The bigger plan
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I wasn't meaning 10k more, was meaning 10k through the gate, but unlike you, having witnessed 22k in league 2 and similar crowds in league 1, it wouldn't surprise me at all if there was at least 15k in attendance that day if it ever comes.
.... And well fill again for big games if we're chasing promotion back to a decent league too.
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No problem, I took you to mean 'on the gate' as 10,000 above whatever Allams last match attendance would be.
Obviously when/if they go the attendance will increase for the first match, although I don't think it will be significantly higher, we'll see.
The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Not really strange though is it? Other owners don't get rid of concessions for children and seniors, etc., Most other owners don't go out of their way to alienate their fans to they extent that ours do. Perhaps only Blackpool's previous owner would be a reasonable comparison - and I think you will find that the fans largely stayed away there too.
At least 5,000 of them were Chelsea fans, a few thousand returning because it was cheap, a few thousand tourists, they’re hardly starting numbers.
Youv'e also gotta remember Allams claimed attendances are probably not actual attendances cos they count members that can't be arsed on that particular day, but I honestly think there'll be 15 k in the second they're gone in whatever league. I've seen 9k in boothferry under dolan for a first home game of the season when there was still a bit of hope in the early 90s.
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Aren’t they? I think so
As a helluva lot of stay aways came back.
I think a lot of long in the tooth fans know how this is going to go
Down to 6000 Soon. Back to being ridiculed by the tubby lards the hdm humberside.
Then down to 3.5k in league 2, then administration, then new owners and a bit of success, then queuing round the KCom for a ticket cos the club doesn't recognise your loyalty when everyone else jumps on the bandwagon.
Still, there's a market and we know we can fill it cos we have.
Sunderland have been worse than us, stuck in League One for 2 seasons and their fans have been fed up with the ownership for years. Their average attendance this season was 30,000. Quite remarkable.
Explain this one then. 1970/71. The coming of Terry Neil, 34,000 for the pre season game Watney Cup match v Man Utd. Over 20,000 for the first home game rising to 30,000 plus for league games around the Christmas period. 40.000 plus for the FA Cup game in March v Stoke. By the end of the season we were down below 10,000. This under a chairman who backed the club with his own money and is still idolised today by those who remember him, namely Harold Needler. I remember those days well because I was there. Our home crowd could double in the same week if we had a good result and halve again if we suffered a defeat.
It was cheap to get in, well under £1, we still had the famous five forward line and an international centre half.
Yet home crowds halved in one season and never really recovered for a generation and more.
I think the crowds dropped off because we stopped winning and the dream of promotion to the old First Division evaporated.
Conclusion, we are a fickle bunch.
It was cheap to get in, well under £1, we still had the famous five forward line and an international centre half.
Yet home crowds halved in one season and never really recovered for a generation and more.
I think the crowds dropped off because we stopped winning and the dream of promotion to the old First Division evaporated.
Conclusion, we are a fickle bunch.
I loved that era.Used to get put in the paddock with my rattle(remember them anyone)? My old Man and My Grannies brother had season tickets and sat up in the stand behind me with their hip flasks and a flask of soup on cold days!! Bastards never gave me anything
Yes, I do, Martin Hainsworth. Three sided ground with the corners of the East Stand cordoned off because the terraces were crumbling away. The imposing North Stand, one of the newest stands in the FL demolished to make way for a supermarket. Railway Halt closed and a forest of weeds and trees growing on the embankment and behind the asbestos roofed East Stand.This is Boothferry Park
Anyone remember that awesome moment?
No bars. Holes in the roof of the Best stand. Toilets that resembled the Black Hole of Calcutta. Regular appearances at the High Court on winding up orders. Lower league football and crowds under 5,000. That was Boothferry Park for a couple of decades and more before the coming of Adam Pearson with a brief respite under Don Robinson.
Agreed. I wouldn't point to Sunderland or Newcastle as an example of **** support when things get tough, but nor do I agree that we haven't the potential to draw a very respectable crowd when the fans don't feel exploited by respective ownerships.
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Still got a wooden rattle. With Hoveringham Gravels painted on it, the chairman's, name, all the forward line, even the sponge man Gus McClean, and the name of the group of lads who obviously used to go together, one of them called Rock. One of my daughters paid a lot of money for it from Tony Sturdy of Beverley Pine fame.I loved that era.Used to get put in the paddock with my rattle(remember them anyone)? My old Man and My Grannies brother had season tickets and sat up in the stand behind me with their hip flasks and a flask of soup on cold days!! Bastards never gave me anything