The longer you have a dodgy owner in charge the more unlikely it seems that the disappearing fanbase will ever return. I've heard a lot of people say that fans will return on a change of ownership but I wonder how significant a number this will be - I think people are growing increasingly disenchanted with football and they dont feel connected with their club anymore.
I found watching Charlton last night incredibly sad - it was a near empty stadium with zero atmosphere. I feel no connection to this team and certainly not to the manager.
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All this pain has the potential be turned into a positive force when we can focus it on getting our club back to where it should be rather than having to get rid of the cowardly, stupid liar. We must do that first though!
For me it's more the next generation of fans that aren't coming in and if they are attending matches like last night they won't get the bug to return.
The longer these lot are here the longer their damage will take to repair.
Will I return once these owners have gone...........yes I will, will I buy another season ticket................I doubt it.
I remember saying to my son as we were at a Premier League game that he should remember as much as he could because this might be as good as it gets for Charlton in his lifetime.
Wish it weren't so.
Some will come back when Roland leaves
After that IF we get success, and find ourselves in the PL again (which seems a long way off at the moment but isn't unreasonable) then the ground will be packed out again.
Even if we are just a decent Championship club, with good management there's no reason why we can't build up to say 16000 gates.
The subsequent crowds will drop, but the baseline, depending on which league we are in, will be a big chunk, say 25%, above what it is today. Where it goes from there will depend entirely on success.
If KR is losing the dressing room, as some on here are suggesting, and we get a few more injuries, more red cards etc, we could easily become embroiled in a scrap at the bottom.
The question is will there be a club to return to.
If the club think that on the pitch success or cheaper ticket prices would change my mind are much mistaken.
I will not given him money.
I really effing miss our shit turnouts away and our baffling collapses at home from the most unassailable of positions. God that's sick.
An interesting debate this. Current estimate is that home fans at Bloomfield Rd number around the 1,000 mark. Attendance figures are “distorted” as they are based on ST’s sold but even then crowds are hovering around the 3,000 mark dependant on the number of visiting fans. God knows what it will be next season if there is no change of ownership. Compare this to the 15,000 we were getting in the Prem.
The general view is that we would sell out the first game after (if) the change of ownership but I can’t see that continuing long with the standard of players / football we have in League 2.
As has been pointed out, people are finding other things to do on a Saturday and large numbers will have been lost for good. Pretty tragic and damning on the Oystons.
Good luck with the protest in Belgium.