Stickied League 2 Away Support Thread 2024/25

[JaredSUFC]

Big day out at Sutton lol !! 1296 Wimbledon and a fare few in the home end .

As I was in the home end, the number of Wimbledon fans was negligible. I’m not saying there weren’t any, but it wasn’t anywhere close to the numbers Wimbledon fans think. It never is.

Big day out? The way your lot have gone on about it, it certainly seems that way.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

That’s a cracking following for county tbh, great effort local game with a decent away end.

That’s not all that far off what we take to donny on a saturday. Decent day.

Wow! We must insist we add this to our list our club achievements, alongside FA Cup winner, multiple division two titles and of course the Anglo Italian cup winners.

Not all that far off what Mansfield would take quite the day.

 

[gary]

As I was in the home end, the number of Wimbledon fans was negligible. I’m not saying there weren’t any, but it wasn’t anywhere close to the numbers Wimbledon fans think. It never is.

Big day out? The way your lot have gone on about it, it certainly seems that way.

Wimbledon fans just regard Sutton as playing against a local team . We certainly don't class it as a rivalry or a derby match. Sutton supporter's might view it differently. I would've thought you're rivalry would be Carshalton Athletic.

 

[Alfie]

 

[Alfie]

Latest SKY BET official attendances that include games played (home & away).

 

[Alfie]

You corrected that Harrogate attendance yet?

YES.
Harrogate did NOT supply away support figures so have gone by figures supplied by those who attended game.

 

[Limerick Mariner]

Average away following over 1,000 today - outstanding effort League 2…

 

[JaredSUFC]

Wimbledon fans just regard Sutton as playing against a local team . We certainly don't class it as a rivalry or a derby match. Sutton supporter's might view it differently. I would've thought you're rivalry would be Carshalton Athletic.

Wimbledon are nothing more than a villain of the week as we’ve left everyone else who we’ve had a rivalry with behind. What some of our younger fans say about you, they were saying about Bromley 18 months ago.

Times change. You certainly can’t have a rivalry with a team who you haven’t played in 12 years that are in a division 3 levels lower than your own. Joys of moving up the leagues, innit? Unless you still have a rivalry with Raynes Park Vale, or something?

 

[Limerick Mariner]

Wow! We must insist we add this to our list our club achievements, alongside FA Cup winner, multiple division two titles and of course the Anglo Italian cup winners.

Not all that far off what Mansfield would take quite the day.

Not just Mansfield, us as well. To list though, I suggest it needs to be “not far off what Bradford would take”

 

[PuB]

Not just Mansfield, us as well. To list though, I suggest it needs to be “not far off what Bradford would take”

Leeds would take more though

 

[gary]

Wimbledon are nothing more than a villain of the week as we’ve left everyone else who we’ve had a rivalry with behind. What some of our younger fans say about you, they were saying about Bromley 18 months ago.

Times change. You certainly can’t have a rivalry with a team who you haven’t played in 12 years that are in a division 3 levels lower than your own. Joys of moving up the leagues, innit? Unless you still have a rivalry with Raynes Park Vale, or something?

We don't have a rivalry with any team to be honest. MK is something else but it's not a rivalry.

 

[Gladders]

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Latest SKY BET official attendances that include games played (home & away).

Whats with the average attendance at away games, seems pretty meaningless? Why not just do average away followings

 

[F!RTHY]

Not just Mansfield, us as well. To list though, I suggest it needs to be “not far off what Bradford would take”

This.

To hold such title, you need to demand and sell the full allocation.

 

[Alfie]

Whats with the average attendance at away games, seems pretty meaningless? Why not just do average away followings

Once every team has played more than a few games, home & away, those lists will become more relevant.
Besides it is the stats supplied by SKYBET, so who are we to argue with them.

 

[chief]

Average away following over 1,000 today - outstanding effort League 2…

Only tinpotters falling below the 1000 too.

 

[PRIDE OF CHESHIRE]

Wimbledon fans just regard Sutton as playing against a local team . We certainly don't class it as a rivalry or a derby match. Sutton supporter's might view it differently. I would've thought you're rivalry would be Carshalton Athletic.

But Wimbledon and Sutton are historic rivals from before Wimbledon got into the Football League in the 70's.

 

[JaredSUFC]

But Wimbledon and Sutton are historic rivals from before Wimbledon got into the Football League in the 70's.

Tbf, no. This is the only the 3rd season in the last 100 years that Sutton and Wimbledon have shared a division.

In the 1920s Wimbledon switched from the Athenian League, where Sutton remained to the Isthmian League (there wasn’t a pyramid structure as we know it today, they were effectively the same level). Sutton wouldn’t switch until 1963. Wimbledon joined the Southern League in 1964, which unlike the amateur Isthmian League was semiprofessional and offered a pathway to election to the Football League.

Sutton and Wimbledon didn’t play in the same same division post-2002, the closest we came was when we swapped divisions in 2008. Yesterday was the 9th competitive game between the two clubs post-2002 (if you include the Surrey Senior Cup).

 

[Son of Cod]

Good numbers from Notts, often get a bit of shit for poor following so credit where it's due there.

 

[Conker]

Good numbers from Notts, often get a bit of shit for poor following so credit where it's due there.

I actually think they’ll sell out the North Stand this season.

 

[GTFCfish]

Once every team has played more than a few games, home & away, those lists will become more relevant.
Besides it is the stats supplied by SKYBET, so who are we to argue with them.

I think you’re missing his point there but I can’t be arsed to explain it as I’ve just woke up.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

Good numbers from Notts, often get a bit of shit for poor following so credit where it's due there.

I had no idea that away followings were so important, but it appears a big deal. I always thought how many you got to your home games was far more important.

Silly me.

Although feels a bit tinpot.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

I actually think they’ll sell out the North Stand this season.

You will definitely sell out the Jimmy Sirrel stand for the league's ultimate Big Day Out.

 

[Son of Cod]

I had no idea that away followings were so important, but it appears a big deal. I always thought how many you got to your home games was far more important.

Silly me.

Although feels a bit tinpot.

Come on mate, I know you went AWOL during the Conference years but you've been here before you know the craic. Away followings are much important. Percentage of home fans taken away is more important than home attendances too.

 

[The_Viking_Magpie]

Maybe it's a fading memory , I knew away followings was a willy waving competition of tin pot proportions but I has forgotten it's more important than home attendances and finances into our beloved lower league clubs.

So the order if importance is:

Away followings as a percentage of home supporters
Average away following over a season
League position
Matchday results
Home attendances
Number of first teamers out through injury
Number of stands as your ground
Quality of your away end.
Half time food and drink
Past honours

 

[Master D]

Sounds suspiciously like a time to consult the Natural Order.

 

[PRIDE OF CHESHIRE]

Tbf, no. This is the only the 3rd season in the last 100 years that Sutton and Wimbledon have shared a division.

In the 1920s Wimbledon switched from the Athenian League, where Sutton remained to the Isthmian League (there wasn’t a pyramid structure as we know it today, they were effectively the same level). Sutton wouldn’t switch until 1963. Wimbledon joined the Southern League in 1964, which unlike the amateur Isthmian League was semiprofessional and offered a pathway to election to the Football League.

Sutton and Wimbledon didn’t play in the same same division post-2002, the closest we came was when we swapped divisions in 2008. Yesterday was the 9th competitive game between the two clubs post-2002 (if you include the Surrey Senior Cup).

Fair enough.
Didn't realise the two clubs had met on so few occasions previously.
Just remember reading something somewhere that you were traditional rivals back in the day.
I suppose you were to a degree even if you weren't in the same league.

 

[gary]

Fair enough.
Didn't realise the two clubs had met on so few occasions previously.
Just remember reading something somewhere that you were traditional rivals back in the day.
I suppose you were to a degree even if you weren't in the same league.

Well Wimbledon did beat Sutton in the 1963 amateur cup final . I wasn't born but my dad went to the game.

 

[iWomble]

Fair enough.
Didn't realise the two clubs had met on so few occasions previously.
Just remember reading something somewhere that you were traditional rivals back in the day.
I suppose you were to a degree even if you weren't in the same league.

I think there was actually quite a bit of crossover support in earlier times - I used to go to Sutton sometimes when Wimbledon were away. Sutton gave us a hand up back in 2002 by playing us in our first match rising from the ashes and I don't think I could ever dislike them, for that alone. Rivalry might grow if we spend any degree of time in the same divisions but the attitude from us last season to Sutton was more condescending than anything. Annoying younger brother type of thing. A couple of on-pitch spankings put us right which is why I think we were so pleased with yesterday as a riposte this year. Not because of intense rivalry but because it showed that our early season form probably isn't just a fluke and we might be on the up again after several seasons of treading water then going backwards quickly.

 

[Don Caster]

569 relieved MKD's at Colchester.

I see AFC Wimbldon took more on a tuesday night (similar distances I imagine??) whens this football frenzy happening been 20 years plus now hasn't it?, geniune question btw, you have had a generation of fans born whilst you have been in exsistance & your home & away support has never really got off the ground , not what Mr Winkleman envisaged with his football frenzy statements in the early days.

 

[TheEndIsNigh]

Good numbers from Notts, often get a bit of shit for poor following so credit where it's due there.

Good atmosphere as well, which sometimes hasn’t been the case with our bigger followings. We seem to be getting better at this ‘supporting your team properly’ lark.