Re: Questioning Attendance Stagnation

By Not A Mong26/2 15:25Wed Feb 26 15:25:40 2025In response to Questioning Attendance Stagnation

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A strange post on a Tumbleweed forum.

Attendances this term are almost identical to last term. The same applies to most London non-league clubs who've remained in the same division.

I've no idea what the Club is doing to increase attendances, but trying to do that is generally a time-consuming, frustrating and usually futile & unrewarding task.

Apportioning time for the Club's unpaid and overstretched volunteers to go around schools, colleges, clubs, cultural & ethnic organisations, etc. is presumably not seen as sensible.

Nick Archer had a lot of ideas when he was at That Mob In Ruislip (©P.Butler) - all of them in the "futile & unrewarding" category, in my opinion.

The golden key would be a Unique Selling Point stunt on social media. Traditional methods such as putting up posters, keeping the local press onside and trying to create a genuine sense of togetherness (I refuse to use the crude English translation of "Volk" - it begins with "C") don't work nowadays.

I often wonder how much of the casual interest generated by the Wealdstone Raider translated into new fans turning up at That Mob In Ruislip (©P.Butler).

I have minutes of this being discussed aeons ago. I don't need to look them up. Getting people away from watching the Greed Is Good League (©B.Glanville) and UEFA's ever expanding money-laundering competition is a difficult task.

I've not lived on Townsend Lane for more than 30 years, but I wasn't the only person to point out that it isn't a great location for interaction with the natives when the Kingsdon & Henbury Town United merger & move was mooted in the mid-Noughties.

I might even be at Hastings next week!

Edited by Not A Mong at 15:26:36 on 26th February 2025
Edited by Not A Mong at 15:27:09 on 26th February 2025

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