I understand that the crowds are falling in the PL too, after reading all the posts on here about Ford I would imagine Pl crowd levels are his fault as well.
Don't know what your moaning about it is only in recent years that clubs announced their teams before Christmas, sometimes they would announce one or two riders and the rest well after Christmas, as it is only about 8 weeks since the end on last season I don't think that's too long to wait for the new team announcement.
Don't Somerset usually have a get together to announce the team in December ? that's not long to wait surely. Once they have been announced it's a much longer wait till March.