THREAD FOR DISCUSSING AWAY FOLLOWINGS (of all clubs)

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Anybody kept track of how many away allocations we’ve sold out this season ?

yesterday at Donny, gills and Oxford before that were both sold out if I recall rightly, Wimbledon...any others this season ?

7 I think.

Luton, Peterborough, Wimbledon, Bristol, Oxford, Gillingham and Doncaster

Friend Or Defoe said:

Great photo ruined by that Welsh flag.

I wonder if that flag is owned by a certain someone from Wrexham?

Aghem aghem!

stonemuse said:

Big numbers for Lincoln 

Rotherham is only about an hours drive from Lincoln.....plus Lincoln are on a roll and just can’t stop winning.
To be honest, I’m a bit surprised it wasn’t more........mind you, Rotherham is an absolute dump, so some excuse I suppose.

ElfsborgAddick said:

oohaahmortimer said:

788 Charlton @ Barnsley 
2,177 Wednesday @ scum 
2,584 Boro @ Blackburn
1,600 QPR @ Bristol City 
2,909 Derby @ Stoke 

1,467 Bristol Rovers @ Coventry (St Andrews)
4,014 Ipswich @ Peterborough 
2,014 Bolton @ Tranmere 
874 Pompey @ Sunderland (12.30 Live on the box I presume) 

1,400 Port Vale @ Salford 
1,063 Swindon @ Exeter
1,045 Oldham @ Bradford 
86 Crawley @ Scunthorpe 
1,039 Plymouth @ Newport County
1,500 Walsall @ Crewe 

Impressive turnouts by QPR and Bristol.

west London to Bristol and from Bristol to Birmingham are probably two relatively quick and easy journeys to make 

We had a similar number at the SOL last season for a midday KO

charltonnick said:

We had a similar number at the SOL last season for a midday KO

1st game of the season and we hadn't played them for over 10 years

oohaahmortimer said:

charltonnick said:

We had a similar number at the SOL last season for a midday KO

770 we had up there for our first visit in 13 years (297 miles) 

874 for Pompey for their 3rd visit in less than 4 months (334 miles)

So oohaah with all your knowledge on our away support why have we never travelled well.

ElfsborgAddick said:

clb74 said:

oohaahmortimer said:

charltonnick said:

We had a similar number at the SOL last season for a midday KO

770 we had up there for our first visit in 13 years (297 miles) 

874 for Pompey for their 3rd visit in less than 4 months (334 miles)

So oohaah with all your knowledge on our away support why have we never travelled well.

Boycotting.

What
For the last 40 years

oohaahmortimer said:

Cos , as a fanbase overall , we just don’t have a real passion for it like other clubs do.
i just don’t think we’re mad for it as much as other clubs .

of course we have a hardcore like most clubs do but other clubs have more up for it fans than we do .

what I’m trying to say is even though our numbers have improved , they’re still guff compared to other clubs 

Lost a generation of support when we were homeless.

Chris_from_Sidcup said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

oohaahmortimer said:

Cos , as a fanbase overall , we just don’t have a real passion for it like other clubs do.
i just don’t think we’re mad for it as much as other clubs .

of course we have a hardcore like most clubs do but other clubs have more up for it fans than we do .

what I’m trying to say is even though our numbers have improved , they’re still guff compared to other clubs 

Lost a generation of support when we were homeless.

That excuse used to apply but it can't now surely?

We went back in 1992. So kids born since then are in their 20s and of the age you'd expect to be travelling to games.

It's just bizarre how we can get 20k home crowds but can't muster 1500 for a northern away league game. The support is there, as we can take 5k to Sheff Utd in the cup on a sunday lunchtime and 3k to Doncaster for the play offs, also on a Sunday lunchtime.

Up till 2 years ago our away support seemed to have a high average age, we did not seem to get so many youngsters.

I cannot comment now as I do not go.

For the most part it’s a self-perpetuating numbers issue that is behind it. If fans think there won’t be many going to the game then it won’t be so attractive for them to go or rush to get tickets for. If fans think there will be good support then also going to the game becomes more attractive. We need to reach a critical mass figure on sales early on when they go on sale and the rest of the allocations will start to sell themselves. The attraction of following Charlton under Bowyer is definitely there both in terms of results and just as importantly the matchday experience in the stands, we just need to get the ticket sales moving a bit quicker. Perhaps a point system for the less attractive long distance games where you get double points if you buy in the first two days of going on sale might be worth looking at. If the club had announced that it had sold 6 or 700 hundred tickets for Blackburn and Barnsley in the first two days I suspect the final figure for the number of fans that eventually went to either game would have been significantly greater than the ones that did go.

palarsehater said:

away followings, if a big number people moan about a select fews behaviour, if a small number people moan that its shit. 


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