Stickied League 2 Away Support Thread 2023/24

[E10rifle]

555 Orient at Accrington, eventually.

 

[mowgli]

216 Mansfield at Adams Park today.

 

[Richard Cranium]

216 Mansfield at Adams Park today.

Wank

 

[Habbinalan]

.........Personally, I'm just gutted that we've gone from having an excellent travelling support and a passionate home crowd, to what, by all accounts, is something average in number and quiet of voice away and good in number and poor of voice at home.

It's strange that the best season on both fronts was our failed promotion attempt under Quinn and co, and our double-winning season didn't even match up. Ho hum. Hopefully things will improve when our club stop trying to kill off the passion/ban anyone who dares sing up.

CHOMP!!!

and prepare for contentious in part response..

I share your pain. It felt like our travelling numbers were down this season, after a blip with the new ground/promotion effect. In fact, they appear to be up again - but the extras seem to be from an older age group and more thoughtful set of fans (myself included, perhaps on both counts). Many have moved on or broadened their horizons.

The amber army seems to have lost numbers and its edge. Yesterday was the worst in a while but not atypical. The team were not great, no worse than I expected, but it's difficult to join a passion about how much better City are than Rovers or how a naïve Irish lad, who changed jobs 'cause his new club were keen to sign him and his old club (who'd paid him loads of dosh after he got injured playing/training for them) indicated they didn't rate him, is a c*nt, w*nker, Judas and ginger tosser.

I'll continue to try to add to the positivity and humour when opportunity offers, join in songs/chants when moved by the moment and company, enjoy the banter and beer with salt of the earth League 2 fans across the country and tolerate those of our more challenging fans who deserve it and mutter about those who can be an embarrassment.

Does that fit the Habbinite stereotype? Have I finally thrown off my NRE shackles after over 10 years since my migration?

 

[Vanni]

443 Amber Army at the Memorial.

#massive
#aboveaverage

 

[northstandexile]

251 Wombles at Hartlepool.

pool website says 259 dons
228 bees in devon
527 green army up north
222 exiles at sixfields
262 boro at the Kassam
485 pies at fratton
144 red devils at the minster

 

[GTFCfish]

443 Amber Army at the Memorial.

#massive
#aboveaverage

Very good for a 350 mile round trip.

 

[Football Purist]

443 Amber Army at the Memorial.

#massive
#aboveaverage

Good numbers although I do recall your club programme used to run an article about following the side away from home and the piece went by the name 'The Inter-city Trickle'.

 

[Football Purist]

555 Orient at Accrington, eventually.

That's very good.

 

[Football Purist]

I completely disagree, I hate arguing....

Anyway, I cast no stones. It is not I that attacked Leyton Orient apropos of nothing.

Personally, I'm just gutted that we've gone from having an excellent travelling support and a passionate home crowd, to what, by all accounts, is something average in number and quiet of voice away and good in number and poor of voice at home.

It's strange that the best season on both fronts was our failed promotion attempt under Quinn and co, and our double-winning season didn't even match up. Ho hum. Hopefully things will improve when our club stop trying to kill off the passion/ban anyone who dares sing up.

Incidentally,that 5-0 tonking at Histon,ffs...was that the lowest point for you as a United fan?

 

[Football Purist]

In footballing terms, I'd probably say so, the only mitigating factor was it was the FA Trophy (a competition that was despised at the time and for about 6 years afterwards). When we lost to them in the league was pretty bad, but by then we'd actually assembled a decent side and were superior overall. There were a few other defeats in the Conference that were the pits, losing at Rushden 3-1 one season with it looking like we'd be relegated to the regional divisions was awful, and I seem to recall Hayes and Yeading lining up with what looked like a team of children, before smashing us to pieces.

None of these football low points really compare though to the stony silence that greeted full time when we got relegated, or the fact we nearly lost our club and had to fight tooth and nail for it, or the rape and pillage by John H*ward and Gary Harwood, were all far lower over all.

Fair enough...but 5-0 at Histon!!!
If someone had suggested that might actually happen a few years prior,you'd have laughed the rest of the week,wouldn't you?
Pretty damned humiliating,I'd have thought and surely worse than getting turned over by Camb City.
The equivalent for us would be losing 5-0 at Nantwich,a side that lots of Crewe fans go and watch when they have a big game.
I know we'd never hear the end of it.

 

[Gassy]

651 Rovers at Carlisle. Cracking support that

 

[Gas1982]

651 gas heads @ Carlisle!!!

 

[mowgli]

579 Chairboys at Notts County in a crowd of 4,452.

 

[Football Purist]

579 Chairboys at Notts County in a crowd of 4,452.

Pretty good.For Wycombe.

 

[Football Purist]

651 gas heads @ Carlisle!!!

Very good.I wonder if City82 would've taken that many.

 

[E10rifle]

359 Poolies getting neck ache in East London.

 

[Roger Stone]

156 Stanley. Dreadful game. Accy didn't need to do much to get the 3 points. V end of season feel today.

 

[Football Purist]

156 Stanley. Dreadful game. Accy didn't need to do much to get the 3 points. V end of season feel today.

Are you lot ever gonna sort yourselves out with a decent ground?
Somerton was a dump but Rodders ain't much of an improvement in all honesty.

 

[EricSabin]

1667 Cobblers fans in a sold out 1750 away following

 

[northstandexile]

1823 hatters at the hive
1328 u's at the abbey
462 grecians at Gatwick
108 yorkies at home park

 

[GTFCfish]

651 Rovers at Carlisle. Cracking support that

651 gas heads @ Carlisle!!!

Superb that, really hope you lot go up again as despite breaking our hearts in last years play off final all the fans i spoke to on the walk from tube station to Wembley (of which there were a lot as we got off at the wrong stop)! were brilliant people, and even though Barnet won the league Bristol Rovers were far and away the best team in that league last year, so great to see you doing so well again with a chance of back to back promotions, good luck!

 

[Gas1982]

Cheers GTFCfish, we were lucky at Wembley you could have beat us. Fingers crossed we got a good run of games now apart from Northampton and back to back promotions would be unbelievable! Shame to see such a good club like yours still out of the football league.

 

[GTFCfish]

Cheers GTFCfish, we were lucky at Wembley you could have beat us. Fingers crossed we got a good run of games now apart from Northampton and back to back promotions would be unbelievable! Shame to see such a good club like yours still out of the football league.

Yeah on the day we were unlucky but over the season you definately deserved to go up, some of the football you played at Blundell Park was fantastic and i don't know how we managed to only lose 1 - 0!
I didn't notice you had lost your last game at Carlisle i thought that you were 3rd, but still as you say a good run of games coming up for you to hopefully make up the 3 point gap, and even play offs would be a great effort after coming out of the conference.
I have my fingers crossed for you!

 

[Vanni]

Very good for a 350 mile round trip.

What we really need is you lot back in the league. Your away support is better(and much louder!) than most L2 sides. The only thing that worries me is Hurst, but I'm hoping he gets it right this time.

 

[Urban]

You can't win the league but not be the best team!

But yes, great effort that. Only reason I don't want them to go up is because they're far more accessible than Crewe or bloody Blackpool. Well, that and the nailed on banker of a home win against them!

 

[Limerick Mariner]

What we really need is you lot back in the league. Your away support is better(and much louder!) than most Championship sides. The only thing that worries me is Hurst, but I'm hoping he gets it right this time.

Corrected that for you...

 

[Vanni]

Corrected that for you...

Yep, probably true. Thing is I don't watch a lot of Championship footy, in fact I rarely do.

 

[Limerick Mariner]

Yep, probably true. Thing is I don't watch a lot of Championship footy, in fact I rarely do.

Me neither, and of course it's only half serious but we do average more than a few at that level and there are loads more local games in London, Lancashire and Yorkshire, than we have.

Hurst worries most of us I think, he lacks a certain tactical something...

 

[JJH]

Very good.I wonder if City82 would've taken that many.

1,300 up there 2006/07 fella