Yeah, there weren't 4,500 people there. It was a beautiful day however so I'm sure there were some walkups. Some disappointed walkups, as Omar Bravo was held out. I'm sure most of the tickets were presold for last night. But Raleigh got 9-10" of rain from Matthew and plenty of streets are still flooded and there are power outages everywhere (a tree fell on the lines down the street from me and my power came on about 20 minutes ago, now I can process my photos from the game). I know a lot of folks that are still dealing with storm issues. The crazy ones are the ones that went to the NCAA football games at Duke, UNC, and especially NC State yesterday.
1,254 in Jacksonville 3,308 in Carolina 418 in Ft Lauderdale Boy I hate midweek games. 418 has to be an all time low.
Since the stadium move FTL has been doing relatively much better on the weekends, but absolutely atrociously on Wednesdays.
True but they don't need attendance numbers to survive and OKC does, I understand that the club is playing next season I hope they don't do it on a skeleton crew with zip for marketing or else they'll be averaging around 1k people.
I don't know what they need to do, but I hope they DO put effort into it next season. Sad part is, the supporter's group is growing, while the paid attendance isn't. IF we win this week, setting up a do-or-die game on the 30th, I just PRAY that the FO goes ball-deep in ad time and media to get people to come to the game, support the team's effort to make the playoffs, and see how good the product is on the field. Last night's game was probably the best pole-to-pole performance I've seen all year. They are peaking at the exact right time.
Full credit to the ROKC players. The club's shenanigans didn't help them but they have played above expectations despite it all.
Code: Team Season Average(2015) Weekly Total Minnesota United 8744(8767) 8059 Indy Eleven 8386(9809) 8649 Tampa Bay Rowdies 5790(5649) N/A Ottawa Fury 5569(5164) N/A Miami FC 5205 5215 Carolina Railhawks 4856(4539) 3308 New York Cosmos 3637(5062) N/A Puerto Rico FC 3567 4347 Jacksonville Armada 3558(7927) 1254\3044 Rayo OKC 3388 987 FC Edmonton 2017(2889) N/A Ft. Lauderdale Strikers 1361(4471) 418\1065 Season Average (Mean-Median) Week Average NASL 2016 4655-4317 3634 NASL 2015 5909-5295 Difference -1254 -978 NASL Fall2016 4455 NASL Fall2015 5606 Difference -1151 League Total 2016 791288(170 games) League Total 2015 975000(165 games)
Personally, I just don't see things getting much better. It all starts with the name which is simply stupid. Add in struggling foreign ownership, competition from an established and more competent club across town, and the fact that the waters have already been tainted for this club, I think it would be wise to expect very little.
Although isn't this the paid attendance they were getting from the old ownership? Maybe they're not giving tickets away anymore, although it's a bad sign that none other fans were willing to pay.
It is always possible to fix, its just a matter of if the owners are willing to put the kind of investment into the team that would be required in order to fix it. I doubt they are interested in that kind of investment.
They can do better and have with their last 2 games, 1812 on Sept 18th and 1688 on Oct 2. With more marketing and ticket reps/outreach they should be able to average 2K to 3K possibly. The numbers are apparently paid attendance since the Spaniards takeover.
Disappointing numbers from Strikers and Rayo this week adding 2 more sub 1K numbers that although still not as bad as the D3 USL's lows of this year (USL had a low of 58 fans at one match) the NASL had previous to this year only one sub 1K match at 900+ in Edmonton in 2012.
I'm doubting they'll invest anymore then they have. The ownership has more important things to worry about since they have been floating just above relegation all season.