Originally Posted by
SkStu
A fair analysis of the data just doesn't prove the above out. In the last two seasons of the data below we were playing in and qualifying for European action. We weren't getting even 1500 per game. The jump from 2016-2019 is +1200 per game average attendance over that period, coinciding with a lot of the work that was being done in the community. We jumped ~400 in one season and ~850 over the next 2 with, admittedly, 700 of that in the last season. Our average attendance was around 3100 in the first series of games (when nobody knew how well we would do) before it tapered off during our most successful season in the last 8-9. I just don't see how you can draw the conclusions you have.
I agree that our challenge will be to sustain it at the 2700-2900 mark as we are fairly limited in how much more it can grow.
Bohs - 2,856 (2,148; 2,006; 1,627; 1,724; 1,395; 1,597; 1,496; 1,488)
I just don't get that - it never helped them attract a decent, sustainable fanbase before. And even if it transpires that they become more successful than Bohs and Rovers and become these "media darlings" (and that is a really big "if"), it doesn't matter a damn if the foundations are not solid (and i have seen nothing to suggest they are).
Anyway, all Bohs should keep doing is all that they have been over the last 4-5 years.