[QUOTE=Chewbacca;1155074]There was a slump in crowds after gaining promotion not a surge. [QUOTE]
Your figures do not agree with this site:
England historical attendance and performance
Although the above site rather oddly seems to refer to calendar years rather than seasons. If "3,000 crowds of mainly home fans sometimes seen in 2005/06" is correct, there must have been some very poor attendances to arrive at the figures reported on the above website.
Can anyone provide a more accurate picture than that seemingly portrayed by this website?