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Originally Posted by Red Light
Surely we should maximize all our opportunities to make money - not pick and choose - with more appealing opposition it could bring in floating or new punters for the first time perhaps hooking them for life - FGR wont even pull in the diehards. I suppose the balance would be to aquire opposition to provide a good test but at the same time put on a showpiece and attempt to get a good number of bums on seats spending some money at the only game we have before the league season starts.
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You say this as if it wouldn't have dawned on the club to ask a top team to come. Loads of clubs want them, only a handful can get them. Plus there is no balance between a hot ticket in a friendly and a worthwhile test; the hot tickets put on an exhibition that is no use from a football point of view and anyone who is useful is only of interest to diehards. People would shriek less if we played Rochdale instead of FGR but it would amount to the same thing in practical terms.