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What? There's a whole bloody beach & promenade 5 minutes drive down the road. Must have imagined all the families I saw enjoying the seafront before our last home game.
All well and good in the Summer, Cleethorpes in winter is like Siberia. |
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Nearleardly, if you need family fan zones etc to entice people to grounds and they won’t come otherwise that just confirms everyone’s suspicions. A so called ‘proper’ fan is happy with a game and pub outsider the ground. I go and always have done to watching the footy. Fan zones just promote plastic fans, something I don’t want at GTFC!
And welcome to the 1960's, Fan-zones keep people coming, spending money at the club, creating new generations of fans. |
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Hah, was just about to say that. If there’s one thing we HAVE got, it’s family friendly areas. The beach/seafront/boating lake are glorious in the summer and a short walk to BP.
Who the hell wants to spend time hanging around a football stadium hours before kick off?
To be honest kids do. Spending money (Or getting their parents to), creating atmosphere, generating cash for the club. Swindon game, you couldn't get in our club shop such was the demand, bars and fan bars , pop up bars were heaving too. A few of the last few posts suggest why your club is light years behind other clubs in generating revenue. |
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All well and good in the Summer, Cleethorpes in winter is like Siberia.
I heard that in Lincoln, aside from the fact that the streets are paved with gold, the sun shines all year round. |
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To be honest kids do. Spending money (Or getting their parents to), creating atmosphere, generating cash for the club. Swindon game, you couldn't get in our club shop such was the demand, bars and fan bars , pop up bars were heaving too.
A few of the last few posts suggest why your club is light years behind other clubs in generating revenue.
I totally get the need for them, and i'm not against them per se, it was more of a response to what seemed like you saying there is nothing for kids/families to do round here, ahead of this game, in the middle of August. |
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I heard that in Lincoln, aside from the fact that the streets are paved with gold, the sun shines all year round.
Not at all, I think you are missing my point, I probably will go to the beach on Saturday, but if it were other months I would not bother. Which is why having to stuff to do bar the match will get kids there and keep them coming. |
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That's a silly position to take. We may have a larger "hardcore" fanbase than Lincoln but without enticing people who need a bit more encouragement, a "plastic" if you will, then we won't progress. We should be doing more to get families with young kids in, we should be improving our facilities so that they don't put people off (because they do), we should be looking at making the match day experience as appealing as possible to as many people as possible.
Lincoln have capitalised on their football fortune in a way that our board could only dream of. In fact, our board couldn't even dream of it because they think we should turn up regardless without any positive input from them. I'm extremely envious of the way Lincoln have been run in the last couple of years. It's still hilarious and completely false to claim they "grew" their fanbase when in fact the vast majority of their fans jumped on the bandwagon during their fantastic FA Cup run. You only have to look at the attendances game to game in that season to see that and no board plans for a once in a lifetime FA Cup run to "grow" a fanbase. But what I would agree with is that they have managed to retain a huge proportion of those fans with the way they've changed the match day experience at Sincil Bank which is highly impressive.
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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.
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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.
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