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nightrider	March 3, 2015, 4:40pm
Fine Wine Drinker Posts: 1,332 Posts Per Day: 0.29 Reputation: 70.01% Rep Score: +4 / -3 Approval: +464 Gold Stars: 10	I'd love to be going and watching us with 10k. If we can get 10k +, why aren't we building a stadium with potential for 20k. Christ you all wanted him sacked a few months ago. 6th place finish and he's now the messiah and can do no wrong   Update:  I think I've got this right - He was the messiah. He then wasn't. He then was again. Then it turned out he actually wasnt. He turned into one big huge messiah again. Now he's not actually the messiah we thought he was . Now I'm hoping he rises again quickly
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rancido	March 3, 2015, 4:42pm
Vodka Drinker Posts: 7,490 Posts Per Day: 1.25 Reputation: 80.3% Rep Score: +41 / -10 Approval: +6,532 Gold Stars: 96	In the 2000/01 season the home game against Bolton on September 12th attracted a gate of 3732. The highest gate that season was 8706 on May 6th against Fulham ( last home game of the season ) and that would have been swelled by a lot of away support as they finished Champions. Despite what some fans think the fact is the support for this club isn't as large as they like to think. These kind of gates for the second tier of the football pyramid wouldn't financially support a club at that level. If we ever do or want to compete at this level then it is imperative that we have other income sources and that could only be achieved with a new stadium. The Future is Black & White. "The commonest thing on this planet is not water , as some people believe, but stupidity ". Frank Zappa
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diehardmariner	March 3, 2015, 5:00pm
Vodka Drinker Posts: 5,899 Posts Per Day: 0.99 Reputation: 84.65% Rep Score: +36 / -6 Approval: +17,428 Gold Stars: 532	The thing with having additional income sources is that other clubs have them in place too? We wouldn't gain an advantage by having these additional streams of income, it lessens our disadvantage. Getting the additional income is absolutely essential but not to compete, to survive!
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nightrider	March 3, 2015, 5:08pm
Fine Wine Drinker Posts: 1,332 Posts Per Day: 0.29 Reputation: 70.01% Rep Score: +4 / -3 Approval: +464 Gold Stars: 10	I don't pay much attention to the 'additional income streams' argument, mainly because I don't have a clue about it. What I do know is, regardless of the attendance, we could do with a new ground as the one we have is old! Everything about it needs updating. I'm just undecided as to whether it should be in town or out of town.  There should be no question whether the town needs one, more where we need one and how much is it likely to cost. Christ you all wanted him sacked a few months ago. 6th place finish and he's now the messiah and can do no wrong   Update:  I think I've got this right - He was the messiah. He then wasn't. He then was again. Then it turned out he actually wasnt. He turned into one big huge messiah again. Now he's not actually the messiah we thought he was . Now I'm hoping he rises again quickly
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Grim up north	March 3, 2015, 5:12pm
Table Wine Drinker Posts: 784 Posts Per Day: 0.13 Reputation: 81.8% Rep Score: +10 / -2 Approval: +688 Gold Stars: 1	We would attract more nowadays as attendances have risen by a fair amount through all divisions as stated earlier and a lot depends on a winning side and the facilities provided which is the same all over. We may not have the catchment of Hull City but we will allways attract more than Lincoln and Scunny and possibly match Doncaster,Rotherham etc etc when/if  the new stadium gets built.
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Grim up north	March 3, 2015, 5:14pm
Table Wine Drinker Posts: 784 Posts Per Day: 0.13 Reputation: 81.8% Rep Score: +10 / -2 Approval: +688 Gold Stars: 1	You have to make access to a new stadium easy to reach within footfall for many which is why an out of town is a definite no go for me as a fair few would be put off with the location which has been done to death .
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Quagmire	March 3, 2015, 5:22pm
Table Wine Drinker Posts: 781 Posts Per Day: 0.13 Reputation: 93.41% Rep Score: +19 / 0 Approval: +926 Gold Stars: 43	Quoted from rancido In the 2000/01 season the home game against Bolton on September 12th attracted a gate of 3732. The highest gate that season was 8706 on May 6th against Fulham ( last home game of the season ) and that would have been swelled by a lot of away support as they finished Champions. It was also a game that we needed to win to guarantee Championship/First Division survival so I think it was almost certainly a home sell out too.
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FishOutOfWater	March 3, 2015, 5:25pm
Barley Wine Drinker Posts: 12,827 Posts Per Day: 2.15 Reputation: 87.01% Rep Score: +52 / -7 Location: Goole Approval: +6,564 Gold Stars: 37	Quoted from Quagmire It was also a game that we needed to win to guarantee Championship/First Division survival so I think it was almost certainly a home sell out too. And reading the earlier link about the board reshuffle a short while afterwards, a pivotal game that if we had lost and then been relegated, would have seen us in to administration?
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BIGChris	March 3, 2015, 5:32pm
Season Ticket Holder Posts: 11,800 Posts Per Day: 1.97 Reputation: 74.94% Rep Score: +70 / -24 Approval: +2,654 Gold Stars: 6	Quoted from Grim up north You have to make access to a new stadium easy to reach within footfall for many which is why an out of town is a definite no go for me as a fair few would be put off with the location which has been done to death . Totally agree. I understand that a significant % of current season ticket holders live within 1.5 miles of the proposed ground where that % at BP is single figures. I bet it would have been lower still for Great Coates. Accessibility is key IMO I know I bang on about it but the only way we will compete going forward is if we can genuinely become a community club. That needs seriously effort to engage with ALL age groups from kids to pensioners. Swansea are a great example of this
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Mrs Doyle	March 3, 2015, 5:47pm
Whiskey Drinker Posts: 4,685 Posts Per Day: 0.78 Reputation: 66.38% Rep Score: +22 / -13 Approval: +4,859	Could be a bit of rose tinted specs remember many a time going to BP in the old forth division with barely a thousand fans,
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