Why would it need to be soley attributable? People pay to watch football matches for all sorts of reasons. Watching talented players score goals and help their teams to win would surely be among them.
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I posted information about Best's season at Hibs and the attendance numbers aren't very impressive at all.
The only marquee signing that I can think of is Maradona who increased Napoli's average crowd by over 50%. I think that's right anyway.
If Hibs signed Ronaldo or Messi we might see a similar effect, but I can't think of anyone remotely affordable who would shift STs.
Certainly not Leigh Griffiths.
[QUOTE=Hibbyradge;6532727]I posted information about Best's season at Hibs and the attendance numbers aren't very impressive at all.
The crowd for George's ER debut (vs Partick) was nearly 4 times the crowd for our prior home league game. Our next 2 home games were against the uglies so hard to make comparisons but our next home game, vs Morton when George was 'unavailable' saw the crowd back to 5k. The next week about 17k turned up to see George against Ayr in the Cup but George was lying pi**ed in the NB. After that we hardly won a game, were relegated and we never knew when George would play so understandably crowds were very poor.
Joe Baker's return against Aberdeen was even more remarkable with over 23k turning up for that game compared to 7k in our prior game. That was a bigger crowd than our home games against our lesser neighbours and The Rangers that season. I have absolutely no doubt that in today's environment Joe's signing would have resulted in a significant increase in ST sales.
We've also been spoiled by our crowds, & the season ticket culture, in recent years. At the peak of The Tornadoes wondrous 72/73 season & 1 week after we won our 1st cup in 70 years, just over 12k turned up for our next home game vs Ayr. We sell that amount of ST's now.
[QUOTE=Hibbyradge;6532727]I posted information about Best's season at Hibs and the attendance numbers aren't very impressive at all.
The only marquee signing that I can think of is Maradona who increased Napoli's average crowd by over 50%. I think that's right anyway.
Off the top of my head the obvious one is Figo to Real M. IIRC he was the 1st of the Galacticos & he was specifically signed because Real had only sold out 1 game in the prior season. After Figo's signing they had to introduce a wait list. More recently & much more prosaically I remember Villa saying they expected to sell 5k more season tickets after signing John Terry!!
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Leigh Griffiths probably won’t bump attendance figures but it may just tempt a few more to renew STs in a year I expect a fall back, Hibs won’t be alone. Anything that helps keeping the habit of going to games must be a good thing, not just for next season but going forward. I think signing LG may just help a bit with that. 🇳🇬
What’s the opinions on here ?
1:Do you want Leigh back
2:Will he come back
3:Will selik take up the option
4:Will aederdeen do it again
5:Would he make a difference to our current squad would he help season ticket sales
Me personally
1:Hell yeah
2:I actually am 70-30 in favour of he will
3:No
4:Nope (plus Leigh wouldn’t) (I hope)
5:I’m drooling thinking of Scotty playing 1 on his near impossible balls through to Leigh to smash home
I also think in a massive season of uncertainty I believe a lot of fans would renew because of his signing
GG2TH
1 - Absolutely yes
2 - I think he will
3 - no
4 - they’ll try but I think he’ll come home
5 - he’d improve us a considerable amount from where we are now. I’d also fancy that whilst our ST may not shoot up off his signing, I would think there’ll be a good chance it’ll be the nudge to anybody who’s swithering to renew of which I’d suspect there’ll be a lot.
1:I don't know, quite honestly
2:I don't think we'll go for him
3:Yes
4:I think they'd splash the cash on him as a statement to their fans
5:Not a huge difference to our squad (Doidge and Nisbet are both excellent strikers) and any difference to ST sales would be negligible - the reason people are considering not renewing is largely financial as opposed to dissatisfaction with what is on the pitch.
Love Sparky to bits but I do not think he has looked at it this season
He will need to seriously raise his game if he comes to us 😃
But by how much? 500 extra would pay his wages for one season but nobody how many he would add. It would not be guaranteed for second season. The big question is how he would perform. I do think for lots of reasons that many have given here that would be a big risk.
If there are any signings that we could make that are entirely risk-free I would like to hear about them.
Agreed. I can’t imagine anyone thinking ‘oh, we’ve signed Leigh, I’ll go buy a ST now’ if they weren’t planning on getting one anyway.
I also don’t have the same concern as others that somehow ST sales will be down this year. I’d expect us to sell roughly the same or slightly more.