Thoughts on our average league attendance this season ? - Bowyer has returned the feel good factor. - Many boycotters got a taste for it again after Wembley - we have sold far more STs, now we are back in the league that we belong in. - but.... the Belgian wan k stain is still with us, like a bad case of haemorrhoids. That’s being so, I still think we will see 15,000 plus back at the Valley this season.
The 4k easily pleased brigade will soon be seeing the error of their ways. Come October and entrenched in the bottom 3.
15,000+ for the first two or three home games. Then it will depend on results. Competitive performances & a few wins = attendances of 13,000 to 16,000 most games. Bottom of the table and getting beaten every week = below 10,000 by November. I think the away support will hold up quite well whatever happens, and will give RD dogs abuse if the team are suffering because of his tight-fistedness.
Where do you get those figures from? We have 10000 season ticket holders. Teams like Derby, Leeds, Millwall, Sheffield Wednesday, QPR etc will sell out the away end. I would think the norm would be 14000 to 15000.
On average I would only expect about 80% of all ST holders to actually turn up at any given home game, aside from a couple of special exceptions like Millwall. Some will be on holiday, some will be ill or busy, a few won't bother if the opposition is seen as a 'dull' team.
Usual rules apply. If we get a good enough squad to hold our own and maybe spring a suprise or two, the fans will stick with it. If the squad get found out and we are losing left right and centre, people will drift away. The tail end of last season was built in part on the fight and the football the players offered on the pitch, with a great atmousphere off it. If the football disintegrates, the atmousphere will leak away and the terraces will empty.
It is possible that the atmosphere at the end of last season was in defiance of the owner with the players, the management and the fans coming together and saying to the yellow toothed man that we are going to succeed despite you!
I think this is largely true. There were still occasional anti-RD chants coming from the north stand, and probably at away games as well (though I was not at any of those so I cannot be sure). But everybody was 100% behind Bowyer and the players.
I also think this is true. Yellow Tooth didn't want promotion, and tried to scupper it by selling Grant and then telling Bowyer we had enough strikers (1).
Apparently in some quarters Josh Parker is now a Charlton Legend because he played in the L1 play-off Final at Wembley. All I can say to that is the bar has been lowered a bit since 1998...
17,800 yesterday I’d say we will top 20,000 if we stay on a good run. We will definitely have over 20,000 for Millwall. Perhaps “The Firm” might even be tempted back ? @AllHellLetLoose @Clb74 @baraettmattesvensson
The number of actual fans inside the Valley yesterday I would estimate at between 14,000 and 15,000, so the 'official' attendance sounds about right (roughly 20% higher than the number of bums on seats) It was a good attendance and the atmosphere was decent. Good to see the seats in the closed sections were clean too - not covered in bird poo.