Attendances at BP

Quoted from nightrider

I'd love to be going and watching us with 10k.
If we can get 10k +, why aren't we building a stadium with potential for 20k.

I think 14,000 is plenty big enough for 95% of the games we will play even in the championship.

The new stadium will only need to be enlarged if we get to the Prem,

BUT

That will not be in my life time.

Quoted from Mrs Doyle

Could be a bit of rose tinted specs remember many a time going to BP in the old forth division with barely a thousand fans,

Our lowest ever attendance for a league game was 1833 against Brentford in 1969 and that's our only home league attendance less than 2000 post-war.

Our Lowest attendance was 1800, I recall in 1969, I remember it well, I was there, in those days you could walk around the ground, if my memory is not deserting me, Matt Tees  signed about 10 days later,  and we had four and half thousand for the next game.  Good od days ?

Quoted from Mrs Doyle

Could be a bit of rose tinted specs remember many a time going to BP in the old forth division with barely a thousand fans,

You must have been a Scunny or Lincoln fan back then  

Sorry,  good old days ? ,   For those banging on about Blundell Park now, they should have tried it in the early sixties, my god have thing changed. I've said for a long time, town should have  one of the best pitches in the country, we've had enough shite on it over the years.  

Quoted from BS baffles brains

Our Lowest attendance was 1800, I recall in 1969, I remember it well, I was there, in those days you could walk around the ground, if my memory is not deserting me, Matt Tees  signed about 10 days later,  and we had four and half thousand for the next game.  Good od days ?

I think you're getting a bit mixed up. The game when we got 1833 was the last but one home game of 1968/69, the last game was against Donny and the attendance was 5310. Donny went up as champions that season and we needed to win to avoid re-election so I'm sure there would have been quite a few Donny fans there that day. Donny won 3-1 and won the league, whereas we were re-elected.

Matt Tees didn't resign until a season and a half later in November 1970.His first game against Cambridge attracted over 7000 fans wheres the previous game had attracted only 4000.

Quoted from diehardmariner

The thing with having additional income sources is that other clubs have them in place too? We wouldn't gain an advantage by having these additional streams of income, it lessens our disadvantage.

Getting the additional income is absolutely essential but not to compete, to survive!

But surely it is better to have them and reduce our disadvantage than not have them and fail to not only compete but survive! The way that the formation of the Premiersh*t has upset the whole financial balance of football in this country makes it imperative for clubs like ours to have as many ways of generating income as possible because we cannot depend on gate money alone.

Quoted from BIGChris

Totally agree. I understand that a significant % of current season ticket holders live within 1.5 miles of the proposed ground where that % at BP is single figures. I bet it would have been lower still for Great Coates. Accessibility is key IMO

I know I bang on about it but the only way we will compete going forward is if we can genuinely become a community club. That needs seriously effort to engage with ALL age groups from kids to pensioners. Swansea are a great example of this

Probably because half of that radius is in the Humber. Which strengthens the argument for a move.

Totally agree about the community thing. There has to be a wider sense of it being "our" club because if it isn't there is no good reason why many people would bother.

The amount of houses that need to be built, an out of town development would probably be 'n town' in 20 years time

Quoted from Les Brechin

Our lowest ever attendance for a league game was 1833 against Brentford in 1969 and that's our only home league attendance less than 2000 post-war.

I was at this game, I remember that it was a re-arranged fixture due to a postponement a few weeks earlier, the club re-used the original programme and, I seem to remember it was after the season should have finished. The gate was hit by the live televising of the Home Internationals that year, at a time when live matches on tv were rare I'm sure a lot of fans preferred to stay at home and watch Wales 3 Scotland 5 !!!! I wished I had !