Rob1885 Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 Getting our own youth academy back will go some way to helping recruit the next generation of fans as well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Axle Grease Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 The 1980s were a different time. Terraces, unemployment, Levis, Harringtons and Sambas, McEwans lager, Tartan Special, Eldarado tonic wine, Thatcher, Boys from the blackstuff, shite blaw, Echo & the Bunneyman, Big Country, Wham, woman with big hair and white high heels, Night Magic, Bentley, fitbaw Casuals, Blackpool and Benidorm, Shaggy Jenkins, Mel Rennie, Woodrow and Mitchell's juice, big Leish, poems, shite tactics, Johnny Watsons ginger afro. Different times. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardle is Magic Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 1 minute ago, Axle Grease said: The 1980s were a different time. Terraces, unemployment, Levis, Harringtons and Sambas, McEwans lager, Tartan Special, Eldarado tonic wine, Thatcher, Boys from the blackstuff, shite blaw, Echo & the Bunneyman, Big Country, Wham, woman with big hair and white high heels, Night Magic, Bentley, fitbaw Casuals, Blackpool and Benidorm, Shaggy Jenkins, Mel Rennie, Woodrow and Mitchell's juice, big Leish, poems, shite tactics, Johnny Watsons ginger afro. Different times. Choose Life. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob1885 Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 The 1980s were a different time. Terraces, unemployment, Levis, Harringtons and Sambas, McEwans lager, Tartan Special, Eldarado tonic wine, Thatcher, Boys from the blackstuff, shite blaw, Echo & the Bunneyman, Big Country, Wham, woman with big hair and white high heels, Night Magic, Bentley, fitbaw Casuals, Blackpool and Benidorm, Shaggy Jenkins, Mel Rennie, Woodrow and Mitchell's juice, big Leish, poems, shite tactics, Johnny Watsons ginger afro. Different times. Stick that on a tea towel. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsforlife Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 There’s things the club can do to improve attendances, and we should work on those, but we are talking about a few hundred fans. If you could have 2 or 3 sold out 8000 crowds a season our board would be absolutely delighted. We’ve sold out east end twice in my entire life, Once for promotion decider and the other for a friendly. You can maybe add a handful of times where we’ve been 8000+ in that time. the horse has bolted and we should keep our current capacity barring minor adjustments(for example we’ve lost the enclosure in front of the main stand due to hospitality expansion) but any idea of leishman era crowds(which were a blip in our history, including during the historic high of the 60s) is complete fantasy. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardle is Magic Posted August 2, 2021 Share Posted August 2, 2021 (edited) St Johnstone have won 2 Scottish Cups, 1 League Cup, finished in top 6 multiple times and regularly competed in Europe and they *still* have trouble attracting new fans. I don’t get why people think it will be any easier for us with a fraction of that success. Edited August 2, 2021 by Cardle is Magic 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Axle Grease Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 The reality is we're well supported within our game and so is the Scottish game in general well supported. Which is remarkable given the amount of distractions there are nowadays for people regarding other leisure pursuits available to them. We'll see an increase in crowd numbers if we start to see success. The most important thing for our club is that we keep striving to succeed built on a long term strategy for sustained progress. Key elements in that are responsible financial management and development of a youth system, both things spoken about a lot recently. If we can get this right we might just emulate something like St Johnstone success, and crowds will increase. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoBNob Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 10 hours ago, parsforlife said: There’s things the club can do to improve attendances, and we should work on those, but we are talking about a few hundred fans. If you could have 2 or 3 sold out 8000 crowds a season our board would be absolutely delighted. We’ve sold out east end twice in my entire life, Once for promotion decider and the other for a friendly. You can maybe add a handful of times where we’ve been 8000+ in that time. the horse has bolted and we should keep our current capacity barring minor adjustments(for example we’ve lost the enclosure in front of the main stand due to hospitality expansion) but any idea of leishman era crowds(which were a blip in our history, including during the historic high of the 60s) is complete fantasy. AFAIK the top 10 attendances at rennovated EEP are all over 10,000. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 9 hours ago, Cardle is Magic said: St Johnstone have won 2 Scottish Cups, 1 League Cup, finished in top 6 multiple times and regularly competed in Europe and they *still* have trouble attracting new fans. I don’t get why people think it will be any easier for us with a fraction of that success. All clubs are in the same boat as long as the old firm exist. They only way to stop it is for lots of Celtic and Rangers fans to not have kids basically. It sounds daft but boys in Dunfermline in their 20's and 30's who support Celtic or Rangers aren't going to bring their sons and daughters up to support the Pars. Every town with an senior club in it is the same. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 19 hours ago, 101 said: As far as I can tell although @Stellaboz might d better placed to say but the VAT on German sports tickets is 7% compared to our 20% obviously not the reason why our tickets are £20 and decent level of German football is under a tenner. I've no idea about ticket prices in other parts of Germany but they're not that cheap around here. You might get a decent price on them if you're in the standing/ultra areas of some grounds but getting those tickets is almost impossible. However, you can at least drink a beer (before, during and after) and get decent scram everywhere you go. Also, regional train travel is included in the price of an away ticket which is pretty decent. You don't get on the quicker IC trains but in normal times you can at least enjoy a beer for an away day for a couple of hours without buying a train ticket. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob1885 Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 Back in 2019 I got a ticket for St Pauli vs Bochum for €10. Higher level of football than this tbh but if you dropped ticket prices I'm sure you wouldnt see the required uptake to make it worth while.In this country, the prices are only going one way. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAFC. Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 Prices genuinely won't make much difference. You could drop the prices down to £10, which is extremely generous, and you'd not get much uptake. Of course charging that isn't sustainable at all for the club, however. Scotland has a football-mad population, but the vast majority "support" either of the Old Firm and, in our case, we play close to the two Edinburgh teams, so you really are farting against thunder trying to get more fans. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Toun Clock Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 Signing incoming. New shiny signing gif on Twitter 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CallumPar Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 Leon Jones 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob1885 Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 Left sided centre half. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DAFC. Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 Says he's played college soccer for 4 years. Didn't think they played that long over there with those things unless it works like a normal degree which is the 4 year mark? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moneyshot Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 Says he's played college soccer for 4 years. Didn't think they played that long over there with those things unless it works like a normal degree which is the 4 year mark?Yeah that his how it works. Can play for the College / Uni for the duration of the degree which is 4 years over there 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnyjag Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 He played a trial game for us v Kelty at start of this season, McCall didn’t offer a deal. He played for Hearts and apparently was released from them due to Levein saying he was to small for a CB 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob1885 Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 Handsome Par. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Islay Posted August 3, 2021 Share Posted August 3, 2021 4 minutes ago, Vinnyjag said: He played a trial game for us v Kelty at start of this season, McCall didn’t offer a deal. He played for Hearts and apparently was released from them due to Levein saying he was to small for a CB Levein should have a chat with Ivan Cordoba, he may learn something. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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