insider knowledge wrote:Back to topic, despite the Generals optimism on crowd increases, I have been watching Rovers for over 35 years and we have never regularly got over 9000 average crowds never mind 10,000. I am concerned that despite a successful 2009 we averaged under 9,000 average crowds. I just don't think there are any more fans out there who will regularly attend. The extension is great news for existing fans but expecting that to balance the books is short sighted and folly. We need to budget within our means or suffer the consequences. If this means spending less on players salaries, so be it. Better to be a SL also rans long term than a short lived success going bust.
Fair post. I think the extension will draw in some more fans - we'll have to wait to see how many, but it won't be a cure-all. In part the costs are being covered by partners and it gets the club closer to a franchise tick-point (capacity), and shows the RFL that things are still moving in the right direction. Definately a positive step. I was a bit OCD about the lack of symmetry with only one end extended, but I won't now need to waste the time of an NHS psychiatrist so everyone is a winner (my wife can just learn to live with my refusal to set the television volume to prime numbers)
