A little perspective following Boro

[BushBlade]

Attendances are a bit irrelevant these days. In this league most of the big clubs are within a couple of thousand of each other and a couple of thousand doesn't give a massive advantage, maybe a million or so, in a league where most clubs spend more than £15m a season.

In the PL it's worth even less when you get £100m for finishing last. Even if you are averaging close to £30 per person per game, which is fairly generous, you're only looking at £6m per ten thousand. The top clubs probably get that per season from a minor sponsor. It's nowt.

It doesn't matter which clubs are the biggest, it's barely relevant. It's all about who is getting PL money and who has rich owners. Those two factors are far more important than size or history.

 

[Scooter_mcgavin]

Of course they are. Those who think there was no football before 1991 might disagree.

Our club, which deserves much more respect than some of our fans care to give it, has far greater potential than, not only Boro, but most of the Championship and more than a third of the Premiership.

Point I was making, pre Premier League, boro weren't anything of note. Although apart from the 70s, same could be said of us during the last half a century, yet still here we turn up in our droves.

 

[Scooter_mcgavin]

But we never had a sub 10,000 season's average in the 1990s. In fact, post WW2 we have only ever averaged under 10,000 once, and then we were only 8 short.

Even in the fourth division in 1981-2 (when football attendances were very low and unemployment very high) we still averaged nearly 15,000. We did not get one home league attendance below 11,000 that season.

I said the odd sub 10k crowd, not average.

 

[oldblade]

I said the odd sub 10k crowd, not average.

I didn't say you did. I was just making the point that we have barely ever had a sub 10,000 average (since WW2) regardless of the odd low individual attendance.

For all the cynicism and pessimism that we've expressed over the years, our attendances have generally held up pretty well during our darkest moments.