Our Crowds

[The.Alpine.Shrew]

One hundred percent they need to be doing more to fill the ground.

If you go to most grounds these days they have things going on outside the ground pre kick off.

We have some amazing businesses in Swansea producing quality home grown produce. I can't understand why we don't have them selling food, drinks, locally produced beers outside and inside the ground.

Fanzone would be great to promote up and coming locals bands and so on.

I have suggested the above a number of times over the years

 

[Smurph]

I have suggested the above a number of times over the years

Same here. It just falls on deaf ears.

 

[TerryPHELAN]

Maybe the reality is that our crowds pre Brendan were more like 15k max except for any Derby games and that is our level. You have to remember that for many years with Jackett, Martinez etc we were on the verge of promotion or playing very well with entertaining football.
I only bought a ST in 2007 because suddenly you weren’t guaranteed a ticket at the last minute i have kept it ever since but lots of people around me gave up their ST in 2017/8.

Average attendances at Liberty/.COM

2005	8,458
2006	14,112
2007	12,720
2008	13,520
2009	15,187
2010	15,407
2011	15,507
2012	19,946
2013	20,370
2014	20,407
2015	20,555
2016	20,711
2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023	20,619 20,623 18,737 16,151 Covid 17,389 16,821

That 2005 average must be for season 04/05 down the Vetch. Because our lowest attendance in 05/06, our first at the Liberty would’ve been in guessing 11k

 

[Dewi1jack]

"Club need to do more"

Up until very recently there were poster ads around the place stating these are the names you can see this season.
Including names like Paulo Sousa. FFS. Really?
At least take things like that down, which they appeared to do a few games ago in the East disabled toilets. Finally

Our marketing dept were absolutely sh1te when we got promoted/ stayed up in the Prem.
If I remember teams like Norwich brought in over 20 new partners paying money into the club. We brought in the Swans lottery as a partner and only about 4 or 5 others
Free worldwide publicity off Sky in the prem, TV coverage going Worldwide, Parliament holding us up as a club to emulate with fan ownership and our marketing dept did sweet FA with it.

Swansea
Graveyard of ambition seems to sum us up

 

[Cinio Dydd Sul]

I have suggested the above a number of times over the years

The club dif exactly that for a while but it wasn't particularly well received and was stopped. Behind the south stand.

 

[T8AD365]

The club dif exactly that for a while but it wasn't particularly well received and was stopped. Behind the south stand.

The problem is, they seem to associate "atmosphere" with "play booming music as loud as possible".

It's the same inside the ground before kick-off, any "atmosphere" is completely drowned out by the ridiculously loud PA system

 

[Swansea93]

Kids for a £1 Millwall game

 

[Smurph]

The club dif exactly that for a while but it wasn't particularly well received and was stopped. Behind the south stand.

I could be wrong, I'm sure it was stopped due the players car park moving to that spot.

Always seemed pretty busy when I ventured in there to listen to local bands prior to kick off.

 

[Professor]

Same here. It just falls on deaf ears.

Too easy to go for a big catering firm to serve rubbish for big shared profit. Look at Bristol City/Bears loads of local food and companies have outlets- Thatcher's, Jolly Hog, Bristol Beer Co. Stalls with loaded fries, local hot dogs, curry goat. Bristol Bears have won nothing yet get an average of 18,500 -people rate it as an afternoon or evening out with food and drink. Ospreys would dream of that. The stadium experience is a poor product.

It's just lazy. There's people around -had a cracking lamb burger when I took my daughter to Swansea open day a few years ago.

 

[Smurph]

Too easy to go for a big catering firm to serve rubbish for big shared profit. Look at Bristol City/Bears loads of local food and companies have outlets- Thatcher's, Jolly Hog, Bristol Beer Co. Stalls with loaded fries, local hot dogs, curry goat. Bristol Bears have won nothing yet get an average of 18,500 -people rate it as an afternoon or evening out with food and drink. Ospreys would dream of that. The stadium experience is a poor product.

It's just lazy. There's people around -had a cracking lamb burger when I took my daughter to Swansea open day a few years ago.

It is lazy. The club and the city are missing a huge marketing trick with not promoting local produce.

If only we had a supporters trust who would push this incentive.

 

[Professor]

It is lazy. The club and the city are missing a huge marketing trick with not promoting local produce.

If only we had a supporters trust who would push this incentive.

Imagine that.

The trust did so much to promote the club to kids pre-PL. Got a great photo from the Evening Post of my daughter with her face painted on one of the many kids for a quid games. Taken by Phil S I believe.

She starts as a nurse in PICU at Bristol next week!

 

[Smurph]

Imagine that.

The trust did so much to promote the club to kids pre-PL. Got a great photo from the Evening Post of my daughter with her face painted on one of the many kids for a quid games. Taken by Phil S I believe.

She starts as a nurse in PICU at Bristol next week!

The trust have absolutely zero influence at the club these days which is such a shame when you consider all the great work put in by the likes of Phil S in the past.

Great news about your Daughter, I bet she's excited and nervous at the same time. It must be a very proud moment for all of you

 

[Professor]

The trust have absolutely zero influence at the club these days which is such a shame when you consider all the great work put in by the likes of Phil S in the past.

Great news about your Daughter, I bet she's excited and nervous at the same time. It must be a very proud moment for all of you

Absolutely. All very proud.

And yes. What a waste of the work post-Petty that the trust put in with the club. Along with greater success (and entertainment in the field). Feels like we are at best stuck or worse creeping backwards. It's a crying shame.

 

[Magic_Michu]

This is the current crowd at Cardiff

 

[Skippyjack]

This is the current crowd at Cardiff
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I'm tuned in, it's about 15% fuller now, huge!