-18k. Let's not overlook last seasons home attendances were the highest for decades, this summer's s/t sales are also highest for probably as long as records exist, certainly at least at the mem. Also yesterday's attendance may well have been the highest ever gate form the first home game, we also had to contend with peak summer holiday season and the balloon festival plus Oxford are hardly the biggest draw when we played them last season. If we get around 10K again tomorrow they could well be the first time we've had around 20K in our first two league home games at the Mem nothing to complain about supporters wise in my view.
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Post by tinner on Aug 15, 2016 19:30:01 GMT
Shame there isnt the same enthusiasm for Rovers home matches! To have below 5k for Cardiff with reduced prices and fail to sell out on Sunday, is in my opinion very poor. I really do wonder what more Rovers have to do, given that we have won 14/15 last home games, and the last game of last season will probably go down as the most memorable ever. Lots on here are so quick to criticise the club, the team and individual players....we all know if we had lost on Sunday that there would have a clamour to ged rid of Clarke/Mildenhall/Lines.......and yet our biggest problem in progressing would seem to be our apathetic support........yes the usual 6k may increase to 8k but that is still not great considering all that has happened over the past 6 months. So forgive me for not giving a sh*t if we have 4 or 6k tickets, or when or if we sell out against Chelsea....I just wish there was more support for our club at home to correctly recognize the teams efforts. If I was Wael, I would be seriously wondering if a 22k capacity is necessary...as it stands I would far perfer a smaller revamped Memorial stadium with a max of say 16-18k. Let's not overlook last seasons home attendances were the highest for decades, this summer's s/t sales are also highest for probably as long as records exist, certainly at least at the mem. Also yesterday's attendance may well have been the highest ever gate form the first home game, we also had to contend with peak summer holiday season and the balloon festival plus Oxford are hardly the biggest draw when we played them last season. If we get around 10K again tomorrow they could well be the first time we've had around 20K in our first two league home games at the Mem nothing to complain about supporters wise in my view. All good stuff..........but still a big step away from the level of support we deserve. The crowd on Wednesday will be interesting, and I will say if we exceed 10k that is good, but am guessing it will be closer to 8500 which will be poor.
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Post by peterparker on Aug 15, 2016 19:32:51 GMT
So just when will the tickets be available for those plebs like me that aren't ST holders or SC members who just like paying on the day I can't see it happening tbh. For all the peopke saying we should have had more than 4000 tickets and similar this is sometving we msy have to get used to. When we are at UWE at making the Prem we are going to have more fans for fewer tickets at all these grounds
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2016 19:37:59 GMT
Let's not overlook last seasons home attendances were the highest for decades, this summer's s/t sales are also highest for probably as long as records exist, certainly at least at the mem. Also yesterday's attendance may well have been the highest ever gate form the first home game, we also had to contend with peak summer holiday season and the balloon festival plus Oxford are hardly the biggest draw when we played them last season. If we get around 10K again tomorrow they could well be the first time we've had around 20K in our first two league home games at the Mem nothing to complain about supporters wise in my view. All good stuff..........but still a big step away from the level of support we deserve. The crowd on Wednesday will be interesting, and I will say if we exceed 10k that is good, but am guessing it will be closer to 8500 which will be poor. Poor? You think?! Cardiff home, Oxford home, Bolton home, then Chelsea away. Summer holidays, kids at home etc. Over 7500 GAS in attendance on weds is far from poor imo. But I do like your mindset since it means that some of our fans are ahead of the passive mediocrity.
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Post by Hugo the Elder on Aug 15, 2016 20:05:01 GMT
All good stuff..........but still a big step away from the level of support we deserve. The crowd on Wednesday will be interesting, and I will say if we exceed 10k that is good, but am guessing it will be closer to 8500 which will be poor. Poor? You think?! Cardiff home, Oxford home, Bolton home, then Chelsea away. Summer holidays, kids at home etc. Over 7500 GAS in attendance on weds is far from poor imo. But I do like your mindset since it means that some of our fans are ahead of the passive mediocrity. I was going to agree with you about the passive mediocrity thing but then I thought...meh.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2016 20:20:09 GMT
I can't see many Bolton fans making the trip Weds, so I agree that 7.5 would be respectable for sure.
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Post by gasonthemount on Aug 15, 2016 20:23:18 GMT
Season 2001/2002 first home game att. 10127 against Torquay (return of Gerry Francis). Second home game against Luton att. 9057. However both games were on a Saturday.
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Post by surreygas on Aug 15, 2016 20:24:02 GMT
Shame there isnt the same enthusiasm for Rovers home matches! To have below 5k for Cardiff with reduced prices and fail to sell out on Sunday, is in my opinion very poor. I really do wonder what more Rovers have to do, given that we have won 14/15 last home games, and the last game of last season will probably go down as the most memorable ever. Lots on here are so quick to criticise the club, the team and individual players....we all know if we had lost on Sunday that there would have a clamour to ged rid of Clarke/Mildenhall/Lines.......and yet our biggest problem in progressing would seem to be our apathetic support........yes the usual 6k may increase to 8k but that is still not great considering all that has happened over the past 6 months. So forgive me for not giving a sh*t if we have 4 or 6k tickets, or when or if we sell out against Chelsea....I just wish there was more support for our club at home to correctly recognize the teams efforts. If I was Wael, I would be seriously wondering if a 22k capacity is necessary...as it stands I would far perfer a smaller revamped Memorial stadium with a max of say 16-18k. Let me get this right. We scraped out of the conference in the playoffs by finishing second to little old Barnet and luckily beating Grimsby who were the better side on the day - that season we lost to Braintree, Althincham, Forest Green, Eastleigh, Barnet etc, and drew against Dover, Woking, Alfreton etc.
Last season we scraped into 3rd place on the last day of the season by beating already relegated Dagenham & Redbridge in injury time, just pipping the mighty Accrington Stanley (better known for a milk advertisement than a football team) who unexpectedly slipped to a draw at home to lowly Stevenage in their final game to open the door for us to replace them in the final promotion spot.
And you expect the Mem to be sold out against a team that was also in league 2 last year? 10,000 fans yesterday was a very respectable turnout given the sh**e suffering Gasheads have had to put up with for many years.
Wael is shooting for greater things than beating crap teams in leagues 1 and 2 and if he succeeds, we will need something far better and bigger than the Mem. And yes, suddenly people who didn't go to games when we were in the conference and league 2 will suddenly start turning up - and no doubt you will be saying they are not proper fans and you prefer if if we were playing in league 2 again in front of 6-8,000 fans. But those extra people will become fans and will make us a greater club - probably the same sort of fans who are trying to get Chelsea tickets at the moment.
In my view, occasional fans become fanatical supporters when they are treated to decent quality football for a prolonged period of time. Likewise, die hard fans become disillusioned and their support wanes while we languish in non league/lower league football. That's the way football is - not just Bristol Rovers.
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Post by tinner on Aug 15, 2016 20:49:55 GMT
All good stuff..........but still a big step away from the level of support we deserve. The crowd on Wednesday will be interesting, and I will say if we exceed 10k that is good, but am guessing it will be closer to 8500 which will be poor. Poor? You think?! Cardiff home, Oxford home, Bolton home, then Chelsea away. Summer holidays, kids at home etc. Over 7500 GAS in attendance on weds is far from poor imo. But I do like your mindset since it means that some of our fans are ahead of the passive mediocrity. Here we go the usual excuses, any wonder that C*ty take the p*ss about our crowds when we are patting ourselves on the back for getting 7500...jesus!
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Post by clockendgas on Aug 15, 2016 20:50:26 GMT
Am i the only one who thinks £25 is to much for a 2nd round league cup match? and chelsea are one club i dont fancy giving £25 to, so thats one ticket more for anyone getting excited about this game.
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Post by hpgas on Aug 15, 2016 20:52:11 GMT
Until this weekend I was really fond of the Mem but a couple of things made me realise it's not the way forward. FIrstly, I couldn't bring my Father in Law because he can't stand (now all seats are gone). Second, took my son in the family enclosure for the first time, got told off for by Mrs O'Brady angry old lady for blocking her view whilst struggling to get some visibility for my six year old. Family club? Yes, lots of kids along the front but couldn't really push them out of the way and they are bigger so can see over the hoarding comfortably. Nowhere really comfortably so the boy ended up bored, me frustrated. Next time I'll go on my own. That's two lost ticket sales. We live out of the area so we will only go together to the away games which benefit from the away day atmosphere and usually better facilities taking into consideration the need to tow kids and pensioners around.
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Post by tinner on Aug 15, 2016 20:55:30 GMT
Shame there isnt the same enthusiasm for Rovers home matches! To have below 5k for Cardiff with reduced prices and fail to sell out on Sunday, is in my opinion very poor. I really do wonder what more Rovers have to do, given that we have won 14/15 last home games, and the last game of last season will probably go down as the most memorable ever. Lots on here are so quick to criticise the club, the team and individual players....we all know if we had lost on Sunday that there would have a clamour to ged rid of Clarke/Mildenhall/Lines.......and yet our biggest problem in progressing would seem to be our apathetic support........yes the usual 6k may increase to 8k but that is still not great considering all that has happened over the past 6 months. So forgive me for not giving a sh*t if we have 4 or 6k tickets, or when or if we sell out against Chelsea....I just wish there was more support for our club at home to correctly recognize the teams efforts. If I was Wael, I would be seriously wondering if a 22k capacity is necessary...as it stands I would far perfer a smaller revamped Memorial stadium with a max of say 16-18k. Let me get this right. We scraped out of the conference in the playoffs by finishing second to little old Barnet and luckily beating Grimsby who were the better side on the day - that season we lost to Braintree, Althincham, Forest Green, Eastleigh, Barnet etc, and drew against Dover, Woking, Alfreton etc.
Last season we scraped into 3rd place on the last day of the season by beating already relegated Dagenham & Redbridge in injury time, just pipping the mighty Accrington Stanley (better known for a milk advertisement than a football team) who unexpectedly slipped to a draw at home to lowly Stevenage in their final game to open the door for us to replace them in the final promotion spot.
And you expect the Mem to be sold out against a team that was also in league 2 last year? 10,000 fans yesterday was a very respectable turnout given the sh**e suffering Gasheads have had to put up with for many years.
Wael is shooting for greater things than beating crap teams in leagues 1 and 2 and if he succeeds, we will need something far better and bigger than the Mem. And yes, suddenly people who didn't go to games when we were in the conference and league 2 will suddenly start turning up - and no doubt you will be saying they are not proper fans and you prefer if if we were playing in league 2 again in front of 6-8,000 fans. But those extra people will become fans and will make us a greater club - probably the same sort of fans who are trying to get Chelsea tickets at the moment.
In my view, occasional fans become fanatical supporters when they are treated to decent quality football for a prolonged period of time. Likewise, die hard fans become disillusioned and their support wanes while we languish in non league/lower league football. That's the way football is - not just Bristol Rovers.
Whether you like it or not, 'scrapping' third place beating D&R is probably the best moment many of us will ever get in football. We are on a high winning virtually every game at home and yet still that isnt good enough...how long does this pro longed period have to be......and of course dont forget in order to shoot for bigger things, we need the crowds to fund this.....but still you keep to your view, and lets all pat ourselves on the back when we get our 8000 crowds!!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2016 21:07:37 GMT
Poor? You think?! Cardiff home, Oxford home, Bolton home, then Chelsea away. Summer holidays, kids at home etc. Over 7500 GAS in attendance on weds is far from poor imo. But I do like your mindset since it means that some of our fans are ahead of the passive mediocrity. Here we go the usual excuses, any wonder that C*ty take the p*ss about our crowds when we are patting ourselves on the back for getting 7500...jesus! 7500 is about 70% of our capacity. Unless the teds get 18900, they have nothing to take the p1ss out of... And wait....
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2016 21:26:14 GMT
Here we go the usual excuses, any wonder that C*ty take the p*ss about our crowds when we are patting ourselves on the back for getting 7500...jesus! 7500 is about 70% of our capacity. Unless the teds get 18900, they have nothing to take the p1ss out of... And wait.... But u gurt sags r jelus of r masifv knew stadyum an all u gots a shny knew tent. Mynd der gap init.
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Post by 4evergas67 on Aug 15, 2016 21:28:19 GMT
Am i the only one who thinks £25 is to much for a 2nd round league cup match? and chelsea are one club i dont fancy giving £25 to, so thats one ticket more for anyone getting excited about this game. Yeap seems your the only one.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2016 21:29:00 GMT
Let's not overlook last seasons home attendances were the highest for decades, this summer's s/t sales are also highest for probably as long as records exist, certainly at least at the mem. Also yesterday's attendance may well have been the highest ever gate form the first home game, we also had to contend with peak summer holiday season and the balloon festival plus Oxford are hardly the biggest draw when we played them last season. If we get around 10K again tomorrow they could well be the first time we've had around 20K in our first two league home games at the Mem nothing to complain about supporters wise in my view. All good stuff..........but still a big step away from the level of support we deserve. The crowd on Wednesday will be interesting, and I will say if we exceed 10k that is good, but am guessing it will be closer to 8500 which will be poor. I totally disagree with that. 8,500 for a Wednesday night game would be great considering we are in the third tier and level of support Rovers have had over the years. We are not Bristol City
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2016 21:36:21 GMT
Oh God. The Chelsea tickets thread has been hijacked.
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Post by chippenhamgas on Aug 15, 2016 22:15:03 GMT
Can see both sides of this argument, sunday's crowd was decent if unspectacular. But at the end of the day the mem is a shithole and is holding back our progress, one of the worst grounds in the football league and sends out a message that league one is our limit at present. If we were at uwe sunday would have been 13-14k, sadly though the silence on that subject at present indicates that it is many years away, by which time many of the fans who have returned over the last 12 months will have lost interest.
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Post by tinner on Aug 16, 2016 6:07:43 GMT
Here we go the usual excuses, any wonder that C*ty take the p*ss about our crowds when we are patting ourselves on the back for getting 7500...jesus! 7500 is about 70% of our capacity. Unless the teds get 18900, they have nothing to take the p1ss out of... And wait.... Brilliant...lets reduce our capacity to 10k, and our attendances will be even more impressive.........
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2016 7:13:27 GMT
Until this weekend I was really fond of the Mem but a couple of things made me realise it's not the way forward. FIrstly, I couldn't bring my Father in Law because he can't stand (now all seats are gone). Second, took my son in the family enclosure for the first time, got told off for by Mrs O'Brady angry old lady for blocking her view whilst struggling to get some visibility for my six year old. Family club? Yes, lots of kids along the front but couldn't really push them out of the way and they are bigger so can see over the hoarding comfortably. Nowhere really comfortably so the boy ended up bored, me frustrated. Next time I'll go on my own. That's two lost ticket sales. We live out of the area so we will only go together to the away games which benefit from the away day atmosphere and usually better facilities taking into consideration the need to tow kids and pensioners around. There were plenty of empty seats in both the South & SouthWest stands.
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