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home support again ?

home support again ?

I suspect our average will be up on last season.

Would help if we dont appear to bottle it season after season TBH.
 
Have a proper tilt at promotion ie. finish in top 6 minimum. After all, we have been told more than once from those within the club that we have ambitions and aspirations of promotion, so lets get on with it.
 
This subject has been done to death. Disappointing but we've got what we've got until we're seriously in the mix for promotion at the business end of a season or until we actually get promoted. Today with where we are in the table and the weather was never going to be a bumper crowd.
 
Put a consistent run together at home, have something to play for, stop selling our best young players, invest in the playing squad, spend more than we do on incoming players, invest in new training facilities, reduce prices, move out of the same catchment area as numerous Prem teams, improve our marketing etc etc. Obviously some of these are within our control, some are not, but the point is there are countless reasons why our attendance is what it is and it not going to change unless we get promoted.
 
To be honest I think all things considered our gates are good. Has any other club had attendances as high as us having not won a significant trophy since 1934, no top flight football since 1961, no cup final appearance since 1964, and only 1 England international since Sir Tom? I doubt it.
Only top flight football, or some serious cup scalps will change things.
 
Mooney magic said:
To be honest I think all things considered our gates are good. Has any other club had attendances as high as us having not won a significant trophy since 1934, no top flight football since 1961, no cup final appearance since 1964, and only 1 England international since Sir Tom? I doubt it.
Only top flight football, or some serious cup scalps will change things.
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Totally agree with this
 
I do think there are things that can be done by us to make being a North Ender more attractive. And I mean us fans, not us the club.
For example, creating an atmosphere that attracts attention and that others want to be a part of. It's possible, and we did it already in the first 5 years of reclaiming the Town End; I knew of previous non-supporting North Enders wanting to get in on the action, of being part of a rowdy, noisey, match influencing crowd.
It is possible. Look at some other examples where the attraction is the crowd, not the team; the Kop at Anfield, yellow wall at Dortmund, ultras at Palace, Fratton Park in Pompey's prem seasons, Town End 1995-2000.
It might not add 5,000 to the gate, but it's just a thought.
 
Big game at Chorley today to see if they'd get automatic promotion or play offs on the last day, I expect a few who generally go Deepdale when we're at home and Chorley when we're away chose a big end of season decider in Chorley today over an exciting but practically meaningless game at Deepdale
 
Delaney said:
Big game at Chorley today to see if they'd get automatic promotion or play offs on the last day, I expect a few who generally go Deepdale when we're at home and Chorley when we're away chose a big end of season decider in Chorley today over an exciting but practically meaningless game at Deepdale
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Makes them followers not supporters
 
Ayemackone said:
Makes them followers not supporters
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Always found this kinda football fan dick measuring competition really odd and a bit pathetic. I understand saying someone's not really a fan if they've never gone on regularly but people make decisions about whether to go on for a range of personal reasons. Don't understand the motivation in giving someone shit for trying to enjoy their Saturday afternoon. (I didn't go on Chorley btw, just suggesting others might cause more was riding on it, it was cheaper and people are skint near the end of the month especially families after easter school holidays)
 
Delaney said:
Always found this kinda football fan dick measuring competition really odd and a bit pathetic. I understand saying someone's not really a fan if they've never gone on regularly but people make decisions about whether to go on for a range of personal reasons. Don't understand the motivation in giving someone shit for trying to enjoy their Saturday afternoon. (I didn't go on Chorley btw, just suggesting others might cause more was riding on it, it was cheaper and people are skint near the end of the month especially families after easter school holidays)
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Wasn't intended to be a dick measuring competition (as I would comfortably lose) sorry you find it odd, even more surprised it's pathetic. I support a club that I feel do not get the support that it deserves, apart from when we play a big club in the cup. It's all about opinions but if odd and pathetic is the best you can do I'm glad you don't sit near us in the AKTE. (That's where the home fans sit)?
 
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