Questioning Attendance Stagnation

By NHayes17/2 16:40Mon Feb 17 16:40:42 2025

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Hendon's attendance has lacked any sort of stable growth, an anomaly in the non-league scene considering the rise of non-league's attendances all around due to expensive ticketing in the 92. To this, it seems like the club's done little investment into promotion in their new catchment area or the area around Claremont Road to attempt to boost attendances?
To find out about the club, you'd have to search for it, and that's no good for any club seeking growth.

My question is:
What has the club done to aid attendance growth?

Why isn't it working?

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Re: Questioning Attendance Stagnation

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

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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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Re: Questioning Attendance Stagnation

By Not A Mong1/3 18:12Sat Mar 1 18:12:56 2025In response to Re: Questioning Attendance StagnationTop of thread

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Also....a run of 16 League games without a win (4 draws, 12 defeats) is something of a test of endurance for most regular, long-time fans, never mind newbies & prospective newbies ... Even if it doesn't materialise unexpectedly after a pair of wins by an aggregate of 12-0😳.
The useless, deluded, "right on" twats I used to support turning two League wins all season into a 14-game unbeaten streak (10 wins, 4 draws) since mid-December is quite difficult to believe (9 points from first 14 matches, 31 points from next 14), but Hendon taking 26 points from their first 16 matches and 4 points from their next 16 is astounding.

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