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Someone said, "we've changed the team, the owners and the manager, what's left to change?"
May I make myself wildly popular and suggest the supporters?
They didn't show up yesterday from the get go. 90 minutes of standing and sitting in silence, with the occasional "hilarious" snide joke or growl of disappointment.
The atmosphere yesterday was somewhere between torrid and poisonous.
Isn't it effectively people paying a company for some tickets the company could have given away in the first place?
The people donating are generous. The people receiving are worthy. But the club isn't really doing anything charitable themselves are they? Apart from facilitating the transaction and marketing it I guess (while making £40 a bundle).
Do you think there's less pressure on the players without a crowd there who can get onto them if things aren't going right? And is that helping them play more freely?
Realistically in League 1, what is the point of starting a season without fans in the ground?
This isn't a league built around televising matches for armchair supporters and neutrals and there's no international audience to sell rights to.
The domestic leagues that restarted limped to end for 19/20 at a lower intensity and entertainment value, in empty stadiums.
Let's be honest, watching Ipswich last year was hardly a scintillating entertainment package when at the ground where at least you get the fun of a day out.
Would anyone really be frothing at the prospect of streaming it at home with none of the surrounding matchday experience?
What if the various supporters' groups used their influence on the club to organise a trial match where you have an "over to you" period 10 minutes before the match?
The apocalyptic, pumped-up dance music would be turned off and supporters would be free to make their own pre-match atmosphere (that could carry through to the actual match).
You would trail that this is going to happen heavily in the weeks running up to the fixture. And encourage supporters to be at their seats 10 minutes before the game so it can happen.
I was watching this old clip and there's no "pre-match presentation". And hey presto, fans are singing and making their own atmosphere:
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