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Author Topic: Gaps & Spaces = the sign of apathy  (Read 36208 times)

Offline garyfouroaks

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Re: Gaps & Spaces = the sign of apathy
« Reply #30 on: October 23, 2011, 09:32:41 PM »
If football wants to be a business, fair enough.

Two ordinary sides with only Bent as a nominally a star player, does not merit £43. A radical reassessment of ticket prices is required.

The squuezing of away fans will need to end too. How long before ticket and travel packages at reduced prices are offered?
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Re: Gaps & Spaces = the sign of apathy
« Reply #31 on: October 23, 2011, 09:35:35 PM »
Quote from: garyfouroaks on October 23, 2011, 09:32:41 PM
If football wants to be a business, fair enough.

Two ordinary sides with only Bent as a nominally a star player, does not merit £43. A radical reassessment of ticket prices is required.

The squuezing of away fans will need to end too. How long before ticket and travel packages at reduced prices are offered?

The Albion supporters I spoke to said £43 was cheap.
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Offline MarkM

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Re: Gaps & Spaces = the sign of apathy
« Reply #32 on: October 23, 2011, 10:14:15 PM »
We should be realistic about are ability to attract support.

We are in an area with many teams to support...

Blues
West Brom
Walsall
Wolves
Stoke
Coventry

Etc....


We are not a one team town like a Newcastle or Sunderland

The west mids doesn't have the population of London and we don't have the attraction of Man U, Chelsea etc...

Performances and pricing will play a part in attendances as will the opposition we are playing (Man U at Villa Park will always attract more fans than Bolton)

We have a base level of support and then to coin a term 'fairwether' fans who's numbers grow and decline with our fortunes.
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Offline Risso

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Re: Gaps & Spaces = the sign of apathy
« Reply #33 on: October 23, 2011, 10:46:09 PM »
Quote from: MarkM on October 23, 2011, 10:14:15 PM
We should be realistic about are ability to attract support.

We are in an area with many teams to support...

Blues
West Brom
Walsall
Wolves
Stoke
Coventry

Etc....


We are not a one team town like a Newcastle or Sunderland

The west mids doesn't have the population of London and we don't have the attraction of Man U, Chelsea etc...

Performances and pricing will play a part in attendances as will the opposition we are playing (Man U at Villa Park will always attract more fans than Bolton)

We have a base level of support and then to coin a term 'fairwether' fans who's numbers grow and decline with our fortunes.

Stoke?!  That's 40 miles north!  We've been the one ever present Midlands team in the Premier League, and have singularly failed to take advantage of that over many years.
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Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Gaps & Spaces = the sign of apathy
« Reply #34 on: October 23, 2011, 11:37:26 PM »
Yet again Arsenal seemed to have a lot of empty seats, so either they have 100s of ST holders who having paid a fortune for their ST and are not bothering going, 100s of them are going for a piss and pie at the same time (the 1st minute to the full time whistle) or they are fibbing about their attendances.
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Offline pauliewalnuts

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Re: Gaps & Spaces = the sign of apathy
« Reply #35 on: October 23, 2011, 11:44:39 PM »
Quote from: PeterWithesShin on October 23, 2011, 11:37:26 PM
Yet again Arsenal seemed to have a lot of empty seats, so either they have 100s of ST holders who having paid a fortune for their ST and are not bothering going, 100s of them are going for a piss and pie at the same time (the 1st minute to the full time whistle) or they are fibbing about their attendances.

They're not lying about their attendances - why would they?

The empty seats are season ticket holders who didn't turn up.

I shudder to think what our attendances would be this season if it was just calculated on bodies in the ground.
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Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Gaps & Spaces = the sign of apathy
« Reply #36 on: October 23, 2011, 11:47:00 PM »
Them fibbing makes as much sense as 100s paying for a ST at their prices and then suddenly all stopping going at the same time.
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Offline pauliewalnuts

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Re: Gaps & Spaces = the sign of apathy
« Reply #37 on: October 23, 2011, 11:49:08 PM »
Well, the latter is what has happened.

It's not difficult to believe, they were at home against Stoke.
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Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Gaps & Spaces = the sign of apathy
« Reply #38 on: October 23, 2011, 11:50:48 PM »
It was the same at the last home game as well which is what has piqued my curiosity. A few missing a game makes sense, but 100s? Those ST must cost a fortune as well.
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Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Gaps & Spaces = the sign of apathy
« Reply #39 on: October 24, 2011, 12:02:55 AM »
Because i'm bored, here are 2 views of the Larsson freekick from a couple of weeks ago. Between them you see most of the ground. How many empty seats are there and this was half an hour into the game.



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Offline Witton Warrior

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Re: Gaps & Spaces = the sign of apathy
« Reply #40 on: October 24, 2011, 09:48:29 AM »
Quote from: dave.woodhall on October 23, 2011, 09:35:35 PM
Quote from: garyfouroaks on October 23, 2011, 09:32:41 PM
If football wants to be a business, fair enough.

Two ordinary sides with only Bent as a nominally a star player, does not merit £43. A radical reassessment of ticket prices is required.

The squuezing of away fans will need to end too. How long before ticket and travel packages at reduced prices are offered?

The Albion supporters I spoke to said £43 was cheap.


It is for their Cup Final!
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Offline not3bad

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Re: Gaps & Spaces = the sign of apathy
« Reply #41 on: October 24, 2011, 01:05:42 PM »
Got to admit when I arrived on Saturday and looked around I thought there was a crowd of 35-36k not 34.  Not that that makes a massive difference or anything.
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Offline Blackcountry Villa

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Re: Gaps & Spaces = the sign of apathy
« Reply #42 on: October 24, 2011, 03:11:51 PM »
We're shit
McLeish is clueless
It's too expensive (up to £47 for that? laughable)
The football is diabolical

Simple really.
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Offline ventnor villain

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Re: Gaps & Spaces = the sign of apathy
« Reply #43 on: October 24, 2011, 05:21:57 PM »
To come up to Birmingam for a home game for me and VV junior i'm looking at an outlay of £200. To watch shocking football served up ny a disinterested looking team managed by Captain Clueless. An absolute no-brainer in the current economic and football climates.
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Offline cheltenhamlion

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Re: Gaps & Spaces = the sign of apathy
« Reply #44 on: October 24, 2011, 05:46:42 PM »
BCV, do you just cut and paste the same thing into every thread? Go back to your Olbiyun board and stop boring me with your unremitting negativity at absolutely everything.
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