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London Exile

Honestly feel the club should be looking to acquire the Parklands land from the council. We can then use it for additional car parking, utilise the social club as a lettor and we can then use some of the space to eventually rebuild the home end. I believe the council, club & parklands should co...

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I get the social aspect of paint & clean days, but personally I don’t see why a club which charges a lot of money for tickets should rely on volunteers to do something the club should be funding. To be fair, they don’t! I just find it odd that they don’t tap into the small pool of fans that are...

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We are supposed to be a family friendly club and yet we have no recent open days and no close season days of fans helping paint & clean the ground? Two of the best forms of fan/community engagement that clubs can do IMO. I used to enjoy helping paint & clean, it was good to meet fellow fans ...

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I wonder how the following would stack up financially. Renovating the the Main Stand to have fewer seats with fewer more spread out rows, and fewer wider seats within in each row. Making the seats much plushier than the Colin Farmer. Maybe with padding or similar like Arsenal and some of the seats ...

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I’ll be surprised if Duff is still at Barnsley next season. I can see a couple of championship clubs circling including Swansea.
If he stays though then absolutely I can see them going up automatically

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Josh Payne? He made his Premier League debut 6 months after making his debut for us. Cheers Si, I did mean Josh :D Who was that other young Hammer we had on loan under Gary Johnson? I think his name was Alex and I vaguely recall GJ saying his loan signing was a bit of a coup for us EDIT - it was Al...

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Did John Payne play for West Ham in the prem after his loan spell with us?

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We won't break the 5000 average until the new stand is built then I genuinely see us averaging similar gates to Wycombe. We desperately need to add more seats somehow. A bit controversial, and it would reduce overall capacity, but they could redevelop the paddock and terrace standing areas in front...

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As our catering outsourcing seems to be so bad season upon season why don’t they split the outlets and offer certain outlets to independent caterers on a contract basis? You could offer both outlets in the CF for x amount per season, then the PRE outlets for ‘y’ and the away and canteen terrace for ...

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Disappointing but not surprising. As fuller says we’ll still have the same looking ground in many years to come albeit older and more tired. I fully appreciate we haven’t got millions to spend on new stands but standing still and doing nothing to the current ones seems daft. Why not look at fresheni...

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This posting has morphed into Catering Chaos and that's not a bad thing as it's a real issue and is symptomatic and emblamatic of "Little Cheltenham". It's off the pitch we need to get a grip of and stop running the club like we're still in the Beazer Homes League! A giant and, indeed, ef...

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Yesterday was the first time I’d been in the PRE since the Oxford game earlier this season and it was good too see they’d added another catering outlet and new cover for those having a drink. More of these types of improvements will help plus if they can do anything to reflect the sound

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The trouble is, unless you are a die hard Cheltenham fan, then L1 doesn’t represent great value for money when Championship or Premier League football isn’t that much more and the facilities are much better. Attracting floating fans is the conundrum the club face. A better PRE and some improvements ...

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I reckon this season, adding up all the home attendances it will be a record breaking season. For the future we need to increase the capacity to 10/12 thousand. Not too sure that's feasible given the limited space on the site. Assuming the new stand is 4000 capacity that would take us up to 9000 wh...

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Does Shaun Macdonald get a shot at the number 1 jersey or is he likely to move on?

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At work if KC and the Sunshine Band are playing I always sing Amari Morgan Smith

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I was a little disappointed when Bloxham dismissed the CEO idea. His uncertainty about why we would want one is perhaps valid if we are thinking of a CEO in the same way BP do, but obviously we wouldn’t be. I think a hands-on CEO like small consultancy or agency has would work. Someone to be the fa...

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If we were to be relegated, does anyone see Wade having us vying for a quick return back to L1? I don’t see it personally which is why I’d be happy to change the management team. We will always struggle at this level with the club set up as it is (not enough money) but money doesn’t buy hard work, c...

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Josh Griffiths made his WBA tonight

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Really looking forward to this upcoming podcast chaps.

(1) If David had to pick an all time robins 5 a side team from his years as a supporter who would he choose?

(2) Last weekend sky had their ‘green football weekend’ what are CTFC doing or looking to do so we can be greener?

London Exile

I’ve been having a similar conversation with a mate who’s confident we’ll stay up and drawing similarities with Downing (great coach but maybe not quite cut out for the manager position) Would love for there to be a turnaround against Accrington and go on a bit of a run to move away from the relegat...

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The key is to improve the PRE by raising the roof and increasing the gradient of the terrace so a better view can be enjoyed. If we had a better home end in terms of acoustics and view then the guys from block 1 might be encouraged to stand in there. Not sure what ideas the club has in mind for it a...

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Hi London Exile, Anteros, Broadway Brian and Henry the Dog (et al), Current FED here. You aren't the first people to bring these issues to light this weekend. All of the issues I have had highlighted to me so far have been escalated by myself and Jenny (Supporter Liaison Officer) to my colleagues o...

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Wouldn’t it be great if the FED or former FED now a director took up these issues?

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Why not put a temporary seating stand inbetween the main stand and the hazelwoods? Where the canteen and police tower is. Similar to the one at Bristol rovers With companies like Stadium solutions they could add some raised ‘bolt on’ seating areas either side of the main stand. They built that rais...

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Unfortunately anyone who works in the commercial division that does well will inevitably get poached by bigger and more ambitious clubs. We must have talented commercial and well connected supporters but the club seem reluctant to reach out and look for that help. Good luck to Rich Morris, it’s a sh...

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We’ll never see a new main stand, the cost is too great and I think there’s too much competition around the town for corporate hospitality. Improving the PRE and smartening up/expanding the current main stand in conjunction with the training ground improvements will probably be the limits of what we...

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I thought the club were looking more towards adding on to the main stand more than a complete rebuild now (although I could be wrong)
To be fair, in terms of location, the training ground probably offers a better opportunity to develop facilities for conference and hospitality

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If the players are fully behind WE then hopefully we’ll see a reaction and they’ll be working their socks off to save his job. I’ve not been to many games this season since giving up the ST but from what I’ve seen, Long isn’t captain material. Maybe we were spoilt with Boyle but Saturday was where y...

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Fully agree with the two posters above me. Lloyd and Wade need to go. Take Milton with them. What does he actually offer? He’s kept a job based on sentiment it seems. Johnson saw Downes as more his number 2, Duff brought in Wade, maybe if/when we’ve part company with WE, we do so with all the manag...

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New stand? I doubt there will be any more changes to the ground in the next decade. We’ve had the new catering units but they couldn’t stretch to week killer to contain the weeds and overgrown bushes coming through the PRE this summer! Unfortunately, unless we have 4K home fans, there’s no way we ca...

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I’m pretty sure that there were a good few calling for Duff to go after no wins in his first 10. Thankfully things clicked and the rest was history. Not seen a single minute so far this season so can’t comment on performances but seeing a lot of ‘Wade was the cheap option’ and even some calls for hi...

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I think the new shirt looks superb, shorts not so much with the stripes at the bottom of them.
Personally would’ve preferred plain shorts but hey ho

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Someone said that it’s going to be red with white pinstripes, red shorts and white socks. Not sure how accurate that is mind you, I guess we’ll see in a weeks time.

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Happy with this appointment.
Usually when we part company with a manager it’s because we are struggling so for a new boss to come in and rip everything up to start again is no bad thing.
As we’ve been doing well hopefully Wade will continue where Duff left.

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