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Post by zamboni on Jun 12, 2016 7:15:34 GMT
Buying your season ticket saves you standing queuing at that front door waiting to get a ticket and a seat That alone saves you anxiety attack Fans are frustrated and understandable as they want to be reading about the Fife Flyers team rather than the other 9 teams The club has issued a few holding responses could be for a number of reasons maybe the spokesperson is on holiday and don't want to put anything out that will be criticized for sounding unprofessional, there is no signings to announce, perhaps Todd has not got around to looking for a new team yet as there is still 10 weeks till season starts. Who knows but we should have the bones of a team come end of August pay your money and take a chance its the Fife Way The Euros have started with all the home nation teams participating bar one, only 51 games left to watch......... Only ten weeks to go and we should have the bones of a team by end of August. Sorry Zamboni but your in dream world. The teams in this league are finally realising that a good pre season is key to the season and league success. Steelers and Clan proved it early in last season. We are seeing other teams organise 6 pre season games and holding 2/3 week training camps. These will run during August, when you say we should have part of a team signed??? Visa's work permits etc take a number of weeks to go through so the timetable to get imports organised/signed up is very short. This league is becoming more and more professional unfortunately Flyers are making themselves look bad in this regard. Pumping out tweets about "buy your season ticket now" with little o interaction with their fan base and no signing news. 9 other teams get it our one is stuck in the past . Not I am not in dream world, for all we know the full team could be signed, you don't know either way,Sheffield and Clan yes agreed the more a team plays together pre season the better didn't see either of them at Play off weekend, Sheffield won the league because Cardiff threw it away and Clan what did they do, how many games did they win against Fife? They both started early for the CHL, Clan all their big name players Jackman I thought Kyle Horne had a better season than him. There is no pre-season manual that says this is how you do it and as for all these nice to haves you mention, you are following the wrong team.
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Post by waterboy on Jun 12, 2016 10:08:42 GMT
Only ten weeks to go and we should have the bones of a team by end of August. Sorry Zamboni but your in dream world. The teams in this league are finally realising that a good pre season is key to the season and league success. Steelers and Clan proved it early in last season. We are seeing other teams organise 6 pre season games and holding 2/3 week training camps. These will run during August, when you say we should have part of a team signed??? Visa's work permits etc take a number of weeks to go through so the timetable to get imports organised/signed up is very short. This league is becoming more and more professional unfortunately Flyers are making themselves look bad in this regard. Pumping out tweets about "buy your season ticket now" with little o interaction with their fan base and no signing news. 9 other teams get it our one is stuck in the past . Not I am not in dream world, for all we know the full team could be signed, you don't know either way,Sheffield and Clan yes agreed the more a team plays together pre season the better didn't see either of them at Play off weekend, Sheffield won the league because Cardiff threw it away and Clan what did they do, how many games did they win against Fife? They both started early for the CHL, Clan all their big name players Jackman I thought Kyle Horne had a better season than him. There is no pre-season manual that says this is how you do it and as for all these nice to haves you mention, you are following the wrong team. Your right I don't know what we have signed up, I said exactly that in another thread. You agree that steelers and clan did better due to their pre season last year then slag them off for not being at the playoff weekend, they both finished well above us in the league. Clan were not happy after "just" winning the conference they want a major trophy. That's the difference they are pushing to win things (they might, they might not) we just say it then do the same thing expecting a different result. As for your last comment about pre season, my last season playing at a level well below the EIHL we had 4 week training camp with 4 games before we played our first league game. Every team in the top leagues around the world have camps with games spread throughout, frolunda the best in Europe have had their entire team doing their summer camp strength and conditioning programme for weeks already. Yes they are at a far higher level but the whole point is to learn from the best and improve your own team you know like the teams in our league are doing. Just out of interest what are these nice to have's that I have mentioned. "Following the wrong team" yeah maybe your right maybe I should give my money to the Kestrels instead.
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Post by regdunlop on Jun 12, 2016 10:28:29 GMT
I've no posted on here in a while because I'm not part of the inner circle, so I've not heard any decent rumours and I find all the petty squabbling a bit tedious. Waterboy makes a good point though. Look at how the top teams go about things and try to implement some of those ideas. Seems so obvious.
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Post by dan27 on Jun 12, 2016 11:33:47 GMT
That's the thing Reg, no one is on the inner circle that would post on this forum, hence no rumours. I mean at present we have no idea if any further players from last year have actually retired or if there's a possibility of them returning. As far as I've seen we haven't had any indication that any of them have signed elsewhere either.
As for signings I think we may see a flurry of announcements any day now with possibly three in one week leading up to the closing of season ticket applications, well that's what I'd do.
And lastly we're Fife, not Braehead, Sheffield, Edinburgh (thank goodness!) or Belfast. Things are done differently and if by now we can't accept that after al this time, then why are we still following the team with such obsession that we feel the need to slate every single thing they do or don't do through this forum?
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Post by regdunlop on Jun 12, 2016 12:58:12 GMT
Well said mate. We all know how The club is run, so what's the point in wasting time and energy bitching and moaning about something u can't control and/or change? Pretty sure we'll have a team for the start of the season though and all the bellyaching in the world won't make a bit of difference either way
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Post by amazepux on Jun 12, 2016 13:02:09 GMT
That's the thing Reg, no one is on the inner circle that would post on this forum, hence no rumours. I mean at present we have no idea if any further players from last year have actually retired or if there's a possibility of them returning. As far as I've seen we haven't had any indication that any of them have signed elsewhere either. As for signings I think we may see a flurry of announcements any day now with possibly three in one week leading up to the closing of season ticket applications, well that's what I'd do. And lastly we're Fife, not Braehead, Sheffield, Edinburgh (thank goodness!) or Belfast. Things are done differently and if by now we can't accept that after al this time, then why are we still following the team with such obsession that we feel the need to slate every single thing they do or don't do through this forum? But slagging the team mgt/coaching off is 'the forum way' (not everyone)
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Post by happydaysdancer on Jun 12, 2016 13:47:01 GMT
I've no issue with the way things are done, neither I suspect are the bulk of our fans. we usually have them signed earlyish then drip the announcements. If it's taking longer due to trying to get better players, especially with a worsening exchange rate then so be it. For all we know we have a bulk signed anyways
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Post by waterboy on Jun 12, 2016 14:27:50 GMT
So if I didn't not like the way the club does some things and am willing to voice my opinion on these matters I'm moaning or slagging the club coaches management etc.
Is the forum not a place that you can voice your opinion about this team. You might not like it and you know what that's fine it's each individual's choice.
Debate the points raised, hell disagree with them as strongly as you like but don't try and dismiss a different thought or opinion as a few folk just moaning for the sake of it.
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Post by coloradoflyer on Jun 12, 2016 14:53:20 GMT
the club will run it how they want no matter how much people moan, bitch or slag them, but most of us on here are voicing our own opinion all I will say if the club have players signed why are they not announced surely this hurts that club money wise by not coming out and saying this guy and that guy are signed
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Post by Dirty Lyle on Jun 12, 2016 15:11:53 GMT
the club will run it how they want no matter how much people moan, bitch or slag them, but most of us on here are voicing our own opinion all I will say if the club have players signed why are they not announced surely this hurts that club money wise by not coming out and saying this guy and that guy are signed Just how does it hurt the club money wise, it's a common misconception that player announcements affect season ticket sales. If it makes financial sense to buy them then fans will buy them, players signed makes not a jot of difference, and the club knows this. There are players signed, and for whatever reason they have decided to wait to release the news,whether it be final paperwork, press release dates or just plain we will release when we are ready to ....etc the club has it's reasons and will not change it's mind because a few members on the forum are unhappy.
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Post by coloradoflyer on Jun 12, 2016 15:39:14 GMT
there are die hard fans who will buy season tickets regardless but there are also other fans who are waiting to see who is signed before handing over money to the club
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Post by redtussell44 on Jun 12, 2016 17:08:24 GMT
That's the thing Reg, no one is on the inner circle that would post on this forum, hence no rumours. I mean at present we have no idea if any further players from last year have actually retired or if there's a possibility of them returning. As far as I've seen we haven't had any indication that any of them have signed elsewhere either. As for signings I think we may see a flurry of announcements any day now with possibly three in one week leading up to the closing of season ticket applications, well that's what I'd do. And lastly we're Fife, not Braehead, Sheffield, Edinburgh (thank goodness!) or Belfast. Things are done differently and if by now we can't accept that after al this time, then why are we still following the team with such obsession that we feel the need to slate every single thing they do or don't do through this forum? You said "were not Edinburgh (thank goodness)"... Why do you say that? It's arguable that they've had a more positive off season than we've had so far?
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Post by johnmcg41 on Jun 12, 2016 18:29:39 GMT
That's the thing Reg, no one is on the inner circle that would post on this forum, hence no rumours. I mean at present we have no idea if any further players from last year have actually retired or if there's a possibility of them returning. As far as I've seen we haven't had any indication that any of them have signed elsewhere either. As for signings I think we may see a flurry of announcements any day now with possibly three in one week leading up to the closing of season ticket applications, well that's what I'd do. And lastly we're Fife, not Braehead, Sheffield, Edinburgh (thank goodness!) or Belfast. Things are done differently and if by now we can't accept that after al this time, then why are we still following the team with such obsession that we feel the need to slate every single thing they do or don't do through this forum? You said "were not Edinburgh (thank goodness)"... Why do you say that? It's arguable that they've had a more positive off season than we've had so far? I think that is a fair point a few weeks ago everyone on the Edinburgh forum was very doom and gloom regarding whether Emmo would be back and the delay in any coaching announcements, a few weeks later and things are very positive. With regards to the Flyers, as a fan of many years it does frustrate me at times how we do things but in the end those in charge always do things the same way so I probably should not get to hung up about it and enjoy my summer. The bit we miss as Flyers fans is with regards to how the other teams release news is the build up and discussion re new players etc. However, having said all that, and this is the thing, if we look at the team when announced and say "yes we have on paper upgraded then lets see how they perform. The signings in the league so far indicate that it will be even more competitive this year and like always all i ask from the Flyers is that they compete every game. If they lose due to the other team being better on the night, an unlucky bounce etc so be it as long as I can come away and think that the team really competed then that's sport. The first few new player announcements will give us an indication of our compete level, so far I am happy with Dingle, Stockton and Paquet lets see who's next!
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Post by tackleberry on Jun 12, 2016 20:35:32 GMT
the club will run it how they want no matter how much people moan, bitch or slag them, but most of us on here are voicing our own opinion all I will say if the club have players signed why are they not announced surely this hurts that club money wise by not coming out and saying this guy and that guy are signed Just how does it hurt the club money wise, it's a common misconception that player announcements affect season ticket sales. If it makes financial sense to buy them then fans will buy them, players signed makes not a jot of difference, and the club knows this. There are players signed, and for whatever reason they have decided to wait to release the news,whether it be final paperwork, press release dates or just plain we will release when we are ready to ....etc the club has it's reasons and will not change it's mind because a few members on the forum are unhappy. I know for a fact that it affects season ticket sales, because of Tods recruitment last season ( lack of size, lack of power forward, lack of physicality ) I haven't renewed my family ticket, now had they made a marquee signing or two they would have had an extra grand in the coffers by now..... surely I won't be the only one who hasn't renewed?
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Post by Dirty Lyle on Jun 12, 2016 21:05:11 GMT
Just how does it hurt the club money wise, it's a common misconception that player announcements affect season ticket sales. If it makes financial sense to buy them then fans will buy them, players signed makes not a jot of difference, and the club knows this. There are players signed, and for whatever reason they have decided to wait to release the news,whether it be final paperwork, press release dates or just plain we will release when we are ready to ....etc the club has it's reasons and will not change it's mind because a few members on the forum are unhappy. I know for a fact that it affects season ticket sales, because of Tods recruitment last season ( lack of size, lack of power forward, lack of physicality ) I haven't renewed my family ticket, now had they made a marquee signing or two they would have had an extra grand in the coffers by now..... surely I won't be the only one who hasn't renewed? o Bet you still get one though, and if not you will if you want to see hockey spend money on weekly admitance without guarantee of your favourite seats, the club knows this, the marquee signings are coming so the club will not lose your money, I don't know the reason no announcements have been made, but then again I'm not in marketing.
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