I've been managing Bath City.
Took them from Blue Square South to Premier League with five consecutive promotions.
Last season in Coca Cola Championship my average attendace was 8000+ on a 8840 stadium with about every of the last 20 games sold out (8840 att.).
City has sold a record 2850 season tickets and I've been drawing decent crowds in pre-season: 4900 - 5900 vs. NUFC, Liverpool, Glasgow Rangers, ...
But every of my 5 home games in EPL so far have 1020 attending (!).
My home game in the League Cup gainst a Championship side had a 5900 attendance.
So to me this does not make sense. Even in Blue Square Premier I was getting over 1000 attendance.
I've brought in about 30 new players (28 mill Euro) this season and sold most of my CH team (18 mill Euro) but most of the new players were greeted with excitement and are rated from 60% - 100% (Frank Lampard
(36y/o on a free transfer)).
I've won all the home games (all 1-0) so far and are 1 point below a Euro spot but the season is still young.
Anyway, the ticket prices have always been expensive, but because the stadium is so small it's the only way to keep the club out of debts without having to sell players (I'm 3.5 mill over salary budget on anual base).
But the fact that only 1/3 of the season ticket holders is attending does not make sense now that the club is in EPL (in the entire history they had never been out of Blue Square Premier).
The club has loaned 30 million to build a new 40 million Euro 18.000 seater stadium.
Any explanations?
Took them from Blue Square South to Premier League with five consecutive promotions.
Last season in Coca Cola Championship my average attendace was 8000+ on a 8840 stadium with about every of the last 20 games sold out (8840 att.).
City has sold a record 2850 season tickets and I've been drawing decent crowds in pre-season: 4900 - 5900 vs. NUFC, Liverpool, Glasgow Rangers, ...
But every of my 5 home games in EPL so far have 1020 attending (!).
My home game in the League Cup gainst a Championship side had a 5900 attendance.
So to me this does not make sense. Even in Blue Square Premier I was getting over 1000 attendance.
I've brought in about 30 new players (28 mill Euro) this season and sold most of my CH team (18 mill Euro) but most of the new players were greeted with excitement and are rated from 60% - 100% (Frank Lampard
(36y/o on a free transfer)). I've won all the home games (all 1-0) so far and are 1 point below a Euro spot but the season is still young.
Anyway, the ticket prices have always been expensive, but because the stadium is so small it's the only way to keep the club out of debts without having to sell players (I'm 3.5 mill over salary budget on anual base).
But the fact that only 1/3 of the season ticket holders is attending does not make sense now that the club is in EPL (in the entire history they had never been out of Blue Square Premier).
The club has loaned 30 million to build a new 40 million Euro 18.000 seater stadium.
Any explanations?
