The K's In Point

Re: Non-League Day 2025

By Paddy (Paddy1)16/3 09:50Sun Mar 16 09:50:13 2025In response to Re: Non-League Day 2025

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100% we be targeting an offer tailored for Chelsea Women's team match going fans as an additional thing. These are mostly families who can't afford to take the whole gang up to Stamford Bridge... we should be aiming to be their primary local alternative (no disrespect to Womens football intended). In some cases we would even be complimentary to their weekend of family football fun since we mostly play on different days.

The important thing here is these are match going football fans of a football club playing in Kingston upon Thames, but they're not Kingstonian fans & we've been gone for so long with little to no attempt to keep the town engaged that some of them might not even know we exist.

What's the hook though? You can throw money at anything & say half price entry for whatever criteria, but put your head in the mind of the Kingston area based Chelsea supporting dad of 2. What makes him get out of the house to take little Frank & little Didier to Raynes Park on a Saturday to spend more money (albeit discounted) to watch Kingstonian? What makes Frank & Didier want to bug daddy to come back next fortnight when we're at home again? When the offer expires after a match, a month, a season, or however long it runs for how do we get them addicted enough to be happy to keep coming at full price? We get that right & there will be no more Frank & Didier... they'll change their names legally to Rob & Martyn.

As a byproduct, all bitterness about them taking KM aside, I can't see how strengthening ties with Chelsea in any capacity is a bad thing at this point. If the new stadium plans fall through again we've got an increased chance to go back to KM or potentially less objection/some support from them if we finally chose to do something at the Athletics Ground.

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