Saturday

[NorthamptonBee]

Sadly or not so sadly I am going to miss Saturdays game due to a jolly boys outing to Kos for a week. Now as my name implies I live in Northampton and go to Bees games with 3-5 people depending on various work commitments etc. I am the only one born anywhere near Brentford and one is my son who does what he is told so Brentford for him. The others are all Northampton people who have really got the Bees bug and loving watching them. A bit of gentle persuasion and threats have fuelled this love. One of them is an18 year old student who has got a Saturday and Tuesday night job to earn a bit of drinking money but is on the list for Sundays in the future as he hates missing the football.
What I am trying to say is that Saturday is massive, we have a problem paying players, we are currently 3rd in the league and Swindon fans probably won’t turn out in their usual numbers. We need people there, if you take your son tell him to bring a mate from school, bring his cousin do anything.
Normally in crisis other teams attendances go up, perhaps the sounds coming from BFC don’t appear that scary but surely it is time to encourage more people through the gates.
What I am getting at here is that my lad had 5 or 6 mates at school who want to come to see Brentford with us, just for the fun of going to watch a game. These are kids from 70 miles away, maybe local lads have more choice, but FFS if kids from 70 miles away want to watch football in the flesh what about the London lads. The Isleworth blokes I met up with before the Rotherham game in the Woodlands pub meven managed to pull a mate who supports Chelsea to come along at the very last minute.
I doubt that we will hit 6,000 on Saturday as we are already minus 4 from Northampton.

 

[northantsbee]

Sadly or not so sadly I am going to miss Saturdays game due to a jolly boys outing to Kos for a week. Now as my name implies I live in Northampton and go to Bees games with 3-5 people depending on various work commitments etc. I am the only one born anywhere near Brentford and one is my son who does what he is told so Brentford for him. The others are all Northampton people who have really got the Bees bug and loving watching them. A bit of gentle persuasion and threats have fuelled this love. One of them is an18 year old student who has got a Saturday and Tuesday night job to earn a bit of drinking money but is on the list for Sundays in the future as he hates missing the football.
What I am trying to say is that Saturday is massive, we have a problem paying players, we are currently 3rd in the league and Swindon fans probably won’t turn out in their usual numbers. We need people there, if you take your son tell him to bring a mate from school, bring his cousin do anything.
Normally in crisis other teams attendances go up, perhaps the sounds coming from BFC don’t appear that scary but surely it is time to encourage more people through the gates.
What I am getting at here is that my lad had 5 or 6 mates at school who want to come to see Brentford with us, just for the fun of going to watch a game. These are kids from 70 miles away, maybe local lads have more choice, but FFS if kids from 70 miles away want to watch football in the flesh what about the London lads. The Isleworth blokes I met up with before the Rotherham game in the Woodlands pub meven managed to pull a mate who supports Chelsea to come along at the very last minute.
I doubt that we will hit 6,000 on Saturday as we are already minus 4 from Northampton.

Have a fun time....... but why are you going on holiday in the footie season are you mad? lol

Seriously though the underlying message is dead right,there must be some way of raising our profile. Nearly all the people i know travel a fair distance to support the bees surely we must be able to get some locals in especially with the likes of Chelski pricing themselves out of the famil market (to an extent) Incidentally has anyone written a begging letter to Mr Abramovich

 

[Les Beeavinu]

Normally in crisis other teams attendances go up, perhaps the sounds coming from BFC don’t appear that scary but surely it is time to encourage more people through the gates.

Crisis? What crisis? Can't see anything on the OS. Didn't see anything in the local press.

 

[Boston Bee]

Indeed the guy we most recently put on the BFC board has looked at the books and been blown away by all the positive news!

Crisis? What crisis? Can't see anything on the OS. Didn't see anything in the local press.

 

[North London Bee]

I wonder... could Northants Bee maybe give a lift to some of Northampton Bees' friends who look like missing out on Saturday?

 

[nocoat]

I can arrange for transport to the game for all Twickenham High Street/Station/Green Based bees for the nominal fee of £1.20 .. please PM me for details or leave them here

 

[Simon C]

I can get on a bus to 'nam and leave for GP from there? What time do you want to meet?

 

[Bigbee]

I can arrange for transport to the game for all Twickenham High Street/Station/Green Based bees for the nominal fee of £1.20 .. please PM me for details or leave them here

I can get my cab from Wokingham to drop me off in 'Nam , wheres a good place to meet ?

 

[NorthamptonBee]

I wonder... could Northants Bee maybe give a lift to some of Northampton Bees' friends who look like missing out on Saturday?

Hopefully this is a sincere thought, but one is my son of 11 and the other is his mate of 13 so a no goer even if it was a potential goer. The older one is on the plane to Kos.

 

[Aberdeen flyer]

I can arrange for transport to the game for all Twickenham High Street/Station/Green Based bees for the nominal fee of £1.20 ..

Is that on a 267 bus ?? lol lol lol

 

[nocoat]

Bingo! :yes:

OK half eleven at the George Bus Stop ....its gone up to £1.30 for admin charges, sorry gang

 

[West Ealing Bee]

I'm hoping to bring someone extra, depends if they're born in time

 

[NorthamptonBee]

I'm hoping to bring someone extra, depends if they're born in time

Best of luck with that one sir.

BTW mine were 13 weeks and 9 weeks early with loads of complications and incubators and close death experiences. But you don't want to hear about that.

 

[Les Beeavinu]

Mine were absolutely fine and on the money. I bet you'd rather hear that. Good luck to you all.

 

[Claire]

it is publicity that lets us down.

 

[Willo]

I'm hoping to bring someone extra, depends if they're born in time

Sit her on the tumble dryer, that'll get the little blighter out quicker

 

[SmiffyBee]

last season average was 6,000 ish I believe

this season after 6 home games---6,085, with Huddersfield, Forest and Swansea to come to GP----who thinks we can make 6,500 this year ?

 

[West Ealing Bee]

Swansea and Southend are going to be our 'jokers' if we are to get a high average.

These games would have been down at 6,000 top whack at the start of the season, they aren't particularly attractive fixtures.

As we stand they could be 'top of the table' clashes. Swansea on Boxing Day should be 8,000 IMHO and Southend could be similar if they stay up there

 

[BeeAlzibub]

With a decent run at the top of the table for the rest of the season, even without any decent derby matches we would still surely kick on towards 6750-7000 by the start of May ?


Next year ( we all wish ) with the visits of our little neighbours with the Hoops, Watford, Palace etc etc , if we are at least competitive we must hope to average 9000+.

That would still leave us right near the bottom of the attendance league in the Championship as it is.

 

[JANORAK]

I'm hoping to bring someone extra, depends if they're born in time

On both occasions, my wife found that the mere threat of being induced worked wonders!

All the best!

 

[Simon C]

Bingo! :yes:

OK half eleven at the George Bus Stop ....its gone up to £1.30 for admin charges, sorry gang

Or if you can get to Twickenham by 11:30 I am organising transport direct to Brentford for just £1.20

Have the admin charges been dropped then? :bound:

 

[nocoat]

Good spot Admin has gone as this is just a taster, get the kids hooked on nocoat travel and then double the price soon after much like that **** ken livingstone you might say :mad2: :sad:

 

[Simon C]

Is that before or after he raises the price himself?

 

[epsombee2]

Trying to be positive here.
Lowest gates are a good guide to hard core home support. On this basis we seem to have put on about about 500-750 fans since this time last year? (lowest league attendance this year 5,438 v Tranmere, last year 4,643 v Stockport).
Away support seems a bit down though - national trend?
If we can start scoring more goals and above all sustain a promotion challenge then I'm sure gates will continue to show an steady (but unspecteculer) increase. Attractive one-off fixtures (Forest, Southend, Swansea on Boxing Day) can also make a very significant impact on the average.

 

[nocoat]

Only two people turned up for the tour and they both had bus passes :sad: I won't be organising it again

 

[epsombee2]

The fans came.... the goals didn't.