And if most of them took advantage of the cheap north lower ST the ground is goin to look even more deserted Northampton will bring a few hundred I'd imagine having just been promoted bug reckon looking at 8/9,000 first game. Do well will have 12,000 by October badly down to 6/7,000
afternoon chaps.... Just popped in and it's like I never went away. Good luck for the new season. I hope you get back up, but if not at least take 6 points of the wallies.
Afternoon mate how's things up at your place ...protests still continuing next season or fans placated
How are you feeling about this season? Only player I have see you have signed is Roofe - good signing on the face of things.
Losing Cook is a disaster. We have signed some Swedish nobody from Serie C. Charlie Taylor will be sold before August and we will be in another season of lower mid table mediocrity if we are lucky. Cellino is harder to get rid of than herpes!
Fans are resigned to our fate. Cellino cant be shifted. He has offered 50% cash back on season tickets when we don't reach the playoffs and 13,000 suckers fell for it.
Will be sacked by the madman when he can't get the ****e Cellino is buying into the top 6. Gone by October is my estimate.
13,000 but only because he has offered 50% cash back when we don't make the playoffs. Not a hope in hell of us been top half. And he has saddled us with a chunk of debt to pay before next season.
Not my work unfortunately, but worthy of posting "As you know, I don’t often comment on the goings on over at The Valley. However, I noticed that they have sold less season tickets than little old Millwall. This is despite our cheapest adult season ticket being £412; and theirs £175. Next season I imagine if we fulfil our potential as serious promotion contenders we will average around the 11,000-12,000 mark – going on previous League One promotion seasons (one as champions, one as play-off winners). Last season we averaged 9,108 after the worst two home seasons in the club’s history, relegation to a very northern division, and having been mid-table right up to January. In fact, once we hit the top 6 from the end of January onwards we averaged a decent 10,449 a game – 11,100 if you include the Bradford City game in the play-offs. If Charlton start off with a relegation hang-over they could be looking at crowds of 7,000 odd. It looks as if they have undone all their good work of rebuilding their fanbase in the late 1990s and early 2000s with Premier League football for affordable family prices. More worrying for them is that this has happened at a time when West Ham United are ideally positioned to take full advantage. Many of Charlton’s floating support has traditionally come from families in NW & west Kent – people who can now hop on a fast train to the Olympic Stadium to watch…ahem…affordable Premier League football! But, importantly, at a PL club with ambition and the infrastructure (thanks to us tax payers) to stay a PL outfit & a very competitive one to boot. The longer that Charlton stay under the yoke of a mad Belgian owner, the more floating fans & potential new fans they will lose to the ‘Appy ‘Ammers. Back before Charlton made it to the Premier League & just after they had returned to The Valley (1992-1998) the two SE London rivals had very similar crowds, in fact Millwall averaged higher gates in 3 of the 5 seasons the two were both in what is now the Championship – by 1-2,000. In fact, the season Charlton were promoted & Millwall were relegated, the Addicks averaged a modest 1,500 more. Last year I wrote a piece about how when in the same division, surprisingly, Millwall had recorded a higher average attendance than Charlton on more occasions over time – as someone had asked. I think next season we will extend our lead in this area by once again getting higher average gates than the Addicks while playing in the same division – the first time since 1994. However, this isn’t what this is really about. I think this is the beginning of a hard to reverse decline for Charlton Athletic football club. Unless they can get back to the Premier League pretty soon (and that seems unlikely under the current regime) they are going to lose a hell of a lot of floating fans to West Ham United. This isn’t even about the ultimate doom & gloom of them falling through the trap door to League Two – but a best case scenario of falling back into the ‘little old Charlton’ of the 1970s, 1980s & early 1990s. Where, bar the miracle work of Lennie Lawrence, they were a Second Tier outfit struggling to keep their heads above the water, sometimes dropping into the Third Tier. They even became the first senior club in England to become homeless. What has always sustained Millwall since the docks closed down in the 1970s is the fact that we became a bit of a cult club for SE London. Even when crowds sunk to 3-4,000 in the early 1980s Millwall had something about them & so stayed an important landmark on the London footballing scene. We have only ever had two seasons of top flight football, less than the number of times the FA has closed our ground, bounced between the 2nd & 3rd tiers & seen our best players sold off for cheap…yet…next season 8-12,000 will still show up & create one of the more partisan atmospheres in the football league and the club will feel alive. As for Charlton – can you imagine 7,000 odd flask drinking misery guts knocking around that stadium – it will seem like a Valley of Ghosts. If you are a kid from Woolwich etc. and you turn up and see that, are you going to want to come back? No matter how bad Millwall have been…it has always been a laugh for the young lads from Bermondsey, Peckham & nowadays Eltham and Downham. Probably why our away support is better than theirs too. They’ve lost Premier League football. They will lose their floating support. They are a weird experiment for a Belgian crackpot. The ground will have 20,000 empty seats. They are left with the flask brigade. It is so bleak over there I actually feel for them. As said before, have always actually liked Charlton Athletic the club. But, it seems that a Belgian owner & West Ham getting a pretty much free stadium pretty much sees them on the same path as Leyton Orient! Still…they have a derby v us to look forward too!?"
Obviously, TC, we know all that. What we don't know is why Roland continues his mad failing experiment. It will lead to L2 if not this season then the next but failure doesn't seem to alter his (non)-strategy. So, the question is why?
Yep - not much wrong in that article. It doesn't mention your potential play off failure, followed by violence, followed by banning orders which plateau your season ticket sales though
It also doesn't take into account that having failed to go straight back up they will now stagnate for years in the third tier. Let's not forget that league three is their usual level, they are where they normally are..... You on the other hand.....
Millwall are a cult (grrr those Typos) club in south east London purely because they attract the idiots who love the reputation for being nasty racist violent fans simple as that
