Tuesday 22 February 2011

Still number one in South-East London (not that there was any doubt)

Prior to Saturday's bumper Valley attendance, we were averaging 15,318 for home league matches. Palace were just behind with 14,766 and Millwall were trailing on 11,835. After the fiver-for-all promotion, our average has been hoicked up to 15,948. It would be great to think we can break the 16,000 average mark but I think that would need another offer-inspired near full-house before the season finishes. 


Our second biggest home gate of the season against table-toppers Brighton was 18,949 and still bigger than Millwall's 16,70 for the visit of Palace or Palace's own 17,488 for their first match of the season having survived going out of business. Millwall's play-off push has helped their average gate, which would surely have dipped to four figures had they had a season like Palarse. The Eagles look like they will be too good to go down but one wonders what would happen next season without Darren Ambrose's goals. Fingers-crossed.


Either way, our Valley crowd has held up once again and it must irk Millwall and Palace fans that we remain a more attractive proposition in League One than they do in the Championship.  


Sorry to see Plymouth Argyle go into Administration and take a ten point hit yesterday. They now go bottom on 23 points and that will spell a double relegation for Argyle and surely the end of Peter Reid's involvement as well as the Grim Reaper who moved to distance himself unconvincingly a couple of weeks ago.

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