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Post by jakeyboi on Apr 2, 2019 16:08:17 GMT
I think this is going to be one of the hardest pre seasons the owners have ever faced, some massive issues to sort out, playing budget admission prices FT or PT and the rebuilding of a squad to name but a few. I think if we are to have a massively reduced budget and we fail to recruit some good young players who display passion as well as talent we may struggle to maintain decent levels of attendance. As I said it,s a massive few weeks for all the management team, and I do not envy them one little bit.
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Post by shamstone on Apr 2, 2019 16:57:47 GMT
I think this is going to be one of the hardest pre seasons the owners have ever faced, some massive issues to sort out, playing budget admission prices FT or PT and the rebuilding of a squad to name but a few. I think if we are to have a massively reduced budget and we fail to recruit some good young players who display passion as well as talent we may struggle to maintain decent levels of attendance. As I said it,s a massive few weeks for all the management team, and I do not envy them one little bit. Don’t you think we may still get a decent attendance, thinking we may just bounce straight back up. Just looking at Torquay and Woking’s positioni in the NS
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Post by sword65 on Apr 2, 2019 17:29:32 GMT
I think this is going to be one of the hardest pre seasons the owners have ever faced, some massive issues to sort out, playing budget admission prices FT or PT and the rebuilding of a squad to name but a few. I think if we are to have a massively reduced budget and we fail to recruit some good young players who display passion as well as talent we may struggle to maintain decent levels of attendance. As I said it,s a massive few weeks for all the management team, and I do not envy them one little bit. Don’t you think we may still get a decent attendance, thinking we may just bounce straight back up. Just looking at Torquay and Woking’s positioni in the NS I think the attendances will hold up quite well next year providing we don't dish up a bowl full of tripe like we have this season . Can we go straight back up ala Torquay,well yes of course we can but in my opinion that would not be a wise move but I'll take it if it comes about.
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Post by pwoodstone on Apr 2, 2019 17:31:54 GMT
Has “massively reduced budgets” been confirmed then?
I haven’t heard that.
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Post by jakeyboi on Apr 2, 2019 17:41:21 GMT
I think this is going to be one of the hardest pre seasons the owners have ever faced, some massive issues to sort out, playing budget admission prices FT or PT and the rebuilding of a squad to name but a few. I think if we are to have a massively reduced budget and we fail to recruit some good young players who display passion as well as talent we may struggle to maintain decent levels of attendance. As I said it,s a massive few weeks for all the management team, and I do not envy them one little bit. Don’t you think we may still get a decent attendance, thinking we may just bounce straight back up. Just looking at Torquay and Woking’s positioni in the NS I,d like to think we have a chance of going straight back up but if we have a smaller budget and a less skillful squad compared to other teams I think we may have to accept 2 maybe 3 seasons in the NLS looking at the teams in the top half of that league we certainly wont be certain of an easy return. And with that comes the risk of fans staying away an going elsewhere for the excitement, as I said earlier it,s a very difficult pre season for the owners.
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Post by jakeyboi on Apr 2, 2019 17:43:24 GMT
Has “massively reduced budgets” been confirmed then? I haven’t heard that. There,s a differnce between Oliver an TC in terms of budget, TC said earlier we would have a big players budget yet on Sunday OA said it would be a top half budget at best. So maybe not as big as most fans expected or wanted.
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Post by jakeyboi on Apr 2, 2019 17:45:30 GMT
Don’t you think we may still get a decent attendance, thinking we may just bounce straight back up. Just looking at Torquay and Woking’s positioni in the NS I think the attendances will hold up quite well next year providing we don't dish up a bowl full of tripe like we have this season . Can we go straight back up ala Torquay,well yes of course we can but in my opinion that would not be a wise move but I'll take it if it comes about. I hope your right Sword, but if this season is anything to go by, I imagine a lot of fans will not tolerate travelling to places like Slough an E.T.U an losing, before they stop going.
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Post by hammerstone on Apr 2, 2019 17:45:45 GMT
Has “massively reduced budgets” been confirmed then? I haven’t heard that. There,s a differnce between Oliver an TC in terms of budget, TC said earlier we would have a big players budget yet on Sunday OA said it would be a top half budget at best. So maybe not as big as most fans expected or wanted. It was basically the equivalent of getting a lotto ticket, matching 5 numbers thinking you got hundreds of thousands coming your way. When you get to the shop and they run it through the machine, actually you win 182.78
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Post by Raymondo316 on Apr 2, 2019 17:50:18 GMT
I think this is going to be one of the hardest pre seasons the owners have ever faced, some massive issues to sort out, playing budget admission prices FT or PT and the rebuilding of a squad to name but a few. I think if we are to have a massively reduced budget and we fail to recruit some good young players who display passion as well as talent we may struggle to maintain decent levels of attendance. As I said it,s a massive few weeks for all the management team, and I do not envy them one little bit. Don’t you think we may still get a decent attendance, thinking we may just bounce straight back up. Just looking at Torquay and Woking’s positioni in the NS The main reason Woking & Torquay's crowds have held up so well is they are challenging at the top, if they were sitting in mid table their crowds would be quite a bit lower. Seriously, its gonna be a tough sell for the owners to get people to pay the same as we are now to watch a worse standard of football, specially if this is a team that isn't at least challenging for the play offs. They need to be realistic and realise that 15-17 quid to watch the likes of Hungerford, Chippenham, Dorking, Oxford etc ain't gonna pull the crowds in.
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Post by pwoodstone on Apr 2, 2019 18:29:06 GMT
Has “massively reduced budgets” been confirmed then? I haven’t heard that. There,s a differnce between Oliver an TC in terms of budget, TC said earlier we would have a big players budget yet on Sunday OA said it would be a top half budget at best. So maybe not as big as most fans expected or wanted. Yeah that’s what I thought. Probably best not to assume at this stage then as certain posters on here start mentioning small budgets and before you know it that’s the accepted truth. We just don’t know.
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Post by shamstone on Apr 2, 2019 19:06:58 GMT
Now we know we are going down, shouldn’t the management play the players their keeping,consistently and treat the rest of the season as a sort of pre season. Results I don’t think, are as important as performances now. Love to beat Salford though
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Post by stonesforlife on Apr 2, 2019 19:16:03 GMT
I don't see it being an easy return, if not at all for the coming season, I hope we are challenging for it, but there will be some clubs that will also be there, I'm sure Aldershot will be and the usual suspect that seem to always be in the top 8, like Dartford, Chelmsford etc, I'm sure John still will be targeting getting us back up, let's hope for a bit more of an enjoyable season, with pretty much a new squad
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Post by garstone on Apr 2, 2019 20:43:35 GMT
Now we know we are going down, shouldn’t the management play the players their keeping,consistently and treat the rest of the season as a sort of pre season. Results I don’t think, are as important as performances now. Love to beat Salford though This would be a good idea if we were going to keep enough of these players but I can’t see more than 4 of them still being here next season. John is out looking at players more than taking any interest in what we have now. Obviously he will be making massive changes in the close season. A new team. A new beginning. Let’s embrace that and enjoy the ride.
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Post by butlerisalegend on Apr 2, 2019 21:05:36 GMT
Now we know we are going down, shouldn’t the management play the players their keeping,consistently and treat the rest of the season as a sort of pre season. Results I don’t think, are as important as performances now. Love to beat Salford though This would be a good idea if we were going to keep enough of these players but I can’t see more than 4 of them still being here next season. John is out looking at players more than taking any interest in what we have now. Obviously he will be making massive changes in the close season. A new team. A new beginning. Let’s embrace that and enjoy the ride. Fine but shouldn’t we playing the 4 🤷🏼♂️
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Post by pieman1982 on Apr 2, 2019 21:33:58 GMT
I’m not worried about a drop in standard or a lack of quality in the NLS because we have seen very healthy attendances this season with no quality football what so ever!! The quality of football in the National league is very low, the problem we have had is we have not found that winning formula all season. I also would not be worried about signing players now for next season, I mean who would sign now knowing they are not getting paid for most of the off season!! I have even more respect for John Still now than I did when he took over. I say that because he had the insight to know this current squad were a lost cause so he has been out looking for next season’s team. If we are to believe the budget is going to be reduced next season that makes most of this squad very expensive. Other than Turgott would fans be happy spending such a big chunk of the budget on who we have now? I like WDH, but not enough for him to take up the budget of two maybe three other players who could do a job! We basically have to trust HH and JS to do a good job with what budget they are given. I wouldn’t trade our situation for Gateshead or Fleet’s current prodicament! I can think of worse days out than drinking beer with my old man watching Maidstone beat Dartford at the Gallagher!
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