[Pendle Red]

I tend to agree with Macca that we would have probably dropped through the Leagues but because of what happened that has been the driving force to bring the Club back to where we are today through.

Again the lost generations side of things is very much the catalyst for where we are in terms of crowds.

I have heard lots of comments about where are the crowds that followed us in the Conference as Cashy said there is more to it than apathy and I agree during our time back in the League for example Rovers have had cheap season tickets offers so managed to keep their crowds whilst the Clarets also have been in the Premier League thus increasing their revenues and turnover and both clubs giving their fans the chance to watch the household names of football appear at their local club.

To a degree this also happened to Stanley with crowds for Stanley 68 reaching their peaks in recent times while chasing the dream of a return to League Football unfortuanately success on the pitch brings people to games especially the Walk-on element as we also saw with the play-off semi last season and recent cup games it brings publicity and people buy into that.

As others again have said we punch above our weight in tems of where we are the question is how do we get gates to keep increasing?