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You’re spot on Rickgy. Our attendances in League 2 have dropped by over 1,000 during Swann’s tenure, comparing his first season with the most recent one. Yet we still didn’t have the smallest average attendance last season, far from it. How does he think Accrington or Cambridge or Shrewsbury or Morecambe are surviving in League One?
Regarding protests, I’d have thought if you were a prospective buyer and saw protests against the seller, you wouldn’t be put off, though you might consider reducing your offer as the owner might be more keen to sell.
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– Can he tell us any more about the mortgage?
– What is his exit strategy? Is he looking for any buyer? Would a sale include the stadium?
– Is his intention to sell having any impact on this summer’s recruitment & budget setting?
– There seem to be some encouraging signs off the pitch in terms of facilities for fans at the ground. These are very welcome; does he regret not doing some of these things any sooner?
– If the season starts badly, who is responsible for decisions about Keith Hill’s future? Him? Lee Turnbull?1 user thanked author for this post.
The ground looked tidy and the young lads at the back of the DRE were brilliant trying to get an atmosphere going in an half empty ground.
Half-empty would be a pretty big crowd for us these days!
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I think one of the most over-rated things about football is the “quality” of the game played. Football is fun at any level, that’s the great thing about the game. And if the players are hopeless, there’s still plenty to enjoy.
For me, a game has to be competitive to be properly entertaining: watching the big money teams regularly swatting aside other Premier League teams is incredibly boring. Watching two North East Counties teams battling it out for a 2-1 win is much more fun, to me at least.
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Fanbanter has everybodys’s ticket prices and offers, Scunthorpe’s stand favourable with most and beats everyone hands down with the offers, Oldham even put their ticket prices up.
Couldn’t care less. We need to bring people back to Glanford & the current prices ain’t going to do that.
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Women’s football is very poor on the whole. Nothing against it at all, they deserve to play football professionally as much as anybody else but still the standard is shocking and nothing I’d ever personally bother watching.
A Scunthorpe United fan writes….!
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Yep we have seen some great home based footy at GP over the years but the last four years of shite is fresh in the memory so tends to colour some peoples views right now. I think any team with the ground and pitch dimensions we have at GP would have somehow learned to adapt and use it to their advantage in the past 34 years and the Iron have entertained us all magnificently over many seasons at GP, just recently however the massive rot has set in but it’s nowt to do with pitch dimensions, indeed many opposition teams and managers have stated over many years that GP was a notoriously difficult place to come and win. Let’s keep it in perspective yeah?
Quite. There are plenty of reasons to be unhappy with our club, let’s not forget the good times along the way.
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if we sign 2 out n out strikers by Saturday i will eat my socks shoes and Y fronts .. not a cat in hells chance, in fact more chance of England winning the World Cup under Southgate .
1 kick away from winning the last tournament but still not good enough for self-entitled England fans.
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Glandford Park ground was built undersize somebody measured the OSG pitch and used that footprint.
The other 6 ft of shale along each side was never taken into account therefore we actually got less then we paid for, a full 12 ft less of concrete and seating along each side and 12 ft less across each end.
The smaller playing area has contributed to the shite football we watch where surprisingly the away team each week manages to cope but we don’t!
Is there actually any proof this old yarn is true?
And what about all the brilliant teams we’ve seen at Glanford Park down the years? 5 promotions between 1999 & 2014, not too shabby for a team that plays “shite football”!
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So is ours!
At the risk of sounding like UTI99, I don’t think GP is shit actually. It definitely needs plenty of TLC, some improvements in some areas wouldn’t go amiss but on the whole it’s fine. Compared to plenty of other grounds, it has the benefits of having a roof on all stands (yes, supporting pillars but how often is the ground that full that you have to sit/stand behind one?), seats are pretty good for leg room from memory and sightlines are generally ok, apart perhaps from the first couple of rows of seats.
I’m sure it could be a lot better but I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with it. Just needs some cleaning, some fresh paint, a bit of improvement in some of the toilets & catering facilities and I think most fans would be fine with that.
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Joint bottom of the league at 5:00pm on the opening day then?
Nowt changes!
Not at all – we should be lower midtable. Any team that loses will be below us on a negative goal difference! Unless every other game finished in a draw…
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According to a report about Hartlepool’s last season in the Conference, they earned £6k in TV money for live games. Not a lot – about the same as 300 people through the gates @ £20/head. Would that offset any loss in attendance for the late kick-off time?
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Just double-checked the prices versus last season – same cost for the terrace except there now seems to be a “matchday” price which is £3 more. Why?
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Those prices won’t encourage the casual fan. Over £20 to watch non league football unless you fork out for membership and buy in advance. At a time when the cost of living has never been so high.
I’ve said it for years: it makes no sense to charge the highest prices to the least committed fans – they’re the ones who are most likely to be put off by the price. As someone who lives away from Scunny, I sometimes go to watch other teams on a Saturday and I’ve definitely made a choice about which game to go to based on the cost of getting in. With Donny, Lincoln & the Cods all on our doorstep, probably charging about the same to get in, I’m not sure how many casuals are going to be choosing to spend their £20+ in non-league.
As we’ve seen in the test matches this summer, making the last day free admission has filled the grounds and therefore filled the bars. The counties in question seem to have done pretty well out of it and might have made some new fans too. I’m not saying it should be free to get into GP but it goes to show that a bit of creative thinking can go a long way instead of just doing the same old thing.
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