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I remember the bell vue days right dump of a ground lucky if they got 3000 same with Rotherham they only used to get a few thousand at millmoor just goes to show what a new ground can do.
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I remember the bell vue days right dump of a ground lucky if they got 3000 same with Rotherham they only used to get a few thousand at millmoor just goes to show what a new ground can do.
Exactly, that's why we need one otherwise more teams like those will overtake us and we'll end up back in non-league. |
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They averaged 6,500 last season, that's more than we have managed for decades, so they are right now a bigger club than us. What we did 10 or 20 years ago is irrelevant.
What was the average away support though I bet well over 1k? |
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I went to watch Doncaster play away at sheff Utd last season and considering the short distance only brought around 200 fans
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We'll have a competitive budget plus a manager who knows how to spend it and 4000 very noisy Town fans every other week at BP. Historically we are the underdog so I'm not bothered by average gates especially just so long as the ones in there stay with the team and manager all season.
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How do you measure how big a club is/was compared to other clubs?
To me it's all about the here and now rather than what was.
If we are to compete with the Donnys of this world then we need to level the playing field. By that I mean move to a new stadium with up to date facilities and income streams.
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There are more Donny whites than Donny Rovers fans, FACT.
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Our six years in the abyss have damaged the clubs stature within the game. The truth is we have an ageing ground, poor training facilities. I don't know what our scouting network is like but I doubt we have a man with his ear to the ground anywhere outside of Lincolnshire. Prozone stats and monitoring? Nutritionist? (That'll be Dave Moore).
We will need to re-establish ourselves as a proper football club after so long playing pub football, we lost our 2nd best player IMO to Chesterfield, a smaller club than ourselves not so long ago. We can't compete with them or the likes of Doncaster, again a smaller club than ourselves not so long ago.
Let's be honest, look at the Chesterfield and Doncaster examples, can anyone earn a gold star by pointing out what both clubs have in common?
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We'll have a competitive budget plus a manager who knows how to spend it and 4000 very noisy Town fans every other week at BP. Historically we are the underdog so I'm not bothered by average gates especially just so long as the ones in there stay with the team and manager all season.
We need to keep the fans though. We're bound to get high gates next year on the strength of the promotion and the novelty of a new division . What worries me if people will keep coming after a couple of seasons of mid-table mediocrity with the last 10 games having next to nothing to play for,.In many ways it would be good to hit the ground running in League 2 so we can keep all fans interested and not the 2000-3000 die hards, It really feels as though we are treading water until the new ground comes along and we can really fulfil our potential but in the meantime a successful campaign in a higher division could go a long way |
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For years I've always seen us as a club whose natural level is League 1, which is a bit weird as I've only seen us have 2 seasons there in my lifetime! It got me thinking about what our current status is within the game, as I glanced at the League 2 table and thought 'hang on, there's some big clubs in there, I don't remember it being like that before!'.
I wondered if you lot agreed or disagreed with the relative size of GTFC (mainly to do with fan base, and potential fan base) compared to the others? Here's how I see it:
Clubs bigger than Town:
Plymouth (they might go up to League 1 anyway)
Portsmouth (this is a given)
Carlisle
Luton
Notts County
Donny (this is possibly a debate in itself.....)
Blackpool
Clubs smaller than Town:
Accrington
Wimbledon (also in the Playoff Final......)
Leyton Orient
Cambridge
Mansfield
Wycombe
Exeter
Barnet
Hartlepool
Stevenage
Yeovil
Crawley
Morecambe
Newport
Cheltenham
Colchester
Crewe
You could of course argue that clubs like Orient, Crewe and Cambridge are very similar sized, and I wouldn't disagree with that, but I thought I'd be ruthless and chance my arm a little!
Do people think I'm over or under-cooking us as an outfit? Be interesting to see whether we think our stock has risen or fallen during the wilderness years........
In summary, though, I still see this next season being one of discovery for us and I'd see mid-table as being a big step in the right direction and a decent achievement.
Anybody got any thoughts?
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