Congratulations to Truro City on achieving their highest League position in their 135-year history by going top of the Vanerama National League South with their 4-1 win at Weymouth last night.
Truro, of course, are the only Cornish club ever to have played at this level and the current team’s standard has been rewarded with consistently high attendances at the handsome new stadium.
Many observers feared that the figure would drop substantially after the initial novelty back in August, with the historic first match there and also heralding the club’s return to their home city after four years of playing all their fixtures away.
But the home crowds have since held up around the 1,500 mark and only dropped significantly – to 1,061 – with last Saturday’s vile Storm Bet conditions, when the pitch, reputedly Premier League standard, held up well.
There has been nothing like it in Cornish football – in terms of such consistently high attendance figures – since at least the 1950s, if ever.
Equally encouraging is the presence of a whole new generation of committed and passionate younger supporters who were nowhere to be seen in the club’s final days at the old Treyew Ground.
It may not be happening in quite the way Kevin Heaney envisaged when he began City’s “revolution” in the early 2000s, but the outlook for the club appears to be brighter and more exciting now that at any time in its long and proud history.
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