Unlikely, even in our last L1 promotion season we were barely getting over 12-13k at home. We even won our last 6 home games of the season, and only averaged 12K for those.
Roland was in charge then
He was still in charge when we sold out our allocation at Wembley.
Too true mate but i had a Spurs fan sitting on my right and a Chelsea one sitting on my left.
It's just how we are as a club. I've met more people in my life who had Charlton season tickets outside that weren't Charlton fans than were since we have been out of the prem..if that makes sense.
Harsh reality is, we had a lot of people watch us to see top flight footie.
Roland as an owner wasn't the reason for poor attendances, it's just the football not being good, always been the way.
If we got back to the Premier League in this day and age, we would sell out every week, fairly confident about that. Or at least close to sell out.
I can't see our attendances being that much better in the championship.
Which is why I never thought the stadium expansion plans to 40k were remotely sensible, as that's way above the actual size of our true fanbase.
In London, a PL club will attract lots of casual fans. Yes they'll "like" Charlton, but if Brentford or Fulham are in the PL, they'll like them as well.
There were many games in the Premier League that we were still selling tickets on the day of the game, and in some cases that was against the big boys.
We have spent so long in league one that we have lost plenty of fans. The diehards among us keep going regardless but plenty don't. It will take a good few seasons to build our fanbase when we eventually leave the football wasteland that is league one.
We have spent so long in league one that we have lost plenty of fans. The diehards among us keep going regardless but plenty don't. It will take a good few seasons to build our fanbase when we eventually leave the football wasteland that is league one.
9 left for the regular season. 3 have already sold out the away allocation (Brum, Orient and presumably Crawley); 4 will probably sell out (Peterborough, Cambridge, Wycombe and presumably Wrexham); that leaves Stockport and Mansfield that may, or may not sell out but if we are challenging still then they no doubt will.
Not bad for a team that just over a couple of months ago was getting very very hard to watch.
just need to start filling the Valley as well…
We can no doubt add the Wycombe play off game to this list, and a lot quicker than all the rest I guess. As I wrote, not bad for a team that had been getting very hard to watch at one point. It sort of goes with the ‘if you build it they will come’ line from the Kevin Costner film, though took a while to start filling the Valley as well.
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There were many games in the Premier League that we were still selling tickets on the day of the game, and in some cases that was against the big boys.
The diehards among us keep going regardless but plenty don't.
It will take a good few seasons to build our fanbase when we eventually leave the football wasteland that is league one.
Down to a hardcore of 8k I reckon.