Agreed.
The mainly tedious football, play off heartbreaks and reduced squad quality, only resulted in a dip of say 15% in s/t sales over 2 seasons.
The doom mongers who reckoned that gates would struggle to reach 14,000 in such circumstances, were smashed into the long grass.
It was about 3,500 down over two seasons (including some 1901 who gave up when they first could). It was the boring OG and SH football that did it, plus the squad's stars were replaced with inferior recruits under Burke.
Then CH, and some TB spending, transformed everything.
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