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3:00 is a great idea.Wasn't for the winter soccer because of the Premiersh!t but in the summer there is no competition(well,apart from the world cup this year)
You would wonder what the board at the showgrounds be thinking sometimes.
Also,remember how Sean came on here for the questions,think it would be a good idea to have a meeting or questions with the commercial manager as the ideas on this forum are great and would promote the club so much.
Three o clock on a Saturday would be a disaster it just wouldnt work. What do yeah do when the English season starts up again go to Thursday nights. I think Rovers played on a Saturday afternoon once bout 15 years ago agaainst Cork, Keely was the manager worst crowd of the season.
Have Sligo always played on Saturday nights or have they played on a Friday before? If they did how were the crowds in comparison to Saturdays?
3 o' clock is a bad idea...y cant they just leave it alone!!!
Definitely against 3pm kick off's. Saturday night is working fine, the crowds are grand when you compare it with what's average in EL games now-a-days. If the club want bigger crowds then it's time they got out and publicised it themselves! If Friday's dont work are they just gonna change it again?
Let them do a bit of work on Saturday night games first, if that doesn't work, then let them think about changing game nights.
Over the last few years Rovers have played on Friday night at a guess three or four times due to Ireland games, crowds would be definitely down. Hard to say exactly a couple of hundred off the attendace at a guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by dmandmythdledge
the late late is a better alternative to these people...
...they need propaganda..i mean advertising
Maybe they could think of changing the kick off to a later time 8.00 or 8.15 especially at the height of summer June and July months.
why would u want it later??? ???
With all the attractions of the summer especially on a good day people tend to head out for the day Rosses Point or whatever. Rovers supporters casual or what just after being out for the day, frig it just in the door couldnt be bothered with the Showgrounds. The later kick off might just get them out door again.
Also it might add to the atmosphere with nightime coming into the equation in the second half with Rovers pushing for a goal. It wouldnt be as drastic as Friday night football, then returning to earlier kickoffs as the Autumn sets in.
Don't know if the FAI would allow a constant changing of kick off times though. A team should decide what night they wanna play and leave it like that for the season, this changing half way through a season is nonsense imo.Quote:
Originally Posted by red bellied
does ANYONE have any links etc. to this story,i hate when people talk about these kind of things and you dont know if its true or not!! :mad:
there is no confirmation yet
Paraic was on here earlier, any chance you can check it with the club?:confused:.
sligoman - i haven't heard anything other than murmurring and what's on the forum here - if there is any word, we'll put something on the site
So you're going to move to Fridays then, bang on time for upcoming home games against big crowd pullers; Home Farm and UCD. :D :D
On the back of that and your opposition to playing on Fridays, the only way your attendances are going in the near future, is down the plughole.
hear fcuking hear
Apparently its true and on the ocean fm website - personally for me its a disaster as I am not living in sligo i wouldnt make it - just like the dublin supporters and other rovers diaspora!
This is a very bad decision in my opinion.
Do the supporters of this club mean anything to this club. They had a vote at the start of the season on weather we wanted Friday or Saturday night football. Overwhelmingly we voted for Saturday night.
Listen to your fans Sligo Rovers.
Trust are looking to gather information on this subject. A poll has been set-up at www.thebitored.org to give us feedback on what supporters think. If you want to add to your vote with comments email info@thebitored.org. We'll try including the best comments in the next issue of the supporters fanzine Saturday Night Live
Because only 1200 people turned up for a match against Longford on the first day of summer on a bank holiday weekend which clashed with 3 nearby music festivals and the beaches , some members of the board have decided to move the games to Friday nights after no consultations with various fans groups and several polls against the change- the exact text of the Ocean FM site is a classic piece of arrogance Quote "Rovers fans are also reminded that the next 4 home games have been scheduled for Friday nights beginning with the fixture against Dublin City on Friday July 7th"
The thing is I don't think they care much about us the fans.
Have you ever noticed on match days that they never thank the supporters for coming and paying in to watch the team. They thank the sponors alright but never the fans. Its a small gripe i know but I'm in one of those moods that only the mc of Sligo Rovers can put me in!. They shouldn't p!ss off the fans and moving games to Friday will p!ss off a lot and many might not return. Thats my fear.
Maybe it's because they think your first game is against a big club from Ireland's capital city, when in reality you're playing against a fanless, talentless, glorified junior club with a commercial title.Quote:
Originally Posted by londonred
You'll be doing well to get 200 people at that fixture. 1200 will seem like a San Siro attendance by comparison.
So talentless they took your Premier status off you in a playoff and sit seven places above you in the league ladder.:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by mypost
careful now lads - this is a sligo rovers forum -
gus / sligoman - can u keep an eye on this thread?
this is an issue that affects all eL fans as many Dubs will njot be able 2 travel 2 sligo on a friday...
51 signatures lads...
The club have their eyes closed on this one, nothing on the official website only something on the local radio site oh by the way we are changing to Friday nights. If they think they are losing a few quid now wait till the 4 Friday nights hit them they will be lucky if they take in 2 Saturday nights for those games.
Bit of a kick in the teeth to the fans alright , I mean didnt we just vote significantly in favour of Saturday Nights ? I hope there is some miracle and we get great crowds but i cant see it happening. Maybe though the crowd will be big next game but that wil only be because of the long gap between the next game and the preivious one.
Sorry Paraic, forgot about the trouble you have on here.:oQuote:
Originally Posted by Paraic
Just an idea for the trust or another supporters group, but how about printing out on A4 paper "Bring Back Saturday Nights" and handing them out at the gate for the first friday night fixture? If only a couple of hundred and were held up at the start, half time and end of the game it would get the point over very very quickly to the board.
nice idea...
i was thinking mayb if everyone who was oppposed to the move wore a certain colour and stand in a certain area together
gary whens the next trust meeting??
btw...i'd more than happy to give ye access to the signatures or the petition if ye want to push it
well doen to Sligo Brewer and the Trust for getting the fans opinions on this matter.
Hopefully the Trust can get this point across to the board that we dont want friday football.If we were in the top 3 in the league we would probably have the best attendances in the league,because of Saturday Night Football but we dont stand a chance of this with Fridays.
The board should remember,we pay the wages,so it should be up to us if we want to change the day we play on.
Has anyone decided to email the club yet? Somebody should type something out and put it here and we all can send the same thing?
Looking neutrally at it, given the fact Sligo seem to be *ahem* a home team this season, it surely has to go down as a risky decision to now jeopardise the home form by messing around with attendances and dates for games...
Our meetings are Tuesdays at 7pm - Sligo City Hotel - In the lounge area. We'll be talking about friday night football amongst other things.Quote:
Originally Posted by SligoBrewer
There was some talk about it on Ocean this morning and they said that 90% of the calls they had about it people were against it .
wonder what sean connor has to say bout it...i cant think he'll be too happy...
in the paper 2day, he said he was behind the board....
im sure he'd say that anyway even if he wasn't happy about it!!