First time in 30 years

Quoted from Tommy

I see several people mention the conference from time to time this season and how we had this connection with the team in our time there.

I can't help but wander if some of our time there is clouded by the fact that we were, for want of a better phrase, a big fish in a small pond and would win most of our games there.

Maybe it's a bit harder to support us now we're not the big club and winning most weeks. If folk aren't going to stick with us and stick with the team because they're afraid we might lose, then I don't know what you'd expect from supporting a team other than Chelsea/MU/ManCity etc.

All Town Aren't We.
Through thick and thin.

NAILED

Quoted from Tommy

I see several people mention the conference from time to time this season and how we had this connection with the team in our time there.

I can't help but wander if some of our time there is clouded by the fact that we were, for want of a better phrase, a big fish in a small pond and would win most of our games there.

Maybe it's a bit harder to support us now we're not the big club and winning most weeks. If folk aren't going to stick with us and stick with the team because they're afraid we might lose, then I don't know what you'd expect from supporting a team other than Chelsea/MU/ManCity etc.

All Town Aren't We.
Through thick and thin.

WELL SAID THAT MAN.                                UTM.

I'm going today, I have a season ticket but I still would have gone anyway even if I never, I'll always have a season ticket but the number of away games I go to will severely drop, I used to go to 15/16 a season, this season I've been to 1 so far and that was Mansfield, I'm going to Port Vale but after that I don't know, currently we are really poor and I don't think I can justify paying nigh on 60 or 70 quid, sometimes more on many away games atm.

We can change manager and even style but it won't alter the fact that  we are a medium sized fish in this pond. I hate to say we have found our level but until we get a new ground then I suspect we might have as so many otherr sides have done, thereby overtaking us in terms of revenue and support. That doesn't mean to say we can't expect a good season some years but promotion campaigns every year are just not going to happen every season. We picked up a lot of support during the non-league years and its obvious to me that fans would rather watch a team near the top of one division than the bottom half of another above it.

From my personal opinion if we played decent football I'd have made an effort to travel to Newport. I'm sure their is a lot of people in the same boat, basic wage people won't fork out £50+ (which is a lot of money for people like myself) to watch the ball in the sky for 90 minutes.

Tommy and GrimRob are totally correct in my opinion .

I can't remember a derby I've wanted Town to win more for ages than today just to shut a lot of people up for a few days .

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

Tommy and GrimRob are totally correct in my opinion .

I can't remember a derby I've wanted Town to win more for ages than today just to shut a lot of people up for a few days .

For me it is vital we win today, simply because the mood will turn even more angry and toxic if we are defeated.

Mood and often opinions are self perpetuating. Like a snowball rolling down a hill, difficult to stop it getting bigger and mor destructive.

Come on Town!!!!

Quoted from samg

This will be the first time in 30 years I've refused to go to a local derby match. I've made this decision with a sad and heavy heart but unfortunately the current team and management style of football does not warrant me the travel costs and entrance fee, I just cannot see most of the current squad enticing me back (believe me as an ardent supporter that follows Town home and away)
There's no passion,commitment,flair,pride - to me personally ( I may be wrong) I feel like the current squad or management style have no connection with the fans of gtfc! I sincerely hope I'm proved wrong tomorrow and regret not going ( i will be listening on radio) and will be victorious - but currently I don't see it.
Prove me wrong and let's see a vast improvement UTM!!!

Another pathetic whinging post!

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

Tommy and GrimRob are totally correct in my opinion .

I can't remember a derby I've wanted Town to win more for ages than today just to shut a lot of people up for a few days .

Same TBH but no doubt if they lose “brand Cowley” will spin it.

All I want to see it Town all over them like a rash from the off.

I get exactly what samg is saying, normally every season me and my Dad are pulling up trees to find an excuse or money to get to a town game being exiles, but this season not really, we can't stand watching the team at the moment, we barely want to log into Ifollow and watch.

We'll be going the Vale match as its round the corner, probably one at Christmas when we come up to visit family but we're certainly not going to be going out of our way to get to a match compared to the last 14/15 seasons when we've had the money to do so.

The football is boring, the players aren't being utilised properly by the management and I'm going into every match thinking we won't win. I can see why samg doesn't want to spend his money I'm also rather disheartened and it stems from a lack of faith in the management.