next season

[red macca]

i disagree reg..it was not so long ago you thought the reason we were offering 1 yr deals was because we WANTED to fold..if we stay in this league and struggle next year attendances will drop further..i feel if we are pushing for promotion and having a good season this will help on all fronts new stadium etc..to say the club has no motivation to get out is harsh

[STFC Village]

I concur

Don't start that again!

[Reg Smeeton]

i disagree reg..it was not so long ago you thought the reason we were offering 1 yr deals was because we WANTED to fold

 All I ever say is that it is difficult to read the smoke signals coming from Newbury.....the policy of only year contracts, needed some sort of explanation and Holt's answer to my question at the AGM about the CVA, was that there was no contingency to pay the CVA, unless progress was made on the ground....should it not look good on that front then closure was a possibility.

 This a board member placed on the public record....it didn't take too big a leap of the imagination to think the two might be connected.

[dogs]

are we preparing for league 2?

i think we are and think it could be a good thing.we are offering longer contracts now and in my eyes a team with peacock,roberts,the two smiths,o,hanlon,platt shakes etc will be a good strong team in league two..if we stay up then thats great but then what?another struggle after .sometimes its good to regroup and start again.if we are pushing for promotion attendances will be up and the feel good factor will be back...

just my warped opinion ..feel free to discuss

Thing is, if we go down, then i'm pretty sure attendances would drop at least initially (depending of success on the pitch) and it's not a given they would be too much greater if we were doing well. This would also raise the issue of ticket prices. They would have to come down to try and get any similar level of support to what we currently have, as i'm sure £21/23 tickets for 4th Division football would see many 3,000 or sub 3,000 attendances. If there was a few quid off the current prices just to keep a similar level of supprt then we'd still be worse off than we are now, and this would then obviously affect the wage budget as it would have to be slashed even further. Although you could argue lower standard players would come cheaper, but it would be these standard players that would most likely leave you to stagnate in the bottom division.

[Reg Smeeton]

Its probably no coincidence, that Hull and Swansea, slopped around in the nether regions of Div 4 for some years until, they got some impetus from a new ground either finished or built.

  We look unlikely to see anything on that front so stagnation would be a reasonable assumption.

[Whits]

fuck you all, we're staying up    :\/

[yeo]

http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/corbis/DGT260/DCO2043.jpg

[Whits]

i'm going to be positive for the next 4 months as this board is fucking depressing me, if i read another DV post i may just have to close this forum.

[yeo]

Im always positive about stuff,just read my posts they are the bestest anyway.

[Whits]

join the staying up gang, just get pissed up and be happy, you seem pretty good at it already  

[yeo]

Ok im in

[sonicyouth]

can i join despite being miserable and sober? :--

i still think we'll stay up. saturday did make me question that but i'm still feeling relatively confident about the future.

HOWEVER, if we do go down i'm in two minds. my head says it'll be the end of the cluband it'll be a disaster but my heart says we'll have a few good derby games to look forward to and we'll do well and bounce back, maybe even like we did in 85/86.

[DMR]

VD ranted at me on his way out that that was it, and I agree sadly.

If we do a Stockport we're mega fucked.

[magicroundabout]

i'm in the staying up gang.

until it's mathamaticly imposible we are staying up.

that's why attendacies are low cos everyone seems to think we are as good as down.

WBA didn't last year and no one had stayed in the prem after being bottom at christmas. they didn't give up and neither should we

[Tails]

i'm going to be positive for the next 4 months as this board is fucking depressing me, if i read another DV post i may just have to close this forum.