There are quite a few contributing factors IMO:
1 price of tickets
2 comparison price of tickets for following games
3 what happened last year with the bottles etc.
4. time of the match
When tickets go on sale to the general public they are often snapped up by mums or dads with kids. Why pay 80 quid for one game which is on the tv when you can watch it for free instead of having to cancel Sunday morning football, especially when you can go to the next game for 30 quid.
5. The time of the year.
This is without factoring in that many fans have spent big in the shop and maybe even donated on here or to the trust.
it also doesn’t factor in the fact we have - in my opinion- only 4 championship quality players in the squad and that we will likely get mullered. I’m surprised we have sold as many. In fact having read all of that I might send mine back.
it’s a great effort as far as I’m concerned.
sitting in the LLL is a big factor.