Quote: Armavinit "It’s a perennial debate as to why the three club’s supporter base is so limited. Rovers highest average gate is from the 80’s and was around 11,000 again ours was 13,500 from the same era, not sure what city’s is but guess around 20,000 from the early premiership years. Thats it tops. Most of my football following mates support teams out of the City, Notts. Forest, Leeds, Arsenal of course Man. U, I’m a long standing Everton fan and take in a couple of games a year. I went to all City v Everton games, Everton won them all. It is what it is and the trend won’t change, people stating building FC’s attendance to anything more than 13,500 is pie in the sky, the attendance average is inflated by 2 home derbies in a season. Leeds, Wigan and Saints don’t ring many supporters any more, in fact I would say our best gate for away support is Cas. Rovers excepted.'"
Why do you keep going on about AVERAGE attendance?
Yeah over the season the average may be around 11k but it’s about having the facilities and size too accommodate a crowd of around 13k to 15k, as per Sunday, and the odd game when this would be the case. That is more important?
Now you could argue why stop at 15k then? But we have to be realistic and for me 15k is about right and a crowd of around 11k in that size stadium wouldn’t look sp.