Tonights Gate

Sponsor a game between you.. you then get full guided tour.... I think?


Away support numbers where true because before it rained they where all on coppice end and the half of cow shed was empty (proper half from half way line totally empty...coppice wasnt full and cowshed half empty so 700+ is about right
 
Right........you mean the room with no roof......:)

I'd prefer the clayton end, even in the rain. but I would like to have a good look round. perhaps meet a few souls.

What about an open day? Beer, booze and a bag of chips. Tour of the ground and a open forum chat with the men behind the club. :)
 
An open day.. thats an excellent idea.. people can just drop in anytime and also tell school who can bring down parties of kids to look around..

I think thats a spot on idea doug.... mail the club...
 
Tin Monkey said:
Don't really see your point about a full house. Surely the size of the 'house' will dictate when it's full? A bungalow will be a full house sooner than a mansion?
I also don't see how leaguie position is linked to high attendances. We were top of the Conference for nearly 5 months, but never drew in enormous crowds. ;)


I was just pointing out that even our relatively small ground was nowhere near full by any standards - I realise that many of our present spectators have never experienced a swaying, surging, jam packed mass of bodies and am not for one minute advocating going back to the old days of few or no safety measures.
True, our gates did not improve massively last season, but I'm sure they would have been a damn sight less if we had been struggling! Hopefully, when we find our feet in this league we can achieve a noticeable increase by the end of the season.
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Posh room? I was talking about a home game tha knows
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Its a nice little room with racing on the telly and some butties and a sign which says Do not touch the pies, for players only. :rofl38: After being away from Accy for a few years that really made me feel at home.
 
Being in the control tower I help monitor the capacity within the seregated areas via a computer program linked to sensors in all the turnstiles (including the old pass gate), this enabled us to redirect people last night away from the seating to the clayton end when the stand was indeed nearing capacity. And I can tell you the number of people who came through those turnstiles last night was exactly the same number as that of the announced attendance. Please don't cast asspertions on the club like this, it can cause a lot of serious problems, kinda like me accusing someone of embezzling from their workplace without any kind of evidence to prove it.

Not on people, just not on.

However I too would like to know where the othere 2,500 people would fit!!!!

I would also like to thank the Darlo fans for being absolutely no trouble at all, you were a credit to your club, and I wish you all the best in the coming season.
 
sparkie said:
this enabled us to redirect people last night away from the seating to the clayton end when the stand was indeed nearing capacity.
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Don't talk rubbish if this was the case then the system is not working correctly, I and I have other witnesses saw and heard people who had paid for a seat being offered their money back or a refund and entry to the Clayton end because they had gone through the turnstiles when there where no seats left, stop trying to bully me.:mad:
 
I'm not trying to bully you!!! There were a few single seats left, I know I was the one trying to seat everyone in that stand. Some people are just bloody minded though, like you and will not accept that if you come in a party of 2 or more at 2 minutes to kick off you may not get to sit together. Also I believe I was involved in the conversation you are refering to and the person in question had a disability where they actually could not sit down, this took a while to sort as the disability was not adequately explained or easily visible to the steward in the first instance, we had a lot of people trying to swing the lead last night because they came in through the wrong turnstiles for the clayton end terrace, even though it's been in every local paper. This was initially thought to be one of those cases and after further discussion and an adequate explanation, it was easily sorted. In fact we had a laugh and a joke about it in the bar after the game with the person involved.

I have noticed in recent weeks that a lot of people on this messageboard have decided to have a go at the club at every available opportunity and you Bagpuss are one of those people. I'll repeat what kipax has said (not verbatim) so it's clear for you

THIS IS A LEARNING CURVE AND EVERYONE IS GOING TO HAVE TO BE A LITTLE PATIENT.

Accept it the club is going forward whether you like it or not, just make sure you go through the right turnstiles for where you want to be. WE ARE FOOTBALL LEAGUE NOW.

All I wanted to do was explain it a little further to you and I get called a bully. How am I a bully? I was bullied all the way through school, I know what bullies are.
 
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1st home game 2002 v Runcorn - attendance 602

1st home game 2006 v Darlo - attendance 2667

That's an increase of over 400%!!! In 4 years!!! Yes, the attendance was slightly dissapointing but remember how far we've come in such a short space of time!!!
 
Bagpuss said:
Coley has just been on Sky slagging off the people of Accrington for not attending tonights game. The attendance was given as 2667 when I and lots of others around me heard that we laughed as it was clear there was a lot more than that. In my opinion if we continue to give the attendance figure lower and I mean a lot lower than the actual number the tax man is going to notice and in the eyes of the away fans we become a laughing stock for having such a poor support.

Even for allowing for the Eric factor I was expecting a few more on tonight, where's the roof!!!
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Just seen this post, very disappointing comments from JC for me its as simple as this.

first game back in the league at home, every1 knows its gonna be busy so the seats will all be taken.

WHY GO THE GAME TO GET SOAKED???

Yes for the die hards its a must see game, but the club needs to be encouraging the armchair fans and that im afraid means 1 thing.....


A ROOF FOR GODS SAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Unfortunately people

Unless anyone has a spare £100,000 then a roof will be only a pipedream. Now if the gods could just see it for a decent cup run :D :D

Fanbases come with time, history, tradition.... in real terms we've been in the league for 2 games out of 44 years. It'll take ten years in the league to generate a new generation of red men (& ladies)

KEEP THE FAITH & enjoy the ride
If people stay away then its there loss:D
 
Willie Miller said:
Fanbases come with time, history, tradition.... in real terms we've been in the league for 2 games out of 44 years. It'll take ten years in the league to generate a new generation of red men (& ladies)
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Which takes me back to the first line of this thread - "Coley has just been on Sky slagging off the people of Accrington for not attending tonights game."
You stick to what you do best John and the people will come.
 
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Unless anyone has a spare £100,000 then a roof will be only a pipedream. Now if the gods could just see it for a decent cup run :D :D

Does anyone know if it has been costed? $100,000 (damn this American keyboard) seems excessive for a simple structure - any ideas?
 
Doug said:
Right........you mean the room with no roof......:)

I'd prefer the clayton end, even in the rain. but I would like to have a good look round. perhaps meet a few souls.

What about an open day? Beer, booze and a bag of chips. Tour of the ground and a open forum chat with the men behind the club. :)
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Good idea Doug but please forget the chips, I had the misfortune of tasting one of those last night at the match - never again i'll tell you :eek:
 
Slagging off fans is no way to get them to come to games. People will come if they want, and stay at home if they want. Slagging off just gets people more likely to stay at home. Perhaps many were still on holiday ?

I personally think 2.7k is not bad for a small town the size of Accy. Expect this to be the average for the season. Not going to get much bigger for run of the mill games.
 
if perhaps somebody had a spare 100k would the club accept the money and build a roof? Would it fit in with their plans?


If you are reading this and have 100k spare then please spare a thought for the poor wet people of Accrington and remember that dry and warm Ultras sing louder than cold and wet Ultras.

Anybody?
 
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