Jags v Wasps March2025

[Robert]

4 hours ago, big cherly said:

Jeez, thanks Charles (I think). That’s us on a good day. I know the point you’re getting across we have a loyal fan base. But if we run the average gates back from the championship (ignore the premier league as we don’t belong there), then what is the figures and trend. (I don’t know, it may be constant at 1650-ish?). 
My common denominator for club status is fan base. Simply put the larger your home fan number the better your team (over the piece) succeeds. 
If I take the championship this season, if we ICT, believe that’s where we rightfully should be then 1650-ish would have us in third bottom place (taking one of the bottom ones drop down). Before the posters come in with past playoffs how many overpriced players from the south were in those teams! (Where did that lead). 
The ‘big’ team in the highlands soaring on in the premier league right now started out with a more modest fan base, but they have succeeded (won the battle?) for supporters in the area.

Just put it out there for when we get oot ‘o’ admin. 
bc

We have to take account of the size of the away support too.

In League 1 you can count them easily in the South Stand, whereas in League 1 last season we had teams like Dundee United and Dunfermline who would fill it significantly. That can change the attendance by 1500 on its own. 

[Charles Bannerman]

14 hours ago, big cherly said:

Jeez, thanks Charles (I think). That’s us on a good day. I know the point you’re getting across we have a loyal fan base. But if we run the average gates back from the championship (ignore the premier league as we don’t belong there), then what is the figures and trend. (I don’t know, it may be constant at 1650-ish?). 
My common denominator for club status is fan base. Simply put the larger your home fan number the better your team (over the piece) succeeds. 
If I take the championship this season, if we ICT, believe that’s where we rightfully should be then 1650-ish would have us in third bottom place (taking one of the bottom ones drop down). Before the posters come in with past playoffs how many overpriced players from the south were in those teams! (Where did that lead). 
The ‘big’ team in the highlands soaring on in the premier league right now started out with a more modest fan base, but they have succeeded (won the battle?) for supporters in the area.

Just put it out there for when we get oot ‘o’ admin. 
bc

The way I  look on it is that, in a situation where attendances might have evaporated on relegation, current League One numbers aren’t all that far below what they were historically across the several years since 1999 when the club was in the Championship. On dropping into League One, they seem to have held up fairly well and remain way above the going rate for this league …. but for how much longer? And as Robert points out, all of that is against a big reduction in away support between Championship and League One.

Edited March 24 by Charles Bannerman