Wembley attendances?

Agreed. The 2011 Conference playoff final at The Etihad was £42.

Totally agree with making the playoff finals a venue roughly half way between the participants, apart from the championship one as they should be able to fill it. The only thing is for quite a few of the players it could be their one and only time to play there, but just look at how a clubs attendance slowly goes down as they get there, the day trippers don't go the 2nd time etc. Plus although the EFL would still  want to screw the fans at least travel costs should be less.

Problem is you don’t know who the finalists are until early May. Apart from Mali sure the stadium is available you can’t book all the other shite. If you move it away from Wembley you still want to set the venue long before you know the finalists.

I went  to watch Spurs v Man city ... cost 30 for me and 12 for my son ....we were in the upper tier but still a cheap day out watching quality football ... the play off pricing stops the floating fan from going imo ... 25 quid a ticket is plenty

Quoted from Ipswin

Why do we constantly do this, comparing numbers to our turn out and putting down other clubs for the number of fans they take to Wembley

It's the only thing we can brag about Swin.

Quoted from fleabag1970

I went  to watch Spurs v Man city ... cost 30 for me and 12 for my son ....we were in the upper tier but still a cheap day out watching quality football ... the play off pricing stops the floating fan from going imo ... 25 quid a ticket is plenty

Good point. To be fair to the FA, at least for the Trophy/Vase Finals they had their fans day out promotions in recent years.

The reason I asked was I always felt Hurst was leaving Grimsby for a club with less potential in terms of support - and that seems to be correct judging by yesterday's attendance: they had 3-4,000 fewer fans for the Div 1 play-off final than we did for the National League one.  Had we been playing yesterday I reckon we'd have taken closer to 20,000 fans - and Grimsby is a few miles further from Wembley than is Shrewsbury.

As for Hurst: I don't feel especially negative towards him - he did get us back into the League (eventually) but then left with a certain lack of grace.  Having said that he is now a very good manager and I reckon he'll want to move on pretty quick from Shrewsbury, which is just a small town club.

Quoted from mimma

Does anybody think that moving the playoffs north it will automatically make it cheaper?

In the Manchester arena beer was 5 pence more a pint than Wembley stadium for example.

Prices will rocket wherever they are just like the prices jumped up in Kiev last weekend. It's  market forces as Theresa would say.

Yes I do , a neutral venue would probably half the travel costs for teams like us

Quoted from Mariner55

The reason I asked was I always felt Hurst was leaving Grimsby for a club with less potential in terms of support - and that seems to be correct judging by yesterday's attendance: they had 3-4,000 fewer fans for the Div 1 play-off final than we did for the National League one.  Had we been playing yesterday I reckon we'd have taken closer to 20,000 fans - and Grimsby is a few miles further from Wembley than is Shrewsbury.

As for Hurst: I don't feel especially negative towards him - he did get us back into the League (eventually) but then left with a certain lack of grace.  Having said that he is now a very good manager and I reckon he'll want to move on pretty quick from Shrewsbury, which is just a small town club.

Less potential in terms of support almost certainly. But I don't doubt that they're miles ahead of us off the pitch. They've got a new stadium which will presumably have all the things we want our new stadium to have. They've got a good training ground and probably make use of sports science and all the rest that our blinkered board wouldn't allow PH to spend money on.

Whilst there's no doubt that we could be a much better supported club than the likes of Shrewsbury, until our board shows some innovation and at least invests in the club to put us on an equal footing with them when it comes to training facilities etc we won't ever realise our potential. As it stands the harsh truth is that we're years away from ever realising it and managers like PH won't look at us and think "there's a club who could be so much better" they'll think there's a club who are being run in a way that stops them progressing. Until some big changes are made, it will remain like that.

Quoted from mariner91

Less potential in terms of support almost certainly. But I don't doubt that they're miles ahead of us off the pitch. They've got a new stadium which will presumably have all the things we want our new stadium to have. They've got a good training ground and probably make use of sports science and all the rest that our blinkered board wouldn't allow PH to spend money on.

Whilst there's no doubt that we could be a much better supported club than the likes of Shrewsbury, until our board shows some innovation and at least invests in the club to put us on an equal footing with them when it comes to training facilities etc we won't ever realise our potential. As it stands the harsh truth is that we're years away from ever realising it and managers like PH won't look at us and think "there's a club who could be so much better" they'll think there's a club who are being run in a way that stops them progressing. Until some big changes are made, it will remain like that.

Sooner or later someone will say that 'we don't know whether the way our club is run or its facilities put anyone off'. So i'll say it now. But whilst that might be factually correct (i.e. we don't know) I'd hazard a guess it has an impact. I think we may just have got lucky with Michael Jolley being available and with no club management experience in England.

As for Shrewsbury, this was their second visit in the last couple of months and it sounds like at the first one they had a lacklustre performance.

And Shrewsbury is smaller than GY.