Your post is interesting. I think our attendences are still suffering from the horrible football we played under Little and Watson, and even for large parts of Mathias reign (and the beginning of Ronnie's). Attendences take a while to rise and fall following success/failure, years even. Last season was superb - we had, I think, the best home record in the league? Can't argue with that as a fan! And at times we played some great stuff, scored some really good goals, dramatic last minute winners and beat most of the big teams...took it to the last day...last season has been the first time I've truly enjoyed watching Tranmere for a really long time. Even the season we finished 3rd, I found massivley frustrating. Brian Little ](*,)
I'm younger than many on here I think, so don't really remember the good old days of us rising up the leagues under JK, just remember the cup runs with Aldo and subsequent relegation. Think this will be my 11th season as a regular, but we've been going in the wrong direction for the vast majority of that time, and last season was the first time I actually felt like we were going forwards...even a little bit. So I have a lot of time for Ronnie and, now, a lot less for PJ.
You only need to look at Chester, Wrexham, Crewe and Stockport to see that he and Lorraine/Mick have done a really good job over the past few years of sustaining our reputation as a playoff-challenging league 1 team whilst still remaining safely within our means financially.