by From Despair To Where? »
12 Mar 2024 15:45
Snowflake Royal Armadillo Roadkill Why not? Maidenhead, Slough, Basingstoke; all get far less than 4K. I'm pretty sure most of their regulars would rather have that than no club at all.
I've been to all of those often and always enjoyed it.
Because we're recently a Championship club with an average attendance of 12k, who in good times average 17/18k.
If we can't get some enthusiasm for a fresh start to bring a big slice of them along we'll never get anywhere.
Maidenhead, Slough etc are all small NL clubs with an, until recently, Championship neighbour.
We've had a decade of unremitting shit and even when we were good under Stam, the football was stultifying. We've been haemorrhaging fans.
Taking 5 or 6 steps down the pyramid isn't going to turn this around, especially when a lot of our fanbase were weaned on much better. Old timers who remember Elm Park may be happy with slumming it but I fear a lot of our fanbase won't.
I make as many trips as I can to the SCL, but I don't even fancy a trip to Marine 3 miles up the road with Conference standard facilities In the North East Counties League. A 450 mile round trip to a phoenix club at a similar step doesn't fill me with enthusiasm.