Will the Reading (H) attendance be the lowest of the season?

Their away followings are always small, even when they are winning a lot so there won't be many more than 300ish Reading fans at Oakwell next Saturday.
Also, what incentive to pay on the gate fans is there to fork out £23 (£18 on a members card) to watch a team losing a lot of games and conceding a lot of goals without any 'spark' or excitement coming from the pitch?

Will the attendance be lower than the 8,900 that turned up for the Bristol home match?

 

Possibly it will and that will play right into Hill`s hands, he will have a ready made excuse again.

 

Reading sold 470 tickets before tomorrow's match

...with tickets being available on the day so about 500-550 Royals at Oakwell tomorrow. Ticket sales not looking huge in the home ends according to that eticketing site but then again it never does.

 

Re: Reading sold 470 tickets before tomorrow's match

Thats good for them.

 

Re: Reading sold 470 tickets before tomorrow's match

for a team thats 2nd in the league that is crap support

 

Re: Reading sold 470 tickets before tomorrow's match

For where they are in the league and on the back of fantastic form, it's a really poor showing by them. They should be bringing a thousand.

 

Re: Reading sold 470 tickets before tomorrow's match

374 last season when they did their usual late surge. They just dont seem to travel in big numbers oop North.

 

Re: Reading sold 470 tickets before tomorrow's match

yep, cough cough, our official site says only 470 tickets sold this morning. Despite being a supposedly affluent area we're not good travellers - see the overall AWAY attendance records for the football league for last season:

http://royalsrendezvous.co.uk/topic/9183526/1 makes interesting reading IMO.

Mind you the Tykes are one place worse, but considering Reading's home attendances are averaging 16,000 to 19,000 last three seasons doesn't really explain it. Amazing to see Port Vale of League 2 above both of us ...

Anything over 500 fans for a Northern game can be considered a success story for Reading ...

 

Re: Reading sold 470 tickets before tomorrow's match

Don't forget though we had massively different seasons. If we had made it to the play off final we would have taken a lot more. When you're not doing well it's hard to drag yourself to away games.

 

Re: Reading sold 470 tickets before tomorrow's match

With a new owner willing to invest £40 million plus as well.

 

Re: Reading sold 470 tickets before tomorrow's match

Just goes to show, their success is entirely built on Castle's in the Sky, bit like Wigan - doesn't matter how well you do, there just isn't the tradition or fan base, you can have the best stadium in the world, and the best team, but "Reading" have always been a two-bit club, it will ever be thus. If we were 3rd, there'd be over a thousand at least going to Reading away.

 

Re: Reading sold 470 tickets before tomorrow's match

Yeah i agree. If we were 2nd in the league, on a 9 game unbeaten run, 2 points off of the top spot, we'd take a lot more than that down there. Reckon we'd be getting brilliant attendances too, 15,000+

 

Re: Reading sold 470 tickets before tomorrow's match

it's not that we've 'Castles in the Sky', it's that the club is only beginning to come of age. We've had a disappointing history, we're not on your level historically yet - just compare our joint histories for a moment:
* Reading have only been in the second tier 16 seasons, plus the two year flirt in the premier a few years back. And 5 or 6 of those 16 were back in the 1920s as well!
* Barnsley have been in the second tier for well-nigh on 70 seasons now

The Royals fans 35+ are certainly not 'plastics', many even started when we were in the 4th division (gee, that WAS depressing!). Agreed that when you have success you always get an influx of 'momentary good feel' fans who are not there upon relegation, but that's inevitable.

Some of us are actually fighting to dis-associate Reading (and the Thames Valley) from London - hating London dominance and respecting the regions - but we're still too few unfortunately. But if the club can maintain itself in the top two tiers this next decade then that should lay the path to us having much fewer glory Chelski and Arse&nal seekers ...

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