Yesterdays crowd

[Blackpool Shrimp]

Very poor in my opinion - i know people might have been on holiday but i thought we would have got at least 2500 plus Not the paltry 2100 we achieved

[Crooky MFC]

1800 home fans is ok in my opinion, we'll get better attendances as the season progresses, as I'm sure we'll be up there... AND it's our final season at CP

[Blackpool Shrimp]

1800 home fans is not very good crooky we need more than that in my opinion - but to be honest the publicity for yesterdays game was not very good something i hope improves in the future

[Christies Child]

Our first home game last season v Rotherham was 2606. I seem to recall them bringing quite a few.

However yesterdays gate should have been higher. I know that some of the crowd in front of us who are regulars season after season were on holiday, but I was hoping for at least a clear 2000 home fans. Instaed of just over 1800.

Mind you when we start winning a few gates will improve.

[John L]

Hopefully it's just down to cash-strapped fans deciding to attend the PNE match with the two fixtures being a few days apart, as well as it being the holiday season. I'd like to think that there'll be a few hundred more on the 22nd.

[campdave]

1800 home fans is not very good crooky we need more than that in my opinion - but to be honest the publicity for yesterdays game was not very good something i hope improves in the future

When are we going to start blaming an apathetic local population than laying the blame on poor advertising?

You could have knocked on everyone's door and personally told them about the match and not added many more to the gate.

[mrpotatohead]

The apethetic locals will not be reading this, we should treat the team as our own exclusve club and ban floating fans, i move that the new stadium should have a home capacity of 1800, and newbies should stand before a panel to explain their claims to worthiness

[marky No.1]

The apethetic locals will not be reading this, we should treat the team as our own exclusve club and ban floating fans, i move that the new stadium should have a home capacity of 1800, and newbies should stand before a panel to explain their claims to worthiness

Don't be a

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[parceldave]

1800 home fans is not very good crooky we need more than that in my opinion - but to be honest the publicity for yesterdays game was not very good something i hope improves in the future

Totally agree, I was in Lahti untill Wenesday , then i was in Stockholm on Thursay and Friday and back in Helsinki on Saturday and didn't see anything promöting the game anywhere. Come on Morecambe F.C. things need to improve .

[feelingguilty]

Whatever the reason, and there are all sorts of theories - this is the biggest issue with our clubs progression.

Our crowd on saturday was over 700 lower than anybody else - therfore assuming that seven hundred simply went go the game and didnt buy anything our rivals are taking over £9k per game more revenue than us - over £200k per season.

I agree the new stadium will help with revenues (assuming people support it - not certain they will) but that is only half the story. If we want to progress we have to increase crowds.

[heysham_mfc]

Will have never had a big support but I just feel what even with the games that have been promoted well it does on effect the attendance at the game much unless it is against a big team sure if someone is in sat Asda doing the shopping and sees the board as they go in they might say 'hey look Morecambe are playing tonight i might go to that' but overall it does not affect the turn out much.

[Dazzer]

Whatever the reason, and there are all sorts of theories - this is the biggest issue with our clubs progression.

Our crowd on saturday was over 700 lower than anybody else - therfore assuming that seven hundred simply went go the game and didnt buy anything our rivals are taking over £9k per game more revenue than us - over £200k per season.

I agree the new stadium will help with revenues (assuming people support it - not certain they will) but that is only half the story. If we want to progress we have to increase crowds.

8 Premierships teams little more than an hour away. 2 Championship teams little more than half an hour away. Half our catchment area the sea.

Increasing attendances above current levels is always going to be a huge challenge for the club and yes, the biggest stumbling block to any future progression.
I always wonder what Sammy would be able to do with the extra revenue that an average gate of 4-4500 would bring.

[parceldave]

Whatever the reason, and there are all sorts of theories - this is the biggest issue with our clubs progression.

Our crowd on saturday was over 700 lower than anybody else - therfore assuming that seven hundred simply went go the game and didnt buy anything our rivals are taking over £9k per game more revenue than us - over £200k per season.

I agree the new stadium will help with revenues (assuming people support it - not certain they will) but that is only half the story. If we want to progress we have to increase crowds.

8 Premierships teams little more than an hour away. 2 Championship teams little more than half an hour away. Half our catchment area the sea.

Increasing attendances above current levels is always going to be a huge challenge for the club and yes, the biggest stumbling block to any future progression.
I always wonder what Sammy would be able to do with the extra revenue that an average gate of 4-4500 would bring.

We have a University only a 20 mins bus ride away that has about 10,000 poor students who cannot afford Prem and Champ prices . Maybe we should be doing something up there to attract them to C.P.

[Abbo]

Seeing as there was no premiership games played on saturday and only preston were at home doesnt really make any difference to our gates, apart from the hard core 1600=1800 fans that turn up the people of morecambe just arnt interested in there football club.

[Dazzer]

Seeing as there was no premiership games played on saturday and only preston were at home doesnt really make any difference to our gates, apart from the hard core 1600=1800 fans that turn up the people of morecambe just arnt interested in there football club.

Fair point, but I wonder if that figure of 1600-1800 as a proportion of the local population is any worse than other teams.
Maybe somebody with a lot of time on their hands could do some analysis

[Abbo]

I think its alarming to see how much the attendances have dropped off from the first season in the football league.

[Moose]

Well...
I was in a Pub at the weekend and overheard a group of people saying how they 'will be going to Morecambe's last game at Christie Park' followed by 'do you think we will need to try and book tickets early'. Now I happen to have pretty good ears and was able to overhear that the last game they went to was the Wembley match. I wasn't in the right frame of mind to ask them why they would give a monkeys about coming to the last game at Christie if they couldn't give a monkeys about the whole season in between. These people (and there are going to be hundreds in Morecambe) really really annoy me. Quite simply it does not matter how well the team are playing or how good the game is or was, or even how much advertising the Club do, there is nothing that would attract this kind of person to come to more matches unless they could at sometime in the future say ' yeah, I was there for that game'.
One word = Bandwagon. (Well I can think of another word as well as Bandwagon but...)

[Christies Child]

Well...
I was in a Pub at the weekend and overheard a group of people saying how they 'will be going to Morecambe's last game at Christie Park' followed by 'do you think we will need to try and book tickets early'. Now I happen to have pretty good ears and was able to overhear that the last game they went to was the Wembley match. I wasn't in the right frame of mind to ask them why they would give a monkeys about coming to the last game at Christie if they couldn't give a monkeys about the whole season in between. These people (and there are going to be hundreds in Morecambe) really really annoy me. Quite simply it does not matter how well the team are playing or how good the game is or was, or even how much advertising the Club do, there is nothing that would attract this kind of person to come to more matches unless they could at sometime in the future say ' yeah, I was there for that game'.
One word = Bandwagon. (Well I can think of another word as well as Bandwagon but...)

As much as it annoys all fans about such people, I'd rather they jumped on the Bandwagon when they see fit than stay away for ever and a day!

Maybe we can convert only a few dozen to see the light. We all started sometime back for some reason, which some have forgotten.

[Morecambe Jack]

Whatever the reason, and there are all sorts of theories - this is the biggest issue with our clubs progression.

Our crowd on saturday was over 700 lower than anybody else - therfore assuming that seven hundred simply went go the game and didnt buy anything our rivals are taking over £9k per game more revenue than us - over £200k per season.

I agree the new stadium will help with revenues (assuming people support it - not certain they will) but that is only half the story. If we want to progress we have to increase crowds.

8 Premierships teams little more than an hour away. 2 Championship teams little more than half an hour away. Half our catchment area the sea.

Increasing attendances above current levels is always going to be a huge challenge for the club and yes, the biggest stumbling block to any future progression.
I always wonder what Sammy would be able to do with the extra revenue that an average gate of 4-4500 would bring.

We have a University only a 20 mins bus ride away that has about 10,000 poor students who cannot afford Prem and Champ prices . Maybe we should be doing something up there to attract them to C.P.

The thing is - they could afford Premiership prices over ours. Blackburn charge £129, Burnley as little as £75 and Bolton and Wigan are only slightly more at £189 and £190 respectively (Given the North stand is £180). Preston charge £175 and Blackpool £163 - so really the only incentive for them is that we are so close to the Uni.

Edit: Season ticket prices, not sure about Match Day prices - but im sure its all relative.

[Christies Child]

The one thing we seem to excell in is attracting a younger spectator.

Is that due to the excellent work of the Community team who are reaping the awards for their success OR is it more noticeable 'cause older people don't have the money and have not grown up on a diet of Shrimps a la Christie?

[marky No.1]

Some Burnley fans were queueiing from 4am for the last 200 tickets for their game at Stoke at the weekend. It turned out there were only 15 in the queue at 9am this morning so the novelty has worn off for them as well

[feelingguilty]

The one thing we seem to excell in is attracting a younger spectator.

Is that due to the excellent work of the Community team who are reaping the awards for their success OR is it more noticeable 'cause older people don't have the money and have not grown up on a diet of Shrimps a la Christie?

I agree - but personally I think this is where the problem starts - we are Ok / good at attracting kids (whose parents are paying presumably) but when they turn to teenagers / young adults they disappear.

Some sort of pricing for under 25s?

[marky No.1]

On the whole the crowds were up in the League over the weekend. League 2 was up 4 % , mainly stimulated by the 10,000 at Rotherham and the unsurprising 9000 at Notts County. Coupled with the fact that Accrington, Barnet, Macclesfield and Dagenham were all away it was not surprising really

http://www.football-league.co.uk/page/N ... 64,00.html

[heysham_mfc]

I some premier leauge clubs (also I think some of the championship clubs do something simlar) when you buy a ticket for a match they put your details on the 'database' then when the season starts or when an important game coming up they send you letters/e-mails with season ticket prices and matchday prices plus any infomation about discounts and the club shop etc I was thinking that we could do something simlar maybe not for every person that buys a ticket to see morecambe but maybe when you buy your season ticket on the application form there could be a tick box if you wanted this infomation to be send to you also maybe have something online doing something simlar maybe a facebook group (I think that there is one allready with infomation like the next fixture) another idea is to push leaflets through letter boxes with say detaild on the next 3 games at Christie park

[steve mfc]

I cant say i was surprised by the low turnout, we are just about back to the level of home support that we had in the conference. However i do feel that we have a larger amount of casual supporters to tap into, if we were winning and pushing for a play off place then im sure some of these people would start attending on a more regular basis.

Particularly if we continue to play the type of attacking football that we witnessed at the weekend, the die hard supporter will put up with grinding out 1-0 wins but the casual supporters want's to be entertained, and its not surprising when their usual diet of football is the Premiership on T.V.