Most season tickets in years, but of course its the fans fault. Conference manager = Conference team.
Its too expensive, plain and simple. Having lost my job, football goes way down the list, if they introduced some cut prices for unemployed, then it would help, but the area which is rife with unemployment its no surprise to me that the attendances are low even with the poor results at the moment. I would love to go and watch the reds again, but just can't afford it.
I think there's enough evidence in the clubs history to prove that if the team are playing well and challenging, the fan base will grow. Whether or not you approve of glory hunters, they're a fact of football. Only an improvement on the pitch will address it. And I suspect you know that.
If you put a team together that can win matches - you watch the attendance rise It doesn't start with the fans pouring through the gates, it starts with the club getting its act together. The gate that you are referring to is not exactly some sort of a record at Oakwell - it's a midweek game after we just got beaten at home to a very average Coventry side. There's not a lot of optimism and the tickets are expensive. If the club wants to fill the ground it can do - but it must give something to the fans in the performances on the pitch, the standing in the tables, and the cost of entry. With the correct manager guiding the team properly we know for a fact that the attendances will rise - but who wants to see what Davey serves up? We're all sick to the back teeth with it. You're putting the cart in front of the horse.
11,549 were at the Preston game, James http://soccernet.espn.go.com/match?id=268143&cc=5739 Think S.M may want to re-asses his prediction.
So off the back of a 3-0 away victory they got a lower crowd than we did after an awful home defeat League One crowds = Play offs if you have a decent manager
