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Originally Posted by Chewbacca
Stanley 1st Home Saturday crown back in the league in 2006 was 1,639. There was a slump in crowds after gaining promotion not a surge. The surge was the year before when walking away with the division.
After one poor game at home in the Football league the crowd dropped by 1,000 and the novelty had worn off. It would be near impossible to quickly return to the 3,000 crowds of mainly home fans sometimes seen in 2005/06 as that was on the back of possible promotion to the football league for the first time and going unbeaten for half the season. Promotion, even as champions, to the third division doesn't have the same novelty.
Any significant increase in crowds is likely to take a decade.
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At the start of that fantastic season the crowds were about the same as now they surged dramatically after the televised away win at Exeter and then along with some local derbies and the top of the table syndrome they peaked at just over 3000 tell,s it,s own story me think,s.