OneSirKeefy
Vital Football Hero
You are entitled to your view Waldo and if you believe we are moving in a positive direction then I respect that you have that view.
I don't agree with you though.
Maybe over a 10 or 15 year period the trend is down. But nowhere near what you (and the SOB drivers) would have us believe.
Eddie whatisname said on the GiTB forum that our crowds have gone down by 2/3. Said after the Cheltenham game which he maintains was 2k, and pitted against our best crowds of 6 and 7k 5 years ago. Laughable. We’ve had 2x near 7k crowds this season. And our 7.3k v Charlton, was only a few hundred short of the 7.7k approx v them that I saw back then under JED.
But when questioned he maintains our previous crowds averaged 6k plus. That’s correct, but as of this moment we are averaging a tad under 5k. Hardly a massive drop, and we are currently losing every week.
As I keep beating my head against a wall with, our gates actually improved from Lovell to SE because we started winning. Despite all those 100’s of fans that are “staying away because of SE”. If we were currently 10th I reckon the crowds would be higher again this year and this wouldn’t even be a conversation. It’s mainly because we are losing.
So, I don’t doubt crowds are decreasing generally. And I’ve no doubt some of that is PS “fault” and he could do a lot more to raise them.
But it’s been proved they will increase with winning games. Our crowd doesn’t do losing very well. They never have. The very definition of “fair weather fans”.