City will look to drop prices again later in the season after 11,738 fans watched the win over Torquay.

The club’s decision to slash admission fees to a fiver for home and away supporters last week attracted the biggest crowd of the campaign – up 1,500 on the previous Valley Parade attendance.

Joint-chairman Mark Lawn said: “We were fairly happy with the turn-out and if we were doing it when the results were better we’d probably have got a few more.

“But it was a good response and seemed to go down well with the fans. They generated a loud atmosphere around the ground and I’m sure that helped the team.”

City topped the division for attendances once again last season with an average of 11,127. That was boosted by two bumper figures when prices were slashed to just £1 entry.

A 15,332 crowd saw Peter Taylor’s last game against Stockport in February, with 13,814 enticed by the same offer for a midweek meeting with Burton two months later.

But before Saturday, the Valley Parade average from the first five home games of the current campaign had dipped just below 10,000. The matches with Dagenham and Barnet, admittedly clubs with low travelling support, had seen the first four-figure gates since the cut-price scheme was introduced in 2007.

City hope the Torquay offer will rekindle interest and plan a repeat at some later stage.

Lawn added: “We did a couple last season when we dropped the prices and we will look to do it again, as and when we can. But we’ve got to make sure we don’t alienate our season-ticket holders. They are our main importance because season tickets are a major part of our income.”

City are already discussing their season-ticket scheme for next year and are holding regular meetings with a panel of supporters to canvas their views.

Lawn said: “We’re getting some very interesting feedback from the fans; not particularly on the pricing but the ways they want to structure it and whether we should have a membership scheme.

“We normally do something around Christmas time and the focus group seem to like the idea of that. So that’s something we’re looking at again.

“We haven’t gone to a particular supporters’ group. The focus panel is made up of individual fans across the whole demographic, whether it’s single parents, families, unemployed people.

“It’s quite a varied group and has proved very interesting and worthwhile so far.”