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Had a look on Transfer Market UK for Notts attendance figures in last 25 seasons. If we discount 20/21 due to Covid, the average crowd through that period is 5987. Four seasons where total attendances averaged under 5000. Twelve seasons when the average was between 5000 and 6000.
It is probably too much to hope for to reach 6000 season ticket sales but it does give some perspective to the direction the club is heading. We'll done everyone at NCFC
I think attendances are up across the board. Look at Mansfield, for example. They used to struggle to get 4000 at home including away fans but have already passed that number in season tickets sales.Quote:
Originally Posted by BJPIE
But yeah, things are definitely on the up, and last season will have got a whole load of youngsters and peripheral fans hooked.
Our average attendance for the coming season could be the highest in decades, especially if we make a push for promotion. There are a handful of teams that will pretty much sell out the away allocation (Mansfield, Grimsby, Bradford, Stockport, Wrexham) and a few more that will take 1000 or so, so 10k+ attendances could be fairly regular.
Honestly, I don't remember a time when we were so well run, and when optimism for the future was so justified. Good times!
They are, clubs are seeing average attendances they haven't seen since the 1970s at all levels, but you don't have to look too far away to find that some clubs have hit a celling, they can't go any higher because their capacity won't allow them to. That means other clubs will start to close the gap in terns of bums on seats. You don't have to look very far either for an example of that phenomena.Quote:
Originally Posted by slack_pie
It isn't so much of a stretch of the imagination to predict that Notts could average 10k this coming season *if* we were in the mix for promotion again, which would bring Notts up to a third of the size of our PL rivals on gates with the local newspaper hilariously still doing their best to ignore us.
If we got promoted again (which has to be more likely than going back down, and as I've shown in a previous thread, clubs generally don't tend to stuck around in L2 for more than 4 seasons) you're going to be looking towards Notts becoming half the size of Fword if the current trend continuers and Fword don't expand. There's also a reasonable chance that by the time we go up, they will be going in the other direction again.
Outside of Notts, it’s quite interesting to see what’s happening post lock-down.
Inflation is the highest in years and everything costs a fortune. Everyone seems to be striking, the economy is only narrowly avoiding recession. Yet, the demand for live events, bars, restaurants, shows, holidays etc, is through the roof.
Whenever I’m in town, it’s rammed.
However, manufacturing is on its backside.
We had two years of being starved of socialising so spent our money on ‘things.’
Now, it seems, we’ve gone the other way with a vengeance.
Yeah it's the opposite of what many (understandably) expected. Quite a few predicted the cost of living issue/crisis would have a widespread detrimental impact on attendances. Then when it didn't happen last year, those same people claimed it was due to 'suppression' and a 'bottle neck effect'. Yet it doesn't appear to be that way, especially not in the East Midlands where the City Ground is unfortunately sold out or close to getting 28-29K each week, Derby getting huge crowd in L1, Mansfailed selling more season tickets than ever and now as reported Notts breaking 5K in ST sales. Yes a couple of these teams have had great success recently but the expected significant drop in crowds just hasn't materialised yet. Will it?
Mansfield we’re struggling to sell there season tickets at first until they brought in the pay monthly by DD and they instantly went and sold another 2k season tickets within 4 days.
This would be useful, but with our previous owners screwing up financially, would any credit companies touch us with a barge pole?Quote:
Originally Posted by WarsopPie
5k is excellent, shows that we're on the right track.
Sunderland have sold over 33k season tickets, that's just nuts :O
This is why we're so lucky to have a relatively big stadium. Sure, opposition fans will mock us for only quarter-filling it when times are bad, but on the off chance the good times return, we're fully prepared to grow and grow.Quote:
Originally Posted by upthemaggies
True. You have to have the capacity to grow, or you are showing limited ambition.Quote:
Originally Posted by slack_pie
Would be incredibly frustrating to be doing really well, offering cheap tickets, or getting that long overdue big side in the cup at home and only having 3 stands and a capacity of under 10,000 when you could get so many more in.