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Comment | West Ham Cresswell Bid Claim
at 17:59:40
£1.5m?! I know this is just gutter press speculation but we'd have to ask at least £4-5m for Cressy. When you think what a certain club paid for a bloke that scored ONCE all season, what should we be asking for the best Left-back outside the Prem? The club must not sell on the cheap. |
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Comment | Boss Not Ruling Anything Out
at 11:30:59
14-17 points from the next 7 games will hopefully give the club a lift, get a few more bums on seats (giving MM more to spend should he need to in January) and maybe help us all put the last 4 years well and truly behind us. Anyone in the top half can realistically have a crack at the play-offs in this division and there's no reason Town can't kick on instead of fretting about relegation again. |
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Comment | McCarthy: We Let Our Guard Down
at 11:43:16
People are perfectly entitled to grumble. I watched the same game MM did, nothing in it between two decent sides. On another day we'd have been leading at half time, but there was only ever going to be one goal in it. The positive I take is that, if Burnley are a top of the table side, Town really don't have much to do to get up among them. Time to dip into the loan market if you ask me, find something for Taylor to do when he comes back and maybe look at a change of formation (I'd go 3-5-2). |
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Comment | MDs: Balance Right on Matchday Tickets
at 14:04:39
Disappointed that these two have no real clue as to the realities of being a football fan these days; it's not them that has to fork out each week, year after year, like I and many others do (although that number seems to be dropping) in the vein hope that the club I have supported all my life might one day scale the heights of the past again.
The grading thing is what really gets my back up; theres not a single team in this division I'd pay any more to watch than another, and I'm sure I'm not alone in resenting being asked to pay £13.50 more to watch Leeds a fortnight after watching us play Millwall.
Were they to drop the prices to a more realistic level, I genuinely believe more fans would turn up, and while in the ground, be more likely to spend some money on beer, food, merchandise etc. That pushes revenue up and bring money into the club. Simple. 20,000 paying less for a ticket but physically being in the ground must surely be better than 15,000 (how long before its down to 13, 12?) meaning the ground expanded ten years ago to accommodate 30k is half or even less full. I can honestly see a time when the top tiers of the the North and South stands are shut to keep costs down.
The club is treading water, financially and in footballing terms. Something needs to change. |
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Comment | Block D Seats Most Expensive in Football League
at 10:55:59
Clearly those in Block D don't object to the pricing if all but 3 seats are taken by Season Ticket holders!
The broader point is that tickets are clearly too expensive if more than half the ground is empty. The grading system doesn't help either; who in their right mind would have paid £39.50 for the Leeds game to sit in the Upper tiers? If ticket cost less people are not only more likely to buy one but once in the ground will probably buy drinks, food and merchandise. The club can only be losing money as things stand and as one person said earlier, imagine what would happen if we ever got promoted? |
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Comment | Chopra Could Face FA Action
at 08:46:50
I won't be the only one wondering exactly what the FA think this has to with them; for one thing this is a private, civil matter, not a criminal offence, so I fail to see what they could do about it. Like it or not what Chopra does in his spare time is none of their business. All these high and mighty comments from some people are a joke; Chopra, whatever else he may be, is at least trying to deal with his problems. For once the club have taken the right approach, maybe the FA could learn a thing or two. |
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Comment | McCarthy: Barnsley the Better Side
at 19:55:08
Yup, p*** poor today. Can't do it against teams down around us. I thought the game never got going, both sides looked uncomfortable most of the time and agree that Harewood should have got at least one goal.
Time is running out for Martin in my my view. Can't fault his effort but he creates nothing. Hyam and N'daw bossed the midfield without giving the forwards anything to work with, McLean looked poor, McGoldrick never got into the game.Next week is massive now. MM needs to get someone creative in, and quick. |
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Comment | Clegg Calls for End to Alcohol Ban
at 07:06:56
This would never work. Are you telling me that the attitude to drinking in this country is better than it was in 1985? The police and stewards have enough trouble managing people who've had a pre-match drink already, without then expecting them to keep track of a crowd able to drink through the match. Also, the demographic of football crowds is totally different; its no longer just a majority of working class blokes who go to matches. Football is finally at a point where families can attend without worrying too much about the atmosphere around them, and in safe environment. Allowing drinking in the stands at Rubgy matches only works because the attitude towards drinking is different (for the vast majority), and much more cordial in the first place. I like a couple of pints before a match as much as anyone (thanks for the free one, Cleggy!) but can't imagine standing in the North stand for a whole match sinking pints. The aftermath of that instance doesn't bare thinking about. Nice idea in principle but just inviting trouble if you ask me. |
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Comment | Town and Villa in Ticket Talks
at 18:49:34
I read on Villa's website that they've closed an entire upper tier section and moved season ticket holders from it, presumably because Town told them they only wanted 2900 tickets in the first place. I find it hard to believe that two clubs couldn't come to a more flexible agreement, and it's in our interests to sell as many tickets as we can since we get 50% of the gate receipts!
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Comment | McCarthy: I Enjoyed That!
at 07:13:14
Exactly where was Sean O'Driscoll?! Didn't see the Camp foul, didn't see the penalty?! Glas we never hired him, the man clearly has trouble actually watching the game! |
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Comment | 10 Points for the Future?
at 19:42:54
Personally I've no idea where this Mick Mills obsession some fans have come from - not managed for years, didn't cut it when he did. Club legend but no manager. I don't think we'll go down; string two or three wins and a handful of draws together and all of a sudden we're mid table. Look at Palace in 03/04 - bottom at Christmas, not mid October, and went up through the Play Offs. So it can be done; one thing Jewell did do was put together a squad that, on paper, is one of the stronger in the division. Regrettably he lost the dressing room and the fans with a series of bizarre loan signings who should now be packed off back to their parent clubs (with the possible exception of Higginbottom).
Also, I just do not buy this "relegation could be a good thing" point of view; it would be an unmitigated disaster for this club, the fans would run for the hills, players thinking they were joining a club eyeing the Premiership not far behind them. Face it, we've got a half empty stadium now, imagine what it would be like for the visit of MK Dons, Crawley or Stevenage. I for one simply refuse to accept that we should be considering life in the 3rd tier with 3/4 of the season left.
Otherwise, excellent article! |
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Comment | Jewell Considering Town Future After Hull Defeat
at 08:53:38
The utter chaos that this season represents means he has little choice, in my opinion. Long term plan out of the window, players not given more than one game to prove themselves, half a squad of loanees, a decent keeper dropped after one bad game. Without wishing to use a massive cliche, this is not the Ipswich Way. I hope as I write this he's on the phone to Evans jacking it in. He did what was required after the mess Keane got us in but (as I always said he wouldn't) he's taken us nowhere, backwards if anything, and the time has come for a change. I also think Clegg needs to answer some serious questions about his role in all this. |
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Comment | Jewell Faces Selection Dilemmas For Hull Trip
at 12:56:45
What I'd go with - Loach, Edwards, Chambers, H'Bottom, Cresswell; Drury, N'Daw, Wellens, Martin; Chopra, Murphy. (4-4-2)
What Jewell with probably go for; Henderson, Edwards, Chambers, H'Bottom, Cresswell; Drury, Wellens; JET, Martin, Murphy; Cambell (4-2-3-1) |
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Comment | Ticket Promotion at Cardiff Match
at 15:24:29
Don't I know it, bought mine, and a friend's who I'm trying to convince more regularly, before the Charlton match. They nearly ended up in the bin on the way out! But since we always beat Cardiff, it'll all be ok... |
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Comment | Town Topic: Are Town Fans Overreacting to Bad Start?
at 09:46:24
In the context of this season Chops and JET may have a point. But unfortunately the forget that for the fans this is the 4th season where the team have been woefully below par and we've been getting the same excuses from manager, players and CEO in that time. Having been told the manager wouldn't be making the same mistakes as last season, we now seem to be going down the exact same path. Someone might point out to Chopra (who, incidentally, I really rate and think suffers from dreadful service from the midfield) that when Roy Keane finally cracked and had a pop at the fans, he got the sack the next day. |
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Comment | Jewell: Clubs Gambling to Get in Premier League
at 07:14:58
And Town are probably the most guilty of this! We now owe our Majority Shareholder closer to £70m, almost double the amount it cost him to buy our debts and invest an original £12m in the playing staff. Millions wasted on the likes of Priskin, Norris, McAuley, Fulop, the list goes on! Countless expensive loan signings, contracts paid up to get rid of high earners. All this presided over by a clueless CEO who's happy to point out that the South Stand is at least clean and the turnstiles a nice shade of blue but ignore the fact that we are now further away than ever from the Premiership dream and will never aspire to that vision while he and this spent force of a manager are in charge. |
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