All I want is for people to go and support the team rather than making petty excuses for not going i.e tatty flags, dirty seats, drinks in plastic glasses etc.
Happy to support us away from home but I’m not prepared to keep handing over money to the club at the moment. Each to their own, that’s my choice.
Look, in the past you might have had a point but over the last 30 years football clubs have decided they want customers instead of fans. They’ve put prices up massively compared with inflation. That’s their decision but if you do that, your customers are going to start wanting more in return for their money. If I go to watch Bottesford Town for £5, my expectations are very different to having to hand over £20+ at Glanford Park.
Look at it this way: if we’re trying to be “sustainable”, there are two ways to do that: cut costs & increase income. I can see the cost cutting but what is the club doing to increase income? At least the shirts seem better than the Rodwell era, that’s a step in the right direction. But compare us to a much smaller club like Accrington, where the owner makes community work the centre of everything they do, where they give shirts to every schoolkid in the town, where they spent last season investing in new facilities like a bigger bar, where the owner makes a real effort to engage with supporters.
Are you telling me we can’t compete with Accrington?
I’ll support the players on the pitch, it’s the people in the boardroom I’m angry with.
