“The counterproductive slating of our players is something I certainly won’t miss hearing from the ‘Floating Fans’.”

I’d agree with those comments (By Jason McKeown - Ed) - I’m looking forward to the season starting because City put in some encouraging performances towards the end of last season, we were entertained… and with a bit of luck it’ll be the moaners* that haven’t renewed.

I’ve got my season ticket and I’m glad I’ve bought it. BOGOF or not!

*I was on the Claret & Banter forum earlier and it’s only a minority of the posters there… but there are a couple of posters who are so negative I wonder why they get out of bed in a morning let alone make themselves miserable reading about City or going
to games.

For my £6.50 I got a day out with my fiancée at a live sporting event surrounded by good company where we actually began to show some promise.

Yeah it wasn’t what we wanted but I can’t help but feel some sections of the VP ‘faithful’ turn up expecting Premiership football rather than League Two football.

This is the season to judge our progress on, and off, the field. Unfortunately it seems plenty of our fellow fans are willing to have written Stuart off over the summer rather than giving him that opportunity to make a fair stab at moulding a team that is completely his own.

At the moment we’ll be £380,000 under budget if we don’t sell another adult ticket. That’s quite a lot, hopefully it doesn’t damage Stuart’s plans…

It is a difficult one to call which ever way the club had advertised it. It may have been best to keep the whole thing quiet, sell the tickets and then give everyone a surprise with a free ticket or an offer to bring a friend along with your existing ticket.

So you can see why they put out the 9,000 target - can we not just wait until the total is announced on the 16th June before analysing and criticising the clubs strategy?

The board have indicated they want to make football more affordable for the average fan - and for the last two years they have more than achived that.

I reckon we will shift another 1,000 before the deadline to make it to 7000, and thus still get 9,500+ gates - so bearing in mind the poor season we had, I don’t think that’s bad for Division 4 (old money) football.

Last time I looked football was still classed as an entertainment industry and the club fails wholly to create a product that could entertain for many a season. It is fine for the die-hards making it cheap but the floating supporter would want more surely?

The club should address the footballing side to get these ‘floaters’ back and not think that because something is cheap they will get people to VP, it is not Ratners it is football and if the club cannot compete on a level playing field with its League Two rivals questions really should be asked of how well the club has ‘recovered’.