Originally Posted by
fatshaft
That works both ways. Since moving back out to the shire, I make very few games (maybe 8-10) in a season cos getting to Pittodrie is a total pain in the arse. There's a lot of casual fans in the hinterlands who I'm convinced will attend more often if the ground is easy to get to. And that is absolutely eberyuone outside the city. So that 45% of ST holders are only going to increase.
Then, as I've said heaps on this thread, there's plenty in toon who will also now have a shorter trip to new stadium than they do to Pittodrie, and plenty who will be only marginally worse off.
Finally, there's the city centre/seaton/Linksfield/Bridge of Don mob who will now be worse off. No doubt some will fall away being the reverse situation of what I've felt myself, but it wont be all of them.
On balance, to me it looks a no brainer that attendances will increase, we'll lose some of course. There's a couple old guys are in the Caley every week, couple years back I got the full post match reason why they will stop going if we move from Pittodrie. I cant remember the spiel now, but I did say fair play to them, they were the first guys that had nailed down good reasons not to move, and I felt so sorry that lifelong guys like that will stop going.
But, no-one has a god given right to have the ground on their doorstep, and those that have been that lucky all their life, well I'm sorry, you're now going to have to make a bit of an effort like the majority of fans have to now.