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Jerry St Clair

Good point. If I were looking to invest in the club, I would ask for the business strategy and plan as part of my due diligence. If they weren't forthcoming, that would ring alarm bells.

Jerry St Clair

Bad news. Murry created the supporter services group after the awkward departure of Jenny Hancock from the SLO role. I do hope there are no further ructions in this area. We really need a bit of stability in supporter relations.

Jerry St Clair

I don't think the issue was Mickey Moore going himself, so much as having no plan for when he did leave. At best, this was naive on the Board's part. At worst, reckless. I have spent today updating my succession plan at work. My team of 12 is relatively stable, at least more stable than a league fo...

Jerry St Clair

The man overseeing either Town's swansong in L1 or the greatest miracle of miracles will be Lee Swabey We have a very decent record under Swabey over the last 5 or 6 years. A 4-0 thrashing at Portsmouth a couple of years ago aside, he's officiated in wins over Milton Keynes, Bristol Rovers, Gillingh...

Jerry St Clair

CEO is an interesting one. I've been an advocate for it, but JP on a recent Robins Report said that the club actually already have a defacto CEO in Paul Godfrey. Not something that had occurred to me. The problem, of course, is that you're reliant on one individual going above and beyond which leave...

Jerry St Clair

robinsrule wrote: ↑21 Apr 2024, 09:36 Sounds like Peterborough are going to field a reserve team so all we can do is win that game and go into the final day with some hope.

Peterborough playing a bunch of fresh-legged, decent squad players with loads to prove, frankly, terrifies me.

Jerry St Clair

The Mira sponsorship strikes me as an epic act of altruism by them. No other comparable companies would have any interest in being our shirt sponsor.

Jerry St Clair

Si Robin wrote: ↑20 Apr 2024, 21:29
Taylor tried, but he was so clearly unfit today. How he got through 90 mins I'll never know, but it really seemed like we were playing with 10 players for the last half hour today.

9 for the last 10/15 mins. Ferry was absolutely cooked.

Jerry St Clair

Do you think the club should provide unlimited parking for everyone who expects to be able to park outside the ground? If so, how?

Jerry St Clair

If the car park is full, what do you expect them to do?

Jerry St Clair

If you’d landed from outer space and watched that game you’d assume it was two limited, but competent, lower half L1 teams, with the lads in pink and black just edging it.

And we had half of our best players out. An incredibly frustrating afternoon.

Jerry St Clair

according to our more ‘radical’ fanbase on the socials there could be some anti Bloxham sentiment today, probably not the best idea to have a ‘prickly’ fans forum a few days before a vital few fixtures. could get a bit nasty if we lose. Noisy anti-Bloxham chants from Block 1. Some of them also gath...

Jerry St Clair

Block 6 almost sold out. Plenty of seats in the main stand. Block 7 completely empty. Block 8 now not even on sale. This is, frankly, a pathetic response by the people of Cheltenham. Their club needs them, and they've responded with apathy. I’m shocked to be honest. The seats have been consistently...

Jerry St Clair

I would question how you could build a Business plan that is to a certain extent based on your ability to develop and sell players. It is a laudable goal to have, but surely it is partly based on luck? I am struggling to understand how you can depend on spotting an unearthed talent, persuade them t...

Jerry St Clair

Block 6 almost sold out. Plenty of seats in the main stand. Block 7 completely empty. Block 8 now not even on sale.

This is, frankly, a pathetic response by the people of Cheltenham. Their club needs them, and they've responded with apathy.

Jerry St Clair

I've been reflecting on last night. It seems clear to me that DB is very focussed on player development and selling. That is possibly rooted in his day job as an employment lawyer so he has a natural bias towards talent development. He doesn't seem to have much appetite for any other form of growth....

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...

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