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UTI I have always been clear that there are supporters and customers. Most if not all on here I would say are supporters, irrespective of whether they are season ticket holders or visit the odd game as and when circumstances allow. The core of supporters is around 2,500 (and falling) the customers are those that come on grass roots day or £5 Port Vale game or maybe a local derby for the atmosphere – it made it something that people would experience that they wouldn’t normally do – they don’t support the cinema but pop down to the local Odeon every now and again.
The problem is, in cinematic terms, these customers know the film is garbage, has been garbage for 2/3 years now and the queue for the hotdogs is far too long, the car park looking more like a bombsite. A lot will leave thinking the experience is not worth the outlay and choose to do other things.
The club used to be about the community, its more about a failing business model (I say fail because the model has shifted after not succeeding and is shifting again) for a wealthy owner who is becoming more detached from the fans. The continuous media appearances don’t tell you anything but some lap it up as engagement with fans. The talking ‘at’the fan the other night when any other consumer led business would look to engage and win them back shows more about the state of the club. Are there worse chairman? Yes absolutely but this is used by apologists as the benchmark for our clubs (careful what you wish for…look at xxfc – Colchester looking a bit dodgy – the club owing the owners other business £m’s – who’d have thought!)
If we serve up this football under this procurement strategy for players we’ll be down to 1,500 people through the door. We are losing so much quality this season and will be replacing with non-oven ready players.
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Swann doesn’t want oven ready footballers he wants more KDT Mooney Jarvis types who are unproven and absolute garbage.
Stunning business model
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As far as I can see they are not defending in the second half…I agree with Cox, he’s not good enough
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Based on watching ifollow how many would come to watch? Barely a fee hundred. I’ve always said we have two types – supporters and customers. Some supporters may tail off but the customers turn 3k gates into 7k gates for big games. The standard of football and players brought in by the chairman will mean a big drop in numbers through the turnstiles. Play exciting attacking football in front of 3500 or the stuff served up for the last few years in front if 1500. I doubt Swann gives a toss either way now
Pace
Energy
Excitementwords from the chairman which equate to our worst (in attacking terms) season in memory.
I guess the acronym for above sums it up
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Shots on goal, shots, possession, goals scored all significantly down on last year which was a pretty shit year (both seasons compared after 37 games). We have stopped getting beat by a big margin but we have zero creativity and nothing up front. Cox, to his credit has sorted out the defence but it feels like he really struggles in midfield and up front. He really has no plan B up front and this shows in never turning around losing to winning positions and the general very poor front play, backed uo by a 30% drop in shots on and off target and goals scored dropping dramatically as well.
BTW what’s happened to Beestin – looks like a pub league player
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we have now failed to get a shot on target in 3 games and registered 1 shot on goal for 6 games this season.
So in a quarter of all matches we have managed 1 or less on target.
We still have a very poor squad and it will get worse.
(Credit to Iron Stats for the data)
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Zero quality on that pitch. Really enticing the fans to get season tickets for next year
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Howard 6 not much to do nearly got the penalty but all season his kicking has been garbage. Should leave end of season
Rowe 4 – poor passing today
Clarke 3 – would’ve got 5 but petulant reaction could’ve lost us the game. Should leave ens of season
Bedeau 5 – bang average, lucky first half when let ball bounce over him in penalty area
Brown 5 – average
Gillead 5 – runs a lot but no end product for a couple of months now
Beestin 4 – OK he scored but the first half performance was one of the worst from a CM
Karacan 6 – best player for us but not saying much
Green 4 – can somebody at the club train him to take the football with him when he runs fast otherwise you may as well play Forrest Gump
KVV 4 – I believe he his sulking after being offered £700/wk contract. Looks like his mind is elsewhere now. Shame
Loft 4 – back to his ‘cannot control the ball’ best
Ref 6 – given a decision by Clarke and followed the rules could argue Red was harsh
Cox 3 – no plan B no intelligence no clue. He is young and learning but he really does not show me anything to suggest he has any chance of longevity in this career.
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one of the most tactically inept heartless displays of many this season. I’m sorry but where the hell do we think we’re going with this squad of cheap footballers
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We’ll struggle next year Les – even more than this year. Most of the dross is tied up on 2/3 yr deals. We’ll lose stand outs like Gillead Karacan also Eisa McAtee (both good players with attitude problems – maybe not a big loss). Wouldn’t surprise me if somebody came in and offered good money for O’Malley. Clarke is crocked Brown will be also KVV looks to have had a real knock due to his injury this year. For all the praise we’re getting we are 18th in a very poor league two. So we are relying on out chief scout….
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This one is on Cox – lame tactics. How many aimless long balls.
Eisa And Bedeau stand out as garbage in that match. Even Tom got wound up by Eisa’s lack of effort. Not good enough
For all the positives about certain players in certain games we put in some of the most dour performances I can remember
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