Anything less than 25k is an L for the Nix IMO. Hard to back up you are the home of football if the other place has already got more fans to a game this season. You can cope all you want about theirs being first game hype but this is the first derby and should have similar hype.
I hate to break it to you but we were never gonna get north of 25k or even 20k for that matter. We've never had a regular season game have get that high and while sure this game is historic as 'The First Derby', to a casual they won't care as much. At the end of the day we're (to an extent) advertising this game as the start of something massive. Most casuals would rather come once it is already massive, unfortunately. Depending on how the derbies go however we could definately expect those kinds of numbers next season.