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Jerry St Clair

I was quite shocked that Bloxham thinks CTFC can ‘just’ sell players each season to survive and was backed up by other members of the board as though why is this policy even being questioned “As it’s what the club have always done” :roll: it’s very concerning that this board seem to be rolling a di...

Jerry St Clair

Essentially, no new stand. No redevelopment of Cakebridge. No new investment. Best we can hope for is incremental improvements.

The really, really worrying thing for me is that members of the audience repeatedly asked for a plan for growth and it seems there isn't one. I find that.....surprising.

Jerry St Clair

Fair point. The answer is for the club to to specifically say on social media that more seats have been released for this massive game (more seats released implies big demand which can drive demand in itself.).

Jerry St Clair

CS85 wrote: ↑17 Apr 2024, 20:38 Seats not selling very well, maybe the board were right.
Last home game on a sat this season and plenty left,shame.

Yep, looks like maybe 100 sold for block 6 since I looked last night. Not exactly flying off the shelves. Hopefully sales will pick up as we get nearer the weekend.

Jerry St Clair

Blimey, that's a bolt from the blue.

That could be a critical or meaningless sub-text come 27 April.

Jerry St Clair

Well at least we've done our bit to cheer up Robins fans in what has been a tough year for football in the Shire. I doubt we'll be back in the EFL anytime soon, as Vince won't learn from his mistakes. Not in this part of Cheltenhamshire. I don't get the shadenfreude. A double-relegation with, possi...

Jerry St Clair

Cryptocurrency. What could possibly go wrong?

Jerry St Clair

Si Robin wrote: ↑17 Apr 2024, 11:00 They've been banned from taking inflatables though I believe.

Indeed. Though, coincidently, Reading's final away game in 2017 was at Burton. The stewards began confiscating inflatables when the turnstiles opened, but pretty soon gave up.

Jerry St Clair

No Street. No Keena. Possibly no Lloyd. A half fit Matty Taylor. Nuttall may be our only fully fit forward available for the remaining three games.

Darrell is a risk taker and we need goals.

Tom King has to on the bench at least, surely?

Jerry St Clair

Reading can do the f*ck they want if they turn Burton over on Saturday. Never would goals from a financially doped strike force be more welcome. Reading have sold their 1800 allocation for their traditional inflatables day. It'll be a raucous in celebratory mood. Entirely possible there'll be more ...

Jerry St Clair

Over to commercials. Get the word out there......

Jerry St Clair

Ben Toner takes charge of his first Cheltenham game since last August's mad game at Fratton park when he lost two of his assistants to injury and a Pompey fan had to run the line for the final 20 minutes. His previous game with Cheltenham was also against Pompey, a 2-0 home defeat in 2022. In a sli...

Jerry St Clair

Thomas Kirk takes charge of this humdinger in only his second season on the EFL list.

He has officiated one game at Whaddon Road - a 2022 Pizza Cup defeat against West Ham U21s. He has no previous league appointments with either Cheltenham or Lincoln.

Jerry St Clair

A redemptive performance from Joe Nuttall. It looked tonight like it finally clicked for him.

Jerry St Clair

1-5 of the CF pretty much sold out for Lincoln on Saturday. Block 6 half full. Block 7 also on sale.

If the good people of Cheltenham don’t turn out for their football club this weekend, they never will. Get the word out.

Jerry St Clair

He didn’t quite make amends, but got pretty close.

Jerry St Clair

It’s currently tipping it down with rain in Burton. It couldn’t happen again. Could it?

Jerry St Clair

RegencyCheltenhamSpa wrote: ↑15 Apr 2024, 10:45 We could even potentially give smaller followings half the Hazlewoods like Carlisle had, and let home fans in the other half closest to the CF.

Good to see you're already planning for huge demand for the promotion push!

Jerry St Clair

The Hazelwood can be split easily above the gang way All those nearest canteen could then use those facilities Which turnstiles would away fans use? The CF? And they would then walk out of the CF concourse, round the pitch and into the Hazelwoods? Would all 1000 use the tiny concourse area behind b...

Jerry St Clair

Definitely worthy of consideration, but I think there are fundamental problems with it that mean it's a non-starter. 1. The CF would be permanently split in two meaning home fans only get half the concourse for every home game. It's a rubbish experience when it's full. 2. The away section of the CF ...

Jerry St Clair

Despite what some will have you believe, we'll have one of the lowest budgets next season regardless of what division we're in. The club is skint and has no facility to make money outside of football itself. Staying in League One every season is a miracle. Worth reminding ourselves that Barry Banna...

Jerry St Clair

All for not feathering the nests of agents. But appreciate being prudent has consequences.

As an aside, why on earth does this happen anyway? Why don’t players pay the agents fees? It’s surely a bit like me buying a house and paying the sellers estate agent fees.

Jerry St Clair

Benjamin Speedie referees his first Cheltenham game since, apparently, apologising to Darrell Clarke after disallowing George Lloyd's goal at Bolton in January. A really interesting appointment. I wonder if that absolute howler will be fresh in his mind? Previous Town appointments include: Reading ...

Jerry St Clair

slinky_dog wrote: ↑13 Apr 2024, 19:29
At least Southwood wasn’t sent off for the penalty. He must have been the last man. That would have seen him missing Burton.

He’s broken a toe so may well miss Burton anyway.

Could we recall Harris from WSM?

Jerry St Clair

Darrell is generally pretty coy about things going on behind the scenes, but alluded today to multiple problems in the background. No doubt we'll hear more about that in the post-mortem.

Jerry St Clair

I retract everything i said on this thread.

Give Peterborough and Lincoln as many tickets as they like. Make some money while we’re still in a league with decent away support.

Jerry St Clair

Carlisle one down at home inside the first minute.

Jerry St Clair

Paul Howard maintains his remarkable record of officiating seven Cheltenham games, all of them at Whaddon Road. His last visit was Boxing Day for the 2-0 win over Shrewsbury. GEORGE LLOYD ALWAYS SCORES WHEN PAUL HOWARD IS IN CHARGE. Previous appointments include: 2-0 v Shrewsbury 2023 2-2 v Sheffiel...

Jerry St Clair

Rovers were awful on Tuesday, by accounts. Reading fans felt they cruised it and it was one of their most comfortable games of the season. 4-0 would have been more reflective of Reading's dominance. Is it possible to get a bet on how quickly we'll hear Rovers fans singing "How s#!t must you be,...

Jerry St Clair

Whilst on the subject of strikers I thought the abuse nuttall received last night was well out of line. Our club refused to reinvest the goodwin fee properly and ended up loaning a conference striker,have a go at the board not the player. Aidan Keena - one goal all season, posed no goal threat - la...

Jerry St Clair

A very pleasing result. Posh are looking unbeatable at the moment. Have they got any of the other relegation strugglers that they can take easy points off……….?

Jerry St Clair

We are at our best when pressing but only Lloyd and Street can do that because we failed to improve the forward line other than Taylor. Once the dust has settled and we do the post mortem, we’ll identify a few key events as being pivotal. Street standing on the ball at Derby while chasing a lost ca...

Jerry St Clair

I expect the top 3 to be Ferry, Long, Sercs, but could be in any order.

I’ve a slight preference for Long but wouldn’t argue with the other two.

Jerry St Clair

Max Harris will replace Southwood, surely? If he's going to step up it has t be next season or likely never. And JP has said he is very highly thought of at the club. That would mean Pardington steps up to no.2 and we essentially "save" Southwards wage for investment elsewhere (as Southwoo...

Jerry St Clair

Not sure which job would be worse to be honest. I reffed an u13 friendly yesterday and at times it felt like the Boca-River derby. That was a load of kids in front of about 20 parents and coaches who I get on really well with. Sod reffing in front of a few thousand people, most of whom think you're...

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