And probably always will be mate. I think this is our longest stay in the second tier of English football since the 70's. Seven seasons now. You have to go back to 1967 for the last time we had a prolonged stay in this division. We were finally relegated in 74/75 after doing nine consecutive seasons.
I see posts on here, Millwall facebook groups, twitter and and Hof bemoaning the fact that we don't or can't afford to buy certain players and at the same time those bods are moaning about day trippers and groups of tourists turning up to watch games. The day trippers and tourists probably sling a longun the clubs way just for one game when you consider the price of a match ticket and a bag of tat from the club shop.
Most of us regulars are getting earlybird season tickets that mean we're paying around 15 notes per game. Five day trippers are putting more than the price of a season ticket into the club from one visit. If we want to be competitive, pay the wages for half decent players that'll keep us in this league we shouldn't be turning our noses up at passing custom.
As it happens we do pay decent wages for a club our size. We can't chuck it about on transfer fees but we are paying more or less the going rate when it comes to players wages. We can't sustain that by relying on the wedge from eight thousand season ticket holders. Walk ups and match day revenue plays a big part in defining our budget for player recruitment and wages. I have no problem if a group of Ruperts or Boxheads want to give my club money. After all it's us the fans that benefit from it. They wouldn't be the case if we were to drop down a division so i'll suffer and respect them at the same time.
If the bods claiming to be Wall that only show when we're at Wembley put in as much effort in as total strangers then perhaps we could be a bit more picky and choosy but they don't so we are where we are.