Sean Thornton
I say a little prayer….
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I know 3-4 people who have said they’ll get a ST if we’re promoted who currently only go to a couple of games.More to the point - where are these extra fans coming from? I dont know of any floating fans who will follow us in the PL.
More to the point - where are these extra fans coming from? I dont know of any floating fans who will follow us in the PL.
The idea that we’ll ever become an established PL side is close to fantasy. There are only seven sides that you could say are ‘established’, the top six and Everton. The rest are a couple of bad appointments away from relegation.The pull of the PL is in a totally different league to the Championship.
12 years ago during our promotion season in the Championship we averaged 23,650.
That first season in the PL half our games were 32,000 sell outs, for some of the games we could have got 40K
but the other matches against the lesser teams who didn’t bring many supporters ranged from 27 to 31,000.
Our average gate that season increased by 7,000 to 30,512..
In we are in the PL next season we would have demand to easily satisfy a 35,000 capacity.
If we become established In the PL and continue to grow the fanbase its not a massive step to be able to fill a 40,000 capacity.
The problem and this applies to almost every club is any club that is relegated from the PL soon loses a massive floating fanbase.
i know loads of fair weather fans it must be a Dronfield thing , they will be coming out from under the stones anytime soon .More to the point - where are these extra fans coming from? I dont know of any floating fans who will follow us in the PL.
i know loads of fair weather fans it must be a Dronfield thing , they will be coming out from under the stones anytime soon .
We sold out EVERY game during our last Premier League campaign.
There are 2 types of floating fan.
There’s the casual/ part time Blades fans who only turn up when we have success
But there’s also the much bigger Sky Sports PL football brigade. Neutral fans who want to see the big teams.
If Liveroool, Man City, Man United come to town then there will be a good 10,000 in the South Yorkshire area interested in seeing a live match. You can’t under estimate the pull of the PL, next season, tickets to some of our matches could be like gold dust.
Wouldn’t surprise me if we broke the SouthYorkshire season ticket record breaking through 25K season ticket holders.
No we didn't.
Plenty of gates well under 30k:-
16 September 2006 Reading H 1-2 28,288
0 September 2006 Middlesbrough H 2-1 27,483
1 November 2006 Bolton Wanderers H 2-2 28,294
2 December 2006 Charlton Athletic H 2-1 27,368
30 January 2007 Fulham H 2-0 27,540
Please don't make things up, as we normally leave that to the Deludamol addicts in S6.
It may be a flippant comment but I really wouldn’t mind being a yo yo club for a bitThe idea that we’ll ever become an established PL side is close to fantasy. There are only seven sides that you could say are ‘established’, the top six and Everton. The rest are a couple of bad appointments away from relegation.
We could do a reasonably long spell, five or six years, maybe a bit more if we were lucky but if we were ever in a position whereby we were financially dependent on being in the PL, to cover the costs of a redevelopment, we’d be at risk of ‘doing a Sunderland’.
The reality is that we’d be lucky to stay up if we got promoted.
Me neither. You get the novelty of the PL, a sick feeling when you go down then another promotion season to cheer you up, as opposed to having to anticipate losing half your games every season.If we developed
It may be a flippant comment but I really wouldn’t mind being a yo yo club for a bit
0/09/2006 was a great attendance considering..
If we developed
It may be a flippant comment but I really wouldn’t mind being a yo yo club for a bit
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Only one like. If people can't spend 90minutes with their knees resting against a bit of plastic it's a sorry state of affairs.....
I thought you superfans on the Kop either stood up all game or were drinking crap beer in the rain or eating a pie whilst having a dump.
That will be camera requirements: either VAR or broadcast.Interesting bit on the bottom of an email I've just received from the club:
*If promotion to the Premier League is secured, works will have to be carried out on Bramall Lane in order to meet the statutory requirements of the league. This may affect a small proportion of existing season ticket holders' seats. Those affected will be contacted directly by the club.
Only one like.
I see that Nottingham Forest have got planning permission to extend capacity to 38000 by rebuilding their remaining old stand. It could be like our planning permission I suppose which won’t be acted on until they are established in the Premiership.
Threads merged - already an ongoing discussion
This won't occur in the close season, so first opportunity will be if we go up, stay up and if
the ownership is sorted
If and obviously its a big "if", we do reach the promised land.
I would hope the club would take this opportunity to extend the kop seating as previously suggested and per the proposals to add another 3000-3500 to the overall capacity. This would also be the chance to fix the roof and the posts hindering view. Thus bringing it in line with all the other unrestricted views around the rest of the ground.
I personally think we need that extra allocation of seats in light of the fanatical segregation SYP inflict on us for the big games, when we really should be getting well over the 30k mark, but lose 1500-2000 seats to the red netting . This talk of a 28000/29000 sell out is frustrating and not accurate as a true "sell out" in our stadium would be the 32500 mark, last achieved vs Wigan on the day we went down.
I don't feel we need to go all the way with the top tier on the south stand until such time as we might have had 2 or 3 seasons worth of Premier league income, with a nagging memory of 1975 all over again and how it crippled us for decades later with high loan payments and forced player sales.
But would be great to get the overall capacity to 35000/35500
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