Gridsy wrote:
One of our issues is that despite reasonable crowds, we haven't grown our fanbase in the city enough... over a quarter of a million people here and less than 10k.
I once saw some stats showing the percentage of a town’s population that went to the football. Most averaged about 5%.
As for not growing the supporter base, I’d say that’s way off the truth. For example, we have gone from a standing start in 2003 of probably three or four thousand people even remotely interested in WFC/MKDons to nearly 90,000 twitter followers. That compares well with our league 1 contemporaries and local rivals (Oxford 67K, Luton 76K, AFC 57K (including all of the virtue signallers too!)).
Now that may say more about the demographic of our supporter base, but that’s the point. A young fanbase that will grow and grow.