THREAD FOR DISCUSSING AWAY FOLLOWINGS (of all clubs)

ElfsborgAddick said:

clb74 said:

Covered End said:

clb74 said:

killerandflash said:

clb74 said:

killerandflash said:

To be fair Barnsley away isn't a very attractive away fixture, dull team and town and we played them last season

Indeed our opening away games do lack excitement, Blackburn, Barnsley, Reading, Wigan aren't exactly the games were were looking forward to. In October we have Fulham, Bristol City and WBA, all far more attractive games

Attractive fixtures killer?
Lets face it 80 % of us arrive plot up in a pub till 2.30 and then go to the ground.
I did try and get though a fellow poster on here to do the Oxford sightseeing tour when our fixture kicked off earlier last season but the answer was a flat no.
Fair enough if your going down to somewhere like bristol for a few nights and are going to go into somewhere like Bath.

Blackburn, Barnsley and Wigan are all teams we've played in L1. Reading is a dull ground with nothing around it. No real rivalry with any of them, no great spice or aggro.

Their probably amongst the dullest away fixtures we'll play this season!

Killer i go to watch us.
If im up there for the day it doesnt matter how nice the city / town is, im finding one or two pubs and then the game.
It was on the trip at Accrington last season going fron yorkshire to Lancashire that i decided i was going to do a few weekends when going away.
Shrewsbury went to chester on the sunday.
Barnsley went to the peak district for a couple of nights and chesterfield after the game.

So you don't find some fixtures more attractive than others ?
You find Accrington away as attractive as Man U away ?

Yes mate i do.
As i said in an earlier post i go to watch us, who we play is of no relevance to me.

I take your point, but surely Man City is more appealing than Bristol City.
Only because ive never done man city
Would rather league 1 grounds than premiership grounds

clb74 said:

milo said:

 

The population of Barnsley is 90,000, being generous and including ‘greater Barnsley’ it is a quarter of a million.  When they travel to London (population nearly nine million) they are going to the largest city in Europe with international culture, theatre, arts, clubs, music venues, shopping, etc – stuff other than the hour and a half of football.

 

When we travel to Barnsley we go to somewhere less than 3% the size of London, with none of the other bonuses of London.  It is the equivalent of Barnsley travelling 250 miles to visit

Seeing as your number crunching what percentage of away fans come to London for the night /weekend.
And how many bring the family or friends with them.

A very good point but it’s difficult to say because I can’t type that into google like I can ‘population of Barnsley’ or ‘how many pubs are there in London’ so this is all anecdotal but bear with me.

50% of the population of London are not from London, now admittedly a percentage of these may be from abroad and have no particular allegiance to a team, for example, I think 10% of Londoners are Polish (or at least used to be).  But a very large chunk of people living in London come from other parts of England and support the team they grew up with.  Of my non-London team supporting friends that live in London, they support Liverpool x 2, Birmingham, Middlesbrough x3, Plymouth, Southampton, WBA, Everton, Sheffield, Brighton, Southend and Bradford.  They often get invaded by friends and family when their team are in town (well maybe not so much the lad from Southend).

In all my time of watching Charlton away I’ve had weekenders away staying with friends when we’ve played Walsall and Wolves (brother at university in the black country) and Middlesbrough when I was seeing a girl who lived near there (incidentally, the match got called off Saturday morning due to a frozen pitch) – so two games in thirty odd years.

I’ve had more people want to stay with me to watch their team in a year than I have had the opportunity to stay with friends elsewhere in my entire life.  I’ve even suggested going to watch Charlton play at the Riverside to my Middlesbrough supporting friends and they can’t be bothered.  One of them has seen Middlesbrough play more times at the Valley than Ayresome Park and the Riverside stadium combined.

The only other times I’ve stayed away for the weekend watching Charlton have been seaside towns, Brighton, Plymouth, Bournemouth and Blackpool and also Manchester once (which has a bit more going for it as a place to visit).  It’s difficult to persuade a group of friends/family to travel to a pit town in Lancashire just for a football game, unless they are fairly obsessed with football.

As I’ve said, this is just based on my experience, but I think its fair to say that London is a bigger draw as a place to visit than anywhere else in the UK and that London has more ‘away fans’ living there than anywhere else in the UK and that has to influence attendances.  The only other place I think that may have a similar blip are places like Blackpool (although god only knows why).

So I can’t tell you how many people stay the night in London or how many friends they bring with them – I haven’t got a clue, but I think it will be higher than for most other towns.  Why do you need an exact number?

Hastingsaddick said:

1,700+ from Forest was pretty impressive....Live on TV & mid-week.

ElfsborgAddick said:

oohaahmortimer said:

Midweek away followings

1,276 Barnsley @ Brum 
773 Bristol City @ Derby
383 Blackburn @ Hull
790 Luton @ Sheff Wed
1,302 Stoke @ Preston
1,751 Forest @ The Valley
406 Brentford @ Leeds
503 Huddersfield @ Cardiff
1,085 Swansea @ QPR
893 Reading @ WBA

950 Coventry @ Pompey
493 Tranmere @ Bristol Rovers
1,350 Lincoln @ MK Dons
2,351 Sunderland @ Rochdale
667 Wombles @ Ipswich

600 Bradford @ Stevenage

Usual toilet following by Blackburn.

MillwallFan said:

sunbury-addick said:

Apologies if missed it, how many away at Fulham ?

1970. Sold out allocation. All went to ST holders in a few hours. Probably could’ve sold double that, such was demand. 

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Uboat said:

sunbury-addick said:

MillwallFan said:

sunbury-addick said:

Apologies if missed it, how many away at Fulham ?

1970. Sold out allocation. All went to ST holders in a few hours. Probably could’ve sold double that, such was demand. 

1970 - that is all they give ? very poor - was looking forward to that - won't get a ticket

Very odd. Doesn't that stand hold about 6k and have a 'neutrals' section?

They have building works going on.

ChiAddick said:

Decent numbers from Wigan too considering their fan base.