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Post by billbris on Jan 3, 2013 12:24:54 GMT
Are you really asking this question? Of course they will. That is a proven thing in UKIH. When Steelers stuck to the old wage cap for a season, they finished 6th and their attendances dropped even further! They were barely getting 1000 people into Ice Sheffield. It was more a rhetorical question. When Braehead played in Fife last week their away support was about half of what it had been previously- at a time of year when crowds are generally up. More fool the ones who missed a good display by their team but yeah I think it proves that The Purple Army require Uncle Neil to provide them with a guaranteed winning team. You've got a real bee in your bonnet about the Clan - haven't you! As I said to you on THF, playing the same team 3 times in a week, at a time when Clan have 6 games in 11 days, means that folk'll be selective in which games they attend. I know if I tried to go to them all, my wife would chop my fingers off at the elbow!
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Post by finchy on Jan 3, 2013 12:38:33 GMT
Ive not really got a bee in my bonnet but as a rival I take a keen interest in what's happening. As I said to you on THF, my comments were in the context of previous things I'd read from Clan fans which were implying that Clan's away support was propping up the rest of the Conference!
Everyone's individual circumstances are different and I totally respect the right of fans to pick and choose their games. It is just unusual to see such a huge drop off in numbers and it co-incided with a form slump.
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Post by jay2261 on Jan 3, 2013 15:52:25 GMT
Are you really asking this question? Of course they will. That is a proven thing in UKIH. When Steelers stuck to the old wage cap for a season, they finished 6th and their attendances dropped even further! They were barely getting 1000 people into Ice Sheffield. It was more a rhetorical question. When Braehead played in Fife last week their away support was about half of what it had been previously- at a time of year when crowds are generally up. More fool the ones who missed a good display by their team but yeah I think it proves that The Purple Army require Uncle Neil to provide them with a guaranteed winning team. Perhaps the Clan fans just didn't want to attend Fife...home crowds show that the fan base is continuing to grow even through this season with the string of losses and the coming and going of players!
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Post by harlan on Jan 3, 2013 16:20:40 GMT
It was more a rhetorical question. When Braehead played in Fife last week their away support was about half of what it had been previously- at a time of year when crowds are generally up. More fool the ones who missed a good display by their team but yeah I think it proves that The Purple Army require Uncle Neil to provide them with a guaranteed winning team. Perhaps the Clan fans just didn't want to attend Fife...home crowds show that the fan base is continuing to grow even through this season with the string of losses and the coming and going of players! But the home crowds at Braehead aren't the point. When Flyers played Clan way back in Sept a number of Clan fans insinuated that the 300 or so fans they brought to away games were keeping the other teams in our conference afloat. Since then we have not played Clan at Kirkcaldy but yet we have increased our import numbers without any Clan support and we have had on opposition coach publicly state that his team could afford an extra import because of the number of Flyers fans that went to see Flyers play away. Personally I take this with a bag of salt but still it was said. As Finchy says the crowd numbers tend to be up at this time of year so it was somewhat disappointing at the lack of numbers that Clan brought through with them. As a matter of fact there were more Dundee fans in Kirkcaldy the previous Thursday and it had been only 4 days since we had played them and they were going through a much worse time playing wise than Clan. So a coincidence that the number of Clan fans were down in Kirkcaldy in relation to how they have been playing? Mmmm
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Post by billbris on Jan 3, 2013 19:04:46 GMT
Perhaps the Clan fans just didn't want to attend Fife...home crowds show that the fan base is continuing to grow even through this season with the string of losses and the coming and going of players! But the home crowds at Braehead aren't the point. When Flyers played Clan way back in Sept a number of Clan fans insinuated that the 300 or so fans they brought to away games were keeping the other teams in our conference afloat. Since then we have not played Clan at Kirkcaldy but yet we have increased our import numbers without any Clan support and we have had on opposition coach publicly state that his team could afford an extra import because of the number of Flyers fans that went to see Flyers play away. Personally I take this with a bag of salt but still it was said. As Finchy says the crowd numbers tend to be up at this time of year so it was somewhat disappointing at the lack of numbers that Clan brought through with them. As a matter of fact there were more Dundee fans in Kirkcaldy the previous Thursday and it had been only 4 days since we had played them and they were going through a much worse time playing wise than Clan. So a coincidence that the number of Clan fans were down in Kirkcaldy in relation to how they have been playing? Mmmm I refer you to my previous post.
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Post by zamboni on Jan 3, 2013 19:23:48 GMT
Billbris Its also a well known fact that west coasters(weegies) like to be social at this time of year. Where as Dundee fans they have deep pockets and short arms so rather than getting stung for a few rounds in the pub they opt for damage limitation and attended FIA instead...........
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Post by harlan on Jan 3, 2013 19:28:37 GMT
And my post was directed at Jays post billbris not your previous post
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Post by billbris on Jan 3, 2013 20:22:35 GMT
And my post was directed at Jays post billbris not your previous post And I was referring to your last sentence, which raised the exact same point made by Finchy - which was replied to in the post to which you were directed. Hey 'Zamboni', I wonder where the Dundonians get those clothes with deep pockets - I could really do with a set!
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Post by zamboni on Jan 3, 2013 20:39:24 GMT
I could give you a couple of politically incorrect answers... But i am gonna pass on an answer on this occasion. There will be others though that will tell you
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