stefano wrote:
Planning to go to Hereford with him last game of season ... which will be nice as will be my first away game outside of Devon (I don't count Wembley) since Coventry in 1988.
What ? You didn't go Old Trafford last season for the League 2 playoff final ?
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Trojan 67 wrote:
What ? You didn't go Old Trafford last season for the League 2 playoff final ?
No I didn't. My ex-wife was from Rotherham so whilst I appreciate it is a different County anything that far North makes me nauseous! Apart from that I have been to Manchester and it is a shithole and it was on the telly! Insane me? I don't think so
Don't forget league 2 clubs are in a different situation to all other league clubs in that we are only allowed to spend so much % of our gate returns on wages. That % is soon to be reduced as well.
Obviously those clubs with low attendance rates will have lower wage bills so to have them in league football is credit to the club and players. Therefore if you are a big town or city club like Bristol / Plymouth / Exeter with better catchment of fan base, you would expect them to do well based on the fact they are allowed to spend more on wages.
If you look at League 2 you have 3 similar sized clubs (Crawley, Torquay and Cheltenham) all doing well at the top compared to bigger clubs like Rovers and Northamptonico Athletica not having the season they were expecting. I am sure most of us will agree that is not down to attendance rates, but management and team performance. I appreciate Crawley had some money injected into the club, but that was spent on buying players, but they are still restricted on their wage bill.
Personally (and Southampton Gull touched on this last night after the Swindon game) why make the local(ish) games a midweek but then have Morecambe, Accrington, Crewe and Macclesfied away on a Saturday? The long distance games should be played midweek when we know we are going to get low attendances anyway (home or away) and then make the localish games a Saturday fixture to make it is easier for as many fans to get to the game as possible. If the Swindon game last night was on a Saturday we would have had 1000 there.
Awayday wrote:Personally (and Southampton Gull touched on this last night after the Swindon game) why make the local(ish) games a midweek but then have Morecambe, Accrington, Crewe and Macclesfied away on a Saturday? The long distance games should be played midweek when we know we are going to get low attendances anyway (home or away) and then make the localish games a Saturday fixture to make it is easier for as many fans to get to the game as possible. If the Swindon game last night was on a Saturday we would have had 1000 there.
Opposite point of view to that is that it costs the clubs more to travel those long distances on a midweek - chances are you'll have to stay overnight, where even with Crewe you can probably get away with leaving at 6 or 7 on a saturday morning and getting home at midnight.
happytorq wrote:
Opposite point of view to that is that it costs the clubs more to travel those long distances on a midweek - chances are you'll have to stay overnight, where even with Crewe you can probably get away with leaving at 6 or 7 on a saturday morning and getting home at midnight.
But the cost of the over night stay is covered by the increase in crowds to Plainmoor by playing the big crowd games on a Saturday rather than a Tuesday night.
