How the fan base can help the club .

[graingrover]

Forgive the simplicity of this but it may provide food for thought .

The best way to swell the budget for Copps and GM is to swell the fan base and home attendances and I follow subscriptions .

 For all the reasons that have been discussed and which resulted in relegation a lot needs to be done to stop attendances haemorrhaging .Most of that will depend on performances during the coming season .However a change of GENERAL ATTITUDE of fans to reflect the pride that Copps talks about would be a big help .We are  ambassadors and our actions and comments about the club on social media are picked up by the floating fan .We can have a big positive impact and platforms like Black Bank , Supporters club , local press and Vikings forum and Netto can all play a positive role in a drive to encourage our network of friends and the Doncaster people in general to become followers .

[roversdude]

Please note as well that £1 is being donated from every ticket sale to Tommy Spurr’s lad

[steve@dcfd]

The reason the crowds are falling is the lack of performances and results on the pitch from January 2021. COVID did not help the situation either.  Copps alone will not get supporters to come back. He can only improve the squad if there are sufficient resources to achieve that. The Chairman talks about bouncing back decisively the back room staff have been increased and rightly so . Yet on Saturday from a squad of now 21 there were only 12 of the current squad there. We new some where injured and some were still recovering but no mention why two of the new signings were not available. Supporters go to see those players and yet they were not playing. The club and supporters went through a bad time on the field last season the recruitment was not good in both transfer windows the level of player we brought in was either not fit or ready certainly  below the level of player we had been used to. We must start this season on a high and as yet it’s more about injuries recovery and Trialists. So in 11 days time we play Huddersfield then Rotherham I know these are only preseason games but it sets the tone. Then in 25 days time we start in the league with the hardest draw games on paper we could ask for. Unless the squad is ready then it could be a bad start again we all don’t want that. Out of the 18 match day squad 16 can play which shouldn’t be a problem if we have 25 squad players available. So yes it’s up to the supporters to back the side but having started the transfer window proactively we have now appear to be reacting to circumstances.

[Sammy Chung was King]

As has said before in another post, we need to have a strong bench as well as starting eleven, as more substitutes are allowed.
We need a strong eighteen players of a squad with youth players added. If we have a weak bench then if things need changing in a game, he will end up not making substitutions that need making. Games where we could have got a result, we won’t.

 The signings made at this level don’t tend to draw bigger crowds in, we would need to get back to the championship for that to happen. Unless we went out and paid a fee for a quite well known young player , then that won’t happen.What will draw crowds in are good performances and results. We need to be cautiously ambitious, take a risk on a smallish fee for future accumulation in selling on that player.