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Quoted from oochiad

I’m an exile and still travelled, I think it was the fact you can pay a tenner to watch and also the fact it was fecking freezing!

I travelled from Sheffield as usual and would assert that Ifollow has an impact on locals too. I think that the disappointing crowd was in part due to the fact that locals are a decreasing proportion of STH's. If you are an exile STH you tend to value the savings on ticket prices as a plus against travel costs. On top of that, I factor in the convenience of being able to get away tickets and cup tickets more easily.
Once you have a ST you tend to make the effort  because relatives are used to you calling in or you may be the driver for other fans. Locals can be more choosy I suppose. Are proper fans really put off by a chilly night? Ticket prices for matches like Tuesday would have a greater impact than temperature if I had to pay for other family members.

If Tuesday’s game had been say this Saturday instead then I would be quite certain that there would have been 4500 there, including extra from Newport, so evening games do cost the club loss revenue. I alway s wonder why our league games don’t start at least a couple of weeks earlier in the summer to get 2 more Saturday games in and when did we last play a game on August bank holiday,instead of a league cup game on the Tuesday evening.
      Also, did anyone notice that when that storm came through a couple of weekends back Glasgow Rangers game was cancelled on the Saturday, but they them played it 24 hours later on the Sunday, this for a crowd that would have been 50 thousand, yet in our country it takes at least 10 days to rearrange including FA Cup replays, and that’s for a crowd of about 4000.

The season is starting 1st  August next season

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

And kids, my lad gets home at gone eleven o’clock for night game and personally I preferred the old 7.30pm kick off but appreciate for many that’s too early.

Re crowds and differences in Saturday’s and Tuesday and how this has changed over the years we were talking about this on the way to the game on Tuesday. One thought we had was thirty years ago there were thriving local football leagues throughout the County so loads of lads who couldn’t get on Saturday could on a Tuesday. Nowadays there is very little local football so there is no positive difference between the two days.

Plus we now have a generation brought up on day to day, wall to ceiling football on the box whereas our youth enjoyed the Cup Final, European Finals and England v Scotland hence winning the FA Cup carried such great prestige as like the Grand National it was a national treasure. Now I don’t even watch the cup final because by May sick of tv matches

Hadn't considered that - could be an important factor.

One I had considered was dockers may have been working on a Saturday but not on a Tuesday night. The other group is farmers and farm workers - they have to work during daylight if there is work to do and maybe would always attend on a Tuesday night. Fewer farm workers these days and maybe we've lost support in that group as well. Getting more STH will be the main way of boosting midweek crowds; even if the STH can't attend they'll likely pass the ticket on. A new stadium will change the midweek winter experience - it won't be the same; we'll all miss freezing hands trying to get your member out to have a urine in black hole, but at least the feet get warmed when the urine overflows onto your shoes...

Not with the open corners plan.