Stickied League 2 Away Support Thread 2024/25

[Limerick Mariner]

The season before (2007) you brought under 500, but that was mid-week.

How do you know - were away followings recorded in those days. I maintain it was at least 650...

 

[F!RTHY]

How do you know - were away followings recorded in those days. I maintain it was at least 650...

Just from recollection. That season only the likes of Mansfield, Peterborough, Wrexham, Lincoln, Stockport and MK Dons brought over 500 from memory.

Could be wrong. Most probably are.

 

[northstandexile]

Just from recollection. That season only the likes of Mansfield, Peterborough, Wrexham, Lincoln, Stockport and MK Dons brought over 500 from memory.

Could be wrong. Most probably are.

mansfield only brought 569 to Valley Parade in 2008, but we were bottom of the table and heading for the conference.

 

[djs]

Just had a look at my records.

Bradford C v Grimsby

2009/10 470 away
2008/09 764 away
2007/08 344 away
2001/02 ?

 

[F!RTHY]

mansfield only brought 569 to Valley Parade in 2008, but we were bottom of the table and heading for the conference.

Loudest fans that season, though. I actually thought the following was nearer 750!

 

[Pennywise]

I beg to differ - there’s far worse away days. It’s because this league is full of tinpot outfits, y’know.

Oh, absolutely. It’s nowhere near the worst in the division.

Still pretty underwhelming though when you’ve been 9 times.

 

[F!RTHY]

266 City down at Colchester.

 

[E10rifle]

266 City down at Colchester.

2/10

 

[F!RTHY]

2/10

Tend to agree but we’re absolutely dogshit, have won away just 3 times this season, it’s 230 miles away on a Tuesday night with two localish away games coming up. Oh, and the whole fanbase appear to want Bowyer out. Fans have had enough.

 

[EricSabin]

380 Cobblers at Orient. Decentish I think, 2 big away followings previously and the cup game on Friday night.

 

[Crewelad87]

1222 Crewe at Macc and 1223 Macc fans at Macc. We were outnumbered by 1.

 

[BlackHaddock]

Any chance of a league table of away support please?

Asking for a friend!

 

[Crewelad87]

1222 Crewe at Macc and 1223 Macc fans at Macc. We were outnumbered by 1.

1213 home fans actually so they were just about outnumbered.

 

[F!RTHY]

Over 1,300 sold for Mansfield. Jheeez, this wouldn't have even reached general sale If were half-decent.

 

[BlackHaddock]

Over 1,300 sold for Mansfield. Jheeez, this wouldn't have even reached general sale If were half-decent.

I think more and more lower league football fans are losing interest, not just your lot. Blanket coverage of Premier League on TV, where some great skills are shown compared to the awful stuff we have to put up with. Plus the whole match day experience isn't what it was, more expensive and treated like shit at most away grounds.

 

[Conker]

1222 Crewe at Macc and 1223 Macc fans at Macc. We were outnumbered by 1.

Is that all you got in the allocation? Mansfield took similar to Macclesfield last season

 

[Conker]

Pretty good from Mansfield that given the distance and how pants they are at the minute.

Nutters the lot of them, we never get anything at Plymouth anyway, only way I would make that trip is if somebody paid me handsomely.

 

[northstandexile]

Any chance of a league table of away support please?

Asking for a friend!

Includes a fair number of estimates but will give you an idea if you can do any willy waving.

1056Plymouth Argyle
965Bradford City
899Swindon Town
701Grimsby Town
682Port Vale
622Walsall
590Leyton Orient
519Scunthorpe United
491Mansfield Town
465Crewe Alexandra
435Oldham Athletic
430Cambridge United
428Northampton Town
425Carlisle United
376Exeter City
367Newport County
283Salford City
274Colchester United
271Cheltenham Town
244Forest Green Rovers
223Stevenage
215Macclesfield Town
151Crawley Town
149Morecambe

469Average

 

[northstandexile]

A more realistic willy waving table is a calculation of a median away following at a distance of 150 miles on a Saturday afternoon. As everyone knows distance travelled has an affect on numbers. As you can see no surprises as all the tin pot teams are in the bottom seven.

1303Plymouth Argyle
694Bradford City
628Swindon Town
574Grimsby Town
539Leyton Orient
516Exeter City
470Carlisle United
351Mansfield Town
350Crewe Alexandra
343Northampton Town
302Walsall
301Port Vale
284Newport County
265Scunthorpe United
263Oldham Athletic
260Colchester United
258Cambridge United
174Cheltenham Town
159Salford City
144Forest Green Rovers
136Crawley Town
131Morecambe
123Macclesfield Town
109Stevenage

 

[F!RTHY]

Includes a fair number of estimates but will give you an idea if you can do any willy waving.

1056Plymouth Argyle
965Bradford City
899Swindon Town
701Grimsby Town
682Port Vale
622Walsall
590Leyton Orient
519Scunthorpe United
491Mansfield Town
465Crewe Alexandra
435Oldham Athletic
430Cambridge United
428Northampton Town
425Carlisle United
376Exeter City
367Newport County
283Salford City
274Colchester United
271Cheltenham Town
244Forest Green Rovers
223Stevenage
215Macclesfield Town
151Crawley Town
149Morecambe

469Average

We’ll be nearer 1,200 in two weeks, then.

 

[jbet]

Our average is decent given we've been midtable for the majority, although it is a Northern league and our most popular away matches have already been and gone (Crewe and Macc).

On the flipside, we sold out at Crewe, Macc and Salford and although we wouldn't have taken many more to the first two even if we had a bigger allocation, I'm convinced we could've sold 2000 for Salford, which would've had a positive impact on the average.

Unless we're somehow still in play off contention after the next few weeks, we'll only take 500+ to Oldham and Walsall between now and the end of the season, so expect our average to end up being lower than it is at present.

 

[Conker]

2nd last season down to 8th/9th thus far this season. Definitely not year of the stag is it.

 

[Limerick Mariner]

Our average is decent given we've been midtable for the majority, although it is a Northern league and our most popular away matches have already been and gone (Crewe and Macc).

On the flipside, we sold out at Crewe, Macc and Salford and although we wouldn't have taken many more to the first two even if we had a bigger allocation, I'm convinced we could've sold 2000 for Salford, which would've had a positive impact on the average.

Unless we're somehow still in play off contention after the next few weeks, we'll only take 500+ to Oldham and Walsall between now and the end of the season, so expect our average to end up being lower than it is at present.

I'd like to see the numbers excluding all trips to Salford - it a statistical outlier that distorts the mean.

Impressive effort from Orient. London clubs are often poor travellers out of London unless it's an easy trip on the train - London is spoilt with public transport compared to we have to put with - any connection including Northern rail especially...

 

[Chris FGR]

Good that at 244 we're at around 10% of our home average, which itself is about 500 up from when we were in the Conference. Still got Newport and Swindon away to come which should push it up a bit above that.

 

[Andy Proctor]

Our average is decent given we've been midtable for the majority, although it is a Northern league and our most popular away matches have already been and gone (Crewe and Macc).

On the flipside, we sold out at Crewe, Macc and Salford and although we wouldn't have taken many more to the first two even if we had a bigger allocation, I'm convinced we could've sold 2000 for Salford, which would've had a positive impact on the average.

Unless we're somehow still in play off contention after the next few weeks, we'll only take 500+ to Oldham and Walsall between now and the end of the season, so expect our average to end up being lower than it is at present.

500 to oldham maybe but surely 800 to 1000 to walsall

 

[E10rifle]

2nd last season down to 8th/9th thus far this season. Definitely not year of the stag is it.

To be fair, your figure last season was grotesquely inflated by Notts County (10 minutes down the road) and Franchise (promotion decider) being able to give a whole stand over.

 

[Conker]

To be fair, your figure last season was grotesquely inflated by Notts County (10 minutes down the road) and Franchise (promotion decider) being able to give a whole stand over.

I was literally waiting for this, didn’t expect it from you though aha.

It’s a validish point, but to be fair if you actually looked at our away support last season it was good even without those two you mentioned (which still absolutely count either way) and our away support is decent anyway, even this season performance all considered is fine.

Maybe we should do a table where we take out irregular support/local derbies?

 

[Conker]

I’ve just thought too, maybe we can do another table where we actually add phantom fans to the away attendance when the allocation isn’t big enough? Lincoln for example, never gave Mansfield anywhere near enough, nor did Notts County last season for that matter. I estimate you could have easily added another 3,000 to those two games combined. Great statistics for windmilling.

 

[BlackHaddock]

The Ollie effect has pushed us a bit higher than it was, since he arrived we have taken over 1200 to both our away games. Scunny and Bradford to come, but also midweek at Plymouth and Colchester.

 

[F!RTHY]

Oldham have made our clash all-ticket. Over 1,200 already sold.

Mansfield have given us the last 500 tickets, taking the allocation to circa 1,750.