With Birmingham in freefall, lots of bank holiday weekend alternative entertainment on offer and quite a few people working, what will the attendance be today? I would guess an official figure of about 8,500 and a real 'people in the ground' figure of about 7,500.
The club has got it badly wrong with season ticket prices. On the basis that there would have been a riot if they had dared to put them up, they have pitched them as high as they possibly could by 'freezing prices'. After the soul destroying experience that this season has been, the club has done nothing to incentivise supporters who on the whole have taken it pretty well considering. Terrible marketing. They wouldn't get away with it in any other line of business. Some people who have paid up front can't be bothered to turn up now effectively for free. On what planet does the club think they are going to pay the same price again to watch us in League 1 with a fitness coach at the helm?
I don't think we will manage our third clean sheet of the season, but I think we will manage to avoid our eleventh consecutive league defeat. I will plump for a one all draw. There is optimism for you.
I've got that cynical these days, I'd like to see another loss. Why stop now, go all the way. We're not going to break any records for success so we may as well enter the record books for setting the bar as low as possible and beat the record currently standing as 11 successive defeats set by Tranmere I believe.
I sort of know what you mean Towdlad. You can get used to losing and almost a sense of pride in still being a supporter despite it. Even when we were struggling in the last couple of seasons, when matchday came I always (heart over head) fancied us to win whoever we were playing. Today we are playing at home to a poor side and I am hoping against hope for a point. If not a point, at least a bit of fight and a goal. That is what it has come to. I thought that having relegation confirmed might take the shackles off a bit. I didn't go to Wigan but apparently we played with a bit more freedom, despite the usual defensive frailties. Here's hoping for a performance today to at least give us a bit of heart.
That depends whether you meant 8,000 plus 2,200 brummies or including 2,200 brummies. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt Nellinio and declare you the winner.
Although they brought a handful of numpties with them, I thought the Birmingham following was fantastic. Not happy with Zola though are they?
The official attendance of 10,500 or whatever they announced was a laugh. There were at least 3,000 and more like 4,000 empty seats in there. A lot of absent season ticket holders can be the only explanation.
Never has a draw felt more than a win. Birmingham were awful, so lets not carried away about the fact that we drew against a rank bad side at home, but we scored a goal and on the whole we at least we tried, plus we broke a long losing streak, so something at least to build on.
