I don't necessarily disagree with your sentiment, but let's do the economics:
27,110 average crowd.
23,175 STHs (which includes 1901 etc)
1,089 visiting fans
Which leaves an average ticket sales of 2,846 per game. So, you are on the inelastic part of the demand curve for one-off match...
Average 27,110 compared with 26,024 in 2012/13 (+4%).
We had 23,175 STHs. It will be interesting to see how many we start this season with, I suspect it will be down a little bit.
The FL data tables are all over the place, full of errors, mind so I'm not sure what we should believe in the...