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In addition, were we to not only go up but also stay up, the away end would always sell out against Arsenal, Spurs, West Ham, Southampton, Palace, Chelsea, Man U, Liverpool, The Toon and Citeh.

The ticket pricing does seem a bit silly in places. For example, it costs more to watch the Albion play against 22nd place Charlton than against potential promotion rivals Birmingham City.

PL capacity running at 96% at present so agree

Indeed. I heard a NITWIT on Radio Five Live last week say that for a SMALL CLUB such as Crystal Palace fan income was less than 10% of total income. No idea who he was of course.

In 2013/14 income from matchday was £10.4 million, (bigger than that of Palace for example, who are PL). Next season, if we were to be promoted AND even if we finish bottom, we would earn £99 million from TV rights (plus parachute payments the following seasons). So is there a NEED to...

Yup, but the club is sensitive to upsetting some STH (not those such as yourself) by cutting prices too much, too often. 26,391 for Cardiff at the 'mate for a tenner' was great, but after you strip out VAT and transfer levy the club made less than £6 per person who took up the deal.

This sounds poor. If this is the case, has anyone taken it up with the club?

I think a lot of people in 2013/14 had been happy with the previous season (night of shame excluded) and renewed ST's. Since then the quality of football has fallen, especially last year, and the more marginal fan has walked away. It would be interesting to know (I) ST sales this year...

You mean the side that won at Anfield, beat Arsenal at the Goldstone, was at one point fifth in the top division?

If people are going to put off for good on the basis of one crap season, perhaps we don't deserve good football?

I genuinely don't think we'd get an extra thousand turning up to watch Vydra.

Didn't the club do that with BZ? We are averaging 24,000. The likes of Leeds, Fulham, QPR, Derby will bring a big away following and crowds are on the up compared to the attendance against Rotherham.

I've tried and had no luck.

I'm more of a Brownie than a Scout WCP x.

Most of it went on cocaine and prostitutes. The rest was squandered.

Never. County Til I Die.

This begs the question, if we are promoted, will fans accept pragmatic football that keeps us in the top flight? The Mike Bailey stats would suggest otherwise.

I agree, but you inferred the money hadn't been spent. I'd argue it was poorly spent.

It's not, as the sale of Ulloa was a single windfall, no other players commanded significant proceeds. We lost £25.3 million in the two seasons we made the playoffs. That was mainly an investment in wages for players such as Koosh, Bridge, Upson, Ward, who didn't cost the club a transfer fee...

I'm not sure, but that wasn't the point you made, which was the claim that there was a total lack of investment. Ulloa cost £2 million.