Can you even imagine what state we'd be in right now if Uncle Kath was still in charge, running the club on less than a shoestring budget?

Only one fewer in the trophy cabinet under Hetherington and the same number of finals though, she like Pearson ran the club as a business, we did produce players through the youth system during that time including ones that went on to represent at International level. I bet you weren't complaining when we won the CC in '05 and we had that amazing run in '06 plus how we battled through to the '08 final?
Owners, players, coaches come and go and you cannot predict how things will go in the future.
If attendances don't improve after the recent success then the club really needs to look at why that is, as per my previous post, last season was on the back of our most successful in all aspects for 30+ years, and yet we only saw an average increase of 460 fans on 2012. Let's hope more fans do turn up and the team continue to improve especially at home.

Think it was 2010 when the club was playing the 'this year is the one' card again and had the big name signings of Long, Fitzgibbon and O'Meley to sell seats.

As for the main driver of sales, theres nothing better for pass sales than consistent sucess and commited players. Yes the team still the odd off day (which we will need to fix if we are to win the league) but you can turn up almost all weeks and see the team give their all. We have built a better team with less high profile names giving 100% than we did in the era of signing big name, old injury prone players.

Wouldent be surprised if we have attracted a few lapsed City fans due to their issues either, partiuclarly juniors/youths who are now priced out at City.