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Free Coach Travel to Bolton
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I wonder what Johnson's view is on fans going on this trip if he gets selected and subsequently booed?0
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Ten days notice is ample time for anyone seriously considering making the trip.4
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Wouldn't think it would bother him.Solidgone said:I wonder what Johnson's view is on fans going on this trip if he gets selected and subsequently booed?
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how much is a couple of coaches return to bolton 2k? yet they've sold multi millions worth of players and got us relegated from the championship, and put together a side that will struggle to get playoffs. they can fuck off.2
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Take it that you won't be going.palarsehater said:how much is a couple of coaches return to bolton 2k? yet they've sold multi millions worth of players and got us relegated from the championship, and put together a side that will struggle to get playoffs. they can fuck off.
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Yay?0
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I am pleased that you are pleased.CyrilDavies said:
Pleased to see, that you are still moaning.ElfsborgAddick said:
Fair comment but I suppose it is what way you look at it.killerandflash said:
Surely Northampton is an easy train journey, while Bolton is much further, and with engineering work as well much harder to get toclb74 said:Free travel can never be a bad thing but in my opinion it's half hearted,do it for a game like Northampton
This is a cheap offer for the Belgians as not many people are going to go anyway.
As CLB74 commented, Northampton should be made as free travel, and people made aware of well in advance. Make more fans rewarded as we are certain to sell whatever the allocation is.
Bolton is half hearted, a bit like last seasons free travel.3 -
with others if your gonna do an offer make it something decent like a big away cup tie LOOOOL or a game like northampton where people that wouldnt usually go would go, a game like bolton diehards would go to that or nothern based fans and already made travel arrangements, plus the distance it takes up whole saturday, at least with the train you can have a beer etc.1
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You need to get a life mate your moaning on a thread that your not even going to be using.ElfsborgAddick said:
I am pleased that you are pleased.CyrilDavies said:
Pleased to see, that you are still moaning.ElfsborgAddick said:
Fair comment but I suppose it is what way you look at it.killerandflash said:
Surely Northampton is an easy train journey, while Bolton is much further, and with engineering work as well much harder to get toclb74 said:Free travel can never be a bad thing but in my opinion it's half hearted,do it for a game like Northampton
This is a cheap offer for the Belgians as not many people are going to go anyway.
As CLB74 commented, Northampton should be made as free travel, and people made aware of well in advance. Make more fans rewarded as we are certain to sell whatever the allocation is.
Bolton is half hearted, a bit like last seasons free travel.
I'm sure you've mentioned before you wouldn't be seen dead on a coach.
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A coach to Bolton won't be far shy of £1,000. I would guess they will cap it at very low numbers but it's an arduous journey so is unlikely to reach the cap. Five coaches, perhaps? Compared to the 79 that went to Blackburn in 2007 in different times.
Nothing wrong with doing it, although I have always thought - including previous trips I helped organise - that there are better ways of the club spending that money. The club spent about £70k on coaches to Ewood. Plus it subsidised planes. Nice day out and fun to organise but what difference did it make?The exception is when they get a share of the ticket revenue, like Boro in the cup in 2006.
They would get more value halving the fare on Valley Express, which actually generates revenue, instead of running its coaches half-empty but there is no business case behind anything they do it appears.
Although I also wonder if they are committed to hiring a certain number of coaches or an annual value with the supplier as part of the "preferred status" package, which they wouldn't otherwise meet.6 -
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Is that all you've got Irving? I thought as much.1
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I will be.CyrilDavies said:
Take it that you won't be going.palarsehater said:how much is a couple of coaches return to bolton 2k? yet they've sold multi millions worth of players and got us relegated from the championship, and put together a side that will struggle to get playoffs. they can fuck off.
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Instead of pissing around at the margins with away travel offers, the club should announce on Saturday via Robinson on the big screen that admission to the Fleetwood game on February 4th will be free.Henry Irving said:
If it truly believes that its transfer window dealings will have been seen as a success and that it now has the players and the manager to move forward, it should throw everything into a one-off initiative to change the narrative. Write to everyone on the database personally and apologise for the past, admit specific errors, make a big offer of reconciliation. Stop blaming other people. Make a huge story out of it and aim to put protestors on the back foot. Get momentum back, if not to gain promotion then at least to turn the tide on season ticket sales.
The ticket receipts from the Fleetwood game are unlikely to reach £50k net, which is small beer in context even of the recent PR spend. Find ways to monetise the attendance on the day instead to offset the cost. Sell FFAF tickets for Bury on the day and drive that promotion in the process.
The reason it won't do that, apart from the clueless senior management, is that it isn't confident the transfer window will be seen as a success and it can't and won't admit that Duchatelet has ever been wrong or needed such a sea change. Hence the old fool still trying to justify Polish Pete, Anil Koc, Yohann Thuram and Loic Nego, while insulting Powell, just a month ago. Hence the nonsense about "activists".
Messing around with a small number of coaches that will largely be used by people who would have gone anyway won't cut it. Show some bloody ambition.
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This.Airman Brown said:
Instead of pissing around at the margins with away travel offers, the club should announce on Saturday via Robinson on the big screen that admission to the Fleetwood game on February 4th will be free.Henry Irving said:
If it truly believes that its transfer window dealings will have been seen as a success and that it now has the players and the manager to move forward, it should throw everything into a one-off initiative to change the narrative. Write to everyone on the database personally and apologise for the past, admit specific errors, make a big offer of reconciliation. Stop blaming other people. Make a huge story out of it and aim to put protestors on the back foot. Get momentum back, if not to gain promotion then at least to turn the tide on season ticket sales.
The ticket receipts from the Fleetwood game are unlikely to reach £50k net, which is small beer in context even of the recent PR spend. Find ways to monetise the attendance on the day instead to offset the cost. Sell FFAF tickets for Bury on the day and drive that promotion in the process.
The reason it won't do that, apart from the clueless senior management, is that it isn't confident the transfer window will be seen as a success and it can't and won't admit that Duchatelet has ever been wrong or needed such a sea change. Hence the old fool still trying to justify Polish Pete, Anil Koc, Yohann Thuram and Loic Nego, while insulting Powell, just a month ago. Hence the nonsense about "activists".
Messing around with a small number of coaches that will largely be used by people who would have gone anyway won't cut it. Show some bloody ambition.
How many times have I read posts on here like 'I've started going shopping with the wife on Saturday and at first I missed it but now I don't miss it at all'; 'I watch non-league now'... or rugby or cricket; ' I've had a ST 20/30 years but I won't renew until this lot are gone'; 'my kids don't enjoy it anymore - it's not worth bringing them, they don't want to come'.
The cloob's got a hardcore fanbase, but it's not got a geographically captive audience (like, say, Ipswich, or even Hull (although that was pretty desperate when I was a steward there years ago at Boothferry Park)... we're just a 'product' in London to be marketed, and under this, and the previous regime, the marketing's been pretty dire.
The club needs everyone - adults & kids - to supply the next generations of supporters who'll moan, in turn, in 20 or 30 years' time, and look back with fondness to those good old 'post-douchebag' days, when most of us will be worm bait.
GL to Oldham with their offer - as a 'Greater Manchester' club they face the same competition as us, and whilst the free coach travel from KM might be a nice gesture to ardent away fans (and Bolton isn't the easiest or nicest place to go), it is, as @Airman Brown says, just pissing in the river compared to what the club could do6 -
The free coaches have sold out
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All 18 places gone3
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How many coaches did they lay on? Reading elsewhere that it was only 2?
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If thats true, thats quite disgracefull to be honest.shirty5 said:How many coaches did they lay on? Reading elsewhere that it was only 2?
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I'll count them on Saturday and let you know.cafcsinger said:
If thats true, thats quite disgracefull to be honest.shirty5 said:How many coaches did they lay on? Reading elsewhere that it was only 2?
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How can something that's free, be sold out? Fully booked maybe.5 -
Don't do that red you won't have time for a beerRedChaser said:
I'll count them on Saturday and let you know.cafcsinger said:
If thats true, thats quite disgracefull to be honest.shirty5 said:How many coaches did they lay on? Reading elsewhere that it was only 2?
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I plan to get there in good time but can only have a couple anyway as I'm driving so Elfs can relax if it's his round
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We'll be in the Beehive from about 13.00 and make mine a Heineken.RedChaser said:I plan to get there in good time but can only have a couple anyway as I'm driving so Elfs can relax if it's his round
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Alternatively you can pick us up from the Anvil by Wigan bus station at 12.30 and I'll get the beers in.0
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Why don't you just get him to pick you up from Bromley? It's only a few hundred miles out of his way.ElfsborgAddick said:Alternatively you can pick us up from the Anvil by Wigan bus station at 12.30 and I'll get the beers in.
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I have the train tickets and do not want to waste them.ricky_otto said:
Why don't you just get him to pick you up from Bromley? It's only a few hundred miles out of his way.ElfsborgAddick said:Alternatively you can pick us up from the Anvil by Wigan bus station at 12.30 and I'll get the beers in.
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Oldham won 2-0 against play off chasing Peterborough
Attendance 7,224 compared to 2,911 for their last home Tuesday match which was in October against Skatrienmeirehorpe0 -
Peterborough brought 5000 though.oohaahmortimer said:Oldham won 2-0 against play off chasing Peterborough
Attendance 7,224 compared to 2,911 for their last home Tuesday match which was in October against Skatrienmeirehorpe1
