We had our allocations cut after the Kirkland incident though I do think we were a couple of hundred short last season, but Josie would know that better than me.
If we are our usual lower mid table position we will average between 2800 to 3000, if you look at Boro last season they had some massive away followings and still only averaged 2500 odd (I think Villa will be around that mark) If Newcastle are up there they will break 3000 yet only averaged...
We are easily as good as both of them but I do think whoever has a better season out of us and the mags will be top purely down to the money they have spent and their new grounds to visit.If we finish above them we will walk it.
Cardiff was a handful off a 1000 with nothing to play for (the first time for many years we had under a 1000 unless we had less than a thousand tickets) though the red lot definitely have bigger away support than us.
Took around 3500 to Dublin against Shamrock Rovers last week, another 1700-2000 against Peterborough on Saturday, 3100 sold out at QPR for first game of the season which is a sky game on the Sunday.
We spent 6m on Viduka 7.2m on Dacourt and 4.75m on Matteo that pre-season, Ferdinand was bought in November with the money from qualifying for the second stage in a group that included Barcelona and AC Milan. Our shit started when we bought Keane, Johnson and Fowler with extortionate wages...
So you just proved me right, you said the team that we bought the champions league semi final place when that clearly shows we didn't, we bought players because we were struggling to put sides out because of our injuries as you would see by our teams against Barcelona 0-4 and Man utd 0-3 that...
Ipswich midweek
Leeds 1259
Boro 491
burnley 470
Hull 383
Bolton 245
Blackburn 214
No where near as bad as others are saying when you haven't got anything at all to play for.
That was the segregated capacity mate, only Man Utd had the whole of the south stand (no segregation) the attendance was 31000, you have 4 clubs in the north east and there are 2.6 million people so whats your excuse for shit crowds?