Away Following

Great numbers as always, put it this way had we ended 3rd and Bristol Rovers 14th they wouldn’t have been close to our away support neither would anyone else in this league. Those that spend so much every week deserve so much better.

 

Quietly impressed with Exeter and Carlisle. Wonder who had the highest average distance per trip? Also kudos to Carlisle, hammered their average for the trip down here. @Bluebry , that was a good turn out, shame about the handful of clowns but we’ll done on representing your club in general.

 

Not a bad effort taking everything into account regarding last season not being the best football to watch.

 

We're massive.

 

Theyve got the league table wrong way round as us and Bristol are 23 and 24!

what a tinpot league this really is. Several teams taking 150 ish away.

god I hope Hughes is our messiah

 

Depends which way you look at it whether you think it's a good stat or not. We're still probably bottom for the home fans to away fans ratio.

That being said, who can blame those who didn't bother, given the shite served up practically all season.

 

That would be a statistic I'd like to see if anyone knows of a link (or can be arsed working it out)
Away support as a percentage of home support for the league.

 

Harrogate are only not bottom due to the big day out they had at Valley Parade. I'm sure without their cup final they would have averaged less than Stevenage.

As for comparing home to away support there are many factors, many of our local games have upper capacity limits. Hartlepool, Harrogate, Salford. If Harrogate gave us 3k tickets we would sell 3k tickets.

We we had anything to play for at all we would sell out most games, Thanks to Derek our season was over by Christmas.

 

Here you go @bantam65 Only took me a minute!

 

Cheers.

 

Another worthless stat, with the home attendances we get we will always struggle to get anywhere near the top % wise.

 

Just what I was going to say. Means nothing really.

 

If it was anywhere like Bristol Rovers away grounds would struggle to accommodate us, never mind Rochdale or Mansfield.

 

It would also be interesting to know miles travelled. Did we have more further away days than Bristol Rovers?

 

And half of that away crowd were Leeds fans! I know because some of my Leeds mates were there!!

 

As others have said this stat would only really mean something if we were able to take 2,300 (15%ish of our home attendance) to most or all away games which I'd guess will have been impossible for most away matches. Even 10% would be impossible for games against Barrow, Salford, Harrogate and Sutton. Also as we all know of home attendance is very inflated and probably more so that all of the other clubs due to the number of season ticket holders who don't want to attend every home match or can't.

 

A few seasons ago we were about 15th in miles travelled in our league, with Carlisle and Plymouth back then being those who had the furthest to travel. Those based around the midlands like Walsall, Port Vale had the shortest trips. The difference in that year between the shortest total mileage and the largest was over double. I think it was something like 2,700 v 5,900 miles. We are fairly well placed for games.

Infact next season we have lost Oldham and Scunthorpe but they are being replaced with Stockport and likely another northern based side.

Forest Green, Exeter and Bristol Rovers going for Crewe & Doncaster saves the miles, however Gillingham is on par with one of those we have lost, and Wimbledon is london based. Still Swindon or Northampton could go up which would be a fair swap, however Mansfield could go up and we always travel in numbers there.

 

The likes of Barrow, Salford and Harrogate had big affects on our away attendances .......... Bristol Rovers are leading the way because the season they have had ............ our numbers have been excellent considering the shite on show during Adams dull spell .......... hopefully next season we will be out of this league and can look forward to having clubs down at VP that will bring decent away following and we will finally get the chance to go to grounds that don’t have a 500 limit in away followings ........... in fact the EFL should look at the clubs where we are given poxy away tickets because I can guarantee all them clubs in the said day could have easily accommodated and extra 2 thousand fans
Salford City 1000 tickets for away fans attendance 2800 capacity 5100 so that’s 2000 empty places for starters
Harrogate town 600 tickets ???? Attendance 2700 capacity 5000 leaving 2300 empty places
Barrow 600 tickets ??? Capacity 5100 attendance 3700 leaving 1300 empty places

is that down to the police that these clubs are giving us hardly any tickets yet there is more than enough places to accommodate another 1300 because if it’s not an police issue than these clubs surly have deep pockets if they can down the very least 20k every time we roll into town .............. and I’m sure the local boozers would love the extra revenue

 

We're massive and clubs can't handle it.

They should do what clubs in Scotland do when Rangers or Celtic come around and give us half the ground