Lincoln fans ................

I don't know if it's envy on our part the fact that at the moment Lincoln are riding on the crest of a very large wave, mainly due to good cup run, a chairman who can bankroll them and a shrewd board who saw the opportunity, took it with both hands and made the club all about the city and local community, but we don't need to hate them as a club, maybe we all know that with the right resources we would be a bigger and better club, have more supporters coming through gates, increasing the revenue which in turn increases the playing budget and has the knock effect of football fortunes....so, we call Lincoln city fans plastic yet, if all of a sudden we had an extra 2000 fans in BP on a match day, increasing our budget and allowing us to kick on up the football pyramid would you call those 2000 plastic???...

Quoted from Helgy

You can either engage with the fanbase or just keep giving them the same matchday experience that you had in 1985.
Not everything is a bed of roses but with the clubs success the local economy is booming all the local pubs  beer gardens are rammed on match days ,they seem not to be affected by the Fan zone.
Clubs have to change or they will just keep repeating the cycle they do every few years.

Don't think many of us would complain if we got the 1985 match day experience Helgy - think that the 84/85 season was when we finished 10th in Division Two (now Championship) so sure that most of us would snap your hand off for that match day experience  

Quoted from Gaffer58

I know we quote Lincoln as suddenly having a load of "plastic " fans, but if they can keep their attendances at + 8k for another 3/4 years are they still classed as "plastic" fans. I would love us to have a good cup run where we attract an extra 3/4 thousand "plastic" fans who give us the finances to improve the playing staff and gain promotion.

The acid test comes when they stop winning games.

Quoted from nealeardleyscrossing

Great Banter, but it has 3.

no it doesn't it uses school apparatus  

Quoted from Grantley

The acid test comes when they stop winning games.

Well they will be like every club in the land and see attendances fall! Getting our attendances up in the first place would be a good start.  

The imp fans going mad on social media reckoning we will be shating ourselves and all they have to do is turn up. .

I might as well not go then lol

As Kevin keegan once famously said https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqyoDUd8aE8

Quoted from Mrs Doyle

The imp fans going mad on social media reckoning we will be shating ourselves and all they have to do is turn up. .

I might as well not go then lol

As Kevin keegan once famously said https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqyoDUd8aE8

We won't be shitting ourselves but I do think we are a long way behind them at present. They had some 'football fortune' in respect of Cup draws but they then capitalised on it with leadership and engagement.

Splashed the cash big time on wages and signing on fees to attract their targets, better players really, simple as that.

I think we will scrap on Saturday but be outgunned

I like all these comments about Lincoln's surge in supporters, yes they have had a surge because they appointed an excellent management team, questions regarding his integrity I know but there is absolutely no doubting his track record as a manager, some people say they got lucky in the FA cup but in order to get lucky they had to have an effective team to do so and they had a damn effective team even before the FA cup come around, if we have a golden couple of years our gates will double and would all you lot be saying how you'd wish we had 3,500 again? I highly doubt it.

The fact of the matter is they have attracted the crowds and they are keeping them, when we get a big crowd we don't keep them because we deliver a substandard performance. They have a forward thinking board with some money, we have a backwards thinking board with no ambition, the fact of the matter is in a space of a couple of years they have overtaken us rapidly and we are trailing far behind in their wake, they will get promoted from league 1 well before us, Scunthorpe and Lincoln are on the up, we'll certainly Lincoln are and we are not on the up, let's just face facts.

get your facts right ffs. lol

Seriously be interested to see that whilst there on the crest of a wave will they grasp the opportunity and get a new ground?

Something we failed to do in 98.

Quoted from Mrs Doyle

get your facts right ffs. lol

Seriously be interested to see that whilst there on the crest of a wave will they grasp the opportunity and get a new ground?

Something we failed to do in 98.

1981, 1991 as well. 1981 would have taken some foresight and vision admittedly, there was no trend for new stadia then. But it was when the building regs / fire regs failure of the Main Stand and Barratt happened.