Home Support

We've always had the ability to attract big one off crowds, but as those attendance stats show, those that turn up for the big games, disappear when it's back to the run of the mill league games.

It's why the Prem is so successful, because the majority of people only want to be associated with the glory. The usual response when i tell people i am a Town regular is "are you mad, they are shite". I got into a heated argument last year with some guys on a building site who are all season ticket holders at Hull. They don't give a excrement about Hull but go to see the likes of Man Utd and Liverpool once a season. That's what we are up against and Hull is a prime example of it. When they were lower down the leagues, playing in a shitty ground, they couldn't get anyone interested, despite Hull being a sizeable city.

I honestly got pretty fed up of all the football on , and don't watch to many games on the box nowadays  . Some of the 70s and 80s , when people reminisce about them sound great great memories . I wasn't around in those days but three of my earliest and fondest memories from football were :Euro 96 , Town v Aston Villa in the FA or league cup (can't remember which comp ) and the double real Wembley triumphs .... it all just seemed more real somehow  .  At some point between then and now for me football in this country 'blew up ' becoming much more than a game for fun, love and not all about money to one about instant success (whatever the level )  , controversy , greed , money and seriousness  . I wonder if the FIFA Generation in twenty years time will look back and wish for what they had ?

7,634 in 1984 when we finished 5th in what is now The Championship.  I have to say, that is pretty dismal!  Maybe we haven't got the potential at all?  I'm undecided, and I'll be honest, I think there's 3-4000 regulars, with about the same occasionals.  I think we'd only get a +10,000 average if we ever got to the Premier League, which will never happen.

That being said, it's still a large part of the community, so the NIMBYs can slag GTFC off all they want, it's still a big part of things around here, even at our current level.

FIFA the video game is another problem with football at the minute. Grown men queuing at Tesco at midnight last night for a game that allows you to play football - when they could go and actually play the real game most nights a week at sports halls and astroturf pitches around Town or on Bradley Pitches etc on a Sunday - or go to to BP on a SaturdayYounger kids are more likely to be in the warmth of their bedrooms playing it rather than playing on the streets or fields nowadays.

It's cringeworthy if you're older than your mid-teens and getting excited about it (as a few of my colleagues were last night).

Edit: just realised this isn't exactly on subject and I was just readingt the England/Allardyce thread.

Quoted from LH

FIFA the video game is another problem with football at the minute. Grown men queuing at Tesco at midnight last night for a game that allows you to play football - when they could go and actually play the real game most nights a week at sports halls and astroturf pitches around Town or on Bradley Pitches etc on a Sunday - or go to to BP on a SaturdayYounger kids are more likely to be in the warmth of their bedrooms playing it rather than playing on the streets or fields nowadays.

It's cringeworthy if you're older than your mid-teens and getting excited about it (as a few of my colleagues were last night).

Edit: just realised this isn't exactly on subject and I was just readingt the England/Allardyce thread.

and you know this because???

The amount of people that support either Manu, Liverpool and Leeds from here is disappointing in the extreme.

The past facts and figures speak for themselves but the key word and the word that`s always forgotten here is potential.I have followed Town since 79/80 and since then numerous localish Clubs have relocated and with the possible exception of Scunny everyone else seems to have significantly upped average home attendances.Doncaster for example regularly used to get crowds of around 1500-2500 Chesterfield again seemed to have gained 2k extra fans why would GTFC be any different? The support here is 4k regular and 4k floating but the untapped potential is probably in excess of 10k a bit of legwork from the Club/Trust could start a trickle and by the time were in the Fentydome no reason we couldn't double our average gate.