Want my money ? Then bloody earn it. (8 Viewers)

[CovisGod]

Anyone else in the same boat as me ? My season ticket for next season hinges on Sunday, we go down and they can whistle for my money, we lose and stay up due to another team losing and I'll seriously be considering my options. You want my money for next season ? Then go out Sunday and earn it.

The players in our team are probably on 5x my yearly wage, so why should I spend my hard earned money watching a load of dross.

I'll always be a Cov fan, but I am fed up with us rolling over at every available opportunity, we could be home and hosed by now looking forward to next season with a decent manager at the helm but yet again we find ourselves in a predicament where it comes down to one game, and we all know how well that generally goes....

I'm pumped up for the weekend, I can't wait. I just hope the players have the same desire to put the shirt on and keep us in the division

PUSB

 

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[matesx]

Good post my man

thats how i feel

 

[skybluelee]

Anyone else in the same boat as me ? My season ticket for next season hinges on Sunday, we go down and they can whistle for my money, we lose and stay up due to another team losing and I'll seriously be considering my options. You want my money for next season ? Then go out Sunday and earn it.

I'm not being funny but that's essentially a message to the players and how many could give a flying fuck if you buy a ST next season? Most of them won't even be here given the amount of player turnover we see at the club every season.

 

[Mary_Mungo_Midge]

Excellent post. How many of our current squad are actually contracted into next season? Does this have a bearing on their commitment to the club? Yes, I know their own professionalism as athletes should be enough, but in the real world - often it's not.

Should survival be secured this weekend, then surely we have to move away from these one season, and 'til-the-end-of-the-season deals. They can't be good for commitment to the cause

 

[Ashdown]

Whether we are relegated or not I shall continue to pick and choose my games. If the current owners depart or change their mandate on how to improve the clubs fortunes then I'd commit to an ST or 12 game offer.

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Should survival be secured this weekend, then surely we have to move away from these one season, and 'til-the-end-of-the-season deals. They can't be good for commitment to the cause

While I don't disagree with the general point, you can guarantee we'd sign up a bunch of them to three year deals, and their career with us would go the way of Mills and Gudjonsson.

 

[Mary_Mungo_Midge]

While I don't disagree with the general point, you can guarantee we'd sign up a bunch of them to three year deals, and their career with us would go the way of Mills and Gudjonsson.

Gudjonsson looked great for his first three tackles with the club...

Your 'Sod's Law' point probably being true. The only difference being a shite player on a three year deal; or three shite players on a one-year deal apiece. With the former, you'd hope (note not 'expect') a degree of accountability

 

[CJ_covblaze]

Anyone else in the same boat as me ? My season ticket for next season hinges on Sunday, we go down and they can whistle for my money, we lose and stay up due to another team losing and I'll seriously be considering my options. You want my money for next season ? Then go out Sunday and earn it.

The players in our team are probably on 5x my yearly wage, so why should I spend my hard earned money watching a load of dross.

I'll always be a Cov fan, but I am fed up with us rolling over at every available opportunity, we could be home and hosed by now looking forward to next season with a decent manager at the helm but yet again we find ourselves in a predicament where it comes down to one game, and we all know how well that generally goes....

I'm pumped up for the weekend, I can't wait. I just hope the players have the same desire to put the shirt on and keep us in the division

PUSB

Couldn't put it better myself.

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Gudjonsson looked great for his first three tackles with the club...

Your 'Sod's Law' point probably being true. The only difference being a shite player on a three year deal; or three shite players on a one-year deal apiece. With the former, you'd hope (note not 'expect') a degree of accountability

Sometimes I think it's more a backwards logic, too.

I'd rather have players on longer contracts as it means a team can be built over time - the better players don't automatically bog off the next season (and if they do, there's money to be had) and it means you're looking to tinker each close-season rather than scramble for an entire new side who don't know each other.

Am sure however, it's partly an individual's makeup rather than the contract. A committed player will be committed regardless. if Nouble were here for longer, sure we'd be saying it was the three year deal that made him disinterested, as he knew he'd have a salary next season regardless of results...

 

[Otis]

Anyone else in the same boat as me ? My season ticket for next season hinges on Sunday, we go down and they can whistle for my money, we lose and stay up due to another team losing and I'll seriously be considering my options. You want my money for next season ? Then go out Sunday and earn it.

The players in our team are probably on 5x my yearly wage, so why should I spend my hard earned money watching a load of dross.

I'll always be a Cov fan, but I am fed up with us rolling over at every available opportunity, we could be home and hosed by now looking forward to next season with a decent manager at the helm but yet again we find ourselves in a predicament where it comes down to one game, and we all know how well that generally goes....

I'm pumped up for the weekend, I can't wait. I just hope the players have the same desire to put the shirt on and keep us in the division

PUSB

Crewe have done the double on us, we only got 1 point out of our 2 fixtures against Orient, only 1 point out of our 2 fixtures against Scunthorpe, we only drew at home to Crawley, only got 1 point out of our 2 fixtures again Notts County.

It's a bit shit isn't it. Only Yeovil and Colchester have proved fruitful games for us out of the struggling sides.

 

[Gosford Green]

I will not buy a season ticket again until SISU are gone.

 

[SkyBlueSid]

I will not buy a season ticket again until SISU are gone.

I shall not be renewing next season either. I have concluded that, even if we stay up, nothing is going to change for next season. This season it has been an ordeal and a chore to keep going to games, the matchday experience is utter rubbish. Only a new owner with real ambition is ever going to change anything, which is unlikely to happen any time soon. So, with great sadness and regret, I am out of it for the foreseeable future.

 

[Houchens Head]

I just wish Sepalla and her cronies would read some of these threads. But would it change them? I doubt it. They are an absolute waste of good breathing air!

 

[AndreasB]

Never understood giving the club ultimatums like this. Dont buy a season ticket if you are not enjoying it. However, you will all be back if the results pick up wont you?

 

[CovisGod]

So you would happily pay to see us get worse year after year, not show any fight or desire ?

I would not watch us play in League Two, and I'm sure im not the only one.

It's in our hands, if the team can't be bothered to turn up when games are so crucial why should I bother to turn up ?

 

[hill83]

Never understood giving the club ultimatums like this. Dont buy a season ticket if you are not enjoying it. However, you will all be back if the results pick up wont you?

No ultimatums from me, but I seriously doubt I'll be back even if results do pick up. Other priorities and nobody to go with anymore. All 10 of us have given up. And none of us miss it.

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Other priorities and nobody to go with anymore.

Was going to say it kind of stops me going as I don't want to look like Billy no-mates in public...

Then i realised there'd be nobody there to see, anyway.

 

[bringbackrattles]

No ultimatums from me, but I seriously doubt I'll be back even if results do pick up. Other priorities and nobody to go with anymore. All 10 of us have given up. And none of us miss it.

I've been looking for you in Singers Corner ! You're not missing much and the beer is still bad in the Wheatsheaf !

 

[hill83]

I've been looking for you in Singers Corner ! You're not missing much and the beer is still bad in the Wheatsheaf !

Ha, that's the one thing I do miss. The dodgy old wheatsheaf.

 

[bringbackrattles]

Ha, that's the one thing I do miss. The dodgy old wheatsheaf.

Fred the barmaid sends her love !

 

[SonofErnie]

"So by making sure we get our bit right, getting the right manager in place and setting the prices at a level that makes a season ticket more affordable for the fans - we hope that will mean more supporters can get on board and help us get the club back where it needs to be.
"We all have to stand up and be counted over the next twelve months. The owners, the board, the players, the staff and the supporters all have a role to play in making the club a successful one."

Waggot's program notes on Saturday made me fume. How many times do the fans have to get kicked in the teeth by the aforementioned owners, board and players! They don't deserve our support, I'm afraid they're going top have to earn it over a sustained period and that means a full season challenging at the top end of a division. I'm not holding my breath though!

 

[Ashdown]

No ultimatums from me, but I seriously doubt I'll be back even if results do pick up. Other priorities and nobody to go with anymore. All 10 of us have given up. And none of us miss it.

The most worrying post on here for CCFC in a while and echo's I think thousands of others thoughts on things. There used to be around 12 of us meet up on a Saturday and go to the Ricoh for a few years but it dwindled down to 6 and then 'Northampton' and now occasionally me and a mate get together for a few games.

 

[italiahorse]

Never understood giving the club ultimatums like this. Dont buy a season ticket if you are not enjoying it. However, you will all be back if the results pick up wont you?

.... and there is nothing wrong with that. Never has been.

 

[hill83]

The most worrying post on here for CCFC in a while and echo's I think thousands of others thoughts on things. There used to be around 12 of us meet up on a Saturday and go to the Ricoh for a few years but it dwindled down to 6 and then 'Northampton' and now occasionally me and a mate get together for a few games.

It's a massive shame, and a couple of years ago I'd be calling myself a dickhead and saying 'support the lads' etc. But it's gone. We need a good season, and by our standards that means win some fucking games at home.
I'm now officially a fairweather fan, if that.

 

[skybluesam66]

most of the people around me just go to chill out - nobody is really watching the match any more - just gets us out of the house, and away from an afternoon's shopping

 

[hill83]

Coincidently 5 of us who used to go met up for the ale festival at the butts on Saturday and when we were told of the goals going in against us it got nothing more than a smirk and a subject change. Times have changed.

 

[Ashdown]

Did an average of 30+ games every season between 1977-2012, except 1982 when I went to about 4. This season 7 home games, last year 3 away games only. If the owners cannot back a manager to have some semblance of success at this level of football next season then it will only be a handful again.

 

[ajsccfc]

hill's post is pretty much how I feel. It's become a chore really, and the mix of bewilderment at how quickly the Gillingham attendance dropped by the next game, Wasps owning the place and the relentless and endless arguing about nothing here and other places, it's really hard to care. Seeing people get angry on Saturday was a world away from the resigned bemusement I felt.

 

[hill83]

Anyway

 

[Deleted member 5849]

Did an average of 30+ games every season between 1977-2012, except 1982 when I went to about 4. This season 7 home games, last year 3 away games only. If the owners cannot back a manager to have some semblance of success at this level of football next season then it will only be a handful again.

What happened in 82?

 

[Ashdown]

I knew some smart Alec would pick up on that. Basically from 1977-1981 I was taken by both sets of grandparents but that route mainly due to their aging came to an end and my parents deemed me too young at just 15 to be getting the bus from Hinckley to Pool Meadow and walking up through Hillfields on my own, especially night games. Bizarrely by age 16 I'd manage to persuade them I was old { or fast } enough as it was sometimes in those days !

 

[Deleted member 5849]

I knew some smart Alec would pick up on that.

Fuckling hell, bit touchy aren't you!

Only asked a question.

 

[Ashdown]

'Fuckling'.........is that the young of something !!? LOL

 

[Otis]

No ultimatums from me, but I seriously doubt I'll be back even if results do pick up. Other priorities and nobody to go with anymore. All 10 of us have given up. And none of us miss it.

Used to be 6 of us, now it's all down to me on my lonesome. Can fully understand why people just drift away and do other things less stressful and more enjoyable.

 

[Houchens Head]

'Fuckling'.........is that the young of something !!? LOL

It's a young fuckle