Steve Campbell ain’t ever coming back though.
What hes saying unfortunately very likely true. people with shares in the club don't want to see their share value drop, when they drop they need to do something to correct that. If they don't drop their invested money is okay. Not buying season tickets will impact the value and force them in to doing something which will increase them again or they accept a loss on their investment, if you keep buying season tickets every year and their current invested money is safe, what incentives do they have to do anything?
The sentiment of supporting your club is an honourable one, I don't anything would stop us from ever supporting or being fans dependant on your definition of both. I class myself as a fan at the moment and won't buy a season ticket unless I can guarantee being at Tanny at least 70% of the time, therefore my option is to pay at the gate at this moment. That said it has been very demoralising this season when you see teams around you that are no better and in some cases a lot worse and we put in performances week after week; win lose or draw, have been pathetic in the extreme. It may be cyclic, but much of the blame, lies squarely at the board, team manager and too some extent the players who deliver the product. Whatever that is! You cannot polish a turd, which unfortunately at this moment in time and for the last couple of years, our club is and a damn big one!
For me, player recruitment has been the big issue in recent years. When you look back at our successful years around 2010, many of our best players were signed from the lower leagues. They were some of the best players in those leagues at the time, and were young, hungry and driven to do well.
Instead in recent years we've been signing ****e never-beens from the premier league. Players that aren't good enough to get game for the bottom club in that league clearly aren't of the standard to get us promoted. The fact we're being linked with Gardyne shows little has been learnt - another bottom of the league cast-off won't get us up next season.
For some of us its easier to make the decision to not go. My family must have spent a grand following United this season, and i dont go to every game because of work so shudder to think what some spend!
Some of my family already gave up during the Mixu disaster, and for next season, i might just spend my money elsewhere!
Recruitment and 5 games is the chance we will give them.