Scunts stadium plans

Looks like swan is staying with the scunts then but even these plans include house building, maybe not flashing as much cash as we thought

Quoted from psgmariner

But, but, but you can’t redevelop grounds - what about the conference facilities?!

Except there ground already has the conference facilities and associated parking needs, being as it was built in the modern era anyway, so can already take advantage of this income stream. Ours can't.

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

We can't fill ours but we want a new stadium holding 15k or whatever it is. I think it is called ambition.

They have spent a large part of the past decade bobbing between Championship and League 1 and still cant grow a fanbase or fill their ground, ambition is well and good but flogging a dead horse if you ask me......regards our own "plans" i also think they are over ambitious with the current set up.

You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig.  

Quoted from moosey_club

They have spent a large part of the past decade bobbing between Championship and League 1 and still cant grow a fanbase or fill their ground, ambition is well and good but flogging a dead horse if you ask me......regards our own "plans" i also think they are over ambitious with the current set up.

Our crowds in the Championship were shocking; we are slightly bigger than Scunthorpe but not much so I don't understand your logic of slagging them off.

In any event, you have to have ambition - Swansea and Bournemouth and Hull and Blackburn and Wigan and Brighton and Stoke and Watford and Burnley and whoever else never filled their stadiums (or anything like it) till their ambitions bore fruit. We could do the same, we just need to start that journey but I do agree with the "current set up" (the board) our prospects aren't good.

Interesting attendances...up un down cant think why.

1969-1970     4376
1970-1971     4142
1971-1972     11163
1972-1973     10658
1973-1974     7239
1974-1975     5809
1975-1976     5373
1976-1977     4314
1977-1978     4489
1978-1979     6032
1979-1980     10396
1980-1981     11069
1981-1982     8400
1982-1983     7745
1983-1984     7601
1984-1985     6415
1985-1986     5152
1986-1987     5042
1987-1988     3412
1988-1989     4302
1989-1990     5984
1990-1991     7237
1991-1992     6915
1992-1993     6088
1993-1994     6075
1994-1995     5921
1995-1996     5865
1996-1997     5640
1997-1998     5271
1998-1999     6698
1999-2000     6155
2000-2001     5646
2001-2002     6430
2002-2003     5884
2003-2004     4730
2004-2005     4943
2005-2006     5151
2006-2007     4379
2007-2008     4115
2008-2009     4474
2009-2010     4428
2010-2011     3072
2011-2012     3141
2012-2013     3813
2013-2014     3567
2014-2015     3683
2015-2016     4357
2016-2017     5259
2017-2018     4.658

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

Our crowds in the Championship were shocking; we are slightly bigger than Scunthorpe but not much so I don't understand your logic of slagging them off.

In any event, you have to have ambition - Swansea and Bournemouth and Hull and Blackburn and Wigan and Brighton and Stoke and Watford and Burnley and whoever else never filled their stadiums (or anything like it) till their ambitions bore fruit. We could do the same, we just need to start that journey but I do agree with the "current set up" (the board) our prospects aren't good.

Donny, Chesterfield and Rovrum all had even more shocking crowds at Belle Vue, Saltergate and Millmoor. GTFC and Lincoln are both potentially significantly bigger clubs than Scunthorpe. Both have support or potential support in the wider county, Scunthorpe just don't have that. With Donny to the west Scunthorpe are surrounded by bigger clubs with a much longer history. Donny and Lincoln have had their quantum leap, but we won't get ours until, like those clubs above, we move to a new stadium fit for the 21st century and not the 19th century. If and when we do, then our crowds would be double Scunthorpe's (as long at the team are doing the business like Scunthorpe)

Quoted from lew chaterleys lover

Our crowds in the Championship were shocking; we are slightly bigger than Scunthorpe but not much so I don't understand your logic of slagging them off.

In any event, you have to have ambition - Swansea and Bournemouth and Hull and Blackburn and Wigan and Brighton and Stoke and Watford and Burnley and whoever else never filled their stadiums (or anything like it) till their ambitions bore fruit. We could do the same, we just need to start that journey but I do agree with the "current set up" (the board) our prospects aren't good.

Dont think i have "slagged them off" , just asked what is the point when they cant fill their existing ground despite having been in a relatively high position over the last decade compared to the rest of their entire history.
As you say we too cant fill our ground very often so i dont see the point of a 14,000 stadium when/if we ever move either. Ambition is one thing but playing in a half empty stadium week in week out is soul destroying and isnt attractive to floating support.

Don't forget our times in the Championship were probably when crowds all over the country were at an all time low. In recent times we've had bigger crowds than the Scunts despite being two divisions below watching shite. They come up with the bigger population excuse but truth is when you look at both catchment areas for support there's nothing in it nowadays.

Lawrie McMennemy and George Kerr caused the peaks in 1972 and 1979. It wasnt just the football, they had charisma and got the whole town talking about football again.