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« on: Today at 09:19:38 AM »
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« on: September 11, 2024, 06:46:01 PM »
Unlikely Rod He just signed Jordan Yong
I still think he may end up in Setch's capable hands. 
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« on: September 11, 2024, 09:37:13 AM »
Apparently, there’s lots of money to be made from Academies.
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« on: September 10, 2024, 10:37:59 PM »
That’s very sad. Thought he was going to be the first one to take the clear path away that's the Chairman’s vision to first team regular.
Certainly has taken the clear path away.
Sadly with many Clubs at all levels, the pathway is Academy, first team squad, loan, deemed not good enough and then out.
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« on: September 10, 2024, 04:19:58 PM »
Aside from his managerial abilities, Adam's commitment and stamina are beyond question, as according to Mr Cleeve he is up at 4.00 am most mornings to drive down to Ely.
He's a young man, so will be able to cope with it. Easy enough to do when you are young. When I was young, I was always up at the crack of Dawn!
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« on: September 10, 2024, 04:10:18 PM »
Like him or not but without Adam Lakeland (and Sam Walker) we'd have been relegated last season - no doubt in my mind.
Surely that was more down to Joe's investment coming just in the Nick of time? It's a results led business. Simple as that. If the results are not as expected, you get impatient supporters and more importantly, impatient Chairman (and maybe in our case, an impatient investor). Nothing new there, except that Managers seem to get replaced far more quickly these days than in years gone by. They rarely get enough time to prove what they can do long term for the Club. And that's down to the demands on them to deliver the goods from day one! Of course none of us know if Joe is chewing Cleeve's ear off, or if he thinks he's getting value or money or not. We don't know if AL is under any pressure or is being left alone to get on with the job. I don't know what other Social Media platforms are saying, but I've not seen anything on here that even hints that people don't like Lakeland or Walker or have any real concern about their ability to deliver whats being asked of them. One or two may have an opinion about certain aspects of the games so far, but that's football and not criticism. You get that everywhere and after every game..........Non- league, Football League, Championship or Premiership. Social Media postings is just modern day "terrace talk".
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« on: September 09, 2024, 06:41:40 PM »
I rate the guy. It was only SC biging him as the top Manager in the League. We all know the Chairman’s words should always be taken with a pinch of assault. I see to recall Cully, Widdler were at one time the greatest thing since sliced bread, that was until they left. He even made big claims about Clark and indeed Hughes.
Lakeland has big boots to fill at this level following on from both Cully and Widdler. If he gets us to the play offs then he’s had a good season. Mid table, then to my mind he’s done ok. Anything less, then oh dear !!
What do others think ?
AL has got quite a lot to live up to. Both Cully and TW took the Club on decent Cup runs as well as being successful in the league. No reason he shouldn't be able to at least match this, or even better it.
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« on: September 08, 2024, 04:38:14 PM »
Sport Football News (from about 3 weeks ago).
English ticket prices in Germany would lead to 'a s***storm,' claims Bundesliga CEO Seifert.
Borussia Dortmund season tickets cost just £160 compared to £900 at Arsenal
While English football fans prepare for a protest march over rising ticket prices on Thursday morning, and the Premier League chief Richard Scudamore defends his success in the “bums on seats” business - 80,000 German fans attended the German Super Cup in Dortmund on Wednesday night, most paying around £12 for their ticket - the Bundesliga CEO claims English-priced tickets in Germany would be met with “a s***storm” and “would not be accepted.”
“Bayern Munich makes €30 to €40m less a year in ticket prices than Manchester United,” said Christian Seifert, the Bundesliga chief executive. “Over ten years that is €300m. The league has no power to interfere with this, the clubs decide on their own. But some kind of common sense prevails. But it’s very hard for the clubs. Every year in the magazines you see double pages about how much are the prices of tickets, and bratwurst, and beer and everyone gets in a s***storm if the price of bratwurst goes up by 10 per cent.
“[In the future] you cannot tell, but from today’s perspective, the clubs would not change the strategy. It would not be accepted.”
A season ticket in Borussia Dortmund’s famous “Yellow Wall” stand behind the goal is around £160, while the cheapest at Arsenal is close to £900.
Around 1,000 of Dortmund’s season ticket holders are British nationals who fly in for the matches.
“For the Yellow Wall, they could easily charge double the price,” Mr Seifert said. “But they choose to have a price that lower social classes can afford.
“They also could sell 90 per cent of their tickets as season tickets but they choose not to. They like to give as many people as possible the chance to go to matches. We see the Bundesliga as an important part of society.
“We have a holistic approach, based on the financial, the game and society. If we don’t have success in all three dimensions, we don’t consider it a success, at all.”
When West Ham host Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday, the cheapest ticket is £55, and the most expensive, non-hospitality seat is £77.
When Bayern Munich played Arsenal in last season’s Champions League, the German club subsidised the cost of their travelling fans’ tickets to the Emirates, which were almost £80.
Bayern Munich’s former chairman Uli Hoenness claimed the difference between German and English football was that “the fans are not seen as cows to be milked.”
Mr Scudamore has claimed that Premier League attendance is at 96 per cent, but this does not necessarily reflect the number of people passing through the turnstiles, merely the tickets sold.
With an average attendance of 43,500, the German Bundesliga is the second most attended sporting league of any kind in the world, behind only American Football’s NFL. The Premier League average is 35,500.
It is the second time in a year in a row that English fans have protested over ticket prices. Since last year the television revenues clubs receive from Sky and BT Sport has almost doubled, but it has not led to a decrease in prices, which Match of the Day host Gary Lineker called “just greed.”
Bundesliga clubs spend an average of 39 per cent of their revenues on players’ wages, around half what is spent by the Premier League.
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« on: September 08, 2024, 04:18:41 PM »
  in reality we need to win these home games, top teams win at home at a canter and pick up points on the road at regular intervals. We seem capable of picking up those points on our travels so far, the return for away games, I would say has been acceptable, even though we really have not faced up against any top teams except one possibly. If indeed we are serious about trying for promotion via play offs or indeed winning this league home wins are vital for more than one reason, obviously points needed top maintain a challenge, we all know Lynn fans are fickle and 11=1300 is a really good turnout for a home match, I know people will argue we can pull in more fans and yes we can occasionally but a genuine core is the stated figure in my opinion. We need this number week in week out and two home defeats and some fans will start looking at costs and value for money and start looking whether we can really get in to a promotion challenging position. AL has had good backing from the football club since he has been here and he now has HIS squad of players, not ones he inherited and we really need to be seeing home wins to keep the fickle fans entering through those turnstiles and two defeats on the trot at home does not help. Full time professional team, we need to address these concerns and start picking up those home wins as soon as possible. Early doors as yet I know but points on the board are always welcome.
"We all know Lynn fans are fickle?" Really? Are we / they more fickle than the majority of football fans? If so why? Maybe the grossly inflated pay on the day admission price is a factor - particularly the concession price. If that is the case i am now one of the ' fickle', as i refuse to support this vanity project that treats supporters (customers) as a necessary evil. More a case of can pay but won't pay!
From the EDP article: "...............all this effort culminates in a 90-minute game................" Exactly why Supporters should not be treated like customers! The precious 90 minutes, whereas its obviously the most important time of the week, is generally the only time the Club engages with the supporters. Although the Media coverage is far better than it ever has been under the current regime, its only one small part of it. It can't just stop there. Supporter involvement has been poor since Club was reformed. Even the previous Club, with all the errors they made, appear to have had more idea than the past and present Chairman on this matter. The best its ever been was when there was a Management Committee for the supporters which was allowed to get involved with the Club. Totally independent officials and not have them appointed by the Club (or by other Officials that had been appointed by the Club). The work and effort that the likes of Chilly and all the others used to put in was incredible, and the Club benefited both financially and socially. The funds raised meant they were in a position to fully pay a players wages if they had wanted to (maybe more than one)!!! That's a lot of money and would be a great help to any Club! All this has now gone.....................why? An income stream lost and not replaced. I can't understand the logic in that one. The important thing to remember is than the 90 minutes mentioned, is how the majority of supporters see the Club. Call them Fickle or 90 minutes Supporters or both. How a Club can move forward with this model, I don't really know. Surely its obvious that supporters need to be involved more than just 90 minutes a week? The lack of success of previous fund raising attempts surely must back this up? As an example, People continually mention Darlington. Should we believe that all their supporters do, (apart from raising 100's of thousands of pounds) is watch 90 minutes of football each week? I think not. 
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« on: September 08, 2024, 01:54:31 PM »
What's the latest on Margetts injury?
Long term?
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« on: September 08, 2024, 11:19:33 AM »
Gold is just not good enough
Good enough or not, I bet he didn't come cheap!
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« on: September 08, 2024, 10:00:59 AM »
I feel the Media are very much behind the increase in numbers for home games. They have really put the Club on the front foot.
Will be interesting to see the gate for this Saturday’s FA Cup tie. Also AL saying he’s going with a full strength line up rather than get minutes into squad members. So much for a punishing schedule. The Manager can’t have it both ways.
Needs must!
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« on: September 07, 2024, 09:19:07 PM »
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« on: September 07, 2024, 06:30:29 PM »
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« on: September 07, 2024, 06:16:29 PM »
On a positive note last season they beat us 4-0 at The Walks.
Nobody can claim that today's result is not an improvement!
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