on 12th feb 2000, 5144 saw gilligham beat latics 3-1 at bp, the next league home game was 26th feb 2000 against bristol rovers where we lost 4-1, the attendance that day was 5800. the average gate of that season was around 5500 and the league included pne, bury burnley and wigan. i chose those 2 games earlier to indicate that even with 2 clubs coming from over 150 miles away we still pulled over 5000 on the day. in the same season the lowest gate at home in the league was 4100 against chesterfield. it was an average season, compared to 2013/14 last years league home average was about 4400 a difference on average of roughly 1000 people
this year 3700 turned up against gillingham, there is no way in hell 5400 would turn up two weeks later so what's the difference? i think people have got bored with this league, and we'll never get them back whilst we're in it