The attendance was really poor considering the new signings and no live footy for a while. The marketing dept. should hang their heads in shame.
A lot have given up. We're down 3K from last year and this name change nonsense is damaging gates even further. Was it £36 tonight? West Ham brought a decent amount for a night match & at that price. Fair play.
Well a flight from Los Angeles to London and then either a rental car or cab just doesn't seem possible for me, but it is a Monday. I venture to guess a lot of supporters work on Mondays and I know for me personally, being that I live in L.A. it takes me 90 minutes to go 23 miles to the office and the last thing I want to do is deal with traffic and getting home at 10pm when I got up at 5am. Just my humble opinion.
Whatever. The fact is, when opposing fans laugh at the attendance it's embarrassing, and it happens a lot. Face it - our support is ****, and the calls for a stadium extension seem absurd now.
They would laugh at the attendance if it was full to the rafters which is only 3000 more than was there tonight.
I live in L.A. and $80 dollars seems high as hell for just one person. Does that come with 2 pints and a lap dance?
Or 3 pints and you'll think you'd had a lap dance. The greater Kingston on Hull area is about 573K, which is about the size of the greater Grand Rapids, Michigan area. Grand Rapids supports a single-A baseball team, the West Michigan Whitecaps and a minor league hockey team (AHL), the Grand Rapids Griffins. Seems to me for a city the size of Hull to get 20K+ souls to shell out 50-80 bucks for about 20 or so home matches is pretty good.
35quid for a game that was shown on sky is a joke, really wanted this to be my first live game since been back from New Zealand after 18months but it was too expensive!
People always have a go at Italian football's falling attendances yet every single game during the whole season is shown live on mainstream tv. So you cant have it both ways - is TV a factor or isnt it?
I dont go anymore because of our owner. I want to go but I can't give him my time or money. If he left or came out and admitted he has been completely wrong, apologised and dropped the whole name change fiasco, then I'll be back with bells on. I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks like this.
The answer is simple v Stoke live on sky £16 tickets sell-out v West Ham live on sky £35 tickets 3000 empty seats
Would be very interesting to see which game generated the most money when all things - prgrammes, refreshments, merch etc - are taken into account. I'd like to think that this is exactly what the club has done, ie compare a cheap sell-out vs an expensive non sell-out. But that would be a good business development idea and would be giving them a lot of credit....
