Rank League 2 clubs in order of size.. (Stolen from L1)

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Well as everyone knows that Luton are the massivest most brilliant club in the world its beyond me too.

Best in Europe really, but we don't want to say
 

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How certain individuals can say clubs like Carlisle and Tranmere are bigger than Luton is beyond me.
5 seasons in the Conference :D
Not to mention we are the most successful team in the history of The Football League Trophy :whistle:
 

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Bury are a tiny club, any disagreements?

Arf Shoddy! That's twice in a few days I've enjoyed your joke at our expense!

Must be going soft in me old age!
 

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How certain individuals can say clubs like Carlisle and Tranmere are bigger than Luton is beyond me.

I don't believe we are and quite frankly I couldn't give a fuck.

But to be honest I've never thought of Luton as a big club. I only really realised you were massive when I seen your fans on TFF talking about it. I'd never looked into your history so all I really had to go on was your recent years and your stadium which I went to in league 1 about 7 years ago or something like that. So yeah until this season I had you down as smaller than both us and Tranmere.
 

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Interested as to why Stevenage rank so favourably amongst a fair few tables here as well. I personally think of them as a fairly established FL club, but given they've only been here for what, 5 years? I'm surprised they rank higher than Cheltenham or even Mansfield for that matter. Maybe cup exploits in the past also curry favour in people's thinking? Just an interesting one.
 

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People are ranking us higher than Mansfield? :eek:

I'd have expected us to be in the bottom quarter of people's lists although there are a bunch of sides I'd currently rank above us that we're not too far behind.
 

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I don't believe we are and quite frankly I couldn't give a fuck.

But to be honest I've never thought of Luton as a big club. I only really realised you were massive when I seen your fans on TFF talking about it. I'd never looked into your history so all I really had to go on was your recent years and your stadium which I went to in league 1 about 7 years ago or something like that. So yeah until this season I had you down as smaller than both us and Tranmere.

Took the words out of my mouth. I'm in my thirties, and have only ever had Luton down as a small club in my mind's eye. But now I've been educated and realise they have every right to be ranked up there with the greats of English football.
 

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It seems everyone has forgotten that we were the first team to ever play Brazil;)

I'd put us somewhere between 10th-14th.
 

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The thing with Wimbledon is that if people go off their own feelings as to how big a club are then they will seem small, despite their time in the Premier League.

Even if you wanted to say that AFC Wimbledon are Wimbledon FC, because the fans make the club and they have the same fans, you couldn't argue that it was a seamless transition, and having to begin again from the bottom with a fan-created club has left a distinctive mark on the club that sides who haven't been through what they've been through just don't have.

For all their history, their time at the top, their fame, their FA Cup and their definitely league-sized crowds, they're essentially a small-club flavoured big-club.

We've always been a small club, even when finishing in the top half of the First Division and winning the FA Cup. Obviously we were relatively huge when ripping up non-league as far as the Conference but now I certainly wouldn't put us above half way in League Two. Wouldn't have it any other way, frankly. You can be successful and ambitious without being 'big'. One of my favourite ever moments following Wimbledon was when Dennis Wise fucked the ball over the line with a groin thrust for the winner at Old Trafford the first time we went there. Beautifully symbolic.
 

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Edit - Ignore that table I posted, it's incorrect
 
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We were only the second English team to be an Italian team in Italy when we beat Roma 4-2 in the Anglo-Italian Cup. (Birmingham beat us to being the first), but we were the first to beat Roma in Rome.
 

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This thread certainly set a few off. The bottom line is the history of each Club is something to be proud of and look back on the good days for every single fan - but reality is today. Look at the League table and that's the list of who are biggest and best. We're on a crap run right now but we're in a better spot overall than probably in the last ten years on and especially off the pitch.

My take on Luton. We're a big small Club that has a fiercely loyal core and are perhaps overly defensive but we've been shafted over and over from lots of directions. When I first started going we had massive crowds compared to today - almost double with half as many again Luton fans, but had an away end that prob held what our whole ground does today and it regularly got filled.
 

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To add to Mr Belize above, I also believe we're a club with huge potential. There is around 1 million people living within 20 miles of the town? And perhaps we've missed the boat to some extent; we've been trying to get into that new stadium for perhaps 60 years and after our golden era of the 1980s, we could've easily pushed on and perhaps maybe established ourselves as a upper 2nd tier flirting with top tier club. But it didn't happen.
 

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Even Morecambe and Fleetwood managed to find new stadiums that are better than Luton's Obviously not tried hard enough.
 

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Fleetwood just redeveloped the old one, and I don't think the globe arena is far from where Christie Park used to be. I don't think either of those stadia are quite what Luton had in mind though
 

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Fleetwood just redeveloped the old one, and I don't think the globe arena is far from where Christie Park used to be. I don't think either of those stadia are quite what Luton had in mind though

Christie Park is now a Sainsbury's round the corner from the Globe, bastard cold ground the Globe with its three sides!
 

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Fleetwood just redeveloped the old one, and I don't think the globe arena is far from where Christie Park used to be. I don't think either of those stadia are quite what Luton had in mind though

My post wasn't totally serious.
 

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When was a bucket rat EVER totally serious?
 
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My take on things based off the following...

Honours won, years in higher leagues, overall attendances etc, etc. Reformed clubs are difficult to include in things as technically the old club doesn't exist, sorry. So....

Pompey
Bury
Luton
Oxford
Tranmere
Northampton
Carlisle
Plymouth
Shrewsbury
Southend
Exeter
Cambridge
Mansfield
Wycombe
Hartlepool
York
Cheltenham
Wimbledon
Newport
Stevenage
Burton
Dagenham
Morecambe
Accrington
 

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There really is something in the water out Bury way, isn't there?

Besides that, how are Plymouth lower than Northampton?
 

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Don't get why people think Northampton are big when they've spent more seasons in the Fourth Division than the notoriously shite Crewe Alexandra!
 

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1. Portsmouth
2. Luton
3. Tranmere
4. Plymouth
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The only clubs in this league I'd consider bigger then ourselves

5. Southend
6. Oxford
7. Carlisle
8. Northampton
9. Bury
10. Shrewsbury
11. Hartlepool
12. Wimbledon (like MK, a bit of an anomaly)
13. Cambridge
14. Mansfield
15. Exeter
16. York
17. Newport
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18. Wycombe
19. Stevenage
20. Cheltenham
21. Dagenham
22. Burton
23. Morecambe
24. Accrington

The last seven need to gtfo of the FL - I'd keep the top two at a push due to their success in cups/league one. I know Cheltenham and Daggers have also been in league one but neither left as much of an impression as Stevenage and Wycombe.
 

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We deserve to be bottom four on our history. Hopefully we are starting to rewrite it now.

The trouble with this thread is there are about 15 teams which you could put in any order really as they are all tinpot. Ourselves included.

Gate 3300 today is prob a 1000 up on a few years ago when we joined the league. So we are slowly growing.
 

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^ Best way to do it. Burton are the epitome of how a small club should do it. Slow but sure. Fantastic achievement without chucking bucket loads of money or the Sugar Daddy route. Really pleased for them and hope - and fully expect them to - carry it on and finish the job this season with automatic promotion and a good shot at Champions..
 

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Burton have certainly not chucked as much money at prospective promotion as some clubs that have recently moved through this division. How much of the crowd growth though is due to being at the top of the table, as opposed to gradual growth?
I imagine Burtons crowds go up when Derby aren't playing at home the same day
 

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I imagine Burtons crowds go up when Derby aren't playing at home the same day

To a point yes they do.
sadly the town is full of man u and chelsea/liverpool fans due to years of been non league and getting crowds of 500. it was easier to sit in the bars and watch jeff stelling than watch conference football! hence a whole generation or two was skipped.
 

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Burton have certainly not chucked as much money at prospective promotion as some clubs that have recently moved through this division. How much of the crowd growth though is due to being at the top of the table, as opposed to gradual growth?
i would sadly say the former rather than the latter.
 
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Does my nut in when people say they have it bad due to other clubs in the area!

I mean Derby ffs? Bury have it horrendous compared to everyone and still get better crowds than about 10 teams in this league. God forbid how some of you would cope with City/United, Liverpool, Everton, Wigan, Bolton and Blackburn on the doorstep...
 

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