26-27 Season Tickets

[tidus_mi2]

Renewed mine last week but there must be a lot of people thinking "what's the point" when you watch the guff we turned out under Richaedson. Surely the owners must see that if STs drop in sales this can't go on.

Ultimately it's a short term pain, if it continues on, he'll get the sack and hopefully it will improve.

[katweslowski]

That all said, I suspect we'll be looking at 7,500 ST and One Royal combined by the time 26/27 season kicks off.

It still shocks and depresses me a bit just how shit our attendances are, and our general support. I look at the likes of Bradford, Bolton, Derby, Cardiff, Ipswich, even Huddersfield and they're all massively larger than ours.

Why are you shocked?
The clubs been in decline for several years and the standard of football over the last season has hardly encouraged people to want to attend regularly even with a season ticket.
The clubs you mentioned all obviously produce a reasonable style of entertainment.

Because the size of the town, catchment area, stature of the club, fairly recent history all would point towards higher attendances than we are getting. Yes it's been a period of decline, but so have other clubs but they've retained higher numbers. I am shocked moreso when I see a random attendance figure, like 8000 for a league game on a Tuesday night.

[Marcel]

It still shocks and depresses me a bit just how shit our attendances are, and our general support. I look at the likes of Bradford, Bolton, Derby, Cardiff, Ipswich, even Huddersfield and they're all massively larger than ours.

Why are you shocked?
The clubs been in decline for several years and the standard of football over the last season has hardly encouraged people to want to attend regularly even with a season ticket.
The clubs you mentioned all obviously produce a reasonable style of entertainment.

Because the size of the town, catchment area, stature of the club, fairly recent history all would point towards higher attendances than we are getting. Yes it's been a period of decline, but so have other clubs but they've retained higher numbers. I am shocked moreso when I see a random attendance figure, like 8000 for a league game on a Tuesday night.

Many if not most Reading fans live outside the town in places like Basingstoke, Newbury and further afield.
This means leaving home around 6-6.30 to travel and get parked and not getting home until 11 and later.
When you consider the dross that has been served up over recent times you must surely understand why people don’t bother.

[Dulwich Royal]

More televised games on Sky may affect attendances as well eg Luton at home was moved to a Thursday night from a Sat pm when more home and away fans would probably have attended.
Presumably the TV money covers lower attendances ?

[Clyde1998]

Why are you shocked?
The clubs been in decline for several years and the standard of football over the last season has hardly encouraged people to want to attend regularly even with a season ticket.
The clubs you mentioned all obviously produce a reasonable style of entertainment.

Because the size of the town, catchment area, stature of the club, fairly recent history all would point towards higher attendances than we are getting. Yes it's been a period of decline, but so have other clubs but they've retained higher numbers. I am shocked moreso when I see a random attendance figure, like 8000 for a league game on a Tuesday night.

Many if not most Reading fans live outside the town in places like Basingstoke, Newbury and further afield.
This means leaving home around 6-6.30 to travel and get parked and not getting home until 11 and later.
When you consider the dross that has been served up over recent times you must surely understand why people don’t bother.

You have to add in that a lot of people in the Reading area aren't originally from the area either.

36% of Reading Borough Council's residents weren't born in England. There will also be a decent percentage from elsewhere in England, so it could well be at least half of RBC's residents being from outside the Reading area. Many of these people will support another club already or have no interest in football at all.