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true but if we ever got to the top doubt if our gates would be as good. ground aint big enough. they must have made good money when they were there.

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[QUOTE=cashman;1252611]true but if we ever got to the top doubt if our gates would be as good. ground aint big enough.

possibly thats a good reason to have missed out on the play offs this season and winning that lottery and getting promoted. the wham just isn,t big enough for championship football if the crowds are back fully. there would not be full houses every game either once the novelty quickly wore off with new age home fans. best stanley can ever hope for are decent cup runs and staying in this division with a team playing decent positive football.

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This season Stanley’s gates are as big as Man Utd’s! :rolleyes:

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I suspect most of what they made got spent in Milton Keynes! :rolleyes:

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[QUOTE=monkey hanger;1252612]Not very positive doubt Coley would ever see it like that and don't forget there is another end of the ground to finish with plenty of room their to build something that could be expanded for demand if required.

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Novelty of league 1 would wear off with fans in a relegation battle quicker than one in the Championship me thinks.

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thats my opinion andy, im a realist andy holt is magic but sure he aint made of money.

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well the novelty of league football did when stanley were struggling in division 2. you expect crowds to drop some way if the team is doing bad but not to the extent they do nowadays at all clubs including stanley.it always seems for some reason i,ll never undertand is that its far easy to lose fans but much harder to recruit them.

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and money to waste at that. no matter what division any club in the country are in there is a maximum number of home fans it will ever get. could the wham ever get 10,000 home fans in like morecambe and others.

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I think that the old Accrington Stanley,s biggest ever seasonal average gate was about 9200 ish back some years which was quite an achievement with our population bigger than Rochdale's highest average and their population is much higher.

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we have always struggled with gates simple reason 5 or 6 miles either way 2 much bigger clubs. and you will always get glory hunters.

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Same as your Rochdale's, Oldham's and Bury all surrounding by so called " bigger clubs".

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rochdale is possibly the furthest away than stanley and the other 2 clubs are from another big club alternative yet their gates have always been much lower than bury,s and oldhams have been. in the early 70,s if you wanted to see a crowd in rochdale you either had to go to the shops or a hornets rugby league game at their old ground which was far superior to spotland.