... I know ("here we go again")... but it's p**s poor. (Just been down the ticket office this morning). An hour and a half away from Euston.
Total cost of train and match ticket = 25 quid (booked train in advance).
At least we can all stand together and hopefully give some good vocal support.
Anyone know if Mr. Bent is playing? I haven't despised such an opposing teammate in ages!!
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Birmingham have poor support anyway, so expect alot of empty seats there.
You can make stats mean anything you like....... lol
Tough times for many financially in the run up to Christmas and those family and older fans belittled by some as "flasks" are not going to be attracted by a trip to the "Millwall of the Midlands" to quote Wyn Grant.
last 20 away games :
Won 3
Lost 10
Drawn 7
Goals for 15
Goals against 25
Large's stats above says it all
You couldn't really include last season's results, because when I look at the current League table, it clearly doesn't.
Otherwise you might as well say we've only won 20 away matches in the last 100, letting in 85 goals or whatever
Or 125 out of the last 750.
Stats, eh ? ;o)
He's got it in gear...it called reverse!
ffs we won the title at blackburn with 1100 when we were a decent side now we're tosh
i can remember going to birmingham away in the 80's with about 200-250 there
well, just on this year it's even worse reading :
Won 1
Lost 4
Drawn 3
For 5
Against 9
The club is on a downward slope and has been since a couple of seasons into Premiership life. Doesnt seem to be as many younger away following fans as there were a few years ago and the older ones are gradually declining meaning the away support will continue to slump downwards. Says a lot when we only take decent away support when there is free travel. Even then games like Everton away in the Premiership when the club offered coach travel at £10 a head we still took 350 or so to a crucial relegation game.
Things have only got worse to be fair, the odd weekend trips such as Blackpool gets everyone out but the support/enthusiasm etc will continue to die at this rate.
Enthusiasm for following Super Al's brave boys! That died ages ago mate!
The football always ruins a really good away trip.
Look at the amount of people that left well before the end at Blackpool last year.
ruining the home games at the moment too.
As for the travel, it's only £10 for this game.
Interesting points about the older fans dropping out of away travel, I've always had the feeling that we've got an older fanbase than many clubs, and since most clubs away support is mainly drawn from the younger element, maybe thats part of the problem.
Don't think we are alone in this issue, but agree that we do appear to have an older fanbase - think CL is a good barometer of that.
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That goes up to one in four for match ticket sales. As you'd expect, that shot up for Barnsley. The actual percentage of kids will be higher because we sell to junior groups that aren't in that number, even though they pay the same price, and on occasion we also do comps to schools, etc.
By comparison over 60s account for about the same proportion of season tickets, but only about half as many match sales.
You wouldn't expect the U15s to turn out away unless accompanied by parents, but 500 for Birmingham is pretty average.