Sixfields v The Ricoh (3 Viewers)

[mattylad]

id be there with my sisu out flag (stadium fire safety certificate pending)

 

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[skybluelee]

Contrary to all the rubbish spouted on here about us realistically achieving average gates of 15k this season due to the improved form, I don't believe on return to the Ricoh the average would be over 10k. There are those who won't return whilst SISU are in charge and plenty more who are fair-weather at best and wouldn't watch City regularly at this level regardless of who is in charge.

Depends where we are come March/April time. If we're in the top 6 the crowds would be upto over 20K so the avg will far exceed 10K. If the current form dips then the average will be around the 10K mark imo.

 

[magic82ball]

Depends where we are come March/April time. If we're in the top 6 the crowds would be upto over 20K so the avg will far exceed 10K. If the current form dips then the average will be around the 10K mark imo.

You my friend are having a laugh!

 

[Ashdown1]

If they got us promoted back to the Championship, owning and benefiting from a stadium, with a good manager and some good home grown players............. and people wouldn't go?

I bet you fucking would.

I think are referring to an ideal situation but reality is will the club ever actually 'Own and benefit from a stadium' ??

 

[edgy]

I think are referring to an ideal situation but reality is will the club ever actually 'Own and benefit from a stadium' ??

Let's hope so.

 

[skybluetony176]

I think you're having a laugh! Over optimistic.

perhaps he's been taking lessons from timmy

 

[Sky Blue Dal]

Let them build the new one ,after the concept has been talked of for what 9 months now,Lets see the colour of all this money we're told they have.

Will I be there In 5-10 yrs -----Never ?? I may be bloody dead by then ............Wankers.

This is what I am trying the get across that we should forget about returning to Ricoh as I feel all we are doing is playing into SISU hands with the demand that the Ricoh is our home. It is time to call Mr Fisher and Co on his promise to build a new stadium. The fans should demand how this is going and I agree Wingy lets see the colour of there money.

This is what the Sky Blue trust should be pushing for and make sure it is kept in the news so that the football league no excuse but to keep an eye on the development of this stadium.

Let play there bluff... if we lose they build us a crappy £30m Stadium and they will have to in justify to there oversea investors on how they hope to claw back the return for this project. By then, the owners of the Ricoh would have moved on and the Sixfield clan will no longer have to travel to Northampton for home games.

 

[skybluetom]

Depends how we're playing. I reckon at the minute we'd be pulling in between 13 - 15k regularly, performances drop off again and we'd go back to around 9 - 10k. That figure of 9 - 10k seem to be the hardcore who'll go whatever the weather and however well we're doing. Just hope we ain't losing too many of 'em being at Sixfields.

 

[pusbccfc]

I'd go. For me I boycott Sixfields due to wanting to make a stance.
I'm no longer NOPM, as I don't believe that makes any difference to not going to the 'home' games.

As for the crowds, the first one would be massive, so many people miss the home games. I know many who weren't season ticket holders but liked to walk up once a month or so. They would be there for the first one.

 

[shmmeee]

First game - sellout - guaranteed
second game - 15-20k
next games -11-15k depending on performance

ONLY way to consistently improve attendance figures is by building the season ticket base - our fans have been reluctant to buy season tickets over the past few seasons due to lack of belief in the team the following season

The REAL disaster was the summer before our first season in League one - a crap manager who should have been sacked, best players all sold and SISU clueless about how this would all backfire - I think we went from circa 9,000 to 4,000 ST that summer and that stuffed us.

Completely agree with this. (Never thought I'd say that)

 

[shmmeee]

If we came back to the Ricoh a massive push on fan engagement is required.

Send out a free ticket voucher to everyone on the database. Cheap STs for those 4,000 who had one last season, plus a scarf (I loved my free scarf from before and it identified season ticket holders).

Close off as much as possible of the Ricoh and offer out sections for fans to decorate/get flags made. Support the fans in feeling part of the club again. Get the atmosphere as good as possible while keeping cleaning and stewarding costs down.

Get players out to schools and other venues to drum up support, free tickets to schools, etc.

Then (and this might just be me) buy a double decker bus, a train carriage or two and a canal barge and paint them all sky blue. Staff each one with a former player each week, season ticket holders travel for cheap. Crisps and pop for the kids, beer for the adults.

Send the bus around the pubs to make pickups and from the town centre.

They need to reestablish roots in the City and a buzz about the team. I actually think a lot is lapsed/casual fans will have had their interest reignited and it'll be about keeping the core (those most likely to have strong feelings about Sisu) and enticing the boom of casuals to keep up the habit.