Swansea City must hope the signs of promise being shown under Luke Williams will lure fans back to the Swansea.com Stadium as this season goes on.

Williams’ team climbed to within two points of the Championship play-off places courtesy of a hard-earned, but well-deserved victory over Watford on Tuesday.

The only negative on the night for Swansea was the size of the crowd.

Only 12,869 fans were present to see Myles Peart-Harris’ goal secure the points, the lowest turnout for a home Swansea league game – aside from those affected by Covid – in five years.

Not since April 2019, when 10,459 supporters watched Graham Potter’s team beat Brentford, have fewer fans turned up for a Championship fixture on Swansea’s patch.

Since then, in fact, there had not been crowd below the 14,000 mark until Watford’s visit.

Other than the Brentford game, you have to go all the way back to September 2010 – in the early stages of the season which saw Swansea promoted to the Premier League – to find a lower league gate than the one seen this week.