Of course it put the Swindon fans off, they only brought 800 ish less than 10% of their 1st home game, whereas we took 15% of our home crowd, Portsmouth had their lowest home crowd in 8 years down by 2000, normally a full house for first home game, evidently there have been ticketing issues as well, but doesn’t answer it all, Cowley asking the fans to “Stay with us”. So we are not alone when it comes to drop in crowds for all sorts of reasons, after our last 2 campaigns we should expect a drop, the one way to alter this is to start winning games it’s the same for most teams.
