Yeovil match thread

I think it would be a positive move on the club's part to lower the admission fee for these four home games....Four home games within just over a fortnight is a big expense at £15 walk ons......given the extra hassle.....What about some sort of hastily arranged package deal ???? Get folk to commit to coming to all four by offering one as a freebie....a.l.a. £45 for all four ??? Give it a snazzy name such as "Drive for 85 (points)" which I think we'll need for the Automatic place ???:confused:

can,t see that happening with the present regime. sounds too much like common sense.
 
cashman said:
Thats nonsense, while no sure thing, good substitutions can improve chances of a result. if things aint working or players are tiring,yeh got the choice do nowt or change things and hope.[/QUOTE]

It's no more nonsense than suggesting Stanley lose because no substitutions were made (by implication the manager's fault) only for them to lose next time when substitutions are made (presumably also the manager's fault).
When a manager changes things, he's also just hoping, otherwise why didn't he play his 'better' option from the start?
Sometimes substitutions work, sometimes they don't. But it's down to the players to perform.
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Exile on Spencer St said:
cashman said:
Thats nonsense, while no sure thing, good substitutions can improve chances of a result. if things aint working or players are tiring,yeh got the choice do nowt or change things and hope.[/QUOTE]

It's no more nonsense than suggesting Stanley lose because no substitutions were made (by implication the manager's fault) only for them to lose next time when substitutions are made (presumably also the manager's fault).
When a manager changes things, he's also just hoping, otherwise why didn't he play his 'better' option from the start?
Sometimes substitutions work, sometimes they don't. But it's down to the players to perform.
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No implication about it, its rank poor management that dont try subs when sod all else is working. not to try is the nonsense.
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Maybe the frustrations of last night haven't yet been purged from my system, but why am I not surprised that the response to a defeat is to demand a further reduction in admission prices?
How many reductions have to be made before it's accepted that most people in Accrington wouldn't get off their a...s to watch the team if you paid them.
 
Exile on Spencer St said:
Maybe the frustrations of last night haven't yet been purged from my system, but why am I not surprised that the response to a defeat is to demand a further reduction in admission prices?
How many reductions have to be made before it's accepted that most people in Accrington wouldn't get off their a...s to watch the team if you paid them.
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I agree with you here Exile. The prices have just been reduced during a time we've got a lot of hype about us and that in itself should be a help to drive people on to the ground. I can't see any regime old or new further reducing them for these matches.

I think regardless of price, the numbers will increase (albeit temporarily) if we're still in this sort of position in a month or so as the excitement will drum up as we hit the final stage of the season - as they did with the last playoff season.

Also - a lot of people outside the regular fan-base potentially won't know how important these next few fixtures are as they won't be studying the table in the same way we are.
 
Exile on Spencer St said:
Maybe the frustrations of last night haven't yet been purged from my system, but why am I not surprised that the response to a defeat is to demand a further reduction in admission prices?
How many reductions have to be made before it's accepted that most people in Accrington wouldn't get off their a...s to watch the team if you paid them.
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Thats probably bang on the mark.;)
 
Yeovil and Barnet have been throwing spanners in the dockyards' works recently too - Barnet having beaten both Portsmouth and Plymouth, and Yeovil drawing with both of them. So all three of us "contenders" have only got one point from those 2 games. If we get 4 points from our 2 home games against those 2, things won't look too bad at all - as long as we don't then slip up against the Daggers :eek:
 
Exile on Spencer St said:
Maybe the frustrations of last night haven't yet been purged from my system, but why am I not surprised that the response to a defeat is to demand a further reduction in admission prices?
How many reductions have to be made before it's accepted that most people in Accrington wouldn't get off their a...s to watch the team if you paid them.
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I agree with you Exile. A price reduction or even free has not worked in the past, There is an image problem for the club, There are enough people in the area that lend their support occasionaly. However we have to ask why they don't come on a more regular basis, I have asked and have never been able to get a clear answer that would give the club something to work on. The team winning is the best we can offer at the moment, I don't know what else the club can do to attract and keep fans at the moment. If the worst happened and we didn't make it to league one then I would reluctantly suggest the club needs a complete honest view of what it's capabilities are and how realistic we can be with an average crowd of 14/1500. But that is for the future, The next 4/5 games will decide if we are good enough to go up. I will be there to the end.
 
Chrisr said:
I agree with you Exile. A price reduction or even free has not worked in the past, There is an image problem for the club, There are enough people in the area that lend their support occasionaly. However we have to ask why they don't come on a more regular basis, I have asked and have never been able to get a clear answer that would give the club something to work on. The team winning is the best we can offer at the moment, I don't know what else the club can do to attract and keep fans at the moment. If the worst happened and we didn't make it to league one then I would reluctantly suggest the club needs a complete honest view of what it's capabilities are and how realistic we can be with an average crowd of 14/1500. But that is for the future, The next 4/5 games will decide if we are good enough to go up. I will be there to the end.
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40 odd years without a football league club. fans brought up to go elsewhere.
 
AccyMad said:
Quite true, which is a shame as there was plenty of good non-league football going on during that time - but for some that level of footy wasn't attractive enough
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Was none going on in 62, so young uns like me went to see football elsewhere, simple fact once yeh get into a footy team, for a few years its unlikely yeh will switch allegiance.;)
 
cashman said:
Was none going on in 62, so young uns like me went to see football elsewhere, simple fact once yeh get into a footy team, for a few years its unlikely yeh will switch allegiance.;)
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Depends on who is in charge and how much they P you off.

And I don't mean at accy this time.
 
cashman said:
Was none going on in 62, so young uns like me went to see football elsewhere, simple fact once yeh get into a footy team, for a few years its unlikely yeh will switch allegiance.;)
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Yeah, I understand that - was just speaking from my own perspective, as being even younger than yourself :rolleyes: - Stanley's years in non league was the time I got hooked :D
 
Listening to the Arsenal v Swansea game tonight has cured my frustration from last night.
One stat from the first half, when they went in at 1-1, was that Arsenal made 31 passes in their opponents penalty area and Swansea made one. As Professor Coleman said, it's about goals not possession.
 
cashman said:
Exile on Spencer St said:
No implication about it, its rank poor management that dont try subs when sod all else is working. not to try is the nonsense.
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Sean Dyche gave an interview recently in which he stated one of the hardest parts of management is to know when to leave things alone. I think subs are more effective when they're brought on as part of a formation change, rather than gambling on like for like.

As RR states....the starting XI tends to contain the players who the manager deems the best.

Its a mercurial art. The lazy midfielder who hasn't won a ball all game can smash in a last minute screamer and win you the game. Who'd be a manager?
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As per gates...unfortunately Accrington just isn't a football town. In the same way that despite winning the FA Cup and being in the Premier League for years didn't attract the gates Wigan hoped for as they were and are a rugby town.

For all their faults, I admire the town of Burnleys siege mentality. Us against the world and the football club as a symbol of that. The club is the one thing around which everything revolves. Accrington just doesn't have that. There's no pride in the town...never mind the football team.

Point in case being the Calder pub in Accy centre erupting when Stevenage bagged against us in the play offs.

I don't know what the answer is. All we can do is keep winning and make match day a better experience facilty wise, to take away the excuses the Accy public frequently cite for not coming.
 
AccyMad said:
Stanley's years in non league was the time I got hooked :D
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problem is is that there is a level in which people are prepared to watch football. if it falls below that level people will not attend. I for one hate non league football nearly as much as the greedy league for different reasons.
 
Alvin the chipmunk said:
As per gates...unfortunately Accrington just isn't a football town. In the same way that despite winning the FA Cup and being in the Premier League for years didn't attract the gates Wigan hoped for as they were and are a rugby town.

For all their faults, I admire the town of Burnleys siege mentality. Us against the world and the football club as a symbol of that. The club is the one thing around which everything revolves. Accrington just doesn't have that. There's no pride in the town...never mind the football team.

Point in case being the Calder pub in Accy centre erupting when Stevenage bagged against us in the play offs.

I don't know what the answer is. All we can do is keep winning and make match day a better experience facilty wise, to take away the excuses the Accy public frequently cite for not coming.
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Not sure accy aint a football town Alvin? with reasonably bigger clubs 5 miles either side is what makes a big difference to me. we were averaging 3000 in 62, that as we all know caused lost generations.;)
 
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