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Originally Posted by Jesus_was_A_red_
and if the club put walk on prices up even £1 expect less fans next season. brfc average 20% of population per home game bfc average 10% and stanley average 1.5%. 10% should not be a unrealistic target for stanley in the next few seasons.
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Not quite sure where you get the figures from that you quote unless you are using the population of Hyndburn. Accrington's population is somewhere around 37,000 mark which IMHO means Stanley are getting about 4 to 5% not the 1.5% you quote, However, if you are talking Hyndburn, then this goes up to somewhere near 80,000 then the figure of 1.5% maybe true. As has been stated on other threads (and I am not searching for one now) Stanley have always had the problem of their bigger neighbours (this was as much the case pre '62 as it is now). Lets face it, from '62 until '06 we had either no team or a non-league team. I must admit though, where are the extra 1500 who used to watch us in the days of the Conference? Not that I am advocating returning to non-league obscurity. I want the team to push on and do something the pre 62 team never did, get promotion to League one and higher (if at all possible). We can emulate Wigan Athletic and the old Wimbledon. They never got fantastic crowds (and in the case of Wigan, I have personal experience at the old and new stadiums). I don't want miracles, but to be competetive would be nice!
