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Matthew The Rover
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Lately I have been noticing how poor are home attendences are. They have been steadily dropping throughout the season, and I'm sure they met a new League low against Gillingham eight days ago.
For one, Rovers need to start playing better football. This may be obvious, as obvious as it sounds, but aswell as dropping valuable points when we are drawing our home games and losing away, we are also losing alot of part-time supporters. This must stop. As poor as the atmosphere can be at Rovers sometimes, every Rovers fan counts, as the money is crucial to maybe (big maybe) getting new players into the club.
Another thing the club must do quickly is lower the price of tickets for adult fans. £15 is probably average, maybe slightly less, than average for clubs in our league. However, if our ticket prices for adults were £10, we would not only get the real fans in, but we might encourage others who follow Liverpool or Everton (or anybody else for that matter) to come to Prenton Park and watch their local club, and they may then be converted, meaning they come to more games, meaning we have more fans and more money.
Also, we need to do an offer like Forest did yesterday. Look at the amount of youth that travelled to the game yesterday. Our support was excellent, and the kid for a quid offer certainlly helped, as it encouraged me, and probably many other youngsters to go and support TRFC. If we do an offer such as a kid for a kid day, maybe three times a season, we could encourage more youth to come to Prenton Park, maybe convert some of them, get more fans and therefore more money. Just like with the adults above.
There is obviously absolutly nothing wrong with our away support. It is without doubt among the best in the league, and long may that continue. But if our attendences continue at home, the trend will most probably happen away from home too.
The fans as Brian fails to realise are key to a teams success. As much as I hate to say it, look at Liverpool's win in Istanbul. Their fans cheared them even when they were 3-0 down and the team on the field was most probably inspired by this amongst other things, and went on to win on penalties.
The same happened with us in the glory cup days against Southampton, Leeds and the best game of all, our 3-0 victory over Everton.
We simply must get the fans back, to chant the team on, like a 12th man and hopefully get a reaction. We should be hauling in 10,000 atleast per week, as so many people can't get into Liverpool or Everton games on the Wirral, however, we are only managing around 8,500, 7,500 at the most against Gillingham.
For one, Rovers need to start playing better football. This may be obvious, as obvious as it sounds, but aswell as dropping valuable points when we are drawing our home games and losing away, we are also losing alot of part-time supporters. This must stop. As poor as the atmosphere can be at Rovers sometimes, every Rovers fan counts, as the money is crucial to maybe (big maybe) getting new players into the club.
Another thing the club must do quickly is lower the price of tickets for adult fans. £15 is probably average, maybe slightly less, than average for clubs in our league. However, if our ticket prices for adults were £10, we would not only get the real fans in, but we might encourage others who follow Liverpool or Everton (or anybody else for that matter) to come to Prenton Park and watch their local club, and they may then be converted, meaning they come to more games, meaning we have more fans and more money.
Also, we need to do an offer like Forest did yesterday. Look at the amount of youth that travelled to the game yesterday. Our support was excellent, and the kid for a quid offer certainlly helped, as it encouraged me, and probably many other youngsters to go and support TRFC. If we do an offer such as a kid for a kid day, maybe three times a season, we could encourage more youth to come to Prenton Park, maybe convert some of them, get more fans and therefore more money. Just like with the adults above.
There is obviously absolutly nothing wrong with our away support. It is without doubt among the best in the league, and long may that continue. But if our attendences continue at home, the trend will most probably happen away from home too.
The fans as Brian fails to realise are key to a teams success. As much as I hate to say it, look at Liverpool's win in Istanbul. Their fans cheared them even when they were 3-0 down and the team on the field was most probably inspired by this amongst other things, and went on to win on penalties.
The same happened with us in the glory cup days against Southampton, Leeds and the best game of all, our 3-0 victory over Everton.
We simply must get the fans back, to chant the team on, like a 12th man and hopefully get a reaction. We should be hauling in 10,000 atleast per week, as so many people can't get into Liverpool or Everton games on the Wirral, however, we are only managing around 8,500, 7,500 at the most against Gillingham.
