Well we did go 6 years without a trophy and we still have our fan base so that ruins you points. And il also have you know our fan base is growing ALOT all over the world and more and more Americans are taking an interest in us everyday. You'll no doubt go against this FACT though as your a complete doom and gloomer
I think your getting it wrong, the modern fanbase is a very fickle one, you need to give them success or they move on to another Club who will give them it, supply and demand. I will ask you this, Liverpool has fans from all over the world, how did you think they got them in the first place, success, nothing more nothing less, they won things which meant they went on the telly, which exposed them to people from Ireland, Scandanavia, the Far East and everywhere, if they never had success do you honestly think people in all those countries would of chose them as there club to support because lets face it hardly any of them have any ties to the City or the place, Manchester United are the same as us in having so many fickle fans, if they went to mid table like us for the next 7 or 8 seasons do you honestly think they would be filling 76k every home game, not in a million years...