|
Post by CH3STER on Aug 19, 2019 11:19:44 GMT
No Prem or league games on. Need to really promote this and get 3000 down. Weather looks steady and we are playing well. Could be the spring board we need to constantly get 1900-2000 home fans regularly again
|
|
|
Post by dc2cfc on Aug 19, 2019 11:43:56 GMT
Really need to be hitting the social media on a daily basis this week.
Facebook/Twitter competitions for 2 x Tickets to be given out for sharing/retweeting are so simple to do.
|
|
|
Post by steveo1 on Aug 19, 2019 12:45:54 GMT
Completely agree, seeing us win 4-0 and play some lovely football is great, but infront of 1600 is depressing, said it for a long time now but we really do need to start doing more to get the fans back, winning football will bring a few back but you simply cant rely on that.
Go to a CFU meeting and you hear all these great ideas but very little actually seems to happen.
I remember suggesting for Tranmere at home to have a fans zone, beer tent, band on or at least some music, throw in a few games outside and people will make a day of it - it was turned down due to safety issues. We will look into future games doing it they said - nearly 2 year on and nothing has happened on that front. Not sure where the problems lies, lack of people to make these things happen?, lack of time? or are healthy and safety stopping us from doing anything like that.
|
|
|
Post by dmcnally on Aug 19, 2019 12:54:20 GMT
Completely agree, seeing us win 4-0 and play some lovely football is great, but infront of 1600 is depressing, said it for a long time now but we really do need to start doing more to get the fans back, winning football will bring a few back but you simply cant rely on that. Go to a CFU meeting and you hear all these great ideas but very little actually seems to happen. I remember suggesting for Tranmere at home to have a fans zone, beer tent, band on or at least some music, throw in a few games outside and people will make a day of it - it was turned down due to safety issues. We will look into future games doing it they said - nearly 2 year on and nothing has happened on that front. Not sure where the problems lies, lack of people to make these things happen?, lack of time? or are healthy and safety stopping us from doing anything like that. Would cost circa £1500 a game, that's if we were even allowed to do it
|
|
|
Post by wendel on Aug 19, 2019 13:59:37 GMT
If you had it up before and after the game with live bands/djs etc I think it could be worth it. Entice people come down for the entire day, not just down from half 2 - 5pm.
|
|
|
Post by harrymc1234 on Aug 19, 2019 14:10:24 GMT
So profit on a pint is about 50 pence, after the split with D&A that's 25p to the Club, so that's 6000 additional pints needing to be shifted to cover the marque hire alone then other costs such as a live band, heating, staffing etc will most likely come in at £600 so another 1800 pints making it 7800 pints needing to be to sold to break even, that's under 5 pints per spectator based at the game on Saturday. I am happy to do 6 if I can have a lift home!
|
|
|
Post by Si on Aug 19, 2019 14:30:14 GMT
Surely someone within our fanbase has access to a marquee that they could lend for the day, saving on the costs of hire. Seems a real shame to waste a sunny August bank holiday against a proper club, at a time where we're unbeaten. It's occasions like this where the club really needs to sell itself, but I suspect it will just be the normal matchday set up.
|
|
|
Post by wendel on Aug 19, 2019 14:51:24 GMT
How much would it cost for the club to buy a marquee, and then set the blues bar up outside, or have a bottle bar set up outside with pre poured pints? A local wedding DJ wouldn't be to much to hire either. Few hundred quid for an hour. If we buy the marquee too we can take a look at the weather for the week and set these up quite quickly.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2019 14:52:16 GMT
Surely someone within our fanbase has access to a marquee that they could lend for the day, saving on the costs of hire. Seems a real shame to waste a sunny August bank holiday against a proper club, at a time where we're unbeaten. It's occasions like this where the club really needs to sell itself, but I suspect it will just be the normal matchday set up. Too late now, you would never get the permission from safety group,council,and Police In time... no one higher up locally seems to want to help, shame on them really. I’m sure the board would love more people down but no point committing money to a project without seeing a potential of good return.
|
|
|
Post by Si on Aug 19, 2019 15:28:09 GMT
Surely someone within our fanbase has access to a marquee that they could lend for the day, saving on the costs of hire. Seems a real shame to waste a sunny August bank holiday against a proper club, at a time where we're unbeaten. It's occasions like this where the club really needs to sell itself, but I suspect it will just be the normal matchday set up. Too late now, you would never get the permission from safety group,council,and Police In time... no one higher up locally seems to want to help, shame on them really. I’m sure the board would love more people down but no point committing money to a project without seeing a potential of good return. It's a real shame. As soon as the fixtures are out then games like this should have been targeted as there are likely to be more fans there than normal and we really want to sell the experience to them, and improve the day for the existing loyal fans. As someone mentioned above, perhaps the club could look into purchasing one so that it's ready to set up whenever we need it, subject to safety group clowns permitting it. I suspect it's going to be another case of the SAG slowly killing the club by not allowing us to do something that most other clubs would have no problem doing.
|
|
|
Post by Hannibal on Aug 19, 2019 15:32:18 GMT
Too late now, you would never get the permission from safety group,council,and Police In time... no one higher up locally seems to want to help, shame on them really. I’m sure the board would love more people down but no point committing money to a project without seeing a potential of good return. It's a real shame. As soon as the fixtures are out then games like this should have been targeted as there are likely to be more fans there than normal and we really want to sell the experience to them, and improve the day for the existing loyal fans. As someone mentioned above, perhaps the club could look into purchasing one so that it's ready to set up whenever we need it, subject to safety group clowns permitting it. I suspect it's going to be another case of the SAG slowly killing the club by not allowing us to do something that most other clubs would have no problem doing. Wouldn't take long to crowdfund something like this.
|
|
|
Post by Moltisanti on Aug 19, 2019 17:01:36 GMT
Surely someone within our fanbase has access to a marquee that they could lend for the day, saving on the costs of hire. Seems a real shame to waste a sunny August bank holiday against a proper club, at a time where we're unbeaten. It's occasions like this where the club really needs to sell itself, but I suspect it will just be the normal matchday set up. Exactly. Should have planned this as soon as the fixtures came out. Could be close to 3,000 there if we both win on Saturday.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2019 17:39:52 GMT
Surely someone within our fanbase has access to a marquee that they could lend for the day, saving on the costs of hire. Seems a real shame to waste a sunny August bank holiday against a proper club, at a time where we're unbeaten. It's occasions like this where the club really needs to sell itself, but I suspect it will just be the normal matchday set up. Exactly. Should have planned this as soon as the fixtures came out. Could be close to 3,000 there if we both win on Saturday. When my friend asked about holding events at the stadium he was told the safety very we had is very restrictive and about £7k costs to change...!
|
|
|
Post by devadiva on Aug 19, 2019 18:30:04 GMT
It's a real shame. As soon as the fixtures are out then games like this should have been targeted as there are likely to be more fans there than normal and we really want to sell the experience to them, and improve the day for the existing loyal fans. As someone mentioned above, perhaps the club could look into purchasing one so that it's ready to set up whenever we need it, subject to safety group clowns permitting it. I suspect it's going to be another case of the SAG slowly killing the club by not allowing us to do something that most other clubs would have no problem doing. Wouldn't take long to crowdfund something like this. Absolutely agree - about £2 per ST holder - and well worth the club buying the kit so it is low cost to roll it out again. There must be a second hand market for marquees? I always think crowdfunding works best when the results are fairly immediate and tangible. This would tick both boxes - unlike Steve Burr’s dream on which I shall say no more!
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2019 19:48:26 GMT
I take it all the posters in this thread are prepared to volunteer to organise and man these tents and functions? otherwise its pointless as there isn't enough volunteers to put these things on. Another exampe of the all mouth no trouser brigade deciding how easily the club could do things but not stepping up to help. Our City, Our Community, Our Club, Someone Else's Responsibility, Someone else's Fault.
|
|
scott
Junior Member
Posts: 63
|
Post by scott on Aug 19, 2019 21:09:27 GMT
How many people would donate to crowdfunder schemes for the following:
Getting rest of the outside of the ground repainted blue Equipment for groundsman New reception door
|
|
|
Post by Forever Blue on Aug 20, 2019 8:07:49 GMT
|
|
|
Post by Harry Lime on Aug 20, 2019 8:13:24 GMT
How many people would donate to crowdfunder schemes for the following: Getting rest of the outside of the ground repainted blue Equipment for groundsman New reception door The owners would usually put their hand in their pocket to pay for things like that. Oh, hang on a minute. 😎
|
|
|
Post by wendel on Aug 20, 2019 11:39:16 GMT
I take it all the posters in this thread are prepared to volunteer to organise and man these tents and functions? otherwise its pointless as there isn't enough volunteers to put these things on. Another exampe of the all mouth no trouser brigade deciding how easily the club could do things but not stepping up to help. Our City, Our Community, Our Club, Someone Else's Responsibility, Someone else's Fault. Tell you what, if you want to pay for my fuel to and from Somerset every weekend, I'll come back and help stick up a marquee.
|
|
|
Post by Moltisanti on Aug 20, 2019 12:03:49 GMT
I take it all the posters in this thread are prepared to volunteer to organise and man these tents and functions? otherwise its pointless as there isn't enough volunteers to put these things on. Another exampe of the all mouth no trouser brigade deciding how easily the club could do things but not stepping up to help. Our City, Our Community, Our Club, Someone Else's Responsibility, Someone else's Fault. Tell you what, if you want to pay for my fuel to and from Somerset every weekend, I'll come back and help stick up a marquee. We’ve got to volunteer to have an opinion remember.
|
|
|
Post by wendel on Aug 20, 2019 12:14:34 GMT
That looks ideal, shouldn't be to hard to get it to set up in the carpark, worst case get a company to put strong points into the concrete. Then set up an outdoor bar in there, long bar etc.
|
|
|
Post by steveo1 on Aug 20, 2019 12:53:48 GMT
The problem is we get threads like this every so often with some cracking ideas, it would be great if someone from the club could pop back a reply, even just to say ideas noted and we will look at them for future fixtures.
We hear very little back and the thread gets lost, we play Hereford next week with probably a half decent attendance expected but it could be so much better.
Retro Day on Saturday is a great idea and its superb seeing people kitted out in old shirts, but what else was going on at the ground to show it was retro day, apart from fans putting on old shirts?
Difficult time I guess with people on holiday but from the Hereford game onwards we should be trying to hit the Saturday home games and get the crowds in - hopefully we are still winning games which will aid this - I know its not always playing some of the less glam clubs in the league but the likes of Hereford, York and co are the games we have to target more than ever.
|
|
|
Post by Imperial on Aug 20, 2019 14:37:07 GMT
Tell you what, if you want to pay for my fuel to and from Somerset every weekend, I'll come back and help stick up a marquee. We’ve got to volunteer to have an opinion remember. And you can’t make any criticism without someone suggesting that you have a go instead then. Personally I just want to have a pint & watch the footy.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2019 15:20:12 GMT
I do absolutley nothing for the club other than financial sponsorship and buying a season ticket I almost never use.
but all this blustering and defensiveness proves you know my point is correct so you're agreeing with me though. "Our City, Our Community, Our Club, Someone Else's Responsibility, Someone else's Fault"
Posts on here saying "Should have planned this as soon as the fixtures came out"
This very thread about making a feature of this game was made YESTERDAY. Did nobody on here think about it before then? We could use this board to work alongside the CFU working to brainstorm and come up with plans as some have with the possible purchase of the equipment and crowdfunding. But criticism without any guide to action is pointless and insulting to the volunteers. What if this forum had threads dedicated to each of the working groups to place all ideas and questions. Rather than an almost endless stream of criticism.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2019 16:22:03 GMT
The problem is we get threads like this every so often with some cracking ideas, it would be great if someone from the club could pop back a reply, even just to say ideas noted and we will look at them for future fixtures. We hear very little back and the thread gets lost, we play Hereford next week with probably a half decent attendance expected but it could be so much better. Retro Day on Saturday is a great idea and its superb seeing people kitted out in old shirts, but what else was going on at the ground to show it was retro day, apart from fans putting on old shirts? Difficult time I guess with people on holiday but from the Hereford game onwards we should be trying to hit the Saturday home games and get the crowds in - hopefully we are still winning games which will aid this - I know its not always playing some of the less glam clubs in the league but the likes of Hereford, York and co are the games we have to target more than ever. With the amount of abuse generally for the board I’m not surprised only Banksy as far as we know responds. I’m sure some of the others must read, I remember Richard used to regularly reply. However, if anyone now from the board chose to reply to one thread, everyone would expect them t9 reply to each and every thread and point....and then get slammed if they didn’t, or if the point they put across didn’t agree with the original posters point.. a no win situation, so I don’t blame them for not engaging on here!!!!
|
|
|
Post by Mean Machine on Aug 20, 2019 19:59:49 GMT
How many people would donate to crowdfunder schemes for the following: Getting rest of the outside of the ground repainted blue Equipment for groundsman New reception door Yes I would be more than happy to contribute to these things Ground is now over 25 years old and starting to look a bit shabby in places
|
|
|
Post by harrymc1234 on Aug 20, 2019 20:09:47 GMT
How many people would donate to crowdfunder schemes for the following: Getting rest of the outside of the ground repainted blue Equipment for groundsman New reception door The owners would usually put their hand in their pocket to pay for things like that. Oh, hang on a minute. 😎 Hold on I pay £12 a year!! I expect to have a fully refurbished stadium , £1500 a game Fan zones , a pitch to Rival Wembley and to have the largest budget in the league. Bloody board wasting my £12:00 I demand an EGM !!
|
|
|
Post by blue4life on Aug 21, 2019 7:23:16 GMT
Havnt we recently employed someone to come up with these ideas or have I got that wrong?
|
|
|
Post by bluemission on Aug 21, 2019 7:49:43 GMT
Havnt we recently employed someone to come up with these ideas or have I got that wrong? I don’t think coming up with ideas has ever been the problem, it’s having the resource and capacity to implement them that has always been the challenge. I see the Club are doing promotion on Social media with family ticket giveaways
|
|
|
Post by 1967blue Chester Lads on Aug 21, 2019 18:32:15 GMT
No Prem or league games on. Need to really promote this and get 3000 down. Weather looks steady and we are playing well. Could be the spring board we need to constantly get 1900-2000 home fans regularly again Loads of young lads from saltney and the Lache going I've been told. Could be a cracker
|
|