The demand is sort of already there, we took 7000 to MK cup game, 21000 to wembley, 44000 to wembley etc. Not sure when he said that re Worcester but I expect they never had that level of proven support at any time
There is no one single answer that will keep everyone happy and solve all our problems.
What is clear is that the Northampton public is fed up with outside land investors or worse, who break their promises and have no plan for NTFC.
It is all about value, and everyones value is different but I am pretty sure that IF we were all things Beds wants, I have no doubt we would have 8-9000 at least.
Those who stay away want in bad times want to be associated with success, determination, effort and more success, what division they are in has little relevance. Leeds, Portsmouth and Sunderland all have hit massive attendances when they are around the top of the table, it doesn't matter that they were in League 1 at the time. However for this to be sustained the match day experience needs to be good to hold them when that success drops a bit and good atmosphere with facilities also then helps attract the better players, which might bring more success etc etc etc
Some valid points Random. However, if we have proven demand then we would sell out regularly. The concern I have with my argument is that if success on the pitch alone is the catalyst then we would have sold out regularly during our promotion season and if I recall we didn’t. Growing up in Northampton no one seemed to give a sh1t about Rugby as a spectator sport. It is undeniable that the rise in popularity of Rugby was capitalised on by the Saints spectacularly. Part of this capitalisation was the enhancement of the match day experience, so proper consideration and investment a various levels has to be given to both factors. I will continue to emphasise this point, to reiterate the biggest single challenge in all this is to raise and have a provable delivery of capital to the correct channels. It is absolutely everything. Self funded from profit is not impossible, but convincing the relevant and necessary associates, partners and suppliers this can adequately support lines of credit is a very considerable difficultly that I believe makes this option unworkable. I’m not making this stuff up to annoy or frustrate people, these are just the challenges as I see them and all the wishful thinking in the world won’t make them go away.