Stickied League One Away Support Thread 2023/24

[Si Robin]

900+ now sold for Stevenage.

Trying to think of the last time we had a non-FA Cup game where we've sold so many.

 

[GTFCfish]

Slightly off topic, someone has posted this on our board. It relates to games in the old Div 4 (now L2) in 1986. Just look at the attendances, 6 teams had less than 2000 (Wrexham only just into four figures), 4 with less than 3000,though bizarrely Mansfield had 8000, presumably a promotion party.

Just goes to show how far we have come since those days.

Good to see famous faces Paul Heaton and Neville Chamberlain getting in the goals too.

 

[EricSabin]

900+ now sold for Stevenage.

Trying to think of the last time we had a non-FA Cup game where we've sold so many.

Good on ya

 

[Si Robin]

Over 1,000 now - must be a big game.

I'm informed we took 3,000 to Notts County in 2003. That's our best, non-cup, away following ever. We won't get near that on Saturday for a number of reasons.

 

[EnglishRed]

Yes, and they will tell you they've always been massive ...

Well not really. We were coming off the back of successive relegation from the second tier, the town was on its arse with the coal mines closing a few years earlier and the Steelworks on its way out. Also I can't imagine Torquay brought many.

That is low even for the bad times, although I think we dipped under a thousand a few times around that time.

 

[BigDaveCUFC]

Those 80’s crowds I’d imagine were just down to the overall state of country at the time.

It would have been peak time when Thatcher had frankly helped close down nearly everything up and down country, people were probably very worried on the finances, plus football was a very angry and unsafe place to go back then.

Remember my first games in 1988 at Carlisle and the atmospheres were actually much louder at times with just 2000 fans than now with 6000……but a lot of that ‘atmosphere’ was just very nasty abuse

I still to this day remember the atmosphere from a game in 1991, crikey over 30 years now when we lost at home 4-0 to Gillingham, middlemass was sacked the next day and about 1500 spent 90 minutes frankly abusing their own team in some of the most graphic audio ways you could get…….probably took us to mid 90’s to appeal really.

 

[E10rifle]

625 O’s in Shropshire for the deadest of dead rubbers.

 

[bigfatron]

1,066 U's at Vale Park out of 6,378

 

[Bamber Gashead]

776 Gas at Wigan in an end of season total of 14077.

 

[Bartonyellow]

847 brewers at fleetwood