You have this the wrong way round.
Rangers fans in the Laudrup era didn't w**k on endlessly about their awesome attendances. They didn't do it when Advocaat was manager, or when Smith returned.
It wasn't an issue, because you had a good team on the pitch and won trophies.
Now that you're in the arse-end of nowhere as the laughing stock of Scottish football, it's all attendance attendance attendance all the time, over and over and over. Why?
Because you have nothing else to say to lord it over anyone else, and being Billy Big-Baws is central to your supporters' identity. It's just one long, pathetic scramble to come up with something - anything! - to boast and preen about.
If your attendance drops off this year, I fully expect you to sell a record-breaking number of pies or release the world's most orangest away top. Because you're a bunch of toddlers who are totally fixated on being king of the castle forever, or you're taking your ball and going home.