Stickied League One Away Support Thread 2023/24

[FGR-Star]

Full house for today ...

Saturday 30th July 2022
Accrington Stanley 2-2 Charlton Athletic | 2,767 [892]
Bristol Rovers 1-2 Forest Green Rovers | 9,064 [796]
Cambridge United 1-0 MK Dons | 6,588 [1,405]
Cheltenham Town 2-3 Peterborough United | 4,425 [1,050]
Derby County 1-0 Oxford United | 31,053 [3,147]
Ipswich Town 1-1 Bolton Wanderers | 26,688 [1,392]
Lincoln City 1-1 Exeter City | 8,162 [579]
Morecambe 0-0 Shrewsbury Town | 4,750 [780]
Plymouth Argyle 1-0 Barnsley | 14,624 [932]
Port Vale 2-1 Fleetwood Town | 8,109 [280]
Sheffield Wednesday 3-3 Portsmouth | 26,901 [2,135]
Wycombe Wanderers 3-0 Burton Albion | 5,772 [253]

Pathetic home attendance from Accrington that! The rest are unbelievably impressive to be fair!

 

[BarrieOwl]

Pathetic home attendance from Accrington that! The rest are unbelievably impressive to be fair!

Shut up.

 

[kieran_vale]

Accrington are a small club and never pretended to be anything else. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. They’re a great example to many others. I don’t think FGR were getting that much more in a title winning season either.

 

[FGR-Star]

Shut up.

Intelligent reply there.

Why shut up? If FGR got a home attendance like that, all you cretins would be all over it!

 

[FGR-Star]

Accrington are a small club and never pretended to be anything else. Absolutely nothing wrong with that. They’re a great example to many others. I don’t think FGR were getting that much more in a title winning season either.

Like I said above, if FGR got a home attendance like that first up in League 1. You cretins would be having a field day and you know it.

 

[BarrieOwl]

That's their usual crowd, circa 2k home fans.

 

[BarrieOwl]

Like I said above, if FGR got a home attendance like that first up in League 1. You cretins would be having a field day and you know it.

Who you calling a cretin you fucking window licking cum stain, best part of you dribbled down your mums legs

 

[FGR-Star]

Who you calling a cretin you fucking window licking cum stain, best part of you dribbled down your mums legs

Haha, You think Cretin.

 

[BarrieOwl]

Haha, You think Cretin.

Been sniffing the beer mats again, get to bed you fucking embarrassing yokel.

 

[FGR-Star]

Been sniffing the beer mats again, get to bed you fucking embarrassing yokel.

Take your own advice I would.

 

[Kenny senior]

Good day at Ipswich today even with all ballache of getting there train strikes etc..
Got to say ipswich look a side this year still think we will be there or thereabouts come the end an enjoyable day and good weather

 

[Tom_ITFC]

Full house for today ...

Saturday 30th July 2022
Accrington Stanley 2-2 Charlton Athletic | 2,767 [892]
Bristol Rovers 1-2 Forest Green Rovers | 9,064 [796]
Cambridge United 1-0 MK Dons | 6,588 [1,405]
Cheltenham Town 2-3 Peterborough United | 4,425 [1,050]
Derby County 1-0 Oxford United | 31,053 [3,147]
Ipswich Town 1-1 Bolton Wanderers | 26,688 [1,392]
Lincoln City 1-1 Exeter City | 8,162 [579]
Morecambe 0-0 Shrewsbury Town | 4,750 [780]
Plymouth Argyle 1-0 Barnsley | 14,624 [932]
Port Vale 2-1 Fleetwood Town | 8,109 [280]
Sheffield Wednesday 3-3 Portsmouth | 26,901 [2,135]
Wycombe Wanderers 3-0 Burton Albion | 5,772 [253]

Those figures put us with more home fans than Wednesday don’t they

 

[BarrieOwl]

Those figures put us with more home fans than Wednesday don’t they

Yeah, well done. Let's see how it plays out.

 

[Bartonyellow]

Bravo to the space cadet stewards at Wycombe who told some of our fans they could not get in as it was “full”..he was told bollocks, we would take 250 if that and look again. He said there was a large school party in the away end and it was full. So some of our fans had to buy tickets to the home end. And guess what nothing in the away end bar our 253 fans. What a pisstake.

 

[Bobbin']

That’s brilliant from Barnsley imo.

 

[Boletus Edulis]

That’s brilliant from Barnsley imo.

It was, and they were pretty loud, certainly early on and at the end. V. Impressive. We get so few large away crowds so we are very appreciative of decent ones when they come. I imagine the over thousand for us this year (without checking who we have midweek) will be Bolton, Ipswich, Wednesday, Derby, Pompey, Exeter and Rovers. With possibly Charlton, Port Vale and Oxford getting close to it if its a Saturday. Have I missed anyone?

 

[kieran_vale]

It was, and they were pretty loud, certainly early on and at the end. V. Impressive. We get so few large away crowds so we are very appreciative of decent ones when they come. I imagine the over thousand for us this year (without checking who we have midweek) will be Bolton, Ipswich, Wednesday, Derby, Pompey, Exeter and Rovers. With possibly Charlton, Port Vale and Oxford getting close to it if its a Saturday. Have I missed anyone?

I think there’s next to no chance with us I’m afraid. Believe they’ve moved our fixture at Home Park to a Friday due to the World Cup and a potential clash with an England game.

 

[coronakopite]

It was, and they were pretty loud, certainly early on and at the end. V. Impressive. We get so few large away crowds so we are very appreciative of decent ones when they come. I imagine the over thousand for us this year (without checking who we have midweek) will be Bolton, Ipswich, Wednesday, Derby, Pompey, Exeter and Rovers. With possibly Charlton, Port Vale and Oxford getting close to it if its a Saturday. Have I missed anyone?

Perhaps if we're pushing for automatics .............................

 

[Boletus Edulis]

I think there’s next to no chance with us I’m afraid. Believe they’ve moved our fixture at Home Park to a Friday due to the World Cup and a potential clash with an England game.

yeah, now I remember. that is a shame, I know you travel fairly well.

 

[LancashireTrotters]

Thought Bristol Rovers weren’t giving away fans the terrace this year?

 

[cookiemonster]

Thought Bristol Rovers weren’t giving away fans the terrace this year?

We got half the tent plus the adjoining uncovered terrace bit yesterday. We took about 800 and that looked about full.

 

[UppaTowen_ITFC]

Good day at Ipswich today even with all ballache of getting there train strikes etc..
Got to say ipswich look a side this year still think we will be there or thereabouts come the end an enjoyable day and good weather

Thought it was a really decent game. First half hour in particular I was very impressed with your lads. Our goal clicked into us into gear. Think we die enough second half for the three points but can’t complain with the draw too much.

Your manager (thought he showed a lot of class pre match with some of his comments about us as it goes) said after the game that a lot of teams won’t get anything from our place but I’d say not too many sides will have a comfortable win against your lot either. Considering it was a fever pitch atmosphere in a 27k stadium, your lads didn't shy away from the occasion at all. You’ll flirt with the playoffs I think. Hopefully top 2 for us.

 

[BarrieOwl]

Thought it was a really decent game. First half hour in particular I was very impressed with your lads. Our goal clicked into us into gear. Think we die enough second half for the three points but can’t complain with the draw too much.

Your manager (thought he showed a lot of class pre match with some of his comments about us as it goes) said after the game that a lot of teams won’t get anything from our place but I’d say not too many sides will have a comfortable win against your lot either. Considering it was a fever pitch atmosphere in a 27k stadium, your lads didn't shy away from the occasion at all. You’ll flirt with the playoffs I think. Hopefully top 2 for us.

27k stadium?

 

[Tom_ITFC]

27k stadium?

Attendance. Rounded up.

Stadium is dropping in capacity though, probably only 29k now.

 

[BarrieOwl]

Attendance. Rounded up.

Stadium is dropping in capacity though, probably only 29k now.

I thought he meant capacity hence me querying it.

 

[Tom_ITFC]

I thought he meant capacity hence me querying it.

Like I say we are losing capacity though. We can’t provide away fans the lower tier anymore for security reasons I believe (too close to the home fans), the corner seats were ripped out (presumably used to replace seats elsewhere in need of repair and these were used rather than get new ones).

This season more seats near there were removed to open up the corner so emergency services would be able to enter the pitch easily if needed (a new screen added above it). We also lost seats so they could move the dugouts away from the pitch.

So a fair few either not able to use or been removed

 

[BarrieOwl]

Like I say we are losing capacity though. We can’t provide away fans the lower tier anymore for security reasons I believe (too close to the home fans), the corner seats were ripped out (presumably used to replace seats elsewhere in need of repair and these were used rather than get new ones).

This season more seats near there were removed to open up the corner so emergency services would be able to enter the pitch easily if needed (a new screen added above it). We also lost seats so they could move the dugouts away from the pitch.

So a fair few either not able to use or been removed

Mate our ground hold just under 40k but capacity restricted to 33k

 

[Tom_ITFC]

Mate our ground hold just under 40k but capacity restricted to 33k

Christ! How come there’s that much restriction?!

I haven’t been there yet, hoping to make it this year. Does the restriction affect the atmosphere or is the restriction all in one area of the ground?

 

[BarrieOwl]

Christ! How come there’s that much restriction?!

I haven’t been there yet, hoping to make it this year. Does the restriction affect the atmosphere or is the restriction all in one area of the ground?

Restricted capacity in most stands due to the age and health and safety zealots who claim concourses and exits aren't compatible with expected leaving time in this day.

Take the away end, holds over 6500 between the two tiers but now max allocated is just over 4k

 

[Laker]

Yeah we’ve lost a couple of thousand on our capacity (around 20%) due to health and safety. I’ve been at the abbey in a crowd of 9.9k but we are now capped at 7.9k frustratingly.