Stickied League 2 Away Support Thread 2024/25

[LS Bantam]

 

[Myblueheaven04]

Theres politcs going on here, our owners are aware of away day protests, they will have advised the police of possible issues and to make it a smaller protest they have shit on 1.5 / 2k extra fans who would have attended.
West yorkshire police would rather police 1000 pissed up oldham fans than 2.5 / 3 thousand.
Our owners and others involved in the game are going to kill football.

 

[F!RTHY]

Hopefully Sparks comes out and sets the record straight - he usually does. Stinks of WYP not granting POTD, and Oldham being difficult/tight in paying for the full allocation - circa 2,700 tickets. Either way, it’s disappointing all round.

In other news, Mansfield have issued the max allocation - 1,673 tickets. See how straight forward that is, Oldham owners.

 

[Fedora Dale]

Rochdale were given 628 tickets which sold out. Estimated 100-125 Crawley at Hartlepool.

Dale were allocated 650 tickets, which sold out. Official away attendance per Harrogate was 648 (I assume the other two overdosed on cake at Betty's). An unknown number in the home areas, as well.

 

[Myblueheaven04]

Dale were allocated 650 tickets, which sold out. Official away attendance per Harrogate was 648 (I assume the other two overdosed on cake at Betty's). An unknown number in the home areas, as well.

Pre match cakes and coffee in betty's cant wait for harrogate away, if we're allowed to go lol

 

[SELatic]

To be fair, I think there are some exaggerations going on in terms of what we’d have taken ordinarily. 2k tops I think - we never travel very well to Bradford for some reason. Regardless, for Oldham to only ask for 1k and to still not have put them on sales is either gross incompetence or a calculated f*** you from the owners. Knowing them, it’s probably a bit of both.

 

[Myblueheaven04]

To be fair, I think there are some exaggerations going on in terms of what we’d have taken ordinarily. 2k tops I think - we never travel very well to Bradford for some reason. Regardless, for Oldham to only ask for 1k and to still not have put them on sales is either gross incompetence or a calculated f*** you from the owners. Knowing them, it’s probably a bit of both.

In recent years our away support has not been as good granted but thats due to the total lack of enthudiasm from long suffering fans, even taking 1200ish last season would be deemed low by me.
Over the years weve had very good followings at Bradford, Leeds, Hudds , Rotherham etc.
Done properly this could have seen a much bigger following than last season due to the alleged away day protest factor.
Why would our owners want 2 to 3 thousand fans putting money into Bradford and not at home, and they definately don't want any added negative press due to vocal and visual protests against them.

 

[Dale4ever]

Out of 1800 in total

Some Dale fans bought tickets in the home end as they were unable to get theirs in the 45 mins it took to sell them.

 

[Limerick Mariner]

Some Dale fans bought tickets in the home end as they were unable to get theirs in the 45 mins it took to sell them.

It was Harrogate's first ever game in the FL with fans allowed in. One wonders how many home fans will be there for a November Tuesday night v Crawley or similar...I think it was Southport who used to regularly post sub 1,000 attendances when they were in the FL.

 

[White Army]

We have been given an initial allocation of 2800 for Port Vale. Cant see us getting close to that. I reckon about 1600.

 

[kieran_vale]

We have been given an initial allocation of 2800 for Port Vale. Cant see us getting close to that. I reckon about 1600.

That'd be very decent following I'd say, I doubt many if any others will bring a thousand to us. Even if you did sell all that initial allocation there out would still be ample space for any Tranmere fan who wanted to go. I dare say with a large following though Staffs plod may be limiting where you can go in terms of pre-match beers etc though.

 

[Salvador]

It was Harrogate's first ever game in the FL with fans allowed in. One wonders how many home fans will be there for a November Tuesday night v Crawley or similar...I think it was Southport who used to regularly post sub 1,000 attendances when they were in the FL.

I don’t like to knock a small club, Dale have been the butt of enough snidey jokes over the years. But it’s not a wild estimate to say there were 1000 Dale fans there on Saturday. Nearly every Dale fan I spoke to was going in the home end. So 800 odd actual home fans and that’ll include ground hoppers desperate to get there to tick it off the 92, local-ish fans of teams like Leeds on a day out just going for a game and general bandwagonners finally able to take in Harrogate’s (kind’ve) first EFL game. Barring promotion form, which I’d be surprised Harrogate get, or playing an attractive opponent (Bradford for them?) attendances usually drop after a few weeks. If so I can’t see how their model is sustainable long term? Anyway, cup tomorrow at Harrogate again. Hopefully slightly less sardine tin like in the away end. I’d guess we’ll take about 350. No one can really be bothered going back again. After tomorrow I doubt I’ll rush back there, sadly, a truly crap place to watch a game.

 

[EricSabin]

Was debating going to Colchester on Saturday then saw the instructions for how to buy a ticket, 6 of us can’t be arsed for that admin

 

[CFC91]

Was debating going to Colchester on Saturday then saw the instructions for how to buy a ticket, 6 of us can’t be arsed for that admin

FFS - you'd have thought they would be desperate to get folk into the ground!

 

[dedwardp]

Think we'll struggle to get much beyond about 2,000 this season, unless we start winning in which case people will drift back.

 

[EricSabin]

FFS - you'd have thought they would be desperate to get folk into the ground!

It’s mental, completely lose the POTD

 

[AdamStag]

Good following from Rovers, don’t want to get all Lincoln city and talk about home crowds too but it was a good turnout all round and a even better atmosphere yesterday.

In fairness 5,000 home fans for us is a decent effort.

The support has slowly but surely been steadily increasing season on season (despite the last 2 seasons and covid).

 

[AdamStag]

FFS - you'd have thought they would be desperate to get folk into the ground!

We’ve got them a week on tuesday and it’s a similar topic on stagsnet it’s a right nonsense.

If you’re anyone league 1 or below it’s hard to understand why you’d make it so challenging to get a ticket, you’d be doing exactly what you said and be doing everything possible to get folk in.

 

[northstandexile]

As our game at Colchester is mid week, Col uwe will be more interested in the £10 iFollow tickets.

 

[Loyal Dale]

Dale were allocated 650 tickets, which sold out. Official away attendance per Harrogate was 648 (I assume the other two overdosed on cake at Betty's). An unknown number in the home areas, as well.

Ended up going in the home stand with one mate, after our tickets allocation sold out quickly. I'd estimate at between 50-100 Dale dotted around in home areas...absolutely no trouble whatsoever...they were a good bunch in the main. How it should be. Apart from the dickhead in the Dale end who lobbed a flare onto the pitch when we equalised, and this wasn't removed for 7 minutes, during which time Harrogate reorganised and stopped the momentum that we had.

 

[Casey]

Yeah it seemed a lot more than Crawley would normally bring? Suppose 18 months of watching streams has had an uptick on attendance all round.

We have been, slowly, getting more people going to away games. The supporters club do a great job with GH coaches and a few more travelling on trains etc. It helps that we are putting up more of a fight away from home (this game excepted) as travelling to watch us lose all the time can really dampen your resolve.

We are still the lowest away support, and Hartlepool is a long trip, so hopefully you'll have bigger crowds for the rest of the season.

Casey

 

[denzel ecfc]

We've sold out our allocation at Orient, whatever that was

 

[Bottega Don]

Think tonight could be our first sub 100 away attendance for years.

Barrow on a tuesday night is hardly an appealing prospect, add the fact its the cup and the general apathy surrounding the club makes for not many people wanting to go.

 

[chipmunx]

Think tonight could be our first sub 100 away attendance for years.

Barrow on a tuesday night is hardly an appealing prospect, add the fact its the cup and the general apathy surrounding the club makes for not many people wanting to go.

pity - you might have come on the one day a month when the suns shining....

 

[Bottega Don]

46 Scunny fans at Barrow, poor souls.

 

[denzel ecfc]

Rovers fans might want to hold off buying tickets for next Saturday at the moment...

 

[Back in the DHSS]

845 SWA at Boundery park tonight.

 

[GTFCfish]

3 Salford fans at Derby last night.

 

[Andy Proctor]

Sunderland the massive ex prem club brought 399 to vale shit support.

 

[JaredSUFC]

I can’t seem to find an official number for Sutton at Cardiff last night. I had heard we had around 250 sales by Monday, and there a few who bought on the day, so I’m currently guessing in the 250-300 range.