Reply With QuoteAre those crowds just the League 2 one’s?
To be fair, I thought the home crowd was a bit disappointing yesterday. Good noise though and you’d hope a win at Colchester may bring a few more down.
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So yesterday we got another five figure attendance at Meadow Lane. This was our 5th this season and 7th since AH and KN came to the club at the start of 2017.
The top ten attendances this century are as follows;
1.) 2017/18 - Crewe 17,274 (Offer)
2.) 2017/18 - Forest Green 13,267 (Offer)
3.) 2017/18 - Mansfield Town 12,563
4.) 2016/17 - Portsmouth 12,184
5.) 2017/18 - Lincoln City 11,672
6.) 2009/10 - Cheltenham 11,331
7.) 2016/17 - Mansfield Town 11,328
8.) 2009/10 - Rochdale 10,536
9.) 2017/18 - Coventry City 10,316
10.) 2015/16 - Mansfield Town 10,074
Out of our highest top ten home attendances this century seven have come since AH and KN came to the club.
Only Rochdale and Cheltenham from the Munto Season and Mansfield at home in 15/16 (which was our first local derby with the stags in some years) broke five figures.
This season with Coventry and Lincoln being in this league plus both of those clubs doing well this has boosted these attendances. Then the take up of the offers. It’s a very good achievement.
Currently our average home attendance is 7,733 which is the 4th best in League Two and almost matches our league position. It’s also the 11th best in League One.
The Munto season average attendance was 7,353.
We are also on course to have our highest average home attendance in 24 years since 1993/94 season which was 8,314 when we were in the 2nd tier.
This seasons average attendance is also on course to be the highest we have had in the 4th tier in 47 years since the 1970/71 season which we averaged 10,757.
Whatever happens in the next four games there is no denying that this is now a club on the up, and has been an incredible turn around in getting people down the lane in just over a year.
Let’s turn up in numbers against Yeovil and Luton.
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Are those crowds just the League 2 one’s?
To be fair, I thought the home crowd was a bit disappointing yesterday. Good noise though and you’d hope a win at Colchester may bring a few more down.
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I reckon we were about 1k down on what I expected. Easter holidays probably the culprit. Even so I was pleased with how we ensured we were not outsung by the travelling support. I wonder if the acoustics in the Kop are actually better when not full?Originally Posted by BigFatPie
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It will be hard to maintain these figures next season if we don't go up, but at least we know the support is out there and that it doesn't need Munto-like promises of the Premier League and beyond to bring them in. There is obvious potential for this club.
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The positive mood around the club and the relative success we've had this season undoubtedly have helped, as have matches against local rivals and clubs like Coventry who are too big for this league. In order to maintain this increase and make it more permanent, we will need many more seasons battling at the top end of whichever league we're in, otherwise the support will be temporary and liable to drift away.
A good example is Wigan Athletic, who have long since lost their Premier League status, but are undoubtedly a bigger club now, as a result of a generation growing up seeing them in the upper leagues, than when they were seen as a former non-league side which belonged somewhere between the old divisions Three and Four. Mind you, look at the amount of money Dave Whelan had to invest just to turn them from a club which averaged 2-3,000 into a club that averages around 10,000!
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We had almost 10,000 more, yesterday, than Stags had against Crewe. Covvo is local yes but Crewe is hardly a long haul.
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Outstanding - comment and performance! It will be interesting to see the average gate on a curve from the supporters trust to the end of this season - especially if we can turn yesterday's win into a determined push for promotion.
Colchester's form is good, but a win there is not impossible, then Woevil at home... 6 points from those two and there'll be a real buzz around the club. Even 4 points from those two games and we'll make the playoffs. At this time of year, all we need is to be in the mix to have a puncher's chance.
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I still think promotion is a long shot this season but there can be no denying that Alan Hardy has done a much much much better job than his predecessor in selling Notts County to the community and getting those all important numbers up. I would be interested to know when the attendance gap between Notts and Forest has ever been closer in the past 50 years. If we can keep up the momentum we can make some serious in roads on their support base given they are very clearly NOT a club on the up just slowly getting a little bit worse each year. At some point there will need to be a gun to their head and put them out of their misery.
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It's been much much closer than it is today, the difference is currently 17,000, pretty much as bad as it's ever been and that's because we've never spent this long in the lower divisions before, coinciding with an attendance boom in the higher levels. We can't really blame the gap on 1959 or Brian Clough today, it's still a factor but the present day gulf is mostly down to our own failings.
Edit: For the period 1981-84 the gap was about 7,000, in the mid 70s it was around nil.
Last edited by upthemaggies; 08-04-2018 at 08:47 PM.
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Forest's relatively high attendances compared to ours - despite them being Sh1te for a few years now - is probably down to the fact that year on year the Championship becomes an ever more interesting league to watch and for your team to be in. The sooner we get there the better. Then we would see ML 3-quarters full every fortnight.
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