League 1 Average attendances 2015/16

1 Sheffield United 20,074
2 Bradford City 18,011
3 Coventry City 13,178
4 Barnsley FC 9,136
5 Millwall FC 9,093
6 Wigan Athletic 8,487
7 Swindon Town 7,390
8 Blackpool FC 6,771
9 Chesterfield FC 6,567
10 Southend United 6,511
11 Doncaster Rvrs 6,276
12 Gillingham FC 6,096
13 Peterborough 5,603
14 Walsall FC 5,346
15 Shrewsbury 5,303
16 Port Vale FC 4,868
17 Crewe 4,572
18 Bury FC 4,353
19 Oldham Athletic 4,264
20 Colchester 4,101
21 Scun thorpe 3,753
22 Burton Albion 3,742
23 Fleetwood Town 3,403
24 Rochdale AFC 3,225

I'm not going to give it the big time Charlie like our neighbours from S6 but surely given the revenue generated from 9,000 attending as opposed to half of that, you'd expect to have a far bigger budget? Walsall, Burton, and Rochdale must have half the revenue stream we have yet they have far better teams than us. People say we're skint and can't afford wages to compete yet these teams do so we're obviously doing something wrong.

 

It's what you're prepared to spend though. We're in limbo, owner wants out and not prepared to keep investing his dosh perhaps? Young kids on loan are definitely cheap...

 

These little peasants like Rochdale and Burton aren't run by complete clowns.

 

Could it be the cost of running the academy that drains the club of money.

 

700k a year Ben told us

 

Its a fair whack and you have to ask if its worth it really

 

Which makes the failed policy of loaning youth players from other clubs' even more baffling.

The level of incompetence at the club is staggering.

 

Having a settled squad helps a lot has well, ours has almost completely changed every year.

 

So long as you keep churning out the talent, yes. I suppose when we get the Stones clause money, it'll pay for its upkeep 10 seasons over. It'd be ridiculous to get shut of the academy. What needs to happen is for those running BFC to show more faith in the kids within it. I'm not suggesting they're all going to make it, but we've had 13 loans this season already, and 90% being someone else's youth players. We've just signed another today, rather that than give one of our own kids a go apparently. So in that context, yes it's not worth it really is it?

 

As far as loanees is concerned I'm beginning to agree.

 

Maybe they have enough pies and reply to emails regarding hospitality upgrades?

 

On a crude interpretation of those figures we ought to be about half as good a team as the Blunts. So credit to everyone at the club for being better than that.

 

It wont be 9k next season if the present incumbents are still at the helm

 

I compare our management running a football club with letting Corbyn run the economy, it's as bad as that.

 

That Rochdale must have a good manager

 

Correct back to 6000 to 7000

In a 24000 seater stadium that won't look very good

Might as well just open the east stand


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And Bury. We should poach one of them 2 or better still both.

 

Pukka reply that..haha