What happened to all the game day entertainment today? I know it was only a small crowd and we need to save as much money as possible but surely at £15 in we can afford the usually sound system and bullman/bullboy? The lack of sound system apart from in the stand meant that it was almost impossible to hear the teams being announced

They haven't bothered in previous CC games either. I can't say I blame them to be honest either. I can't see the club making much of a profit on games like today.

I thought that there was some kind of legislation in place saying that there has to be a speaker system in place in case of an emergency (fire)?

I presume the tanoy system provides this. It wasnt great but I could make out most of what was being said over on the terracing.

Least of clubs problems at the moment tbf. Don't blame them for cost cutting in slightest in circumstances.

Skint

poor turnout would have liked to see a few more Bulls fans

The tannoy system today was terrible, I was telling some dons fans who our try scorers were because they could'nt make out the names being said...cost cutting or not, bad decision imo.

If the Club had publicised the match a bit more I'm sure they could have got a bigger crowd.

IMO a decent turnout today with an all-pay crowd for a lower level attraction.
Reckon Donny will take away around 20K

Tbf 3,000 is a pretty good crowd for a Championship team nevermind a Championship 1 side.

Maybe but don't under-estimate just how busy everyone at the club is right now. Regardless of extra publicity many people would not have bothered with this match.

I do appreciate that, but they have all been in the press at some time this week. How hard would it have been to ask the fans to show up for the Team and Club? I hardly saw a mention anywhere about the match!

Perhaps but also maybe wary of over doing it a little? A lot of fans have already contributed a heck of a lot already. I doubt there was a single member who didn't know about this game. It was never going to be the sort of game to attract the casual supporter to be fair.

Obviously there is always more that could be done.

Agreed.

That so many fans did turn up shows they were aware of the match and attended I think more out of support for the club rather than the occasion.
Hey, 3,800 extra paying customers is a big deal by any standards.
I'll modify the figure somewhat by a lot of Donny supporters who added to the gate and gave great vocal support.