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9,000 at Arsenal couple of years ago.

I know we can't mention Finals at neutral grounds, but...
 

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15,000 v Arsenal at Highbury in 1991 FA Cup?

In my lifetime but I didn't have time for football in those days.
 

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Took 24000 to Old Trafford for the FA Cup Semi Final (was a sell out back then)

IN more regular games - biggest I’ve seen us take away - 5500 to Derby. 4000+ to Sheffield Wednesday on more than one occasion. Sheffield United let us have 5000 odd at Bramall Lane when we were in the League 1 play offs. Had 3800 at Forest also on New Year’s Eve.

Not a biggy but Had around 1500 at Torquay one Friday night in the promotion season. That stands out because of how far it is, I think everyone stayed over and it was a proper good weekend.

Bit depressing considering where we are at now.
 

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15,000 v Arsenal at Highbury in 1991 FA Cup?

In my lifetime but I didn't have time for football in those days.
Was it as many as 15k? I had 10k in my head. I didn’t go as I was only six and it was in the days of terraces. Arsenal didn’t have a bigger home attendance after that game until they moved to the Emirates (excluding their odd Champions League games at the old Wembley).

More recently we had 6k at Man Utd on a Tuesday night in 2015 and our best for a neutral game is 21k for the first play off final we lost against Exeter at the new Wembley in 2008.
 

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Since neutral venues are now permitted, 30,000 at Wembley in 2000 for the League Cup Final.

Tranmere, Luton and Oxford are the only clubs to have played in a major Wembley final and suffer relegation from the Football League.
 
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I think it was about 9000 to old Trafford in 1995 where the late kieron durkan (RIP) scored to put us in front in an fa cup 4th round tie. Apart from Nottingham Forrest we were the only team to score more than once that season -though I think our early goal pissed them off as well lost 5-2.
 

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6,000 to Chelsea
3,000 to Man Citeh in Div 2
2,000odd to Bolton
6 to Barrow a few years back.
 

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Most I can think of for us is 7000 at Anfield in 2001. Magic.
 

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5000 away to Aston Villa in the FA Cup - 1999.
1800 away to Whitby in the EvoStik league on a Thursday night - 2016.
1500 away to York last season on a Tuesday night - 2017.

We average around 200/300 at most away games, normally take 1000+ to a game within an hour of us. This season, our best is around 1000 at Spennymoor (even though they'll say it was 400).
 

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5000 away to Aston Villa in the FA Cup - 1999.
1800 away to Whitby in the EvoStik league on a Thursday night - 2016.
1500 away to York last season on a Tuesday night - 2017.

We average around 200/300 at most away games, normally take 1000+ to a game within an hour of us. This season, our best is around 1000 at Spennymoor (even though they'll say it was 400).

Must be nice to have games within an hour, our closest is Weston-super-Mare 1.5 hrs away. We took 1200 there on a Tuesday night.

Mind you it's an improvement on last season when our closest game was Eastleigh, nearly 3 hours away!
 

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Would have to be 9,000 away at Arsenal FA Cup 5th Round Replay 2011. Made more noise than 50,000 gooners but that isn't difficult.

Other large away followings would be over 6,000 watching us beat Fulham FA Cup Round 3 2006.
Away to Oxford last league game of season needing promotion and took their side. Over 4,000.

More recently would be the 2,000+ we took to Southend in 2013 for football league trophy area final (We don't like them very much) and we have been in or around 2,000 for a number of away games these last two seasons away at places like Braintree and Borehamwood, ohhh the glamour.
 

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Must be nice to have games within an hour, our closest is Weston-super-Mare 1.5 hrs away. We took 1200 there on a Tuesday night.

Mind you it's an improvement on last season when our closest game was Eastleigh, nearly 3 hours away!
Not hard when you've got the whole of the South West to share with Exeter & Plymouth. :whistle:
 

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I suppose i might as well add the two Middlesbrough vs Darlington (about 7,000 Quakers) home and away FA Cup matches in Jan 1985 at Ayresome Park and the Feethams replay a couple of day's later that i attended.

And the replay at Feethams in which Darlington won 2-1 in front of (14,000). With about 8,000 Boro in attendance. Never forget this night between the battle of Darlo vs Boro and that wasn't the football.
 

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Largest I attended that wasn't a neutral ground was the 9,000 at Old Trafford for the league cup semi-final.

For a league game probably Barnsley under Roy Keane when I think we were top and had the stand behind the goal and half of the side stand, that was around 8,000.

In my life time but too young to remember/go was when we played against Wimbledon at Selhurst Park we apparently had 2/3 of the 21,338 attendance. We needed to at least draw to stay up, we lost.

 

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Must be nice to have games within an hour, our closest is Weston-super-Mare 1.5 hrs away. We took 1200 there on a Tuesday night.

Mind you it's an improvement on last season when our closest game was Eastleigh, nearly 3 hours away!
Welcome to the forum
 

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Largest I attended that wasn't a neutral ground was the 9,000 at Old Trafford for the league cup semi-final.

For a league game probably Barnsley under Roy Keane when I think we were top and had the stand behind the goal and half of the side stand, that was around 8,000.

In my life time but too young to remember/go was when we played against Wimbledon at Selhurst Park we apparently had 2/3 of the 21,338 attendance. We needed to at least draw to stay up, we lost.

I was once invited by a friend to watch Huddersfield vs Sunderland. When they went 3-0 up, the aged Sunderland fan next to me told me "this is the best team we've had in 50 years". When The Terriers got 2 quick goals in the second half, his opinion had changed somewhat- "this lot won't last 2 fucking minutes in the Premiership next year!". :fl:

All that besides, I first became aware of Sunderland's incredible support when my Sunday newspaper reported the "Sunderland hordes" going "wild" when Billy Hughes (what a fantastic name) scored this goal at Man City in 1973:
 

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