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Post by Dave on Feb 23, 2009 19:57:47 GMT
Shane we may be a BSP club and we now seem to have fewer fans and no I would not expect to see highlight's from Uptons game( would be done on some mobile fone anyway ;D) but there is still enough people interested in watching goals etc from a TUFC game. I enjoy seeing the goals from all the other teams and I'm sure their fans like to see our goals.
If its to do with just air time, what would they do if all the teams were league teams? show Plympouth one week with Torquay and then Exeter with Yeovil the next week We seem to be the forgotten team, but do we just have to except that? or should we as viewers of their station let them know that we want our team included in the highlights.
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Post by Dave on Feb 23, 2009 20:10:46 GMT
Back to my loyalty card idea, apart from all the reasons I gave why I think it would work, just think how some fans would feel to have a fully stamped card at the end of the season, meaning they went to every game, I'm sure they would want to keep them, as long as they did not see a full card as some sort of bragging rights.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2009 21:18:29 GMT
yes Phil every team in the Southwest except us, it needs to be sorted and fast, Weymouth got on there, OK they lost nine nil, but those programs are meant to cover local sport and football and that should mean the BSP as well, time for some emails from fans I feel. There'd be plenty of TV regions which don't mention BSP teams but there's not such an embarrassment of riches in the South West that we should be overlooked. This is especially true as both Exeter (before us) and Torquay have been central (albeit in a deep green shadow) to the staple diet of local sports coverage since its inception. In fairness to the local stations, things have changed somewhat in recent years. Once it was the three Devon clubs, the odd county rugby match and plenty of scrambling in muddy fields (which could be covered safe in the knowledge that sun in the lens - or broken film - wouldn't be quite as noticeable as it was with football). Now, of course, there's still three FL clubs, two BSP (for the time being anyway), a top-flight basketball team and three rugby clubs which have come from virtually nowhere to be (arguably) bigger entitities than TUFC. And Natalie loves her rugby, doesn't she? |
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Post by tufc01 on Feb 23, 2009 21:19:24 GMT
yes Phil every team in the Southwest except us, it needs to be sorted and fast, Weymouth got on there, OK they lost nine nil, but those programs are meant to cover local sport and football and that should mean the BSP as well, time for some emails from fans I feel. Isn't it something to do with Setanta having the TV rights?? & therefore the highlights rights?? It would be in their best interest NOT to allow the 'local' TV companies to show the goals, in the hope that everyone subscribes to Setanta. |
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Post by Dave on Feb 23, 2009 21:26:00 GMT
yes Phil every team in the Southwest except us, it needs to be sorted and fast, Weymouth got on there, OK they lost nine nil, but those programs are meant to cover local sport and football and that should mean the BSP as well, time for some emails from fans I feel. Isn't it something to do with Setanta having the TV rights?? & therefore the highlights rights?? It would be in their best interest NOT to allow the 'local' TV companies to show the goals, in the hope that everyone subscribes to Setanta. Yes I do seem to remember that might well be the case, but who owned them before? because I'm sure the game highlights were always shown on both sides, as I'm sure if I missed the local news one side, I would turn over and catch it on the other side. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2009 22:08:48 GMT
I would have expected us to draw better crowds then York to be honest. They have been down here a lot longer than us and struggled last year and even more so this season. There's a real chance of them going down if the clubs below can make their games in hand count. Fair comment about York City in the context of what's happened there in recent years and how they're doing this year (although I guess crowds will get a "bounce" should they be involved in a real dog fight). Maybe I'm being historic in my view of York - in the same way as their own supporters according to Merse - and, yes, it's worth noting they've been in the Conference since 2004. I'd forgotten it was so long. Historically their crowds would have normally been greater than ours - their relegated team in 2003/04 was watched by more people than our promoted team - but attendances have really tailed off since then. We comfortably averaged more than York last season. For more on the latest BSP crowds - with ups and downs compared to last season - see www.tonykempster.co.uk/confatt.htm And my memories of York are probably more historic than many as my first visit there was for an (old and proper) Division Two game against Sheffield Wednesday in January 1975. Nearly 10,000 there that night including around 4,000 from Sheffield. I unfortunately had to return to Sheffield afterwards and, such were the numbers of Wednesdayites, extra trains were put on (those were the days!). Ours limped home at around 2.30 am - after about twenty-five unscheduled stops - minus most of its fixtures and fittings which lay strewn between Pontefract and Thurnscoe. I think we'd been classified as "freight" rather than "passenger".....with good reason in retrospect! Why do you think the Torbay public have become so disenchanted with non-league football so quickly? ...Sadly, I feel that lots of fans feel that watching non-league football is beneath them. The cost and style of football are just excuses. No idea why we should be different from the fans of other "fallen" league teams, but it seems we are. I've no idea either but those half-time boos at that first game against Grays seem even more telling now. Forty-five minutes must be a record time for disenchantment. Take out the Exeter and Aldershot games and I believe Grays is our biggest crowd for a BSP game. What did they expect? |
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Post by stewart on Feb 23, 2009 22:52:32 GMT
Simple answer to the question: play exciting, winning football and score some goals.
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