Not helping the situation in terms of finances available to Neil Smith. Last season we were getting 650 fairly regularly - Tuesday was 401 - I know it was a cold midweek evening, but breaking 500 seems a long way off. Luckily we have Bromley next who will bring a lot to boost the coffers but overall the amount of money coming into the club is getting low and I would imagine less than what was forecast when the pre-season budgetting was done.
There were only 5 League attendance figures over 650 all season, the first of which was Newport County on 2 Dec. Last seasons average was 566 though that was no doubt affected by the AWAY Home fixtures without which we would probably have achieved around the 606 average of the season before.
The start of the season has hardly set the world alight and the attendance figures are 80 down on last seasons average (14%) and almost 100 down on this time last year. Without a significant upturn in results I would suggest that there is unlikely to be a significant increase in attendances.
We seem to have lost the casual attendees and some regulars appear to be joining JgFc and voting with their feet.
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I couldn't make sat or tues game but I feel this is the time when supporters need to show up and get behind the players - but it is depressing to watch us lose wek in week out!
and I will be there for the Bromley game and route for a 3-0!
Thanks Bruno - it seemed to me like we were drawing bigger crowds last season. Mind you an average of 566 with the meagre crowds we got at Dartford and Ebbsfleet shows we are well down this year with little chance of a big change I would suggest.
Not making excuses but I dont think it helped on Tuesday night with Charlton (sorry to sware) being at home. I know that does decrease our crowd by a few.
