This post is pulling in the likes but sorry Chazz, it's bollocks.
No, people were not saying we'd have 20,000 hardcore fans. That's clearly a very dramatised version of what was said. Actually, there was a lot of caution, talked about for years, that once they did eventually go it would take a long time to get the crowds back up to where they were. It was obvious there'd be a decent bump from day 1, and there was. But nobody said 20,000 hardcore fans.
But in any case, for all the negative talk of whether we can get 20,000 in the last couple of pages, we actually did get over 20,000 for the last few, which were dead rubbers. We've since got another 2,000 members in which is good news. The pricing is brilliant, but realistically it already was brilliant before this summer's changes, so to get another 2,000 purely on the back of that is pretty good I'd say. I don't think we should be disappointed in the slightest by the increase in our crowds under Acun.
The key now to taking the crowds up another level is to have a bit of success. Home games on the whole have been joyless for a really long time now. From McCann taking over in 2019 to Rosenior coming in last year we lost an incredible amount of home games, 31 home defeats from 56 in front of fans in that time. I think it went under people's radars how bad it really was. Can't be many teams in the country who had a worse time watching home games over that period. Under LR we've stopped losing at home but it came too late for there to be any real excitement, the season was basically already gone and obviously we had trouble scoring goals. A good first half of this season to generate a bit of excitement and belief would go a long way. We've seen glimpses under Acun of what an excited stadium can look and sound like but it's never had a spell of results to make it last longer than a game or two max.
