Dooms day scenario !

[spacecake]

There are clubs in the Championship and surviving with less than 1500 gates however, no club in any of the leagues could survive on gate money alone, to be successful clubs require money from other sources, sponsorship, sale of merchandise, lottery, etc. innovation.

Agree batley being a prime example last 2 yrs but they can attract players within M62 area on pay as you play deals while haven or town would have to pay them type of players full time contracts to get them to travel to west cumbria

[Tommygun]

If town got promoted they,d need crowds of at least 1500 to be able to make a competitve squad and to use the full 300k

Don't forget that the money Town get from speedway means they aren't just reliant on attendances, that money probably equates to an extra few hundred fans per game.

[Keith]

That's true Tommygun but Town's crowds are still very low for the position the team is in at the present time.

In fans defence all I can say is that they have been let down far too many times in the past by poor team performances when people have given them "another" chance.   It always seemed that as soon as Town started to look as if they would have some success and some ex-fans came back to see then that is when the team lets them down.

Eight seasons in this division have certainly driven many fans away and even when we went 14 months without losing a match at home (under Ged Stokes) we couldn't significantly get those fans back.   With other problems in the game that the RFL have introduced, licensing, no P & R, etc, many people have been turned off from the game altogether and may never return.