Stickied League 2 Away Support Thread 2024/25

[The Terminator]

Took these photos of Blackpool crowd 5mins into the game. 2k max IMO of then.

 

[Luke Imp]

Good work, WO.

Not sure our away numbers will be as high next season as this, but we'd be in at around 6th for both home and away averages on those figures.

 

[GTFCfish]

Only three clubs brought more to us than we took to them (Portsmouth, Plymouth and Grimsby). Massive.

Similar story to us just Plymouth and Pompey brought more. Doubly Massive.

 

[les.gtfc]

Thanks for all your work in this Walkley. Have you got the first list you usual put up of away fans from most to least though?

 

[Walkley_Owl]

Amended my orginal post

 

[Son of Cod]

Yep, top work Mr. Owl. I knew Plymouth were gonna pip us to bronze medal. Still, we could be the only team in the top 5 of that not go up. Not bad for 14th and nothing to play for for the vast amount of 2017. Of course the most important table is once again %age of home fans taken away. Hopefully, we can keep up these numbers next season. I've only managed to get to a couple of the ones localish to London since getting back to the UK, but will be getting back on the away days a bit more next season. I went to a shitload of the Buckley Mark III/Woods/Rodger/Newell tripe/gash/depression/fiasco so I need to get some experience of this winning and attacking stewards with inflatables malarky.

 

[GTFCfish]

The away fans at stadium numbers show just how crucial it was for us to get back up, an average of 464 this year as opposed to around 110/120 or so in the Conference, the extra revenue there just from extra away fans is roughly £100000.
Added to that increased home gates on the back of promotion, thank God we got out of there when we did.

 

[Luke Imp]

Yeah, average is 199 down here/there but that's inflated mainly due to the top 4 or 5.

732 Lincoln
603 Tranmere
362 York
307 Wrexham
306 Aldershot
272 Chester
268 Maidstone
184 Torquay
174 Dagenham & Redbridge
139 Woking
120 Barrow
114 Sutton
109 Macclesfield
99 Forest Green
99 Dover
96 Eastleigh
86 Southport
83 Bromley
60 Guiseley
53 Gateshead
52 Solihull
45 Braintree
37 N Ferriby
30 Boreham Wood

199.1 overall average.

 

[oakroader]

when we were down in purgatory ville we were slated as johnny big bollocks
yet it cant be understated the effect it made to the opposition club coffers that we took thousands of fans to their grounds...even making up 50% of the total attendance...cant see how the long term future of some of them still down there will pan out now.
good luck to FGR i say...at least the owner isnt doing a winkleman !!

 

[GTFCfish]

it cant be understated the effect it made to the opposition club coffers that we took thousands of fans to...even making up 50% of the total attendance...cant see how the long term future of some of them still down there will pan out now.
good luck to FGR i say...at least the owner isnt doing a winkleman !!

Think the biggest away % for us was at Alfreton 2500 Grimsby in total crowd of 3327, can't be arsed to work out properly but off the top of my head it's around 75% not that I'm bragging........

 

[les.gtfc]

Think the biggest away % for us was at Alfreton 2500 Grimsby in total crowd of 3327, can't be arsed to work out properly but off the top of my head it's around 75% not that I'm bragging........

I can remember when we played Hayes & Yeading once at Woking and I think the official attendance was about 350. At least 250 of those were Town fans, maybe more. They just had a small corner on the far side of the ground. It was unsegregated though but most of our fans were behind one goal and the large stand behind the opposite goal wasn't even open.

 

[Urban]

I can remember when we played Hayes & Yeading once at Woking and I think the official attendance was about 350. At least 250 of those were Town fans, maybe more. They just had a small corner on the far side of the ground. It was unsegregated though but most of our fans were behind one goal and the large stand behind the opposite goal wasn't even open.

To be fair on that, Woking is miles away from Hayes and Yeading - I was very surprised to hear they'd been relocated there when there were plenty of other bearer possibilities.

I know people say the conference is tinpot but 5 years or so ago there were some really small clubs down there. Now you're just left with the likes of Forest Green

 

[Kenneth E End]

Our last non league game was v Hyde. They genuinely gave us the whole ground bar one corner where the home fans congregated. The attendance was around 2700 with about 2400 from Luton!

 

[AdamStag]

Our last non league game was v Hyde. They genuinely gave us the whole ground bar one corner where the home fans congregated. The attendance was around 2700 with about 2400 from Luton!

They never had any fans. On a much smaller scale there was around 450 there on a Tuesday night with 350 odd from us. Daft

 

[AdamStag]

Thanks for all the attendances mr owl.

Can imagine our home attendances and away will improve next season especially with the additions of Chesterfield Lincoln and Coventry

 

[Davidimp]

Think the biggest away % for us was at Alfreton 2500 Grimsby in total crowd of 3327, can't be arsed to work out properly but off the top of my head it's around 75% not that I'm bragging........

We had around 2200 out 2389 at North Ferriby thanks to the post office
Our home attendance was 5162 up from 2596.
Couple other bits our last 11 home league games we averaged 7061 and from December including the cup ties it's 7442.
The feelgood or bandwagon factor is still going strong it appears after a week of sales of season tickets we'd sold 2500 and by today (day 8 of sales) people are STILL queuing for them!!! It's crazy!!! We must have sold well over 3000 and the prices have gone up!
Never known anything like it in 35 years of being an Imp.

 

[Son of Cod]

Fair play on that home average. What did you used to average in this division during the early/mid 00s KA playoff seasons?

 

[Luke Imp]

Generally high 4k's.

 

[shoddycollins]

Similar story to us just Plymouth and Pompey brought more. Doubly Massive.

Probably of note that we went to Grimsby on a Tuesday night and you came to us on New Year.

 

[Son of Cod]

Initial allocation of 1784 from Chesterfield. I thought I'd read it's usually about 2800?

 

[AdamStag]

Initial allocation of 1784 from Chesterfield. I thought I'd read it's usually about 2800?

The away stand holds about 2,000 odd, but when they had Sheff Utd they gave them some tickets down the side.

We'd probably shift that if going for promotion when we've got them there towards the end of the season, but can't see the plod allowing it

 

[Son of Cod]

The away stand holds about 2,000 odd, but when they had Sheff Utd they gave them some tickets down the side.

We'd probably shift that if going for promotion when we've got them there towards the end of the season, but can't see the plod allowing it

Ah okay cheers. Thought someone had said it holds a bit more than that. Can see us requesting more, so hopefully they'll give us some of this side too. Not that it matters to me, I'd already agreed to go to my Auntie's birthday. Can't remember the last time we had a decent opening day fixture. Boston at home in like 2006/07 (?), maybe? Was gutted when I saw the fixture list!

 

[GTFCfish]

Ah okay cheers. Thought someone had said it holds a bit more than that. Can see us requesting more, so hopefully they'll give us some of this side too. Not that it matters to me, I'd already agreed to go to my Auntie's birthday. Can't remember the last time we had a decent opening day fixture. Boston at home in like 2006/07 (?), maybe? Was gutted when I saw the fixture list!

The first two blocks of the East stand are not currently on sale which suggests that they will be giving them to us once we sell these lot out, which looks like it will be tomorrow as 1200+ already sold today.

 

[CFC91]

1900 behind goal, 800 down side if you sell them. We won't be needing them anymore that's for sure

 

[GTFCfish]

1900 behind goal, 800 down side if you sell them. We won't be needing them anymore that's for sure

We've only been given 1784 behind the goal. Maybe front row taped off on Plod advice?

 

[dedwardp]

I think we've sold a handful for Accrington on the opening day. New season buzz is everywhere at the moment.

 

[PUSBCCFC]

Grimsby fans: what will your allocation be for Coventry?

 

[immariner]

Grimsby fans: what will your allocation be for Coventry?

Your allocation for our place will be 1900 (you won't get any more) behind the goal with terrible views on the top 5 rows. Nice supporters bar though.

 

[Son of Cod]

1900 behind goal, 800 down side if you sell them. We won't be needing them anymore that's for sure

I'll be surprised if we don't sell all 2700.

 

[Habbinalan]

Yeovil and Lincoln, in particular, will be interested to note that we have been given only 350 tickets for our opening fixture at Exeter - due to ground re-development..

Initial sales are to season ticket holders only (1 ticket). We'll probably sell most of them, despite the prospect of august traffic jams on the M5 for those not taking the train. Some of us are making it a long weekend, with Bristol Rovers on the following Tuesday night - ticket just £5 for me..