Re: Championship : Mon Sep 11, 2023 7:54 pm  

MOPSEY LIVES ON wrote:

I know the takeover date if that helps

Dont tell em mopsey its killing em

Re: Championship : Mon Sep 11, 2023 7:54 pm  

MOPSEY LIVES ON wrote:

I know the takeover date if that helps

Dont tell em mopsey its killing em

Re: Championship : Mon Sep 11, 2023 7:55 pm  

MOPSEY LIVES ON wrote:

I know the takeover date if that helps

Dont tell em mopsey its killing em

Re: Championship : Mon Sep 11, 2023 8:02 pm  

MOPSEY LIVES ON wrote:

I know the takeover date if that helps

Is it the 12th of never because that’s a long long time!

Re: Championship : Mon Sep 11, 2023 8:35 pm  

PopTart wrote:

It isn't how it looks, it what it does.
Minards even suggested if we get lower crowds it will be better for us to close the west stand and charge away supporters for a seat in the new stand.
It gets us more income and gets us points in static for % of stadium filled.

Surely we should be looking at doing our best in increasing crowds.

I know that its a cost, but would it not look even better if all sides of our stadium were fit for purpose.

Re: Championship : Mon Sep 11, 2023 8:42 pm  

Eastern Wildcat wrote:

Surely we should be looking at doing our best in increasing crowds.

I know that its a cost, but would it not look even better if all sides of our stadium were fit for purpose.

Well quite, but that would mean the board positively investing in the fans - something they're not interested in doing

It's out of their hands anyway, the capacity is determined by the safety advisory group and has to be a minimum of 5000 to score any IMG points. The only way the SAG will reduce capacity is if there is an agreed plan for improvement for that area which would mean it needs to be closed for safety reasons, and would likely need agreed planning approval and a schedule of works. This is to stop every club from just changing their capacity on a regular basis so that they can game the criteria to pretend they're close to capacity at every game.

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Re: Championship : Mon Sep 11, 2023 9:02 pm  

Eastern Wildcat wrote:

Surely we should be looking at doing our best in increasing crowds.

I know that its a cost, but would it not look even better if all sides of our stadium were fit for purpose.

1) for IMG we need to stay above 3000 to keep the score we have now. So actually it's better to decrease capacity and get a better percentage and higher utilisation of the East Stand in the short term.
2) it would take so much money to do the West enough to attract crowds, you may as well just buy a load of season tickets yourself and count them on your attendance
3) if you were going to invest in fans you'd do the back off the North Stand first in my opinion.

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Re: Championship : Mon Sep 11, 2023 9:04 pm  

Egg Banjo wrote:

Well quite, but that would mean the board positively investing in the fans - something they're not interested in doing

It's out of their hands anyway, the capacity is determined by the safety advisory group and has to be a minimum of 5000 to score any IMG points. The only way the SAG will reduce capacity is if there is an agreed plan for improvement for that area which would mean it needs to be closed for safety reasons, and would likely need agreed planning approval and a schedule of works. This is to stop every club from just changing their capacity on a regular basis so that they can game the criteria to pretend they're close to capacity at every game.

You don't think the North and East Stand development is them investing in fans? Get a grip

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Re: Championship : Mon Sep 11, 2023 9:05 pm  

Eastern Wildcat wrote:

Surely we should be looking at doing our best in increasing crowds.

I know that its a cost, but would it not look even better if all sides of our stadium were fit for purpose.

Again....looking better yes. But looking better gets us nothing but a pretty picture.
It's all about IMG points and if changing the West terrace doesn't get points then we shouldn't do it in the short term.

Re: Championship : Mon Sep 11, 2023 9:28 pm  

It’s all about points and our submission is just one of many. We first have to now score higher than the 12 SL clubs and then hope that we are the best in the Championship if one of these fails.
In his interview he hopes which appears to be all we have is hope and belief that the supporters will keep turning up if they build it.