if im not mistaken they won the scudetto in 1985 right ? i think hellas verona is a team that deep down we all respect and like (i bought an amazing scarf a couple of weeks ago) ,its a really interesting team from all aspects.

Well, this is sad news indeed. Very sad.

Taken directly from LLSN, 9,400 subscriptions i.e season tickets have been applied for, with the deadline Friday. That's the lowest it's been... since... well, does it matter.

"If it is not a desert, it is close."

Season tickets are obviously not the entire contribution but as I type, only 2000 tickets have been bought for the Bologna game. Of course it's only Tuesday but you get what I'm saying. This on the day that Lotito says that he wants to win back the fans. *facepalm*

un-fucking believable, any thing less than 20,000 even for bologna will be pathetic. I guess CN is really as stubborn as they say.

Last years average of 36,154 was the highest for some time and considering it was a truly woeful season I guess it was not bad, still not a patch on the 90s however.

But now it looks like even that has been shot to shit. 11,000 would be absolutely pathetic for a capital city club in Serie A, and one with our tradition. It's possible that ultras and other fans will buy tickets closer to the match but it does look pretty desperate. It could have further ramifications for never investing in this squad if nobody is there to actually care about it. I have to say I expected the Ultras to be there if only to protest against their dreaded tessera. 

Easy, both. Aren't they one and the same? Both bloated, soul destroying pieces of crap.

To be fair... attendances, even during the solid Rossi years, weren't as high as they should be, and that, as described in the latest NC Episode, can also be attributed to Roman's being lazy, and imo also down to the bullshit TV coverage that basically covers every game so there's no "need" to go and watch the game live.

Im sure the tessera wouldn't have scared away as many Lazio fans if it were not for Lotito; but as bad as his management skills are I think serieA's miss-management puts Lotito to shame. they are tripping over them selves to fuck Calcio up for every one. so without further ado, I think most of the blame for Lazio's 9,500 season ticket holders lies with SerieA and the tessera.

I still dont get the one non-EU player a year. how does this make Italy/Serie better? I have heard them say "It will help the National team". this makes no sense, "EU" is europe not just Italy. If they want to promote Italian players put a floor on italian player in each team, not a ceiling on talent.

I've said it before and I'll say it again - and I'll keep it simple. Calcio is run by dinosaurs who are stuck in the 90's heyday. They are completely out of touch with modern football. The worst thing initially for me was the banning of flares. It was a beautiful thing that made Calcio's atmosphere literally red hot and of course it was Calcio's old fashioned and poor stadia mixed with the archaic running of security that resulted in the death of that Policeman which was why they got banned in the first place.

People say that it would be criminal if Bundesliga got an extra CL spot. For me it wouldn't. It's going to have to take something like that to wake up Calcio and stop living in the past. It needs to modernize, and fans need to get back to the games, not removed. A big factor for the resurgence in Bundes is the fact that every game, every week is a sell-out or a near sell out. Yes Calcio attendances have improved at times but they have done everything possible to make life shit for the fans, i.e tessera, and parking that people hate at games, lest we forget the poorly organized security that scares people off etc.

As of Yesterday we have so far sold 10,000 season tickets for next season, not bad after just two weeks of them going on sale.

According to the ever reliable http://www.stadiapostcards.com/A10-11.htm we only had 12,877 in total sold last season.