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[wilts rover]

Swindon draw their support from a wide area, were in the Premiership in the mid 90's and the club & supporters have been doing a lot of work in the 'In Rovers We Trust' model for quite a few years now. When they were relegated in 2010-11 they averaged nearly 9k. Yes I certainly would expect them to have a higher average than us.

[pubteam]

There's no technique in it nor was I putting words in your mouth. However your easy defense re. the attendances does to some extent imply that you are neither surprised and accept poor crowds because it's a cold Tuesday night !
We have this debate about every midweek match, however I believe it's a false argument these days when folk are far more likely to work some if not all Satdis in these days of 24 hour opening rather than working shifts. Am I wrong ?

I think your argument is all too convenient as well. If OUR attendances are particularly low because WE'RE not playing very well, then how do you explain the general drop in attendance that is a football league-wide trend this season? Are the majority of teams in the land playing poorly at home? If that is the case, maybe we should accept that our performances are the norm.

In League One, there are only 3 or 4 teams who were in this league last season who have a higher average attendance so far this season than they did last season. Most of the others are considerably lower. Even teams like Stevenage and Sheff United who are flying in the league are getting lower gates than they did last year. It's the same story in the Championship.

Would you expect Swindon, PNE and MK Franchise as well as the expected Blades, Coventry and Pompey to have higher average attendances than Rovers personally given our recent history in the Championship and their poor averages over the years............I wouldn't! It has to be down to performances as we have had the results. We currently average 6111.
Other teams averaging close to our average are as follows;-

Shrewsbury    5857
Tranmere        5936
Notts Co.         5987

On that basis it wouldn't take much to make us only the 10th best supported club in the Division.

Would I expect Swindon, PNE, Milton Keynes, Coventry, Sheff United and Portsmouth to have higher attendances than us? YES!

They are all bigger clubs than us (with the exception of maybe Franchise), but MK is a huge place without much immediate competition around them and they are steadily building a decent sized fanbase.