Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
The Rebrand? Relegation? The truly awful football we played in our first season back in the Championship (we might have been winning more last season, but the quality of football wasn't much better than it had been a year earlier)? A dislike of "the modern game"?

For me, I'd say the biggest reason for what is a pretty widespread loss of enthusiasm was the first of the reasons I named, but an awful lot of people I talk to say things like "the shit football we played under Slade was the final straw for me", so I might well be wrong.
I think the rebrand destroyed the innocence of the game, you really realised then football clubs didn't give a monkeys about you. The dire football afterwards hasn't helped though, and when you break the habit it's going to take something to come back. Also, our gates are about 15-16k, which is similar to what they were in the Champ at Ninian. I think it's levelling out to an extent, also those that walked away during the rebrand would be the ones that wouldn't pick and chose etc, so losing them has made a difference.