So in the brave new Ealing dawn what would be an acceptable attendance for the opening fixture?

I'll set the bar low (obviously) & say 1,500.

I would expect around 5-600. It will take a while to grow again. A winning start would help.

Who are the opponents? Oldham. Ideally they could have done with Leigh and used there big names to promote the game.

CN what do you mean by acceptable? Please expand.

First up at home - the mighty Swinton. That will test the trestle table out (thats ones for you CN)

First away game after promotion for the lions, they may look at us as a big scalp so they may bring a few fans down.

Aren't Swinton our benefactors "home" side?

Not sure what home side means? If you mean is that not where our benefactor comes from then apparently so, not sure what that has to do with anything apart from mild interest.
Unless you are suggesting that he will do what our previous benefactor did and go buy his home team, in fact that would make some on here happy.

Hughes might be able to do some good at Swinton.

He certainly isn't doing any good here.

CN I will ask you one more time