There is a downward trend to attendances and some of the reasons mentioned above are valid.
However, in the specific case of Saturday, I'd guess a 3pm kick off, with no TV coverage would have resulted in at least a doubling, if not a trebling of the attendance we got.
The only saving grace is that the missing folk in the home end were, in the main, season ticket holders so there wasn't a big loss of money from the home end. I hear that at some games there can be as few as 30 walk up punters in the home end.
I don't know what the answer is to attract more young folk. I know there is quite a healthy youth support from Helensburgh/Cardross, which has always been the case.
Good to see young guys like Fraser Clarke and Jack Crawford flying the flag and carrying on the tradition of Sons fans being smarter than the average Bear......or indeed Bhoy.