Jason and Debbie on DN35

Bloody hope not! Find them distracting, but if they bring in more money I suppose they are a necessity.

Council leader Philip Jackson was interviewed on Radio Humberside yesterday.  I think he used the words "dead in the water" when asked about a Freeman Street stadium.

Realistically how many extra seats could we get by utilising the three open corners?

New head of recruitment sounds interesting - wonder who that could be? I like the old fashioned approach of managers and their own staff finding players but this could also be a good step in the right direction. It seems it’s the modern way which could allow for better continuity, and would stop the “rip it up and start again” you get when you go between managers. Hurst - Bignot - Slade - Jolley - Holloway - Hurst 2 all having their own side within three years or thereabouts.

Quoted from forza ivano

the big crowds have forced them to think again about their plan for disabled supporters
JS reiterated that we still are not selling out BP - focusing on food and toilet provision
AP - looking at perm solutions in the 4 corners for extra seating - doing cost analysis of the options
over 100 people watching

The first league game was sold out, the next two games will be near sell-outs (fewer than a couple of hundred seats left for each ATM). There were no more than 300-400 unsold seats for Gillingham and Sutton. The issue doesn't look to be not selling out BP, when down to a few restricted view seats that should be considered a sell-out, it's that 10-15% of STH are not turning up. For Gillingham it was nearly a thousand no-shows.

Quoted from Limerick Mariner

The first league game was sold out, the next two games will be near sell-outs (fewer than a couple of hundred seats left for each ATM). There were no more than 300-400 unsold seats for Gillingham and Sutton. The issue doesn't look to be not selling out BP, when down to a few restricted view seats that should be considered a sell-out, it's that 10-15% of STH are not turning up. For Gillingham it was nearly a thousand no-shows.

Tomorrow looks set to be a home sellout; very little left even in the Osmond and Main Stand. Swindon took 632 to Donny and whilst the extra 45 minutes and the second away Saturday on the trot will probably knock a few off that, you’d imagine they’ll still bring somewhere in the region of 400.

With the August holiday no-shows that will have affected the Northampton attendance we should be on for the biggest crowd of the season. Not bad for a regular, early-mid-season game against Swindon.

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

What forza has said re: advertising, I do wonder if we will see those electronic advertising hoardings

A bit like the extra seats really, electronic boards allow you to sell the same space multiple times by scrolling through advertisers....if we have blank spaces on stationary boards then seems no real demand for pitchside adverts at this time.

Quoted from Poojah

Tomorrow looks set to be a home sellout; very little left even in the Osmond and Main Stand. Swindon took 632 to Donny and whilst the extra 45 minutes and the second away Saturday on the trot will probably knock a few off that, you’d imagine they’ll still bring somewhere in the region of 400.

With the August holiday no-shows that will have affected the Northampton attendance we should be on for the biggest crowd of the season. Not bad for a regular, early-mid-season game against Swindon.

Agreed but the no-shows does need attention. We have more STH than Stockport and the same as Lincoln now, but they are getting circa 1k - 1.5k bigger crowds. They will get more away fans than us, but they also have plenty of better quality seats on offer for home walk-ups. Next season I do wonder whether there should be a reduction in the discount for child ST in the Upper and Lower and instead maybe offer cheaper family tickets in Main Block G and H in return. Parent and child no shows for night matches in term time may explain the big no-show number for Gillingham.

Quoted from White_shorts

Council leader Philip Jackson was interviewed on Radio Humberside yesterday.  I think he used the words "dead in the water" when asked about a Freeman Street stadium.

Could this change that - probably not, but no doubt 1878 will be scrutinising closely?
[url]https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-growth-plan-2022-factsheet-on-investment-zones[/url]

Jason seems to think there isn't a problem but the difficulty getting 3 or 4 seats next to one another with a respectable view say otherwise.