Quote Originally Posted by ken smith View Post
Think age is a factor.

During early 90's we had a young fan base and I reckon 80% or so we're under the age of 30. As the fan base has gotten older, the younger generation haven't replaced us and when you look at the crowds nowadays I'd say that 80% are over 30.

As our aging fan base gets older people have moved away, gotten families etc.

The cost of tickets on a match to match basis takes the piss if you have a family, and despite what people think, walk up fans are practically non existent due to the fact you have to queue twice to get in the ground.

For the 15 years or do we steadily grew our core fan base with promotion, and cup runs despite the riddler and scams antics, then the last 3 or 4 years the club decided to do its best to ruin everything. We seem to have turned a corner and things are improving, but I think we need something like a good cup run to get the lost fans/youngsters to start coming back.
I think this is a good point. But season tickets for under 21 these days are £99 which are superb value imo. If these were the prices when I was growing up I would have saved every last penny I could to get one.

When you look at our team, where is the player who is City through and through who will make that last ditch tackle in the 90th minute even though we are 3-0 up - your Kavanagh, McNaughton, Stant etc. Can't really count Whittingham in that though he is a hero for me.

I just can't relate to players like Morrison, Peltier, Halford. Sounds stupid when I say I could relate to Chopra and Hudson whilst they were probably earning triple of what the current players are. But they loved this club and I'm not sure the current crop do (well not all of them).

Maybe this is why the kids aren't coming in their hundreds anymore? Because they can't see their heroes on the pitch. Might have to do with the fact that Wales are 10x better on paper these days and people just prefer that (like me - though the Ireland performance was no better than what you'd see at CCS every week).