rg6royalThe 17 Bus Anyone notice we had a bigger crowd than Brum?????
Potential is there, IMHO
Hopefully we will get about 20,000 for the Donny home game. With the way we are playing I don't see why not.
Tuesday night, against a club from Yorkshire who are one of the smallest in the league so won't have a large away following. We'll do well to get 19,000. Having said that, 4 years ago we'd have struggled to get 15,000 in similar circumstances so that's 4,000 Johnny-come-latelys who haven't fallen off the bandwagon. That's progress.
A reasonable comparison? 1/11/05, Sheffield Wednesday (H) W2-0, Attendance 16,185.
The season before, the week after we went top, we played Burnley on a Saturday in front of 15,400.
My point, if indeed, there is one? I know that we're doing well at the moment, but for a season which predicted so much doom and gloom, our attendances have held up so there must be plenty who see the seeds of something good. The signings have made an impact and the old spirit seems to be back and Coppell seems to be getting the tactics more or less spot on. Even the criticism of Madejski has died down. Amazing what a couple of wins does. Fickle? Us? Fair enough, it could all go tits up in January though but lets wait and see. West Brom held onto their star players in the Championship and their chairman has much the same attitude to Madejski so there's no reason why we can't do likewise.