I think the directness and frankness of MCs portrayal of the situation has been a breath of fresh air and i think it will go along way in motivating the hardcore to dig in for another scrap.
The over riding spin of it though to those "less in the know" seems to one of negativity and doom and gloom (reading the rl press and local press and talking to supporters and local people) and these are the ones we now need to get back involved with the club and get spending.
Those of us that want to take a broader view know the score, is it not time to start getting a good positive marketing strategy together that (without misleading supporters) starts to paint a positive picture and one that encourages those supporters who aren't presently backing the club to do so?
I'm no media expert but i do/have done some marketing work and in my experience i would imagine a large proportion of the support of this club is waiting for some good news to start trickling from the club.
Honesty is without question the best policy, but some consistent good spin would do a lot for our bank balance surely.

You bang on Kinley

Before AG took over we had around 1000 s/t holders ?
Obviously with the cheap ticket deal, this number increased dramatically but, the additional 3000 have only had s/t for a couple of seasons and without the cheap tickets, many of them will simply revert to paying on the gate.
I think that we are being naïve to expect everyone to just renew their tickets because we are in difficulty.
There does need to be some sort of good news to encourage people to buy and although the promise of SL next season is enough for the diehards to buy early, this simply wont work for the less committed fans.

I'll add something further.
If anyone follows shares and share prices, you only need to watch the effect of good and bad news on them to realise how much of a posative or negative impact news, or bad feeling can have on them.
Good news = improved price and often unfounded substance (perhaps how things were under AG?)

Bad news = price fall and can lead to business failure through lack of finance.

Shouldn't we be positioning ourselves somewhere in the middle pushing up and giving ourselves every chance to turn this club around?

Get the players to call the non renewals, imagine receiving a call from Aiton or Big Ali when you hadn't decided, after 5 mins chatting to them I reckon plenty would be persuaded.

Sweat the asset must also include the players.

I know you're right Fordy, it's just me being narky!
It seems so bloody simple, we're debating relegation next season, we're talking championship rugby. All it takes is 7 out of ten season ticket holders from last season to renew! We'd have a real fighting chance of staying up.I think there's a lot of teams round us that want us to fail cos without us and London then they will be in the mix!

Absolutely bang on!!!
It also sounds a lot more positive than if we dont get 3000 STs we are knackered!!!

Think people need to be told if we get 3000 we will do better than last season rather than if we don't get 3000 we will be knackered.also letting Smith go not a bad thing and Agar can find a another quality player plus others to replace Amor and Ben if he leaves. Honesty is a good thing but we also need to flip this into a positive as we have all seen the ups and downs of the club but this clubs has a habit of getting off the canvas for another round.

At last I am no longer a lone voice in the wilderness. They club may finally listen it's not what you say but how you say it.

people are not going to renew st until they know who stays who goes,simple as that, mc should make a statement and let the fans know who he intends to keep and let go or we wont make the 3000, ive got my platinum

A lot of what you've been saying is true no doubt, its just easier to say it than put it into practice.


You keep banging the drum.

You are of course close to being right, trouble is he can't/won't make a promise he can't keep and without hitting that target he can't tell us.

Chicken and egg and if you're post is true to fans away from these boards then we are screwed all ways up.

Is there something about the present situation you haven't understood?
How can he do that when he doesn't know himself - it comes down to balancing the cash, who we have now we may not have by payday if he hasn't the money to do pay for it.
OR as i prefer to put it; if enough people cough up for STs etc we will be able to keep who we have and perhaps buy somebody else who we can afford.

of course he knows ,he must have a idea whos staying

Message to Daddycool.

You said you would get volunteers to ring round about season tickets

Do you have enough volunteers

Do you need volunteers for the shops

What else do you need volunteers for that will keep costs down

Let everyone know via the forum then I am sure more people will volunteer

Together, we are stronger

He's already said they're all staying - provided we sell enough season tickets! If we don't then players will have to be sold. It's really not difficult to understand!