THE CONCRETE ROUNDABOUT (TCR)

After 30 odd threads, a few days and however many tweets I have to say I'm still unsure how I feel about the decision

On one hand I get the intention of Winky. He's trying to push for a better atmosphere at the stadium, the idea of condensing fans should help achieve that and for the last decade many fans on every platform have suggested that closing the corners can achieve that.

However, as my name suggests, I sit in the corner. I no longer attend games as I left England however I truly don't believe anyone who has sat around me for the last decade will significantly contribute to a better atmosphere. I like my view, I like the people I sit with and fuck it, whilst I love falling over in crazy celebrations on away games I actually quite like the peacefulness of where I sit at home games. Sorry, maybe I'm a happy clappy. But over a decade sitting there, many emails and online posts pushing no to close the corner (with some success) shows there's more of us.

I just feel Winky is now in a position of 'damned if he does, damned if he doesn't'. So many of our fan base are desperate to call him out for anything and everything these days - and to an extent some of it is justified.

I understand why he wants to do something to improve the atmosphere. I understand why he has closed the corners as so many fans have been desperate for it to happen for years. However I feel this wasn't well thought out, it will piss people off, and my 60 year old parents who prefer the view will not make any more noise by being sat behind the goal than they do now because they will still rather enjoy their soup from a thermos than stand up chanting anthems.

Yup, this is the thing. No one who is a club red regular or even east stand regular is suddenly going to become a vocal supporter. I sit in East Wing and the most I do is clap. I'm not a vocal supporter in terms of singing, it's not something I enjoy. I really enjoy it when the Cowshed are loud though and that would have been the case without these unnecessary changes.

I recall the Wycombe semi-final home game being a fantastic atmosphere, despite going into the game 2-0 down. It's almost as if PW is blaming the fans for not being supportive enough during that match and the reason we couldn't find a second goal.

Yup. But if we lose the home game vs Crawley and the atmosphere falls flat I bet there will be retrospective call for Winky to have done something

For me just give out all the cheap tickets. We get mocked for it enough, but just embrace it. Get anyone in there we can and hope it fills some gaps. Every kids team who have been before, any season ticket holders who want to bring a friend, anyone who has ever performed at the club. Bring them in.

You can't give out cheap or free tickets though. Anything like that has to be approved by the other 3 teams in the play offs. One of the reason we were able to release tickets so quickly is we stuck to our standard pricing.

I agree. I also think if the club just ran with #DonYourWhite, they'd get stick for stealing DA's idea.

I think two campaigns is fine. It's clear to see how well DA are doing on their promotion, so the club are happy to leave them to it. They're not mutually exclusive and both drive a different incentive. Hoping we'll have a loud stadium (despite PW closing half of it) and a lot of white shirts.

You can't give out cheap or free tickets though. Anything like that has to be approved by the other 3 teams in the play offs. One of the reason we were able to release tickets so quickly is we stuck to our standard pricing.

Although the money is split it is only after costs so no real reason to try and limit sales