Pack Out Blundell Park

Quoted from Limerick Mariner

We’ve near “packed out” BP for the last 5 games. Probably only 2k or so unsold seats in total for the home areas. Nothing to be gained by making it a fiver. And I thought the fans were good up to half- time last week.

Everything to be gained.

It’s not about the crowd.The support is there. It was last week and BP has been pretty much full game by game. It’s on the players and the manager. It’s undeniable that our support should theoretically be giving us an edge. Especially at home. We have better numbers and noise than more than half the division, but Artell has framed playing at home as ‘a problem’.
Price the tickets at whatever you like next week. The supporters will be there. The players must apply themselves properly and the manager must get the tactics right. They have to show up and be competent and committed not weak, disorganised, lethargic predictable…like we were against Doncaster, Walsall, Stockport….etc

I'd love us to put FGR to bed next week for no more reason than the cheating gets begged a pen of the ref at their place. I'd also prefer it if several of our missing players are fit next week too!

I agree with the sentiment of filling the ground and getting behind the team but that win today for Forest Green feels a pivotal moment. They have an experienced and worldly wise manager and are on a roll after also winning at Barrow.

Everything seems to be going against us with illness, injuries and even a bloody car crash adding to our problems. A manager who had to have a "clear the air" meeting to finally realise you have to change the shape of the team to shore us up.

I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if FGR claw their way to safety leaving us and Colchester fighting it out, assuming Sutton won't rally.

I might cheer up as the week goes on but it's so flipping depressing to be in this totally avoidable position yet again.

Quoted from chaos33

It’s not about the crowd.The support is there. It was last week and BP has been pretty much full game by game. It’s on the players and the manager. It’s undeniable that our support should theoretically be giving us an edge. Especially at home. We have better numbers and noise than more than half the division, but Artell has framed playing at home as ‘a problem’.
Price the tickets at whatever you like next week. The supporters will be there. The players must apply themselves properly and the manager must get the tactics right. They have to show up and be competent and committed not weak, disorganised, lethargic predictable…like we were against Doncaster, Walsall, Stockport….etc

Yes this. We’ve had a season and two thirds in which the number of really good performances at home is in single figures.  But the fans keep turning up. We are consistently in the top 6 of away averages despite have longer trips than most (an excellent 553 today). It’s up to the players now, and if was player power and / or Shaun that changed the tactical approach today then more of that.

Agree with the sentiment but also important to sell out at Sutton the week after. Two massive games but 42 points left to play for so it won’t all be decided in the next two weeks

Quoted from TAGG

Artell said after the game today that the FGR game wouldn't define our season.
Sorry bloke your delusional because it definitely will.

It is a very, very, very important game but it is not season defining yet. Actually it could be for us if we win but even if we don't we are far from guaranteed to be relegated.
It's another one of those things that kind of makes sense but doesn't come across very well.
The team and manager need to show us that they can do it now, clearly points against Forest green and Sutton are desperately needed.

Lukeo can we have a ticket watch please

It’s not the packing of the park that’s the problem it’s that we do tend to get on our own players backs. If we all agree to channel our frustrations onto the opposition rather than our own players we might throw them off their game. It’s at least worth a go.

Quoted from LH

It’s not the packing of the park that’s the problem it’s that we do tend to get on our own players backs. If we all agree to channel our frustrations onto the opposition rather than our own players we might throw them off their game. It’s at least worth a go.

That was a problem up until the Donny game but there seemed a shift to total 'support' and encouragement . I'm sure they will get the same against FGR - I don't see it as a must win  game more a 'must not lose ' ; we are in the box seat whatever most of us think and stopping a rival gaining  3 points on us is almost as important as us winning imo so a point wouldn't be the end of the world  Defeat however......