6000+ coming from Derby

Teams at the top we shouldn't be attempting to take them on,

as according to some on here as we might lose.</p>

What we should be doing is putting all our men behind the ball and hoping for the best.</p>

 

RE: Teams at the top we shouldn't be attempting to take them on,

That worked wonders at Coventry.

 

I can see your point about the tunnel situation, but that's for all a few seconds. Me personally, I don't care if they bring 10'000, it's actually quite good to see Oakwell with a decent crowd, and lets be fair we aren't going to add many more home fans onto the attendance at this stage of the season.

 

Home support this season has been abysmal. Even when we were playing wonderful stuff early on we were getting 9/10,000 home fans. Folk seem to forget that the average attendance includes away fans.</p>

I'm surprised, cos I thought that support held up pretty well even in the darkest days of Hodges and Parkin - I really hoped that we'd be averaging 12/13000 home fans. If everyone that turned up v Hudds in the playoffs and v Wed etc turned up more regularly then we may not be in the mess we are. That said, I don't think the club shows anywhere near enough imagination to make attending matches easy. They don't give any discounts for renewing ST's early, they don't allow installments (credit card doesn't count) - they don't offer discounts on home matches, and that category system stinks. The farce with kids tickets this season typifies the set up down at Oakwell.</p>

 

I agree with you 100 %

Hull City were the worst team I've seen this season , yet they're above us on goal difference . Helped , in no small way , by victories against the likes of Birmingham City and Preston North End . Yet when we play sides like these , the comments from some fans really astonishes me . Comments like ,"Well , did you honestly expect us to get a result against X* , because I didn't ." , or "We should be looking to get the necessary wins against the likes of Hull , Southend & QPR . We aren't going to get them against the likes of X*" . I don't expect us to win every home game , but I do expect us to TRY to win .









* For X , insert the name of any team in the top half of the table .

 

I agree about the incentives for people to get down to Oakwell.</p>

The 'Family Fun day was a big failure, and prob cost more than we made back with the entertainment, etc. Maybe use a better game than Colchester in future!! Also, bring a friend for a fiver, what happened to that???? Each season ticket, why not have xx amount of vouchers in the back where you can bring a friend for a fiver??? </p>

As a last resort, why not give free tickets to the schools each game??? What are we going to lose from it??? Anything is better than seeing the amount of empty seats.</p>

 

We have rode our luck a couple of times

therefore its fully justified.</p>

I dont accept it myself , but apparently wanting us to go out to win is not the way to support the team.</p>

 

Why not do a family fun day when we play Wednesday ? Make it open to away fans ? Might get kids into the mindset that away fans aren't just to be hit.</p>

Everything you've said there would be anathema to those who just look at a balance sheet as a measure of success.</p>

 

Oh I'm forgetting, Davey's addressed our defensive frailties

11goals in 4 games worth.

 

RE: Oh I'm forgetting, Davey's addressed our defensive frailties

Its not his fault though!

 

RE: We have rode our luck a couple of times

Well I want them to go out and go for the throat at least at every home game. I'd rather go home and think 'at least we had a go at them, they were just better than us'... than...'oh didn't we go down with a whimper, they wouldn't have got their three goals if we hadn't tried to defend all game and cracked three times'.

 

RE: Oh I'm forgetting, Davey's addressed our defensive frailties

0.8591324843261#41324 ppg though

 

The club are very shortsighted when it comes to new ideas to get the crowds in. </p>

We only do owt different like family fun days, against the smaller clubs when a low crowd is expected. So we get a couple of hundred kids in and they get to sit and watch a poor match, with a low crowd and no atmosphere. It's no wonder they are not hooked for life. Get em into the bigger games, we might lose a little bit of money in the short term, but if we get em hooked, we will make it back many times over.</p>

Season tickets we rely on the faithful getting tickets every year. No incentives, no help to spread cost or owt. We always use Huddersfield as the example, but they are miles in front of us. Early buyer discounts, friend for a fiver tickets in there. Really cheap kids tickets, free shirt with kids tickets, giving loads of free shirts away to schools etc. We just say its gone up again, pay up or sod off.</p>

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Sums it up perfectly for me that.

 

RE: Oh I'm forgetting, Davey's addressed our defensive frailties

<font face="#mce_temp_font#">So it must not have been Ritchie's fault earlier then. I like it.</font>

 

RE: I agree with you 100 %

After seeing Hull at Oakwell I couldnt see how they were going to win another game this season either.</p>

Whats wrong with trying to win the game?</p>

Maybe the Sunderland game could have been different if we had bothered to try and get the ball off them and attack.</p>

 

RE: Oh I'm forgetting, Davey's addressed our defensive frailties

I see what you've done there , but I dont think some will be accepting of that.

 

FFS

enjoyed the backing

My great fat arse.

 

Pre Season

You want to get on a stepper or summat if your arse is that big.

 

Pre season what? nt