| No coach to Stockton on 13:24 - Jan 8 with 838 views | Boss_Hog |
| No coach to Stockton on 12:53 - Jan 8 by dawlishdale |
I'll answer on behalf of everyone who hasn't got access to the pitch. We don't know. The last update was before the last postponed game, and it showed the pitch uncovered. The one before showed two very small rain covers which between them probably only protected 10-15% of the playing area. That's all we've had.
Surely ; given the awful weather we have had, someone at the club could take half an hour to update supporters? |
Just because we don't know, we therefore presume they haven't done something we'd consider absolute basics? We don't see pictures of the players training every day but we know they must be doing.
Now I agree 100% that an update about the pitch would have aided fan engagement. To me, and you, that is also absolute basics and the club deserve criticism for not doing it. |  | |  |
| No coach to Stockton on 15:56 - Jan 8 with 541 views | Dale_4_Life |
| No coach to Stockton on 13:24 - Jan 8 by Boss_Hog |
Just because we don't know, we therefore presume they haven't done something we'd consider absolute basics? We don't see pictures of the players training every day but we know they must be doing.
Now I agree 100% that an update about the pitch would have aided fan engagement. To me, and you, that is also absolute basics and the club deserve criticism for not doing it. |
I sit somewhere between Boss Hog and the vocal critical supporters of some board members.
The stewardship should always be under scrutiny but there are some pillars of light amongst the obvious own goals. We cant be down on them all the time.
Is SG the man?.. I am happy to wait until season end after the very recent (pre Ogden) turmoil to make a judgement.
Agree that the fan engagement could and should be so much better from the club. We get it from Big Jim and the team to some extent but very little to get excited about from the boardroom. I guess they would counter they are not there for this reason and that's fine if the club appoints somebody who will run through walls for supporters and the communication is ramped up ten fold. | | | |
| No coach to Stockton on 16:03 - Jan 8 with 526 views | WirralDale |
| No coach to Stockton on 12:07 - Jan 8 by Dalenet |
I couldn't disagree with you more. We have a dwindling fan base, we have a problem with a pitch that we have known about since October and haven't done enough to protect it. That is why people are angry. The fans are taken for granted. They were happy to take our season ticket money and some us spent thousands on shares in a vain hope to save the club - but yet we are taken for granted. I don't know how many thousands you spend on your trips to Spotland, but I have wasted a fortune this year trying to 'support' my team only to not see a game. Why shouldn't we criticise when the club can't say sorry, or tell us why they didn't protect the pitch. Would any of our decent CEOs over the past 20 years leave us in this vacuum? No. And any decent CEO would have acknowledged the embarrasment and at least offered to put a couple of free coaches to Stockton tonight to at least get some fans there to what is supposed to be a home game. The club hasn't even made the refunds of the tickets from Saturday as promised as yet.
It would seem your values and mine are completely different and we will just have to agree to disagree. I have simply had enough. If I stopped turning up tomorrow they wouldn't even notice. I know things happen - it is how it is dealt with that counts. Football is notoriously poor with how it deals with paying fans - and the planned football regulator is long overdue. Bring one in, make clubs accountable, and lets change the game for the better. I hope Murray resigns from the Board as he is on a hiding to nothing and I hope that one day the new owners will outline a vision that might bring Team Rochdale back. [Post edited 8 Jan 18:19]
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I agree. I live 50 miles away and now can only go to home games on a Saturday, weather and health permitting. I'm awaiting refunds due on tickets for 2 postponed games. I've spent money on season tickets (but not this year), a plaque, gifts from the club shop and have given to the fundraising initiatives when our club was almost lost. My brother has been going to games for over 55 years and has spent much, much more, as have others!
The Board need to have more respect for the fans - most of whom manage on a low income - and keep us on side.
Having said all that, Up the Dale! | | | |
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