Paul Cannell
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Its what happens as you get old......
Just wait until you walk into a room and spend 10 minutes thinking "Why?" ....
Haven't had that feeling half as much since I retired
Its what happens as you get old......
Just wait until you walk into a room and spend 10 minutes thinking "Why?" ....
Steve MacLean masterclass.Just found this from an old Oxford Mail story...
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...I don't recall this at all...
Agree Colin.I meant 7,500 home fans, plus the 200/300 that Burton bring @Jolteon so maybe 7,700/7,800 in total.
The key to building on this next season is two fold. Firstly, it depends which division we're in, as if we go up a lot more people would buy season tickets, there would consistently be away followings close to capacity, and the games would be more attractive, so we'd be looking at 10,000+ every week.
If we don't go up then I think the club need to engage early, and positively, with fans regarding season tickets. The goodwill is there to entice people to convert from occasional attendee to season ticket holder, and in my view, the club could target something like 6,000 season ticket holders (rather than the existing 4,500) and this immediately makes every game 7,000+ (even the midweek games against the Accringtons and Crewes) and would push up the average exponentially. This is how that lot down the A420 have done it after their takeover. We must strike early, while the iron is hot, and the goodwill is there from a good season.
It would also mean there would be a lot less dots for some of us to count!!!
Doubt if we would have had these sort of numbers a couple of years ago. The effort the club have gone into improving attendances has to be commended.I meant 7,500 home fans, plus the 200/300 that Burton bring @Jolteon so maybe 7,700/7,800 in total.
The key to building on this next season is two fold. Firstly, it depends which division we're in, as if we go up a lot more people would buy season tickets, there would consistently be away followings close to capacity, and the games would be more attractive, so we'd be looking at 10,000+ every week.
If we don't go up then I think the club need to engage early, and positively, with fans regarding season tickets. The goodwill is there to entice people to convert from occasional attendee to season ticket holder, and in my view, the club could target something like 6,000 season ticket holders (rather than the existing 4,500) and this immediately makes every game 7,000+ (even the midweek games against the Accringtons and Crewes) and would push up the average exponentially. This is how that lot down the A420 have done it after their takeover. We must strike early, while the iron is hot, and the goodwill is there from a good season.
It would also mean there would be a lot less dots for some of us to count!!!
Cheers Clive. I'd have gone M1 A43 anyway, unless my Sat Nav told me otherwise. It's the return journey midweek that kills me, when they close roads off with no warning until you're there!!!Colin, not sure which way you go but I think there are big roadworks with expected delays on A46 route round Warwick, Coventry this weekend and during March so M1 Northampton will be better route today (Even with everything being equal I think is slightly quicker anyway now)
Cheers Clive. I'd have gone M1 A43 anyway, unless my Sat Nav told me otherwise. It's the return journey midweek that kills me, when they close roads off with no warning until you're there!!!
Last Nottingham to Oxford journey for me today, as I've sold the house and move out on the 14th. For the rest of this season I'll have the horrible journey up from our house in Kent, while we look for a house somewhere between there and Oxford.
Hundred percent spot on!!I think there’s one key learning from the build up to the Burton game, and that is, whilst there will be loyal week in week out dot counters like @Colin B , you’re inevitably going to not attract some of the glory dot counters like @Thecurraghofkildare who has fallen off the proverbial abacus radar.
Pretty accurate. 7631 with 217 away fans.Did a quick tally at 2.00pm and had home sales at 7,227 at that point, so would expect crowd to be around 7,600 in total.
7,414 home fans.Just below 6,900 at midnight last night, so decent sales yesterday, and actually reasonable sales since Monday of 1,100 which is on a par with the Sheff Wed game, just that we started from a much lower starting point.
I'd say 7,500 home fans plus what Burton. bring would be my best estimate. That's similar home numbers to the Wycombe and Wigan games and about 500 more than the Charlton and Plymouth games. It's actually not bad, and I do feel the two games on consecutive Saturdays has affected the attendance. I also think that maybe we've been a little spoiled by the recent high attendances and it was always going to be a struggle to continue them for this game.