No

lack of investment and interest from locals who preferred rugby and/or just couldnt be arsed with the city

Other clubs had tidy " firms " and they did ok,

While we did not attract families, neither is most of the other clubs, it was truly a national issue, any club had a following who would like to indulge, we just had a slightly larger % who did and lets be honest, the football was dire at times, the laugh with mates on the terraces was one of the few entertaining things