They must have been saving themselves for next year if you only averaged 10,500.
Didn't Pearson state that he needed 14,500 to balance the books?

If you say so. All I'm saying is, if we improve pass sales by 500, we'll cover the drop in average attendance that was mentioned. Anything above that will obviously be a bonus. For what it's worth, I didn't want you to be relegated. I will miss the derby games.

Depends if the fans have the appetite to buy a pass for a season without a derby. What were FC averaging before 2007? Just going on memory. Seem to remember a big increase for FC when we gained promotion.

Can't speak for anyone else, I will be buying one.
As I have done for more years than I care to remember. I'm sure our numbers will be up, and yours will be down. As I said, I enjoy the derby matches, and Magic weekend won't be quite the same, but I expect you will be back for 2018.

To be honest in the cold light of day if we had of stayed up I think it would just papered over the cracks all the talk of signing Hardaker and Todd Carney were just talk as we had actually signed Addy Clark and Scruton And all that meant was another season of struggle wheras now I suppose we can dump some deadwood hopefully keep a nucleus of the team and start again

Lardy, We buy our passes to see the Cream rather than any particular opposition, although you are right to a point, that in recent seasons the Derby has been the source of much joy for us, and yes, I suppose the 4 points will be missed.

But winning Rugby is the main attraction.....you'd enjoy it.

Yes, it will be a tough decision for many as the obviously only buy their pass so they can watch the derby and not worry about the other 12 or 13 games at all. Makes complete financial sense to shell out £250 for a pass to watch that one game rather than the £24 they could pay

Theres a bit of me that thinks exactly the same. The last few years have been poor and really boring. Some serious cap mismanagement was blatantly evident and scraping through would have either been a watershed moment or more than likely just a signal for more of the same.

I'd never want relegation but in the cold light of day it never really hurt me as much as it should have, I almost found it laughable as I called it with 5 minutes to go, that's what we do time and time again.

IF and it is a big IF we can regroup and bounce back we will do so stronger, if we don't then parking will be easier on match days.

By the way can someone clean this thread up, does anyone really care about FC's gates next year..

Yes, Keith does it seems.


I understand what you're saying. At some point, Rovers had to dismantle the current squad and start again, following the cap mismanagement you've seen in the last few seasons.

Relegation almost helps in that aspect, as it allows you to get the deadwood out quicker and cheaper than if you were waiting for contracts to run out or paying players off.

A completely blank slate is a positive, but you're building it back up from a harder position financially (unless that shortfall can be covered by the directors). You don't have much time to pull a squad together for 2017, so maybe next season will be a bit of consolidating year(?), stay full time and get into the middle 8's, bring on the youngsters, make some decent signings for 2018.

I remember looking at the clock and it has 4min 48secs and I had a bad feeling and really you shouldn't feel like that as that game should have been in the bag that's the lack of confidence in that team and a few weeks ago I thought if we can just scrape through this season we'll be ok but in reality the signings meant another season of struggle but relagation means the club has to do something rather than just coast through and hope for the best

All it would've taken was for Minns(?) to have held down Evalds after that break. Taken the sin binning, take the penalty, allowing time for the defensive line to be set to face one final tackle.

Instead, he jumped off him allowed a quick play the ball and Salford had a defence in disarray to run at.