Stickied League 2 Away Support Thread 2024/25

[Urban]

The Gas would have taken over 40k as we normally do.

#MASSIVE

 

[Amber Nectar]

Size doesn't matter when every tom dick and harry support Liverpool or United in our city

You can apply this theory to most towns and cities, including Oxford.

 

[TheGas]

You can apply this theory to most towns and cities, including Oxford.

I know?

 

[Soup Ladle]

581 Poolies travelled for our massive local game.

 

[Walkley_Owl]

33 Morecambe
172 Yeovil

 

[mowgli]

33 Morecambe bloody hell!

 

[Gashead]

33 Morecambe bloody hell!

The smaller clubs with nothing to play for aren't going to travel particularly well, especially not on a Tuesday night. Same with our fans laughing at Crawley on Saturday, it's not particularly fair on the fans who did travel - I commend them doing that journey.

 

[northstandexile]

Our travelling support down to Exeter on a Tuesday night in a fortnight will interesting.

I think our lowest in the conference on a Tuesday night was about 70 to Crawley.

 

[Richard Cranium]

I think it will be about 50. 1 win in 10, maybe if we can get something Saturday and beat County but the season is over and it's a fucking long way!

 

[E10rifle]

1,655 O's fighting amongst themselves at The Hive. Half the crowd.

 

[mowgli]

305 bored shitless Wycombe fans at York.

 

[Soup Ladle]

727 delirious Poolies at Morecambe.

 

[Amber Nectar]

727 delirious Poolies at Morecambe.

Excellent following.

 

[Soup Ladle]

we do travel well to northern games. our southern followings have been piss poor this season though

 

[Grecian O'Grecian]

we do travel well to northern games. our southern followings have been piss poor this season though

Doesn't take a genius to know why that is, does it.

 

[northstandexile]

156 happy Staggies in Cumbria

 

[Soup Ladle]

Doesn't take a genius to know why that is, does it.

We have taken bigger followings than this year down south in seasons before but with a poor side, a club that's been in decline, the inclination and motivation from supporters to travel has gone. Oh sorry, you knew that all along didn't you?

 

[Walkley_Owl]

1,513 Exeter
1,476 Oxford
925 Bristol R
1,659 Pompey
218 Stevenage
123 Accy
185 Cambridge

 

[Grecian O'Grecian]

We have taken bigger followings than this year down south in seasons before but with a poor side, a club that's been in decline, the inclination and motivation from supporters to travel has gone. Oh sorry, you knew that all along didn't you?

Yes.

 

[Vanni]

I know Exeter's not far from Yeovil (something like 1 hour I think) but 1513 is a very good following.

 

[JJH]

The Gas would have taken over 40k as we normally do.

32,000 there last year wasn't it?

 

[Soup Ladle]

Yes.

Of course you did.

 

[antn1.b]

Probably the wrong place for this but I found it interesting..

 

[Deepcut Cobbler]

Our 7579 on Saturday was our highest recorded/declared at Sixfields, we are expecting that to be increased before the end of the season.

 

[Limerick Mariner]

Our 7579 on Saturday was our highest recorded/declared at Sixfields, we are expecting that to be increased before the end of the season.

Can't you play at Franklins Gardens...

 

[Deepcut Cobbler]

Can't you play at Franklins Gardens...

Can't you play in Grimsby?

 

[Limerick Mariner]

Can't you play in Grimsby?

At certain times in the last 10 years I think we'd have been better playing on Cleethorpes beach...

 

[Deepcut Cobbler]

Regarding Franklins Gardens: Apparently even if we wanted to (we don't) we couldn't because of Rugby Premiership rules regarding ground share with the rugby club being the landlord?

 

[Limerick Mariner]

Regarding Franklins Gardens: Apparently even if we wanted to (we don't) we couldn't because of Rugby Premiership rules regarding ground share with the rugby club being the landlord?

It wasn't a serious suggestion - just a little dig that the rugby club has double the capacity...and they've got a terrace as well...

 

[Deepcut Cobbler]

Thought that it might have been but we have had many who have suggested that option over the years, expecially now they have a 17k capacity.
The majority would not want us to share, we had enough of that with the cricket club over the historical past. It was bad enough the cricket using the pitch as a car park from April to September without the mess the oval ball types would make of any surface like at Newport and Wycombe/Coventry. Plus the inability to maximise the off field profits would limit our budgeting even further.