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Just looked at the fixtures and didn't know that the game after Leeds is Rovers at home!

10,000 crowd for this one again?

Will Rovers fill the bank?

Rovers are achieving much higher home gates than us this season, hard to believe really seeing the start to the season we are having.
I think they will bring well over the 1,000, cant see us having 9,000 home supporters though, like others I wont be attending home games in the near future either.

the bank holds 2100, but there will be segregation, so probably 1600 or so. they should fill that

Why ?

I'm as pissed off with the board as everyone else but i'm fucked if anyone is gonna stop my saturday afternoon watching the team i love.

Fucking stupid that is.

Hard one this.

Two schools of thought and I have spoken to people taking both stances, and I respect both arguments really.

I for one fall into Ralphy's category

I agree

Nothing will stop me going to home games. However I feel about the board I will turn up to support the manager and the team. That's what those 90 minutes are about. Staying away proves nothing in my opinion, if all of us did it, the club would be even worse off

We seem to be averaging 6200 - 6500 for home games.

I haven't looked but how does that compare to previous seasons in league one?

more than a bad season, less than a good season.

we are yet to have a big away crowd too, expect swansea, rovers, forest, leeds and maybe brighton to fill the away end.

rovers' home support is falling very quickly. big-ish crowd yesterday for a derby game, but they'll average less than us over the course of the season.

To be honest, Rovers home gates were big because they had large away followings.

Didn't they play Forest and Leeds?

Back in the play-off season we averaged about 7800, but that was really boosted by huge attendances towards the end of the season when we got 9000-10,000 most games. If the gates are lower now than then it is not by much, and if we win 2 or 3 of our next 4 games and keep pushing the play-off places I would expect it to start to rise a little

to be honest i would have expected yesterday's crowd to be a lot bigger than it was: we had won our last home game 5-0 and were playing top of the table opponents.

seems obvious what the protest of choice is.

They won't rise if they keep banning regular supporters, especially one who has to travel 150 miles for a home game.  Were Wills, Diamandis and Carson there yesterday?

Carson only goes to games when we're on tv.

This team is worth 9000 crowds. Three reasons why are crowds remain sluggish.

1. Yeovil on sky, dire game.

2. Bob Holt saying we are about to be liquidated.

3. Not many big followings yet this season.

Yes (Forest 9,080,  Leeds 11,883 ),  and also West Ham (10,831) in the cup too. I don't know if that counts towards whatever average attendance was quoted though.

They do seem to be getting low-mid 7k's in the other games. That said, league 1 is a bit of a novelty for the Rovers fans after a few years in the basement :)

I don't think the protests are having any sort of real impact on the gates. Less than 100.

Why single me out Ralphy, there are many with the same view as me.
I've supported Swindon for almost 40 years, but at the moment just dont get the buzz at turning up for home games, will turn up at away games when possible.
It took me a lot longer than most to see what the current board have and or doing to this club, I am making a stance by not giving them any more of my cash, if you disagree with my actions than that is fair enough and no problem, I think the last straw was hearing fans being banned and stewards acting like dickheads.
At the moment I just have no desire to go to the CG, end of.

Also, lets not forget, Bristol is a huge city.

By rights, a city that size should have a well supported team.

Rovers do live in City's shadow though.

not to mention the price!

The price is the same as last season, and at the start of last leason, we has an attendance of 8,500 for a mid-week game against...Barnet.

The low crowds is down to one thing...this board. People are pissed off with them, and like Dell Boy, are no longer willing to give any of their hard earned money to these people, when it seemingly goes down a black hole.

I don't think it's just the board. I think Wise put a few bums on seats last season as well and i think those people stayed for the rest of the season but have now lost interest again. People are losing interest because of the board though which is a shame.

No, I think the prices are OK at the moment. After all, this is a quality team.

The £23 to watch a good team being dismantled in 04-06 was a disgrace, but this is OK.

Presumably they wont mind missing out on a couple of thousand fans though, as we always loose £800k to a million every year. Dont we? Even when we sell a player for a million and have good gates it doesnt make any difference.  So like I said they wont miss us, we are irrelevant.

i don't think prices are a huge factor anymore, it's expensive for those without a decent income but in comparison to the rest of this division, i doubt you'd find a great deal of difference.

I'll just be happy to get in to see the game this season  :|

I wasn't singling you out was I ??

You made the comment and i quoted you.

The Board are the sole reason I'm not going any more.
I very much doubt i'll set foot in the CG again until Diamandis has left the building. had enough of the nonsense to be able to just pretend it isn't happening and enjoy the football.

Same as Ralphy, it will be a sad state of affairs if i can't go to Footy to support my team because of a few individuals.

As someone who started boycotting games last season I can definitely relate to it. I've since started going back to games though.

Personally I couldn't put myself through never going. It's hard enough being forced not to go, but boycotting by choice would be beyond my weak self!

Not to say that I'm right and others are wrong though

The thing for me was that the off-field stuff was ruining the on-field stuff. I did all the protests after the game but it came to a point where I even lost the passion for doing that - simply because I'd forgotten how great the very thing I was protesting over was.

Since I've started going back to games I've come to realise how much this club means to me and when it comes to protesting I will be there making myself heard.