Stickied League 2 Away Support Thread 2023/24

[saddler78]

Now Clarke has gone. I honestly give up.



2 wins in 20 games and we took more than you did for a massive promotion game?

Seems a bit hasty 7 without a win unless all was not well behind the scenes?

 

[EricSabin]

Now Clarke has gone. I honestly give up.



2 wins in 20 games and we took more than you did for a massive promotion game?

Huge game for you, 2 hours away. 650. Toss hahaha.

 

[E10rifle]

2 wins in 20 games and we took more than you did for a massive promotion game?

Methinks Mr Sabin doth protest too much. Pretty much accepted fact that, when taking crowds and location into account, Northampton are the single worst travellers amongst all non-tinpotters.

 

[Limerick Mariner]

Methinks Mr Sabin doth protest too much. Pretty much accepted fact that, when taking crowds and location into account, Northampton are the single worst travellers amongst all non-tinpotters.

Football one week rugby the next…

 

[F!RTHY]

Seems Crewe have given us behind the goal (additional 500 or so). The club haven’t communicated it yet - obviously.

They’re so fucking slack sometimes, honestly.

 

[EricSabin]

Methinks Mr Sabin doth protest too much. Pretty much accepted fact that, when taking crowds and location into account, Northampton are the single worst travellers amongst all non-tinpotters.

I only protested because I found it weird some greasy Vale fan clambered down from League 1 to have a pop!

 

[northstandexile]

I only protested because I found it weird some greasy Vale fan clambered down from League 1 to have a pop!

They are just getting in practice for when they are back here next season.

 

[ForzaCounty]

Methinks Mr Sabin doth protest too much. Pretty much accepted fact that, when taking crowds and location into account, Northampton are the single worst travellers amongst all non-tinpotters.

They took 40,000 to Wembley once. If you didn't know that, you've never met a Northampton fan; it's how they start their conversations

 

[Limerick Mariner]

They took 40,000 to Wembley once. If you didn't know that, you've never met a Northampton fan; it's how they start their conversations

Our second Wembley win in a matter of weeks - it’s how we start our conversations…

The second thing that 30k of those fans say is “actually I prefer rugby union”…

 

[F!RTHY]

They fetched about 25,000 when we dicked em in 2013.

Could tell the vast majority were day trippers.

 

[BlackHaddock]

Northampton is a London over spill town isn't it? They were always very quiet when I've seen them at their plaice or Wembley, never seen them away anywhere apart from a cup game at Telford many years ago, think they are all Spurs supporters really.

 

[joethegill]

Northampton is a London over spill town isn't it? They were always very quiet when I've seen them at their plaice or Wembley, never seen them away anywhere apart from a cup game at Telford many years ago, think they are all Spurs supporters really.

Think you need to look at a map - it's closer to Birmingham than London. And I wouldn't consider it an overspill for either. Travel time-wise it's like saying Grimsby is an overspill for Sheffield!

 

[Son of Cod]

Think you need to look at a map - it's closer to Birmingham than London. And I wouldn't consider it an overspill for either. Travel time-wise it's like saying Grimsby is an overspill for Sheffield!

While I agree that it wasn't built as a spillover town for London it's definitely within the commuter belt now. You can get to London in under an hour (just) on a direct train whereas you're looking at at change at Donny and more like 1 hour 45 minutes or so from Cleethorpes/GY to Sheff. So you're kind of both right in my opinion.

I don't really go in for the Northampton/Grimsby BEEF stuff (except when Eric Sabin pretends he can't hear us), but there's definitely a little bit of needle about the fixture for some odd reason. Andy Woodman absolutely hating us must have come from that 1997/98 playoff final as otherwise it's completely irrational.

 

[Chief Rocka]

500 Pools fans in a crowd of 2139 at Salford

 

[Moonie]

1,052 Stockport at Carlisle. Good effort.

 

[GFCSludge]

1651 Cheery O's at Priestfield

 

[Roger Stone]

3,575 (200) at RP

 

[BlackHaddock]

Think you need to look at a map - it's closer to Birmingham than London. And I wouldn't consider it an overspill for either. Travel time-wise it's like saying Grimsby is an overspill for Sheffield!

No, stand by my Assesement. It’s a London overspill town just like Peterborough and Kings Lynn.

 

[Posh Harry]

No, stand by my Assesement. It’s a London overspill town just like Peterborough and Kings Lynn.

I live in Peterborough and totally agree it is an overspill from the smoke. Full of plastic arsenal and spurs fans. Kings lynn though? Not sure if that is a piss take, but that is a port town with no direct route to london at all.

 

[F!RTHY]

557 City at Swindon.

Seemingly no one paid on the day.

 

[northstandexile]

445 Colchester at Crawley
195 Walsall at Harrogate
76 Barrow at Cleethorpes
179 Donny at Stevenage
625 Northampton at Sutton

missing SWA at Rochdale, BBC saying total crowd of only 2263

 

[RLC]

362 Tranmere fans at Rochdale.

 

[Chief Rocka]

For Poolies and Dale

https://twitter.com/x/status/1645861084455227418

In fairness you'll likely receive two blocks of the Pop Side instead, about 8-900.

We're selling out regularly, chasing automatics and the management believe having home fans behind both goals gives more advantage... you can't really blame us for the decision

900 tickets for us, usual Twitter sort wetting themselves over it but what can you do, potentially a massive game for Stockport, every right to house their own for potentially such a big game.

 

[Sammo1982]

I don't really go in for the Northampton/Grimsby BEEF stuff (except when Eric Sabin pretends he can't hear us), but there's definitely a little bit of needle about the fixture for some odd reason. Andy Woodman absolutely hating us must have come from that 1997/98 playoff final as otherwise it's completely irrational.

No, I don't get it, you were the better side at the end of the day and we have had far harder, or more unjust results/teams to get upset about over the years. It has to come from that Wembley game for Woodman though. I live in Bromley and keep up to date with The Ravens, do find it funny how Woody is trying to stir up all of Bromley to consider you as some sort of rival, during the FA cup run he was saying how much he wants to get to round 1 so old rivalries can be renewed!

 

[Son of Cod]

No, I don't get it, you were the better side at the end of the day and we have had far harder, or more unjust results/teams to get upset about over the years. It has to come from that Wembley game for Woodman though. I live in Bromley and keep up to date with The Ravens, do find it funny how Woody is trying to stir up all of Bromley to consider you as some sort of rival, during the FA cup run he was saying how much he wants to get to round 1 so old rivalries can be renewed!

I didn't realise he'd be going around saying that this season, that's hilarious! I get that he saved a pen in that final and lost and that's hard to take but I genuinely don't really remember too many contentious decisions or us adopting the dark arts or anything. The most memorable thing for me was what an utterly forgettable game it was. Two teams that were probably on par that season, I think all three matches ended up 1-0 to either of us. The only thing I can really think of as a valid explanation is perhaps the Ian Atkins factor. He was quite an abrasive character at times and perhaps Woodman fed off that and has sort of been influenced in some way by his managerial style.

 

[Limerick Mariner]

557 City at Swindon.

Seemingly no one paid on the day.

I’d assumed you had more there than that - are Swindon another club that publish tickets sold as the attendance then? When I watched the highlights there looked to be nowhere near 6.5k home fans

 

[F!RTHY]

I’d assumed you had more there than that - are Swindon another club that publish tickets sold as the attendance then? When I watched the highlights there looked to be nowhere near 6.5k home fans

Home ends were incredibly sparse.

This was our away end. Don’t know what it holds but I know we shifted over 500 before the game. No price increase on the gate either, so there wasn’t any incentive to pre-buy. With that in mind, it’s unlikely next to no away fans bought on the night.

 

[Alan Partridge]

Looks a bang on figure, to be fair - we had 558 there.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1634629100194222080

 

[Limerick Mariner]

Home ends were incredibly sparse.

This was our away end. Don’t know what it holds but I know we shifted over 500 before the game. No price increase on the gate either, so there wasn’t any incentive to pre-buy. With that in mind, it’s unlikely next to no away fans bought on the night.

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I hadn’t appreciated how many clubs are now declaring tickets sold rather actual attendance. Comparing the number in the stands in the EFL highlights to declared attendances it looks like most clubs in the championship are doing it. Blackpool, QPR, Reading, Swansea and Watford all looked very sparse the other night.

 

[Son of Cod]

Looks a bang on figure, to be fair - we had 558 there.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1634629100194222080

Yep same for us, we had 565 there and it was that exact section.