Stickied League 2 Away Support Thread 2024/25

[The Terminator]

Our home crowd was our lowest at home for a league game since 2005.

 

[jacobncfc]

Would have thought they would have had more season ticket holders than that.

We do. More than 1,000 more I think. Surprised they didn't add them to the crowd to make it look less embarrassing.

It was one of the lowest league gates in our history. The game against Boreham Wood last week was the lowest home FA Cup attendance in our entire history. It's turning into quite an effective boycott against Trew.

 

[BeesKnees]

Took 300 to Orient the other week and with this being a new ground I'd expect at least the same if not a few more. Hopefully the figure comes out at some point.

Now confirmed as 239

 

[Kenneth E End]

634 at St James' Park from Luton out of an attendance of 3,823.

 

[GloverGing]

110 Yeovil at Accy in crowd of 1,263

 

[Gladders]

593 GY at Crawley

 

[E10rifle]

336 shit-eating idiots at Donny.

Mmmmmm! Give me some more shit, maybe it will taste better this time? Yes Frankie! YES! Shit in my mouth, you sexy Italian cuntwipe! Here is more of my money! Yuck! That's disgusting! I'll clap anyway. Feed me more! FEED ME. FUCKING FEED ME THAT SHIT!

 

[Kenneth E End]

110 Yeovil at Accy in crowd of 1,263

How do teams like Accrington survive at this level with crowds like that.

 

[E10rifle]

How do teams like Accrington survive at this level with crowds like that.

By being fucking loads better at football than massive clubs like Luton last season?

 

[dedwardp]

185 Crewe at Colchester.

 

[BelizeHatter]

By being fucking loads better at football than massive clubs like Luton last season?

Easy Tiger. We had an equal, if not worse, free fall than youselves for a lot longer - so we know your pain. We're now heading the right way and your time will come too. Think youll find Kenny wasn't being a dick but genuinely wondering how they do so well on such a shoestring.

 

[Stanleyfan]

How do teams like Accrington survive at this level with crowds like that.

If we don't start getting some home wins they'll only get lower - it doesn't take much for the Accrington public to stop coming.
Prior to our current owner coming in about a year ago we were literally living match to match.

 

[Don Caster]

336 shit-eating idiots at Donny.

Mmmmmm! Give me some more shit, maybe it will taste better this time? Yes Frankie! YES! Shit in my mouth, you sexy Italian cuntwipe! Here is more of my money! Yuck! That's disgusting! I'll clap anyway. Feed me more! FEED ME. FUCKING FEED ME THAT SHIT!

Good effort that considering the clusterfuck that is your club at the minute, fair play

 

[Kenneth E End]

Easy Tiger. We had an equal, if not worse, free fall than youselves for a lot longer - so we know your pain. We're now heading the right way and your time will come too. Think youll find Kenny wasn't being a dick but genuinely wondering how they do so well on such a shoestring.

I'm not sure Leyton Orient have had anywhere near an equal free fall to ourselves - three consecutive relegations, 40 points deducted and 5 years in non-league oblivion.
The crux of my post was why were we spending all this time in non league oblivion with teams getting just 1000 fans through the door every week clogging up League 2! I wasn't being as positive as wondering how they do so well - although I accept they are an extremely hardworking team, as they proved at our place a few weeks ago.

 

[E10rifle]

why were we spending all this time in non league oblivion with teams getting just 1000 fans through the door every week clogging up League 2!

Yeah, see, it's this type of phrasing that makes you sound like an arrogant tit.

 

[northstandexile]

334 pies at the hive
200 robins at the abbey
183 stags on Warwick road
593 mariners at Crawley
451 green army at morecambe
277 boro at Portsmouth.

Thought I saw on internet 366 o's at donny and not 336

Still missing
Newport at Blackpool and pool at Wickum

 

[Kenneth E End]

Yeah, see, it's this type of phrasing that makes you sound like an arrogant tit.

Oh relax, stop taking it so seriously. It was a wind up.

 

[Roger Stone]

444 Newport

 

[immariner]

We've sold 1318 on the first day of sales for our game at Doncaster on the 10th. As season ticket holders can buy up to 4 tickets each, there'll be a lot of non-season ticket holders who have been bought tickets by season ticket-holding mates. Still, might come close to selling our allocation of 3010. Apparently if we're over 2000 tomorrow we'll ask for more.

 

[GTFCfish]

We've sold 1318 on the first day of sales for our game at Doncaster on the 10th. As season ticket holders can buy up to 4 tickets each, there'll be a lot of non-season ticket holders who have been bought tickets by season ticket-holding mates. Still, might come close to selling our allocation of 3010. Apparently if we're over 2000 tomorrow we'll ask for more.

Doncaster is on 17th December mate we've got Pompey on 10th.

 

[blademan89]

We've sold 1318 on the first day of sales for our game at Doncaster on the 10th. As season ticket holders can buy up to 4 tickets each, there'll be a lot of non-season ticket holders who have been bought tickets by season ticket-holding mates. Still, might come close to selling our allocation of 3010. Apparently if we're over 2000 tomorrow we'll ask for more.

4200 max allocation

 

[immariner]

4200 max allocation

Doncaster is on 17th December mate we've got Pompey on 10th.

We've sold 2400 after the second day of sales (4 per season ticket holder). Looks like we'll definitely sell out the initial allocation and at least a bit of any further allocation, if they give it to us. Be the biggest league away following with Grimsby i've ever been in.

 

[Limerick Mariner]

We've sold 2400 after the second day of sales (4 per season ticket holder). Looks like we'll definitely sell out the initial allocation and at least a bit of any further allocation, if they give it to us. Be the biggest league away following with Grimsby i've ever been in.

Hull, Chesterfield, Rotherham and Mansfield away in the 3rd Div championship season 79/80?? Hull was the biggest, claimed 7k but always exaggerated in those days (fancy doing that - but now we have proper stats and social media) - maybe 6k...
Barnsley the season before, we were both already promoted, don't know how many of the 21k crowd we had maybe 5k.
Not sure of the McMenemy championship season - but we played Donny away in the last away game, the attendance was 12,320, surely we must have had at least half that - Donny were mid-table. I lived in Wrawby next to the A18, it was just one long slow moving line of cars with B and W scarfs hanging out the window, I was only 7 at the time but it is a vivid memory, I remember I just wanted to be in it, but my Dad only did home games...we lost 2-1 though, Stuart Brace pen for our goal.

 

[immariner]

I wasn't born for a few more years and didn't start supporting Town until I was 15, just before the downward spiral. Think the biggest league away followings I've been in are 2,500ish. Yeah, I've read talk of huge followings in the 70s and 80s, 10k plus to Liverpool and Coventry etc. Those were the days eh! Jealous not to have been able to witness them.

 

[PaulHaddock]

We took 3k to Alfreton 2 seasons back.

 

[BlackHaddock]

I go back a few more years than you youngsters and although I was at both Coventry and Liverpool games where our support was awesome I have also been to away games when Grimsby fans numbered less than 50.

 

[GTFCfish]

I go back a few more years than you youngsters and although I was both Coventry and Liverpool games where our support was awesome I have also been to away games when Grimsby fans numbered less than 50.

I remember going to Burnley when the fuel crisis was on with lorries blockading the fuel courts and I reckon there were only about 50 - 60 of us there then, I had already booked on a coach so still managed to go.
The few of us still never stopped singing though, Danny Butterfield scored a 25 yarder in a 1 - 1 draw, it was actually a really good away day.

 

[les.gtfc]

Hull, Chesterfield, Rotherham and Mansfield away in the 3rd Div championship season 79/80?? Hull was the biggest, claimed 7k but always exaggerated in those days (fancy doing that - but now we have proper stats and social media) - maybe 6k...
Barnsley the season before, we were both already promoted, don't know how many of the 21k crowd we had maybe 5k.
Not sure of the McMenemy championship season - but we played Donny away in the last away game, the attendance was 12,320, surely we must have had at least half that - Donny were mid-table. I lived in Wrawby next to the A18, it was just one long slow moving line of cars with B and W scarfs hanging out the window, I was only 7 at the time but it is a vivid memory, I remember I just wanted to be in it, but my Dad only did home games...we lost 2-1 though, Stuart Brace pen for our goal.

The same season that we took (what I think) is our biggest ever away following, (in my lifetime and apart from Wembley), to Anfield in the FA Cup 3rd Round. Abount 20000 Grimsby fans there that day, with many in The Kop. In fact there were several hundred locked out who ended up going to Everton v Aldershot which was being played on the same day. That Mansfield game was incredible too. We only needed a point to clinch promotion and of the 10,000 gate there that day I reckon around 8000 were Grimsby fans, who were in every stand.

 

[Limerick Mariner]

The same season that we took (what I think) is our biggest ever away following, (in my lifetime and apart from Wembley), to Anfield in the FA Cup 3rd Round. Abount 20000 Grimsby fans there that day, with many in The Kop. In fact there were several hundred locked out who ended up going to Everton v Aldershot which was being played on the same day. That Mansfield game was incredible too. We only needed a point to clinch promotion and of the 10,000 gate there that day I reckon around 8000 were Grimsby fans, who were in every stand.

See what I mean about the exaggeration in the those days...
The only way of estimating size of big followings without strict segregation was to estimate what home support would be expected for the fixture.

Lowest GTFC following I've been in was about 70 away at the old Den for a rearranged FA Cup game in freezing conditions on a Tuesday night in 1983. We won 6-1 after being 1-0 down at HT... the 'wall fans waiting for us outside applauded us...

 

[Son of Cod]

Sold out the initial allocation now.