New ground

[(.)Boobies(.)]

Summed it up quite nicley!

 

How does that sum it up nicely? Our support in 94 eclipses your current support now, let alone the fact that our attendances have improved consistantly ever since.

Largely it comes down to a nice ground, yes, but also the catchment area. Before 2 seasons in the Premiership, we were still getting 18,000 average ish and climbing.

In the Premiership we sold out to home fans every week, so much so we have planning permission to increase to 38,000. The demand is there, albeit in the top flight when everyone gets the fair weather fans.

Our support will go up, and yes it will go down. But the hardcore 14,000 - 15,000 is there and has been the case for almost 10 years now. They're not likely to go anywhere.

Now, to a more lolz worthy point - You getting (maybe) 9000 averages this season and it being good for that league. Just   

Sorry, but you knock us and ethe excuse we have fairweathers, yet in League 1 when we were promoted as runners up, our average attendance was about 15000, with a fair few 18000's and a couple 20,000's too.

9000 you say? 

* for the record, I've never gone fishing on here. But if you're going to flirt with me... 

[Talk Talk]

My Reading supporting brother (a real fan who spent most of the seventies and eighties watching cack at Elm Park) hasn't been since the move. Not that he has stopped supporting Reading, he just doesn't see it as the same thing.

So you're wrong and plastic.

[(.)Boobies(.)]

My Reading supporting brother (a real fan who spent most of the seventies and eighties watching cack at Elm Park) hasn't been since the move. Not that he has stopped supporting Reading, he just doesn't see it as the same thing.

So you're wrong and plastic.

Talk Talk
aged 7 and a 3/4's

Am I?

I've missed only a handful of home games since I started watching Reading in 93 (Old 2nd Division, and Champions that season)

I moved to Leeds for 4 years back in 04, and I still drove down for every home game bar one. Sometimes twice a week, there and back the same day.

How on earth am I plastic?

Lots of love,
Boobies x

[Talk Talk]

How on earth am I plastic?

The smell of polythene?

[Iffy's Onion Bhaji]

I'd like to see Reading's attendances at Elm Park before they moved. That would interesting. When you left EP am I right in saying you were at the same level you are now?

[(.)Boobies(.)]

I'd like to see Reading's attendances at Elm Park before they moved. That would interesting. When you left EP am I right in saying you were at the same level you are now?

We moved into the Madstad in League 1 (then Div2).

Attendances around the final season at Elm Park was 9676 and then the first season at the Madejski (a very bad season) saw an increase to 11,262.

[Iffy's Onion Bhaji]

We moved into the Madstad in League 1 (then Div2).

Attendances around the final season at Elm Park was 9676 and then the first season at the Madejski (a very bad season) saw an increase to 11,262.

So basically your crowds at EP were not much better than our current ones at the same level?

[(.)Boobies(.)]

The move to the new stadium, as said, brings with it families and new fans who like dry new surroundings. Also, from 2000, we were always chasing a promotion, right up until this season.

That's where the continuity of growth in attendances comes from, and many of the then new fans, stay.

Previous comment about the 80's is spot on, we averages up and down 5-6000 for most of the decade. But it was also an awful decade for Reading Football Club.

Many are also mistaken when they think John Madejski has thrown his wealth at the club. He hasn't. We have had numerous interest free loans from him, and this last year and a bit he has been openly cashing them in to balance the books and bring the debt back under control since relegation from the money league.

He bought the stadium, but again the football club have paid for that, or are paying for it.

He's just a shrewd business man. It's frustrating at times, but he runs the club in the right manner, and you can see in the success we had from 2000 to 2009 that building piece by piece was the right way to do it, and now we find ourselves doing it all over again.

Income from sponsorship, leasing the stadium to London Irish, attendances... means we usually make one 'big' signing a summer, and a few clever buys also. That's been our way for 10 years and will remain so until a new buyer comes in, wether that's for the better or now we shall see, but it isn't far off.

I sincerley hope you get promoted this season. It'll be good for your club, your fans and finances. And if it hurries the redevelopment of TCG then all the better. It will stand you in good stead when it happens.

[(.)Boobies(.)]

So basically your crowds at EP were not much better than our current ones at the same level?

Almost 13 years ago, yes.

[Mexicano Rojo]

Swindons average attendances

1996 10,040
 
1995 9,408

1994  15,011

1993 10,576

1992 9,654

1991 9,613
 
1990  9,444

1989  8,645
 
1988  9,542
 
Readings average attendances:

1996  8,917

1995  9,350

1994  6,951

1993  4,781

1992  3,858

1991   4,073

1990   4,076

1989  5,106

1988  6,945

now fuck off back to stamford bridge

[Talk Talk]

I sincerley hope you get promoted this season. It'll be good for your club, your fans and finances. And if it hurries the redevelopment of TCG then all the better. It will stand you in good stead when it happens.

I'm not bothered to be honest. I would rather we played great football, got the gate up because of it and failed in the play offs every year. Redevelopment is a meh. I love our ground as it is. After the Leeds match experience I want to be able to buy a beer easily in the County Ground Hotel.

Parochial? Yep. Definitely.

[tans]

Swindons average attendances

1996 10,040
 
1995 9,408

1994  15,011

1993 10,576

1992 9,654

1991 9,613
 
1990  9,444

1989  8,645
 
1988  9,542
 
Readings average attendances:

1996  8,917

1995  9,350

1994  6,951

1993  4,781

1992  3,858

1991   4,073

1990   4,076

1989  5,106

1988  6,945

now fuck off back to stamford bridge

[Iffy's Onion Bhaji]

The move to the new stadium, as said, brings with it families and new fans who like dry new surroundings. Also, from 2000, we were always chasing a promotion, right up until this season.

That's where the continuity of growth in attendances comes from, and many of the then new fans, stay.

Previous comment about the 80's is spot on, we averages up and down 5-6000 for most of the decade. But it was also an awful decade for Reading Football Club.

Many are also mistaken when they think John Madejski has thrown his wealth at the club. He hasn't. We have had numerous interest free loans from him, and this last year and a bit he has been openly cashing them in to balance the books and bring the debt back under control since relegation from the money league.

He bought the stadium, but again the football club have paid for that, or are paying for it.

He's just a shrewd business man. It's frustrating at times, but he runs the club in the right manner, and you can see in the success we had from 2000 to 2009 that building piece by piece was the right way to do it, and now we find ourselves doing it all over again.

Income from sponsorship, leasing the stadium to London Irish, attendances... means we usually make one 'big' signing a summer, and a few clever buys also. That's been our way for 10 years and will remain so until a new buyer comes in, wether that's for the better or now we shall see, but it isn't far off.

I sincerley hope you get promoted this season. It'll be good for your club, your fans and finances. And if it hurries the redevelopment of TCG then all the better. It will stand you in good stead when it happens.

Exactly the same sort of thing is happening for us now. You talk about the 80s being an awful decade for Reading well the naughties was certainly one for us. We're just 20 years behind you in that respect.

[sn5_red]

http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attnclub/read.htm


Season '93 and '94

Finishing 8th and 1st in League 1

Averages of 4,700 and 6,900.

So, it would appear that we are somewhere between those two season.

So based on that in your old school ground, non family firendly atmosphere if you were in our position your average
would be 5,800.

Run run run run reading






Premiership? That was soooo 90s
Been there, got the T Shirt.
Reading FC will always be a poxy club, whether it be a shit club playing at Elm Park or a Plastic club playing in a lego ground on a tip near the M4, where the fans come from wonderful settlements, like Slough, to watch a decent standard of football (Away Clubs now).
Swindon Town however, are a proper community football club. We have real hardcore fans.

[Arriba]

cut the fella some slack. he aint plastic and is basicly sticking up for his team like any of us would.
i for one respect reading for what they did, and i look at them in hope of doing the same.
for all the tit for tat put downs we really aint far apart.