Right, If this has been done then sink, but with Palace staying up, Millwall going up Leeds going up norwich going up, gillingham and southend down who exactly is gona get 20k plus at the valley? saints maybe just at a real push if big nose is still boss. Will we take 2k plus to leyton orient away this season? and Brentford? gut says not at all. If Dagengham go up they would be one of our closest 'rivals'. cant see us selling out for peterbrough or sheff weds. so who will bring 20k at least to the Valley next season?
Getting this out of the way, could it possibly lead us to have a really good season as we wont have the distraction of millwall et al, so we can just get on with winning games mainly outside of the m25, there wont be the weight around our shoulders of a millwall palace gillingham game, instead rochadale bournemouth notts county.
I will be at brentford and leyton orient but for the first season in my memory of being an addick is this the first season we have not had a team within our local area in our league?
As said earlier this could really help us get on with things but in the case of attendences and atmosphere at home its gona be a real struggle i feel.
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It's a top notch Keeper to replace Randy with. Jesus saves after all...
I'm not sure our average attendance next season will even hit 15,000. Rememeber, however we feel, last season we were 2nd / 3rd for most of the season, this season the current feeling is that at best we will be hovering around the bottom end of the playoff places.
I remember that Hartlepool feeling now that you remind me!
You have to make it cost effective to get people to be season ticket holders, but let's not dismiss the casual fan, Us diehards are a captive audience to an extent, we need new fan's, without them we go backwards.
What about a 15 per cent discount for old fan's from the past 10 years on a season ticket!. ( only a suggestion) I am sure the club knows how to market the club, but a half empty ground is not a good basis for a successful business!
They cannot start charging less than the price paid by the 6000-odd who renewed early.
Gonna have to do something to fill the home areas, heres a novel idea.......how about being top of the league?
I mentioned the idea of past season ticket holders getting a deal of 15 per cent off the new price, and the idea of kids free tickets, what about a monthly season ticket at a reduced rate from match day tickets , or a free JPT ticket.
My view is that if you get people going on a regular basis, they get the habit and on the cold mid week games come to Valley instead of watching tv and the likes. At present the highlight seems playing Dagenham!
Agree with the points above especially the youth point, hopefully the players that want to play elsewhere, can do just that!..... although one or two a seem a little to cozy if truth be known!
No they didn't - it just felt that way.
Didn't like the Leeds or Swindon atmospheres then nolly?
With regards to fans, its getting to the stage where what you see on a saturday is what you get, Charlton through and through. Prefer quality over quantity anyday. Just a shame that it'll be US on the receiving end of the "your ground is too big for you" chants...
Its no good developing the youth if when one comes through the manger wont play him. I will bet you'll see many more 30 somethings next season rather than youth because its what Mr Parkinson is comfortable with
The way you get more people coming to games is by winning. If we're successful, I doubt fans will care too much if we do that with a team of experienced players, or our own youth players.
The fact is if the youth players were ready to play every week, we wouldn't have taken so many players on loan. The likes of Mooney and Akpo Sodje aren't great, but at the moment they are better players than our own young strikers such as Tuna and Perkins.
Not sure that we couldn't have tried our youth a bit more. We don't know how they would have done because we didn't give them a chance. Uncle makes a valid point.
Jonjo is a special talent, which is why he's now in a shellsuit nicking hubcaps, instead of playing crap football in half empty stadiums. Uncle's criticisms over Parky not playing him are valid, but we saw that even with Jonjo at Orient, the occasion got to him slightly by him being so 'up for it' and almost getting sent off in the first minute. That game was not particularly important to the club but was to him, I imagine because he had the family watching him in his neck of the woods. If a player of that ability is affected by the occasion then, how would a lesser player react in occasions that are vital for the club? Just because Jonjo was mistreated by Parky doesn't mean that Parky is wrong in not playing other young players.
As for how to improve the matchday experience? Shut the east, get everyone into the west and north and get an atmosphere going by packing the seats we do sell together. There would be some moaners who have already bought STs there but as they are early commiters I'm presuming they want to help the club, so as long as the reasons why are communicated I imagine the majority will understand.
We'll never sell out this season other than possibly for a cup game (if we get that far) and the acoustics of the north are generally regarded as sheet. The club has backed itself into a corner with regards to pricing through selling the season tickets, so the only thing I can see them doing is a "Buy 2 games, get 1 free" kind of offer. I would be interested to know if that kind of thing has been discussed within the club, and if so why it hasn't been implemented.