[ NEWS ] Pre-Season Fixtures released

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I hope Burge uses the PSF matches to gel the team/players he intends to sign. I can’t help feeling that our terrible start to last season was possibly caused, in part, by the matches against lower ranked opposition and Peaks insistence on fielding as many as 5-6 trialists in every match. It took until late October for the team to finally gel.
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Trek wrote: Mon Jun 06, 2022 9:14 am I hope Burge uses the PSF matches to gel the team/players he intends to sign. I can’t help feeling that our terrible start to last season was possibly caused, in part, by the matches against lower ranked opposition and Peaks insistence on fielding as many as 5-6 trialists in every match. It took until late October for the team to finally gel.
Absolutely, by which time we were all very fed up. By the sounds of the last podcast Burge will try to put a square peg in a square hole right from the start. Fan - bloody - tastic
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Minor update - fixture moved earlier in the evening.

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Seen a few posters around in Higham for the preseason fixtures, credit where credit is due is good to see a bit of promotion.

I was thinking perhaps these games would be a good opportunity to get some promotion in schools and offer free tickets to students, the 3 fixtures against large clubs should provide plenty of interest for any young football fan even if they're not currently interested in diamonds.
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oliv272 wrote: Sat Jun 25, 2022 7:33 pm Seen a few posters around in Higham for the preseason fixtures, credit where credit is due is good to see a bit of promotion.

I was thinking perhaps these games would be a good opportunity to get some promotion in schools and offer free tickets to students, the 3 fixtures against large clubs should provide plenty of interest for any young football fan even if they're not currently interested in diamonds.
Hope we can try and do this throughout the season to be honest and definitely look into other fan incentives and initiatives to get the fans back. While attendances picked up towards the end of last season due to our playoff push, it still was overall our lowest average attendance for a season (not counting the void 20-21 season) in our short history, despite being our highest finish in the football pyramid.
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