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  1. 6 minutes ago, Tinmans Love Child said:

    My Dad did that and actually met my mum at a Rovers match when City’s away game was called off him and his mates went to watch Rovers, would have been early/mid 70’s as I’m 41

    Amazing isn't it. Hard to imagine you could watch both teams. But it looks like plenty of people did!

  2. 24 minutes ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

    I can remember paying £2.50 to stand on the East End in 1990ish.

    Open end was £3.00 for some reason?

    If I remember the atmosphere inside football grounds at that time correctly, I imagine there weren’t too many people visiting Ashton Gate one week and then going to Trumpton the following week unless your name is Roger Malone.

    I believe it used to be a reasonably common occurrence in the 50’s and 60’s. Then we got promoted to the top flight in the 70s and the ‘Gas’ who would watch us one week and their own shower the next suddenly forgot where Eastville was.

    My word.... £2.50!

    It's amazing how prices have increased about inflation. 

    Arsenal being £90. A pound a minute for a game of football 

  3. Before my time, but my parents and grandparents often told me how they watched city one week and the gas the next. Apparently lots of people did it. 

    Joking aside, were my family unique or was that more common place when football was the equivalent of £2 a ticket?

    I can't imagine any circumstance in modern football where that would happen. 

    Perhaps the tribal rivalry wasn't as intense back then?

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  4. 56 minutes ago, IAmNick said:

    So do you support smaller pubs going out of business as long as Wetherspoons can keep going?

    Local theatres as long as the next Avengers movie gets made?

    Local restaurants as long as Pizza Express is alright?

    Family B&Bs as long as Premier Inn are ok?

    Do you think all those large corporations don't/haven't benefitted from the smaller ones they bought up / took staff from / forcibly closed and replaced etc. along the way? Surely you should be advocating for them to do the same? It's not a football problem, it's a societal/capitalism problem!

    Fairly sure you've missed the point. I was saying exactly that! The big boys need to support the smaller clubs as they feed from them and make our leagues the best in the world

  5. 5 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

    Too complicated an argument with too many dynamics to formulate a full response.

    But, why would a football club in the entertainment and hospitality sector be treated differently to another business in that sector, whose trade has been restrained by the government?

    Agree with Triple-T above that football could help itself also.

    The government’s range of financial support packages were ill-conceived imho, and now they are about to end things like CJRS (Furloughing).  It won’t be just football clubs “bleating” once October hits!

    Football clubs did get the same support as hospitality businesses , no issue they had furlough. 

    But why should we spend tax payers money on a football club when we have a trillion of national debt and nurses earning £25k to risk their lives to save us.

    It's a football issue, sort it internally

    Other hospitality industries don't have a multi billion group of clubs at the top that feed from lower levels 

    If the government pay to support football clubs, it's a sad sad day. It's a case of survival from your own industry 

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  6. I'm getting really tired of listening to clubs in lower leagues asking the government to bail them out. It's not right that tax payers money funds football. 

    Tax payers money needs to pay for the NHS, medical supplies, and supporting people that have fallen on hard times. Some families have lost everything and its distasteful to hear football clubs coming out with cap in hand

    This is a football issue that should be solved by football clubs

    The wage bill of the premier is more than £2bn. If all players lose 5% of salary for one year, this equates to £100,000,000. Enough to cover the entire wage bill of league one and two.

    So many of the tip flight players owe their living to the lower leagues. Time to lose a measly 5% and support them.

    Asking the average Joe in the street earning £20k a year to pay his taxes to keep Fleetwood afloat is immoral

    Do the right thing football. Let any money we have left in government go to people that really need it 

    Rant over 

     

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  7. 2 minutes ago, Lrrr said:

    You mean other than playing in the top division which allows them to pay the players as they do, drop down a league and you’ll have to lose a fair chunk and therefore no guarantee of going up again and being stuck down there, meantime losing out on any money they could get from being top division as it’ll trickle down a lot less in the women’s game while the top division starts to bring in more.

    What's the point of playing in the top division and losing 9-0!

    Surely it's more about the game, winning, building a strong team that can compete in the future.

    I genuinely can't understand why anyone would think it's better to be humiliated every week to earn a few quid, rather than go down and then earn a promotion

    What sort of players are we likely to attract when we are getting humiliated 9-0.

    Sorry, but the money needs to take second place. It's about building a strong team and a winning mentality. If that means going down and building again, so be it

     

     

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  8. Just now, WarksRobin said:

    You’ve just described the gas mentality

    I really don't agree. The Gas have a loser mentality.... It wouldn't even register as an option for them 

    You can't seriously advocate wanting to be in a league getting hammered by embarrassing scorelines and killing players confidence every week can you?

    A season in the lower league with a promotion will do them the world of good. It creates a different atmosphere and confidence 

    I see zero benefit from.beinf hammered week in and week out 

    That's not a gas mentality, that's common sense 

  9. 26 minutes ago, Lrrr said:

    Point is you’re advocating leaving the top division in the country when they haven’t played badly enough to be relegated, why would you want to play at a lower standard? Regardless of results I imagine all the players would rather be playing in the top division. Also dropping a level probably means we couldn’t pay half the players anyway. 

    I doubt it.

    If you asked the team if they'd rather be bottom of the table all year and get hammered every week or play in a lower league and wim some matches, I know what I'd pick, and I'm sure they would also

    It's a complete waste of time playing a team that score every 10 minutes. Who does that help?

  10. 56 minutes ago, Lrrr said:

    Because they didn’t get relegated perhaps? Or would you want the men’s team relegated if we finished 20th a couple of seasons in a row? 

    Sorry, your response doesn't make a lot of sense.

    I just said it's not great to be getting hammered week in and week out. It's pointless for the vixens to be getting smashed every week.

    When they drop a level, it will do them good. 

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