by Ian Royal »
03 Jun 2008 17:19
SpaceCruiser kieran Are you being serious 8k, I cant see that, you used to get 10k I think
The numbers may increase depending on how promising the team is. If it does look like Reading will do well, they'll come back. That's the way it is. Plus I think we get about 3 to 4K of non-ST holders in attendance. Some people prefer not to go to all of the games.
We currently get about 2k non STHs to a game, because we can't fit in any more.
STHs were about 8k the season before we went up I think... certainly they'd been around that level, they may have been higher in the promotion season. I can't see anyway we'll dip below 12k for the coming season in STHs, people will hold on in th ehope of another promotion. A dissapointing season could see us drop to about 9-10k the season after.
Regardless I can't see our average attendence dropping below 18k unless we do really really badly. I'd suspect hovering around the 20-21k mark. We have a large floating support that traditionally hasn't really bothered with Season tickets in the last 10 years, because they've generally known they can cherry pick their games fairly easily and save a bit of money.
My optimistic guess is we'll lose about 4k STHs for this season and providing we do as well as I hope we'll make a load up at xmas with the HSTH and have a fairly full ground most weeks.
I suspect the south stand will be held as away, and half will be opened up to home depending on how well the away team allocation is selling.