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I think that the attebdances that the club are getting this season are really good for a team playing in National League North, the club have lost many regular fans over the past six or seven years, mainly due to very poor results and the lack of entertaining football, add to that the Swann facter.
When the club were in League 1 and 2, as stated above, many away teams supporters filled the railway end section, in this league there is usually under 100, so actually the home fans are doing a great job in sticking with their team. I cannot see the club increasing present crowd levels, yes it is easy to say give tickets away free, but that does not put money into the club, and only a handfull will return when having to pay.
I would think that a few hundred have returned to GP, simply because they have been bored to death with previous boring years, and that the team are actually winning games and scoring goals.
I do not know what propotion of the £11-99 fee from watching each game on Streaming, but the club could surely add to their funds if they advertised Live Streaming access like the Speedway promotion do. I have never seen any reference to Streaming on the Scunthorpe web site.
But as stated, get the team out of this League, and more fans will return.
Another way is to give leaflets to schools , for each kid to take home, use the Railway End of GP for kids free if accompanied by a £10 paying Parent, this has been used in the past, but for only one game per season, and it worked a treat, and with just the present few away fans,they can be relocated into the SE corner of the SE corner of yje East stand.