New signings

[O my gawd]

The gate against Cheltenham was a typical first game of the season attendance.
If you seriously think that about 2000 people are away on holiday then you are seriously deluded.
It’s clear the team needs strengthening especially at full back and midfield and the money is there from the sale of two players.
It’s now up to the owners whether we strengthen and progress or tread water and hope we get lucky in the play offs(if we ever get there)
The floating supporter will not become a regular if we are a club who sell there best players and don’t fully replace them.

From listening to Kent Teague on one the podcasts, the money from the sales has been spread over the next 3 years for the playing budget. Sensible really as Charlton & Huddersfield wouldn't have paid up front for them.
The passing of JE would have changed all expectations at the club. With this squad, he would have us challenging for an automatic spot.
With RE being a young Head Coach, we are going to have to show some patience as mistakes will be made, but he knows the club & players inside out. Think over time he will prove to be a success & success after the upheaval & upset everyone has suffered would be a top half finish.

There would've been more of a feel-good bounce without the tragedy but even then the injuries would still be there and some of the players seem to have been caught out by the step up. Suspect JE would've been more forceful about the squad, particularly the Alabi situation but it's all conjecture.

We do really miss Jobi's influence on the pitch, if there's one player you'd want out there he's the man with the experience of playing at a higher level to guide and lead.

Also surprising that someone posted a snippet of an interview where Coulson and Ross said they'd been caught out by the step up to L2. I think there's a bit of complacency certainly amongst fans that this league would be easy where in reality it's far less forgiving than playing tinpot part-time sides in NL.

As an aside the transfer and budget strategy shouldn't be outlined on some random podcast, this kind of thing should be published as an article on the club website. Even all this drama about the Ling criticism and Kent's subsequent tweet I see people on social don't know where it's come from as (shock horror) many don't listen to these shows.

I still don't think there is a great deal of difference. Score v Stevenage & see out the game v Crawley & we'd be top with 12 points. Stop the errors, take the chances & we'll be there or thereabouts.
You are right about McAnuff's influence, Dayton & Turley have been big misses also.

[eagwgw]

All very well saying that but we using hypothetical scores we don't know how the other team would react. If we scored against Stevenage they might have had to come out and attack, but they were happy with 0-0.

If one of the pants-wetters came on and said if the two penalty calls against Cheltenham and Stevenage (which were pretty decent shouts in real time) were given, then we'd have 3 less points and be 22nd on 4 points, there would be a queue of people abusing him as being unrealistic.

Personally I think there is an element of being found out a little, in that the 5-3-2 formation was quite limited at this level as there was only really one man in the midfield and out wide who was attack minded and easier to set up against. But arguably we were not going to find that out off a bunch of pre-season games, although the struggle against a load of Norwich kids probably said the signs were there.

Justin had some of the same issues, Lawless, Alabi and Elokobi were first choices coming into the season, but a few real games in clearly none of them were right.

I feel that we have seen the end of 5-3-2 and as such the squad is a little unbalanced, and there will be transfers in and out.

[CreamofSumYungGai]

Obviously there’s a difference between the best sides in L2 and the absolute dross at the bottom of NL, but I really don’t think there’s much difference between an average, middle ranking side in either division.

[Story of O]

Many reasons why attendances fall this time of year. For example, although i’m a season ticket holder I can’t make our next home game against Swindon because I have to go to a wedding. It’s got nothing to do with twice losing the lead last Saturday. My point is I’m sure attendances will increase again back to our normal regardless of how we’re currently playing.

I think the main reason for a 25% drop from the opening game is the fact that the Cheltenham game had at least a 1000 or more attending on a freebie. This is the obvious answer for this unusually high attendance against average opposition.
The fact is that it is been proved that it is impossible to get more than 5000 turn up on a regular basis now since the 1970s, and previous owners have tried everything to change that with little success. Even under Slade in 2013/14 we struggled to get much above 4500 home fans turn up.

Make up your mind, first of all it is how we are playing that is the reason for low attendance, then you say it is impossible anyway.to increase gates.

[Cheshunto]

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Many reasons why attendances fall this time of year. For example, although i’m a season ticket holder I can’t make our next home game against Swindon because I have to go to a wedding. It’s got nothing to do with twice losing the lead last Saturday. My point is I’m sure attendances will increase again back to our normal regardless of how we’re currently playing.

I think the main reason for a 25% drop from the opening game is the fact that the Cheltenham game had at least a 1000 or more attending on a freebie. This is the obvious answer for this unusually high attendance against average opposition.
The fact is that it is been proved that it is impossible to get more than 5000 turn up on a regular basis now since the 1970s, and previous owners have tried everything to change that with little success. Even under Slade in 2013/14 we struggled to get much above 4500 home fans turn up.
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Make up your mind, first of all it is how we are playing that is the reason for low attendance, then you say it is impossible anyway.to increase gates.
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Personally I thought we played quite well on Saturday but just switched off defensively at crucial times.
Crawley looked a decent side to me, far better than either Cheltenham or Stevenage.
As for 1,000 Freebies for the Cheltenham team, really. I can’t see us giving away that many.

[RedDwarf 1881]

Crawley had 11 men on the pitch and plus they weren’t ravaged by injuries. That’s probably why they looked the best we’ve played so far at home .

[Lucky7]

Crawley had 11 men on the pitch and plus they weren’t ravaged by injuries. That’s probably why they looked the best we’ve played so far at home .

Crawley have become our bogey team

[tuffers#1]

You’re certainly in a minority on the ‘other’ board. How long did it take you to get perma-banned?

Is that the board that has managed 2 pages of comments on a thread on the
1st 10 pages possibly twice ?

Hardly impressive boarding

Its a bit like pandemonium Fanzine.

Lacking quality & lacking content .

A pale insignificant effort at boarding.

I like the other board Tuffers. It's a bit friendlier & not as extreme. Can be boring at times, because everyone gets on, although I have noticed Dis has popped over a couple of times recently

Thats fair enough
Still a bit to quiet & poliye for me though