Agree on point 2.

On point 1, it's relative to all other clubs, there's been an increase across the board with virtually all clubs getting bigger gates and many overtaking Notts in terms of size from where they were 20/30 years ago - Wigan, Reading, Bournemouth, Peterborough, Rotherham, Fulham, Huddersfield, Hull all spring to mind, we were even averaging higher than Middlesbrough in the same division at one stage, they are light years ahead of us now.

Our current average is half of what it was 50 years ago. Almost everybody's gates began to collapse from about 1974 with high profile cases of violence, then Fwords success under Clough pressed down even harder on our ceiling.

I'm sure we could get out of the 4th tier with relative ease if we had our act together, but the 3rd tier has become so much tougher now. Whenever we've been in it (tier 3) since the mid-90s I'd say we were among the top third biggest and not much smaller than the 2nd or 3rd biggest in most cases, but there'd probably be 3 or 4 clubs way bigger than us in there now at any given time and up to 12 who could claim to be bigger.