Seems like Warnock has taken the Huddersfield job

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Yes. The kids really hated being in the Premier League, didn’t they…….?

Funny how half our fans vanished on relegation

It was the quality of the football obviously ....

[Eric the Half a Bee]

Funny how half our fans vanished on relegation

It was the quality of the football obviously ....

Time for a few corrections....

Half of the crowd didn't vanish after relegation. We lost a certain percentage of our crowd in line with many other teams who come down from the Prem. Those clubs whose attendances are little affected by relegation are quite rare.

You'd expect crowds to start dropping if promotion doesn't look likely. Call that what you like, but it happens almost across the board. We were never looking like playoff hopefuls but our crowds stayed almost the same under Warnock and Harris on average. Unfortunately we had Covid lockdown but I do wonder what our crowds would have been towards the end of the season when we went on a great run to finish in the playoffs? We can only speculate, but we'd easily have had more than our season average of nearly 23k (which isn't half of 31k).

[logic]

Time for a few corrections....

Half of the crowd didn't vanish after relegation. We lost a certain percentage of our crowd in line with many other teams who come down from the Prem. Those clubs whose attendances are little affected by relegation are quite rare.

You'd expect crowds to start dropping if promotion doesn't look likely. Call that what you like, but it happens almost across the board. We were never looking like playoff hopefuls but our crowds stayed almost the same under Warnock and Harris on average. Unfortunately we had Covid lockdown but I do wonder what our crowds would have been towards the end of the season when we went on a great run to finish in the playoffs? We can only speculate, but we'd easily have had more than our season average of nearly 23k (which isn't half of 31k).

Family Stand had plenty of empty seats after we were relegated. People bought the cheap seasons tickets to reserve seats should we return to the Prem, maybe went to the odd game here or there. In the last few seasons, empty seats have become far more visible.