What is ridiculous, if you look at that stadium, is the SAG said one reason away fans couldn't be moved to the Upper West was it was so steep it would be dangerous because if people stood up there could be a surge and people would go tumbling into the Lower West. Look,at the way they are carrying on in a three decker stadium with much steeper sloping with no problems.
I am merely saying why they would not legitimately to them consider it necessary. And that doesn't take account of his spat with the council,and statements about people in a council house don't pay to,extend or improve it. To be honest look at our attendances since 1967and there isn't a great deal of evidence to support having a much larger stadium.
We don't compare badly to most, it's pretty much the same at every ground nowadays, quite a few are far worse than the KC, there's only a handful that are much better.
Laws of economics and physics. One of the laws of economics shows that, all things being equal, a reduction in price would increase attendances (unless capacity has been reached). It is not a logical argument to say that if at England v France there's an attendance of 70,000 at Wembley with an average price of £50 then reducing the price to £40 and have North Ferriby play Scunthorpe resulting in a smaller attendance means my argument is flawed. One of the laws of physics shows that, all things being equal, increased acoustics will result in more noise (unless the fans make no noise at all). In a different scenario, it's not a logical argument to say that if somebody ran a distance a certain speed then using a sports car wouldn't get so far if there was no petrol in the car. In both cases you should only change one factor to determine whether it has a certain effect.
You are not comparing like with like. We are an all seater stadium now. There seems to be a lot of people staying away because of the prices. If we charged £10 for some seats in a greatly enlarged stadium I am sure, over time, we would get a lot of new fans and some of them would spend money on other things while at the stadium. I'd much rather watch a match in a stadium with 50,000 fans rather than 25,000 fans.
I was at Boothferry Park in the mid 60s when we played Millwall in the 3rd Division and about 46,000 got inside with thousands more unable to get in. I accept there's a lot of changes since then but this is partly due to more so called "middle class" supporters going and increased prices.
I keep having to state ceteris paribus anytime I mention shifts and movements in supply and demand graphs. Doing my nut in.
The Millwall matchI went to had 40,231 there in a stadium which at the time had a 42,000 capacity. Our next home game had 22,000 there.at the beginning of November we had a 12,000 crowd that season.
Can you imagine every time you wanted to reduce price and everybody wanted to combine it with all sorts of other changes?
You are quoting the fans who paid. A lot climbed over the gates. I had to sit on the running track. We had another later seven league matches over 25,000 as well as four FA Cup matches over 25,000 - Chelsea at home was 45,328.
None of the arguments there prove anything. All our high priced £50 games in the PL sold out. All the lower priced ones didn't. I can remember 13,000 at Chelsea, being at Sunderland with 13,000 there. Now with all seater stadiums with higher prices they 40,000 plus. Man City when theyhsdvthe largest ground in the country never averaged more than 40,000. Now in an all,seater stadium with higher prices they get averages over that and have had to extend the stadium. One can always prove their case if they want to.
A lot have drifted off towards glamour clubs since those days. Youre going back half a century there. Them sort of gates aint gonna hapoen to clubs the size of City Look at the gates that the likes of Huddersfield and Blackpool used to get in the 50s/60s
Seeing as over half the season ticket holders are supposedly resident in'the East Riding you need to expand that a bit from Hull.
You don't think that Hull City charged £50 for the matches more in demand? What division were Chelsea and Sunderland in at the time? Do you think the Manchester City example is anything to do with the players they have bought? The cases I am proposing are using simple laws of economics and physics. I'm not making them up.
