Recent content by alan holmes

don't believe I ever said they did, just making the point that I thought its not too bad a turn out not great but not too bad.

It would be better you didn't come than spend your money in that cesspit. thanks very much.

Given the size of their home support I'm none to impressed by the away support they generally bring to the riverside, can't comment on what they take anywhere else. then again about 70% of the teams that tip up at the riverside bring less than 1k anyway. I would like to know the average supports...

Lets put this in some kind of perspective shall we. Last week Derby bought a few over 1k for a normal none Tv Saturday match. We will be taking roughly the same amount twice the distance for a live Tv game. Not too shabby I believe.

ive got to go and I don't think we are going to reach an agreement. so finally before I go the top three have national support and some such as bury have little in the way of support so I feel my original point stands. ie we do alright from a limited pool to draw from.

I Don't know just a guess but I think greater manch 3 plus mill west yorks another 3 mill south yorks 2 plus mill north Derbyshire for chesterfield as the were mentioned another few hundred thou. I'm sure wiki could supply more accurate figs.

And whats the population of all these areas to support all these clubs 10 to 15 mill I would hazard a guess.

decent but it no Leeds or Manchester or Birmingham is it.

Well to enlighten you further (I do like to spread a little knowledge) there is around two and a half mill people live in the NE and about 2 mill of them live in areas that are dominated by those two ugly sisters. you also have to factor in Hartlepool and Darlo both not to big but both have...

You don't really know the north east very well do you. Ever questioned why The mags and the macums can attract such big numbers to their games. Its because once you leave the borders of Teesside heading North they are all skunks and black cats Very very few Boro also head south out of Boro and...

Is this the same Boro that has 60 or so seasons in the top flight and has an higher all time attendance average than 2 of the so called big five named, Forest, Derby. also wolves and Wednesday are only slightly better averages. Bye the way we have a better av than the other club listed Sheff...

Getting back to the original question ie Club size, my take on it is this, for what its worth. I think a clubs size is determined by number of Fans not what trophies it have garnered, some clearly big clubs for example Newcastle and Sunderland mess up season after season, small clubs such as...