Hereford Club Historian Ron Parrott has been looking at attendance stats
since the Bulls’ last home game and recalls “You have to go back to our
last ever game in the Football League at home to Torquay United on 5th
May 2012 when 5,143 turned out for the showdown but the average home
gate that season was only 1,752. This season’s average of 2,553 was
bettered by just one in 2011/12 and you have to go back to our League
One days in 2008/09 when the average of 3,270 was boosted by large
contingents of travelling fans.”
This then got Ron wondering how this season’s attendances compared
to the last time we were in the Southern League Premier, which was in
the infamous 2014/15 season during the Agombar regime.
Ron continues
“Without wishing to open up old wounds, as one of the many who boycotted
home games that season, I must confess to being more than a little
pleased to announce that our magnificent crowd on Saturday was 59 more
than the combined total that attended the 11 Southern League games at
Edgar Street before the club folded! The average then was just 409. With
the traces of a smirk on my face, I couldn’t help but wonder what
Messrs' Agombar and Lonsdale would make of all this now?”