ST Renewal

Quoted from Bigdog

Unfortunately cutting prices isn't clever marketing in reality. A season full of special offers could affect season ticket take up in following seasons. 1434 Charlton at Wycombe so the promotion did nothing to attract more than the average home attendance. Our problems won't be solved easily under present circumstances. We're just in a holding pattern of waiting out for new investment, waiting out for a new stadium and waiting out for a team that can entertain and put bums on seats. How much damage has been done long term by our inconspicuous and boring return to the Football League, god only knows. And the lack of new investment in cash and ideas is slowly suffocating our club to death and we're still probably going to look more nervously downwards than hopefully upwards until there's radical change. It's not a criticism, more of an absolute undeniable fact that the current set up has a ceiling of 14th in League Two and this needs sorting quickly. Same was said a couple of years ago, we're saying the same now and we could be saying the same thing in a couple of years time. Everyone waiting day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year for the big announcement that never comes that would breathe new life and hope into the club and town.

The GTFC product is way beyond being saved by cut-price this and cut-price that. Too old and tired for the public to respect our club anymore. The only thing that will make a difference to it all will be wholesale change, not price cutting to get fans through the gates when diehard season ticket holders are turning their noses up having already paid and still can't give their ticket away. The custodians of our club have got a far bigger responsibility than probably adding 10% to MJ's already meagre budget and coming out with banal straplines of "pack the park" or "beat the boro". Proper change needs to happen, because whoever our manager is, in our present guise we'll always be pushing against the tide and punching under our potential weight..

Quoted from 1mickylyons

This, the sheer apathy around the Town regarding GTFC at present is pitiful yet it was only 4 Months ago everyone wanted to go to Palace to back this team and Manager. One of my biggest concerns with the GTFC fanbase is the age I bet only a very small % of the average gate is under the age of 40 and give it another 10 year`s of mediocrity at best our average gate will continue to shrink.

Quoted from FishOutOfWater

Weren't we "promised" one a few years ago that was going to make the hairs on the back of our necks stand on end..... I can't wait to see what that announcement might be?  

Quoted from MuddyWaters

There's one big announcement that would make my hair (what's left of it) stand on end and possibly other appendages too, but it has f@ck all to do with player signings.

Quoted from rancido

The problem we have with a younger fanbase is that they have been brought up with the Premiersh*t, continuous televised top games and a desire to see the instant success surrounding a few top level clubs. Up until the mid to late 70's the only football fans could see was attending football matches ( apart from the televised internationals). Televised football has changed this so much.This lack of appeal is not peculiar to GTFC but most lower football league pyramid teams. Some teams will buck the trend but when you look at the home gates of most of the teams in our division then you will see we manage better than most. The club, as a whole , needs to market itself better and produce a better product but there are still many things going against us not least the fact that NE Lincs is a relatively poor underfunded area.

Quoted from rancido

The problem we have with a younger fanbase is that they have been brought up with the Premiersh*t, continuous televised top games and a desire to see the instant success surrounding a few top level clubs. Up until the mid to late 70's the only football fans could see was attending football matches ( apart from the televised internationals). Televised football has changed this so much.This lack of appeal is not peculiar to GTFC but most lower football league pyramid teams. Some teams will buck the trend but when you look at the home gates of most of the teams in our division then you will see we manage better than most. The club, as a whole , needs to market itself better and produce a better product but there are still many things going against us not least the fact that NE Lincs is a relatively poor underfunded area.

Quoted from promotion plaice

As I said on another thread......if Mr Fenty gives Jolley the usual shoestring budget for next season, no more season ticket for me I'll just cherry pick my games.

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

The sad thing is that Mr. Fenty, as I understand it, doesn't give the manager ANY budget - he merely redistributes what money comes in from the fans. He is just our insurance policy isn't he agaisnt a bad season. Mind you, that didn't seem to go too well when we went into non-league.

Therefor if the season fizzles out with next to no interest from the fans, less season tickets will be sold so therefore less budget.

Mr Fenty has either got to invest some money in the club to make a success of it, get some new investors or leave the club so someone else can redistribute the fans income to better effect.