THE CONCRETE ROUNDABOUT (TCR)

Presuming it's not just because today is monday and nobody has been in over the weekend... is the ticketing history requirement still in place? That could be a reason why they aren't pushing it massively already.

I wouldn't take that off if it is, already Mansfield fans are complaining they can't get in the home end on Stagsnet

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Cuboid of bum fluff

That's our overlords words not mine. Remember when he said "we have tried to market the club, but nothing was working". And how do you sell something that people don't want to buy? I am sure after 20 years of having a club in the city people would come by now. They don't. Probably cause Spurs are on the TV Saturday lunchtime or they support other clubs/why would they care about League 2 football (you only have to see the seasonal drop in attendance from last season, probably down to how fans were treated) and let's be honest, what is the draw in Mansfield? Wrexham was a draw for some bizarre reason, but I don't remember anyone marketing that one (plus it was on a Tuesday, which is also odd). So it must have just been the Hollywood effect or not too sure as I don't live in MK possibly Feb half term?. We may see a natural uptick, but I seriously doubt even if all the marketing budget was used (if we have one) we would pack the ground. It just seems this season has been general apathy regarding Saturday games. Hardly surprising considering the high of two years and the low of last season.

The only one that is likely to happen is the last one, because that's down to DA rather than the club.

The absence of any useful information on the forthcoming games page is amateurish to put it mildly.

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It's Pete's train set, and we should all feel honoured to be granted the privilege of paying to play with it.

"Shut the fuck up, you sausage!"

I think PW was referring to additional marketing expenditure, such as advertisements/stands in CentreMK.

Also, of course you still need to promote games. Almost every single club in the EFL needs to do that. History will tell you, that we will always get at significantly bigger attendance when the game is more important. We had 20,718 (5,227 away) in the ground the last time we played Mansfield at home, which highlights that there are quite a lot out there that need to be made aware of how important certain games are.

The cost to the club to do an email out and social media promotions surely isn't going to be any additional cost, but if it brings in an extra 100+ people it's worth it.

Not necessarily. If the club want to get social posts out to a wider audience that isn't so actively engaged with the club, then that will cost for paid media slots, etc.

Not disagreeing with the point at all - tbh it really does sum up the problem that we feel the need to discuss marketing stuff this basic.

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It's Pete's train set, and we should all feel honoured to be granted the privilege of paying to play with it.

"Shut the fuck up, you sausage!"

Maybe they are saving their pennies for Sutton as that might be more important a game that could see us promoted. I think the point that yes we had 20k last time cause it did mean something as it was winner takes all the media probably did most of that/it sold itself. I still don't get how 20K can turn up for one off games and never stay the next game, just feels like it was something to do at the weekend. This isn't (depending on how tomorrow goes, which I can't see anything other than a Mansfield win). If Mansfield do somehow draw or lose maybe Wednesday the ticketing website will crash and the phones will be ringing off the hook, but to most they will probably see it as just another game. As much as we all want to have massive attendances at the moment I just don't see it happening on the levels seen 5 years ago.

Still a possibility of this (at least until tomorrow night anyway): Wrexham lose tomorrow night at home to Crawley. They beat Forest green but then lose to Crewe.

We lose or draw to Mansfield but we beat Harrogate.

It'll then come down to the final day, with us at home to Sutton and Wrexham at home to Stockport.

Forget all the permutations for now. Win our next two games and we will have a chance of automatic promotion on the final day of the season at home to Sutton.

We can't control how strong our chance will be, or whether it'll be in our hands or not. But we can make sure that there is a chance. Worry about the permutations when we get to that day.

The draw in Mansfield is being partner a big crowd watching a good game of footballbtop end of the League with a tense feel...

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"It's not about hoping this little moment will change our momentum, its about our daily actions and courage in everything we do.. We've got to stop believing in fairytales"

- Graham Alexander, October 2023

I maintain my belief if Mansfield lose their next two it’s over.