I'm also disappointed when I see how many people turn up for games, but a discussion like this needs a benchmark: how many people should we realistically expect to turn up for our home games at the moment? I refer to my first post:
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Originally Posted by Whalley Red
The point is that we traditionally lose 150-400 people (or 10-19% of early season attendances) once the colder weather sets in and that does include the 2002-03 season when we started the season by winning every game. By contrast we have GAINED 364 people (or 32% of early season attendances) on average, which is something that we have not done before now. And let's face it, the number of visiting fans has been laughable at most games this season.
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And in terms of how much "Eric and Coley have every right to be very disappointed with the current gates", I think Rob rather let slip some of the hidden agenda behind this:
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Originally Posted by rob
we have had good interest from the media since eric's comments on monday morning and hopefully more to come...
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So let's not lose perspective on this. I'd expect the attendance to drop again on Saturday as season ticket holders have to fork out that extra £12 that they don't do for any home league game (as well as the usual arguments about successive Saturdays with home games, playing Alty twice in three weeks, unimportance of the FA Trophy given our history in it, etc.), but maybe some of the extra media attention this week will offset that. If it doesn't, it shouldn't mean that there is no worthwhile support for the Club in Accy. It is there and now we have a great opportunity via success on the pitch to get those people back into the ground, but it is only via continued success on the pitch
and improvement in the conditions for spectators will we retain a large number of them.<!-- / message -->