Quote Originally Posted by Superdad View Post
Crowds of course are important , but I dont think they influence the playing budget as much as they may have 20 years ago. Take Norwich as an example. They have to sell and sell quickly as they simply do not have the finances presently to carry on as they are. They have crowds in excess of 26,000 most games, but what they don’t have is a rich benefactor to subsidise them.

Our average crowds you have listed do not take into account 4,000 free children’s tickets which were purchased for the family stand.

If this deal was still in place , then the attendance figures for last season would be 20,000 and 23,000 for this season.
If you look at the areas in the ground compared to prior to our promotion season then I'd say the Canton is actually fuller, Ninian the same, Grandstand slightly emptier but the biggest difference is the Family Stand which was so full it extended into the corner block of the Grandstand.

People bough cheap or free tickets on the back of Wembley and a promotion push which went on for 4 seasons of fantastic football.

It's a pity we floundered over Xmas as I think we might have sold another 1-2000 more season tickets if we'd won just 2 of those 4 games.

I honestly don't think many of the outsiders to the current club believe we will go up and those results just helped reinforce that theory.

Let's face it as well the perception in general is that the football is still not that attractive so football purists aren't going to bother either.

A lot of damage has been done in many ways and it will clearly take more than half a season near the top to repair .

I don't think however there are that many that still don't attend exclusively due to Tan.

Maybe 500 at most and on the other side of it there are many others that now come due to us having a decent side which we wouldn't have without him.