Quote ="Mr Churchill"You haven't said but it sounds like you weren't there. I was.'"
Ooooh....you were there so you must be correct
The enthusiasm of that first season saw 3 or 4 bigish crowds and plenty of not so big crowds.....at least one of your sometimes exaggerated crowds was a challenge Cup tie which would negate it from the championship/SL average attendances that we discuss on here.....so your hanging your hat on a season that no definitive figures actually exist for. What we can see is that the following year they averaged 4,500 or so.....in a higher division.
On the other hand, SL 1 delivered 5,700 or so as a Home average......the club have only ever INCREASED crowds at one venue, which was Griffin Park where they left with a higher average than they arrived with.
This is all and wind anyway. The demise of this club has little to do with names, location or any other insane theories (usually contributed by folk who have never been south of Watford in their Lives for anything other than the Challenge Cup Final)......
I know for a
fact that Hughes "invested" £10,237,637 into the club in 5 years between 2008-12. The club in this period turned over £20,000,000, so basically, £4,000,000 a year of fans, Hughes, RFL and SKY money was spent on 42 SL wins from 135 attempts (31%). Since then he's delivered a win ratio of about 10% in a season and a bit.........and that will include another £2,000,000 from him last year at least.
Of the £20,000,000 spent 2008-12.....would you care to guess how much they spent on Marketing the club?.......don't bother. £976,656 (0.048%) is what they spent over 5 years.....£195,331 a season or £15,025 per game. In that 5 year period, they SHED 40% of their fan base and lost 50% of their season ticket revenue.......No matter what you called them or where they played, with that "business model" they were never going to end up anywhere other than in the shi**er.
