05-03-2016, 20:37
(05-03-2016, 20:02)St Charles Owl Wrote: Every team has fair weather fans!!!! Not sure how there can be an argument about that??? Fathers take kids and other family members to these big games but they will never turn out for a regular game. In both English and Scottish football, ask almost everyone what team they support, they will have an answer for you, but most will only ever go to a handful of games and most of those will be the "big" games.
There's no denying it and I don't think anyone has. But it must be a little frustrating for the club (especially after a couple of years in a lower division) and some of the fans that go to every home game, that their average home gate is just over 9k and they are taking potentially 30k to the final.
That stalwart 9k are the ones that have bankrolled the day in the sun for the 21 thousand "tourists". Im not au fait with the finances at Easter road but I'm certain that 5 or 6k on the gate 20 times a season would make a massive difference to the health and strength of the club.