But regardless of all that, we still don't make enough money locally. Our crowds are tiny for the size of our catchment area. People like blaming our attendances on the local economy, school holidays etc but the fact is we don't have enough fans because we don't bring new fans in. The club don't market themselves to new fans. Only people who already follow the club on Twitter or go on the OWS see any of the club's news.
This is a massive massive subject as to why we don't get bigger gates, the historical reasons and what we can do to alter that. There is a huge amount that we as a club (sorry it's not a business or a brand) can do to grow our support. It baffles me why we focus on know nowt far east folk when we could have a virtual monopoly of football fans from Scarbro to Goole and maybe even North Lincs.
We're averaging 23997 per game, there's only another 1000 that can fit in! Do you think this may be the reason he's not targeting local people and looking for investment from elsewhere?
We could do with a waiting list, to encourage the East Stand expansion, an area as populated as ours should easily be able to manage 30k+.
No. He's already shown himself to be utterly clueless in Marketing our club and has alienated the vast majority of our supporters and non affiliated locals by his belligerent bluster. Adam Pearson doubled our gates. It can be done again if the ground was big enough.
