PMSL @ Grays fans

[Eastside Urchin]

Apparantly some think they can get between 375-500

this from a team who are playing 10 miles from home and couldn't muster that level of support in the conference last season,good luck to them if they can hit the magical 500 mark but somehow I doubt it

 

 

 

http://graysathletic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?tid=421

[cup of tea]

500 is a pipe dream. I think they will be doing well to get half of that.

 

 

[Miss.A.F.C.Hornchurch]

Jog on Grays!!

LMAO

[Eastside Urchin]

Big games like Enfield they will get 250 maybe

small games like Romford they will get 150

[YELLOW]

No chance of them getting 500 especially if they're not playing in Grays.

 

They'll get 300 at best.

[Eastside Urchin]

If they get 300 they will have bigger average crowds than most of the ryman prem,won't happen

[MaldonBlue(GAFC)]

Some meaning one? IMO 200-250 for an average season. 150ish for another season like last one

[Eastside Urchin]

I have been known to exagerate with regards to rival fans quotations,personally I think clubs and fans alike need to be veryconservatubr in there first season otherwise they could quite easily overspend,I am sure the people running grays now are aware of this anyway.for the first few home matches I an sure you will get well over 250 but If you can get that amount of people travelling from grays all season then you would of done very well indeed

[cup of tea]

That's more like it. If you get 250, you would be doing very well.

[Eastside Urchin]

I think that's grays problem,where they are groundsharing,it's not exactly on their doorstep,Thurrock would of been better for them but I think the money they wanted was way over the top

[Nutchutney]

I'd love to give a damn but I really don't. Grays won't be getting anywhere near the 500 one of their fans suggested.

We found last season that even when the results were going well, we weren't pulling in more fans through the gate.

The recession is still biting and some people are choosing not to spend their spare cash watching football at non-league level when Sky are serving up Premiership games most days of the week.

[MaldonBlue(GAFC)]

Agree with you there. Any non league team could be doing well, but a lot of people would rather watch the results on a vidi printer with a beer in the pub, instead of watching a local team.

[Eastside Urchin]

Not sure whether the recession did have an effect,i think it may be down to the fact that many pubs in

our area are showing west ham/arsenal/spurs/Chelsea etc games at 3pm,many are choosing to watch this instead of watching their local team

[MaldonBlue(GAFC)]

Thats true. What didnt help for us was being in the Conference. When the team is playing [censored] not many floating fans want to fork out £13!

 

 

[cup of tea]

Grays are still alive - that should be the important thing as far as their fans are concerned.

I think maybe one or two of those fans may need a reality check though.

Difficult for all non-league teams at the moment.

[Hornchurch "O"]

Would have thought their attendances would depend on their results.

[Nutchutney]

When we dropped from the Conference South, we lost around 300 regulars who have never really come back.

Grays may well find that their loyal core support drops to a few hundred and they will just have to manage their finances accordingly.

[Eastside Urchin]

Disagree about the 300 lost,we was getting similar gates in the esl as we were in conni south,we had a couple of good gates early on that season but against the likes of Basingstoke etc I think we was only getting 500,they tended to drift off more in our second year in the ryman

prem

[kimbles left foot]

Id like to think we can get 400 through each week if we start off well...Grays will do well to get 250

[Eastside Urchin]

400 would be very good but I still think a club in this area and league could get 500 plus every week if marketed properly,I am meeting someone from the marketing dept of the recorder on Thursday about the posters,to go through it with them,I think what with the couple of pre season fixtures we have lined up they can see it would benefit them as much as it would us to jump on board