If you ran the club

[DV]

also, how often do the players get out and about in the community...

I know over recent years Sam and Stef usually got about it.....

Do the players do anything these days? has the club got anything organized?

[Scot Munroe]

None of them do. But didn;t Sam Parkin and Tommy Mooney turn on the Christmas lights on around 3 years ago.

[DV]

yup...me and a mate went....Sammy knew we were Swindon fans so stopped and chatted away to us while he signed autographs for all these kids who probably didnt even know who he was & wouldnt be at the CG the following saturday...

Mooney on the other hand...head down autograph, next autograph next...didnt talk to anyone...just got on with it

[RobertT]

Families is an area the club have done some work:

Under 7's free with an adult - now in all stands I think.

the Arkells has £18 adult tickets and £4 children, so it's cheaper than the £50 suggested at £48 for a family of 5.

The problem is the message is not repeated enough and is also not made a headline message like

"Family of 4 from just £30" - 2 adults and 2 under 7's in the TE.

They also sell pro rata season tickets now, another good move, but again this should be plastered everywhere right now with Xmas presents being chosen.

To give the club some due, they also tied in with GWR last season for 4 games with reduced prices and as far as I know this stands for this season with 2 games contracted.  The biggest problem is a lack of resource to keep these sorts of things out in the public domain.

[Scot Munroe]

yup...me and a mate went....Sammy knew we were Swindon fans so stopped and chatted away to us while he signed autographs for all these kids who probably didnt even know who he was & wouldnt be at the CG the following saturday...

Mooney on the other hand...head down autograph, next autograph next...didnt talk to anyone...just got on with it

was it in town or Old town. I can;t Remember.

[DV]

old town...

[Scot Munroe]

Cool. I remember a couple of my mates telling me that around 5 town players around early 2003 came to Dorcan school(the school i went to) and played 5 a side on the Sanded astro and Interacted with some of the people on the astro. I think two of the players were Stef and Parkin. Which was great.

[DV]

Cool. I remember a couple of my mates telling me that around 5 town players around early 2003 came to Dorcan school(the school i went to) and played 5 a side on the Sanded astro and Interacted with some of the people on the astro. I think two of the players were Stef and Parkin. Which was great.

I went to Dorcan to....the only Swindon player I ever saw around the place was Ashan...and that was because he went to Dorcan!!

Although I was gone 2 years before 03

Anyways, I doubt that somehow....surely it would be a breech of contract for the players to play non-club related football  just incase they got injured....

[pauld]

FWIW, I suspect the home fans only in the Winners thing will have been strongly influenced by the coppers and may even be a condition of the license, implicitly if not stated in black and white. But I don't know this for a fact, so please don't accuse me of rumour-mongering! I'll try and find out tho ......

[Scot Munroe]

Cool. I remember a couple of my mates telling me that around 5 town players around early 2003 came to Dorcan school(the school i went to) and played 5 a side on the Sanded astro and Interacted with some of the people on the astro. I think two of the players were Stef and Parkin. Which was great.

I went to Dorcan to....the only Swindon player I ever saw around the place was Ashan...and that was because he went to Dorcan!!

Although I was gone 2 years before 03

Anyways, I doubt that somehow....surely it would be a breech of contract for the players to play non-club related football  just incase they got injured....

Ashan was in my year at Dorcan.

[Northern Red]

also, how often do the players get out and about in the community...

I know over recent years Sam and Stef usually got about it.....

Do the players do anything these days? has the club got anything organized?

More of this would be good. I think one of the reason Sam Parkin was loved so much, was that he was always in the Adver visiting some kid in hospital and whatever. It also helped him being a good player as well, but all things combined.

My Dad who is anti-football, could only ever name one player for Swindon - Sam Parkin

Getting Peacock or Evans out and about a bit more may help up the profile of the club with non-footballing residents and build support for the club when it comes to things like re-developments etc.

[Northern Red]

also, the winners is poorly advertised.

I've only ever been in there a few times myself, but I've never seen an away fan in there

Now they might not let them in, but I dont see why not...most of them are harmless....however if I were an away fan I'd never find the bloody thing..its almost hidden

Agreed...

The Winner's Bar seems like a closed shop to me and I'm an occasional home fan, single (at football) male (27) so should be in there. But it seems like a members thing - I couldn't actually tell you where it is, although I suspect its in the Arkells somewhere.

From what I remember make the entrance open and inviting, not like a closed door it is at the moment.

Some of you may disagree, but I feel it's not for me, when it should be. If it was more inviting over the last few years, the club may have had about 50 pints out of me. Definately don't do the members thing, that'd make it more closed.

[Panda Paws]

chubbs is there no vegitarian food except the chips?

that and a twix or a mars, i mean i dont want no gourmet 3 course meal, its not hard to get some cheese and onion pies, or something similar, coz in all fairness the chips suck.

Best ever veggie pies were at Rushden & Diamonds a few years back - Veggie balti. Fucking tops.

But a cheese & onion pastie or something would do me just fine too. In fairness, the catering at the CG is pretty shit and could do with some new ideas.

Bizarre when you consider how good the food usually is when you get VIP tickets.

[herthab]

Now, you can call me thick if you like, but why don't the club just reduce ticket prices across the board? That way, you would increase the numbers of customers, thereby: increasing revenue from catering, programme sales, etc; The atmosphere would be better; Dennis would be well chuffed!!
 The only negative would be if it didn't attract more punters, but with the interest generated this season by Den and Gus I think we could get a couple more thousand each game.

[sonic youth]

They've dropped ticket prices for specific games in the past and attendances haven't improved much, if at all.