Devils Vs Stars - League - 12th Dec 21
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I get your thought process but not all the arena is sold out to season ticket holders, there are plenty of seats that people aren't taking up so it's not like they have a queue of people waiting for season ticket holders to drop out to then be picked up.
Some have said they may think twice about their season ticket because of the assholes on a Saturday night and i can see that.
Some have said they may drop season ticket if poor performances continue till end of season, their choice.
So even if only 200 season ticket holders drop out their isn't a waiting list wanting them as there are many game by game seats available.
You can't just turn people to hockey with flashy marketing, we've been around since 1986, Cardiff's most successful team and still we can't sell 2000 season tickets with 1100 seats still available after that.
Even when the Devils were winning well and winning titles they couldn't sell out the arena every game, maybe Sheffield, Belfast and Nottingham games.
If they thought they could gain more fans when season ticket holders dropped out why aren't they doing it now? No such thing as to many fans.
As for 49k followers on twitter that means nothing. It doesn't tell you who they are, some could have joined checked it out and not bothered again, others could be rival team fans, some could be outside the UK, can't go by those numbers.
We have 2,763 members on here and maybe only 50 post at most 100.
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I find the worst time to make an assessment of a team's/player's performance and effort is virtually immediately after the event, opinions
can go from the sublime to the ridiculous. A lot of people have expressed in very lyrical terms that the team played crap and some are insisting they will not be attending until things change either with coaches being fired or players being gassed, Great post, been a bit ott on here regards our current form, not the best hockey I've witnessed but not bad enough to want to stop attending or give up my season ticket, if covid were to force the closure of the rink I think we would all regret it, just think how we all felt when we lost hockey when we had the lockdown, be careful what you wish for we have hockey to watch...enjoy.
can go from the sublime to the ridiculous. A lot of people have expressed in very lyrical terms that the team played crap and some are insisting they will not be attending until things change either with coaches being fired or players being gassed, Great post, been a bit ott on here regards our current form, not the best hockey I've witnessed but not bad enough to want to stop attending or give up my season ticket, if covid were to force the closure of the rink I think we would all regret it, just think how we all felt when we lost hockey when we had the lockdown, be careful what you wish for we have hockey to watch...enjoy.
I think you can and I believe the limited capacity of the IAW has impacted on this to some extent. whilst having 5,000 people queued up trying to buy tickets to every game may seem ideal, it isn’t. There is comments on here regarding the size and how we’ve outgrown the IAW, you’ll find that general consensus on the New Arena thread.
He hasn’t.
My point being that all the issues us fans are discussing on the Inferno and within the rink are also blindingly obvious to Todd, yet nothing has changed regarding players, coaching, so he must be either incompetent or not interested in keeping fans. As it’s a niche sport you’d think club owners would make changes to negate fan discontentment in a hope of retaining fan attendance levels. Since the club clearly isn’t, it’s either out of their control, or their idiots, or their more confident of the clubs position, ability to maintain numbers and ignore fans complaining, as Todd put it.......
My point being that all the issues us fans are discussing on the Inferno and within the rink are also blindingly obvious to Todd, yet nothing has changed regarding players, coaching, so he must be either incompetent or not interested in keeping fans. As it’s a niche sport you’d think club owners would make changes to negate fan discontentment in a hope of retaining fan attendance levels. Since the club clearly isn’t, it’s either out of their control, or their idiots, or their more confident of the clubs position, ability to maintain numbers and ignore fans complaining, as Todd put it.......
But there hasn’t been that much pressure on him to make changes tho. We’re third thanks to Carruth and Reid papering over the cracks and we’ve still been getting 3,100 most games. Not because we’re playing well just because the Devils on a Saturday night is always appealing to people. The obvious player to release a while ago was Dupont but Dupont is player coach and has a house in Dinas Powys with his family. That’s not a straight forward firing. It would be for Sheffield but that’s never been our way, whether you agree with that or not. I’m not sure the fact that we haven’t gassed anybody yet suggests that Todd doesn’t care about keeping current fans. We have never released a player during the King/Kelman era. Put it this way, if we lose on Wednesday then I’m sure we will see a change. And if Drew Paris lasted a season then everyone has got a chance of seeing out a season at this club.