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  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 37,148
    Friend Or Defoe said:
    letthegoodtimesroll said:

    Avoiding the willy waving contest, that's incredible support for a second division. 
    Fair play to Sheff Weds, averaging 23k to watch that shit week in week out, when their season was doomed from day one.
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 11,285
    Friend Or Defoe said:
    letthegoodtimesroll said:

    Avoiding the willy waving contest, that's incredible support for a second division. 
    I would guess that as attendances have increased across the Championship and held up it’s started to trigger a FOMO knock on effect that’s attracted others to come along. It wouldn’t surprise me if we nudged up another 2-3k on our average this (second) season in the Championship. 
  • jose
    jose Posts: 1,218
    My awareness is thin on this topic, but every home game this season I have been aware of newcomers at matches.
    Could it be that Championship football is more affordable and accessible than Premiership football?
    If we get to play West Ham United or Tottenham Hotspur away next season I am not looking forward to the cost of that, or the hoops you have to jump through to get a ticket and go to the game.
    For football fans going to Charlton (especially with proximity to the station) is a decent option, and we should exploit the ease of attending at the Valley….and fix all the turnstiles.
  • clive
    clive Posts: 20,309
    Attendance, in case people [including the clubs communication team] , in English means, as below

    (e.gAttendance is the act of being present at a specific location, event, or institution, such as school, work, or meetings. It commonly refers to the number of people present ., event attendance) or the frequency of a person's presence (e.g., school attendance). Synonyms include presence, appearance, attendance rate, and turnout. 
    https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/attendance
  • Kap10
    Kap10 Posts: 15,777
    Crispywood said:
    letthegoodtimesroll said:
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:
    letthegoodtimesroll said:
    Chris_from_Sidcup said:
    letthegoodtimesroll said:
    QPR, Millwall and Brentford average attendance this season looks to be either side of 17k. Palace looks like it’s around 24k. Our 20k for the season doesn’t look too shabby, more so when you consider we don’t have the PL attraction boost or a promotion chasing season firing up the bandwagon.
    All of those would have bigger attendances if their capacity allowed though.
    I suspect it’s more likely the capacity at The Valley will be increased long before any of those 3 grounds will be. QPR will have to move. Millwall could increase theirs but I suspect that would only come if they do go up and stay there. Palace have plans that don’t seem to have progressed for ‘years’ and we are now at the stage where it’s probably a big ask to fund them.

    it wouldn’t be cheap expanding the capacity at Charlton but we are still at a low point in a rising curve. Averaging 20k this season, particularly when our home form took a dive, is pretty impressive. More importantly, we broke the playoff ‘Jinx/curse’ of being promoted at Wembley and getting relegated straight away. Next season could  now see another big step forward. Ideally levelling up the roof of the East stand so it wraps around from the Upper North and filling that resulting void should be the next stage but I would guess developing the South stand would be a lot cheaper and the less disruptive option for us than expanding the capacity for those other 3 clubs if we do it before we really need it if the curve keeps rising.


    We don't even own our stadium, in what world do you think we are going to be expanding it?
    In the world in which the club owners buy it. Until I read the @Raith_C_Chattonell post above I hadn’t realised that development creep  had got so close to the ground. Now is probably a better time to sort out the ownership of the ground rather than wait until it’s worth considerably more.
    Whilst we’re in the championship they’re never going to have a justifiable reason to spend 40M on the stadium financially it’s a massive ask, and would probably cost us championship relegation similar to what have happened to Oxford this year all money goes to stadium none to the squad.

    We realistically need the prem income money to be able to afford it 
    After we have afforded a team capable of keeping us in the Prem.

    Then before we can expand we need to convince the Council to allow us to and have solutions to the resulting infrastructure issues that larger crowds will bring. This includes issues caused by selling off the homes behind AC stand, public transport which appears to have contracted since the Prem days and road access with Woolwich Road becoming a cycle path that also has some motorised transport on it and finally much more limited parking.

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