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Reply | No coach to Stockton
at 23:06 6 Jan 2025
So not only do the club think it is beneath them to apologise for the postponement again, they decided to switch the home game to a ground over 100 miles away and don't think they have any responsibility to help fans get there.
The sooner we have a football regulator in place the better. Our fan engagement is worse than ever. |
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Reply | Coleman new Gills Manager
at 20:48 5 Jan 2025
Given Jimmy Bell was 'mutually released' as manager at Clitheroe in December, I suspect he will also end up in kent. The American owners will need translators |
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Reply | Pitch update
at 20:41 5 Jan 2025
As the Boston tickets will be valid for the re-arranged match they won't be automatically refunded unless you ask for it. I am sure if you bought them electronically, a quick call or email to the club would sort that. The Stockton tickets are a different matter and most of our fans won't have an inconvenient trip to get a refund is all I was saying - assuming that the ticket system works as intended and they have stored all of our payment details. |
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Reply | Pitch update
at 15:17 5 Jan 2025
For the sake of balance, at least the majority of our fans will have bought their tickets digitally and we should be refunded automatically. So maybe, our position is less inconvenient for fans. And we did call it off early enough to avoid travelling. Having said that, the word sorry would be nice. And we still don't know why the club hasn't hired some rain covers to give us a better chance of getting games on. |
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Reply | Pitch update
at 16:51 4 Jan 2025
Oh dear....it was Scunny that was off and I had mixed them up in my head. Sorry |
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Reply | Pitch update
at 12:03 4 Jan 2025
We'll find out on Wednesday. The forecast is for Stockton to not get above freezing all day Tuesday and Wednesday - but it will be sunny on both days. It will be -5c by 9pm on Wednesday. The positive is that it will be dry and so there shouldn't be much to freeze. |
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Reply | Pitch update
at 10:40 4 Jan 2025
Tell me about it, I have travelled to Rochdale 3 times so far this season for nothing. Didn't make the same mistake today.
I see that the tickets from today won't be valid and will need to be refunded. Stockton will issue tickets from Monday at their normal prices - which are marginally higher than todays. I can only assume they had little confidence of the game going ahead today and had already agreed with Stockton to switch it as a precaution. I guess their pitch guarantees it will go ahead - Hartlepool a few miles up the road is off due to frozen pitch. It is certainly cold (albeit sunny) in the north east. [Post edited 4 Jan 10:41]
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Reply | Pitch update
at 10:24 4 Jan 2025
We deserve some detailed explanations on what can now be done and why they think it will work. And have they a plan to hire special covers over the next few months. And will the club be offering free transport to Stockton on Wednesday for those prepared to go. Play offs will be at serious risk if the fixtures back up any more than they have already |
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Reply | Pitch update
at 10:01 4 Jan 2025
Game off according to Stockton |
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Reply | Pitch update
at 09:59 4 Jan 2025
Agree. I need to leave in the next 15 minutes |
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Reply | Pitch update
at 21:58 3 Jan 2025
They are leaving at 11.30am so there is time to make a decision. As I see it - if it is frozen today, it will still be frozen at 9.30am. Unless miracles happen. No idea whether the pitch was covered or not.
As for the Wolves under 21s next Tuesday - move it to next Saturday when we are free. Gives the pitch time to recover and a day time game has to be better than a night game in these temperatures for the pitch. Their under 21s should be flexible [Post edited 3 Jan 22:02]
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Reply | Beware the Town!
at 00:13 3 Jan 2025
We have barely sold 300 tickets for this game as yet. This is what happens when the fans have no confidence whatsoever that the game will go ahead. Does anybody believe it will? |
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Reply | Tickets
at 00:35 29 Dec 2024
I do agree with you by the way. We must be able to sell 2000 home tickets for this given we.ve been starved of Saturday football at home for so long |
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Reply | Tickets
at 17:53 28 Dec 2024
To be fair they announced the cup ticket details before Christmas, before the good away win. And we haven't even sold 100 tickets in the home ends as yet. I suspect somebody has made the decision that the game won't be popular.
Until the club has somebody senior that has responsibility for fan engagement they will keep making the same mistakes. |
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Reply | Tickets
at 13:02 28 Dec 2024
We are playing Stockton Town next Saturday.
I have noticed that they have sold half their allocation already. It is a big game for them and I was surprised they have been put in the Pearl Street. I suspect they will sell out and need to be moved. [Post edited 28 Dec 2024 13:06]
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Reply | Pitch inspection 10.30
at 20:55 22 Dec 2024
The thing that grates me 49th is the lack of respect for the paying customer. How many people travelled to the game yesterday and wasted their hard earned cash. Boston fans had two coaches booked. They must have known on Friday night that the pitch wasn't draining. The ref was Liverpool based and he miraculously appeared at the ground for a 10.30am inspection. He must have been asked to come early the night before as he wasn't based in a local hotel. Why would he have left home around 8.30am for a 60-90 minute journey unless somebody had asked him to do it the night before? Yet we are just expected to soak up a standard message that the game is off and we should expect to turn up when they can rearrange it . No apology, no suggestion on what they need to do. We know the £500k spent in the pitch in 2020 hasn't worked - so what is the plan. Why wasn't the refunded fees from the supplier of the pitch been used to at least buy some rain covers? This is the second fixture we have had to postpone and it has cost me almost £500 in accommodation and travel costs. I am simply taken for granted, as is everybody else. I want the Trust to fight for the fans. Not roll over and have my belly tickled.
Of course what I really want is the two Chairs to read the riot act to the Exec who thought the annoucement yesterday was acceptable with a detailed explanation of where the pitch is and what they can do about it. We are not a community/fan led club when the club can't be arsed. Is anybody going to take a chance on buying tickets ahead of the day for the Alty or Stockton games if it rains in the next 3 weeks? Of course not.
Rant over. What else is the Trust for if it isn't to be in the know and challenge on behalf of the fans in real time? And finally, I have never believed that Murray can be held accountable in his 'token' role on the Board. It has to be a paid exec who is responsible, and accountable, for fan engagement. The two Chairs need to be clear on what that looks like. [Post edited 23 Dec 2024 15:45]
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Reply | Oi, Biffos
at 15:38 21 Dec 2024
The speed at which their rich owner is spending his cash means he won't be rich for much longer. Thier council paid for the pitch to facilitate the rugby club going back to Boundary Park. What could possibly go wrong? Anyway, £7m of accumulated losses in just over 2 years isn't sustainable. |
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Reply | Pitch inspection 10.30
at 11:37 21 Dec 2024
Same here - another 300 mile round trip and overnight stay for nowt. It is becoming too hard to follow Dale nowadays. And too ruddy expensive. The new Chair needs to reflect on whether he should allow McNulty to keep signing players when the basics can't be delivered. Some rain covers are needed if the pitch that cost more than half a million is really this bad. I note from the accounts that the money refunded from the supplier is peanuts compared to this fiasco - at least spend that on hiring some covers. |
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Reply | Tamworth Tuesday
at 19:00 19 Dec 2024
Remember William Mocquet - wasn't with us long, but his pace down the wings was mesmerising. |
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Reply | Tamworth Tuesday
at 10:31 18 Dec 2024
I think we all knew that by instinct, but that table brings it alive. Can Jim find a raw talent in non league somewhere that wants a chance to prove himself up top. Or do we have a good scholar that we can use for the last 20 minutes to have a go. No fear and all that. Bigger teams than Dale have been doing that a lot recently. |
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