Matt the Shrimp
aka Harry Potter
8,086.
I'm not saying that's how many we'll get on Saturday; but that's how many we need to come on Saturday in order to take our season average to 4,500 exactly for our league programme.
Here are a couple of other gates & overall averages for you...
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If, on Saturday ...the season
we get average will be
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5,786 4,400
6,936 4,450
7,339 4,468 (see below)
8,086 4,500
I'd say all that is extremely heartening - especially since we've had 3 sub-3,000 gates this season (against York, Lincoln and Boston - with the latter resulting in only 2,463 coming to Roots Hall...).
Overall attendances, for league & cup, are incredibly good too:
22 League games - Total: 95,414 (Ave: 4,337)
3 FA Cup games - Total: 20,394 (Ave: 6,798)
4 LDV Cup games - Total: 19,168 (Ave: 4,792)
1 League Cup game-Total: 3,385 (Ave: 3,385)
GRAND TOTAL: 138,361
AVERAGE (30 Games): 4,612
If Saturday's gate is 7,339 (hence why it's listed above), that will mean that 145,000 people will have passed through Roots Hall's turnstiles this season - bringing us to an average gate, for all competitions, of 4,700.
I'd say that that's fuggin' fantastic for us. Let me put that in some sort of context:
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Season Manager(s) Total Attendance
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1994-95 Spud, Thommo 127,912 (24 home games)
1995-96 Whelan 157,143 (26 home games)
1996-97 Whelan 131,216 (24 home games)
1997-98 Chipmunk 111,314 (26 home games)
1998-99 Chipmunk, Little 110,539 (26 home games)
1999-00 Little 99,658 (25 home games)
2000-01 Little, Webb 125,066 (31 home games)
2001-02 Webb, Newman 111,403 (27 home games)
2002-03 Newman, Wignall 103,186 (25 home games)
2003-04 Wignall, Tilson 145,000 (projected)
So, there you have it. This season has seen our highest overall attendances since Ronnie Whelan's tenure of the Roots Hall hot-seat in 1995-96. Even more amazingly, we've had 18,000 more through the turnstiles than in our Division 1 season in 1994-95, and 15,000 more than during the Div 1 relegation season under Whelan.
To put it another way, we've had a 45.5% increase in gates since Little's 1st full season in 1999-2000. In that context, it's perhaps less difficult to see why Little went - plunging gates, rising wages; when measured against those indicators, his tenure was actually a bit of a disaster.
It also goes to show how incredibly important a long cup run is. If you take an average ticket price as being £10 (given adult/child ratios etc.), then we've raised almost £0.5m additional revenue this season throught increased ticket sales alone compared to Little's season. Add to that the increased merchandising & food/drink sales, and we're looking at revenue this season being £750K-£1m higher than at its nadir under Little.
From a financial point of view, it makes Tilly & Brush's appointment look the easiest "no-brainer" decision that Ron Martin's ever had to make - especially bearing in mind that the wage bill is considerably lower now than it was under Little.
This really has been a strange season. Looking screwed in the League at Christmas, yet with some memorable Cup games, a trip to Cardiff, a new stadium looking a more realistic prospect for the first time in ages, and our highest gates in almost a decade.
Maybe the future really is looking brighter for us Shrimpers, for a change.
COME ON SOUTHEND!
Matt
I'm not saying that's how many we'll get on Saturday; but that's how many we need to come on Saturday in order to take our season average to 4,500 exactly for our league programme.
Here are a couple of other gates & overall averages for you...
============ ===========
If, on Saturday ...the season
we get average will be
============ ===========
5,786 4,400
6,936 4,450
7,339 4,468 (see below)
8,086 4,500
I'd say all that is extremely heartening - especially since we've had 3 sub-3,000 gates this season (against York, Lincoln and Boston - with the latter resulting in only 2,463 coming to Roots Hall...).
Overall attendances, for league & cup, are incredibly good too:
22 League games - Total: 95,414 (Ave: 4,337)
3 FA Cup games - Total: 20,394 (Ave: 6,798)
4 LDV Cup games - Total: 19,168 (Ave: 4,792)
1 League Cup game-Total: 3,385 (Ave: 3,385)
GRAND TOTAL: 138,361
AVERAGE (30 Games): 4,612
If Saturday's gate is 7,339 (hence why it's listed above), that will mean that 145,000 people will have passed through Roots Hall's turnstiles this season - bringing us to an average gate, for all competitions, of 4,700.
I'd say that that's fuggin' fantastic for us. Let me put that in some sort of context:
====== ========== ==============
Season Manager(s) Total Attendance
====== ========== ==============
1994-95 Spud, Thommo 127,912 (24 home games)
1995-96 Whelan 157,143 (26 home games)
1996-97 Whelan 131,216 (24 home games)
1997-98 Chipmunk 111,314 (26 home games)
1998-99 Chipmunk, Little 110,539 (26 home games)
1999-00 Little 99,658 (25 home games)
2000-01 Little, Webb 125,066 (31 home games)
2001-02 Webb, Newman 111,403 (27 home games)
2002-03 Newman, Wignall 103,186 (25 home games)
2003-04 Wignall, Tilson 145,000 (projected)
So, there you have it. This season has seen our highest overall attendances since Ronnie Whelan's tenure of the Roots Hall hot-seat in 1995-96. Even more amazingly, we've had 18,000 more through the turnstiles than in our Division 1 season in 1994-95, and 15,000 more than during the Div 1 relegation season under Whelan.
To put it another way, we've had a 45.5% increase in gates since Little's 1st full season in 1999-2000. In that context, it's perhaps less difficult to see why Little went - plunging gates, rising wages; when measured against those indicators, his tenure was actually a bit of a disaster.
It also goes to show how incredibly important a long cup run is. If you take an average ticket price as being £10 (given adult/child ratios etc.), then we've raised almost £0.5m additional revenue this season throught increased ticket sales alone compared to Little's season. Add to that the increased merchandising & food/drink sales, and we're looking at revenue this season being £750K-£1m higher than at its nadir under Little.
From a financial point of view, it makes Tilly & Brush's appointment look the easiest "no-brainer" decision that Ron Martin's ever had to make - especially bearing in mind that the wage bill is considerably lower now than it was under Little.
This really has been a strange season. Looking screwed in the League at Christmas, yet with some memorable Cup games, a trip to Cardiff, a new stadium looking a more realistic prospect for the first time in ages, and our highest gates in almost a decade.
Maybe the future really is looking brighter for us Shrimpers, for a change.
COME ON SOUTHEND!
Matt
