Independent Leyton Orient Forum

ffs, got tickets for that one, really pi55ed off

This is according to NT, near the end of his q&a

Not going to book tickets if there’s an international w/end anymore, waste of time.

Add the Mansfield home and away games to that.

Ridiculous that the number of Saturday 15:00 kick offs this campaign will likely be about half the fixtures.

Will make a lot of people think about buying ST next season, especially those with kids or who live in the shires where it takes an age to return home mid-week.

Who are we losing? Just Galbraith and ONeill?

If it’s us requesting the postponements, we really need to have a rethink. Trying to squeeze these games in later in the season is really damaging.

Donley and maybe the new keeper?

Do we get any extra payment from Sky when the movement of these games will now be televised?

LPE wrote: ↑Sat Aug 31, 2024 6:40 am Ridiculous that the number of Saturday 15:00 kick offs this campaign will likely be about half the fixtures.

Will make a lot of people think about buying ST next season, especially those with kids or who live in the shires where it takes an age to return home mid-week.

I had pretty instant buyers remorse after the sky deal was announced, even first game of the season only being a couple of hours later was pushing it for my eldest so there's no chance of an evening game.

The AGM / interview in the ear around how everything is rosy as we always sell out so we should be grateful as they could just triple the prices, seems really short sighted.

With the good feelings of winning promotion dissipating with time and losing one of our selling points of always playing at the same time each week it won't be long before we hit our historical averages in terms of actual bums in seats home attendance. With the knock on, that they lose the push to buy a season ticket to make sure you can get in, due to never getting near selling out.

I don't think there's any great answer, just that it's hardly a surprise to most of us that talk of needing a new ground and competing in the championship based entirely on one of the most successful five year periods ignoring the previous decades is just a sign of ownership getting swallowed up in the football hype and their own belief they can outsmart everyone else that's failed, just as so many before them.

We’ve now only got TWO 15:00 home kick offs this side of Xmas. Absolutely ridiculous!!