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Amazing to note that in the 1972/3 season Notts were in what is now League One and averaged 10,635, whereas Forest were in what is now the Championship and averaged 9,994.
Amazing what demolishing the Meadows and winning the old knockout version of the European Cup a time or two can do to swing the pendulum for so long!
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Is that correct Swale?
Forest’s 1971/72 average attendance was 21,459, the season they were relegated from Division 1.
It’s incredible that the following season, in Division 2, the average attendance dropped to 9,994, meaning they lost over half their supporters.
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Notts’ average attendance was greatly boosted in the last six games as we stormed to promotion. The aggregate for those six was over 100,000, including 23,513 on the final day v Tranmere. Forest’s highest was 18,082 v Villa in September- the previous Tuesday they’d had just 6,414 v Cardiff.
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"The past is a foreign country. They do things differently there" L P Hartley The Go-Between
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In that case, then so is the future.Originally Posted by sidders
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One of their players around that time, Duncan McKenzie, reckoned that the majority of people in Nottingham actually supported Notts and only watched Fword when they were doing well.
From 1912 until 1957, that's almost a lifetime and also the period the vast majority of the support back then grew up in, they spent a grand total of three seasons in the top flight, we'd had seven seasons at the top in that time. They had a very successful spell from 57-71 but that was still very recent history and there probably was a sense that it was now all over and they were looking at another long stretch in the wilderness whilst Notts, on the other hand, were now resurgent.
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I think it is correct, but the figures I have shown (see link) are by year, not season. As it shows 2018 which is not yet complete, I think that's the end of season year (ie 1973 = 72/73). They probably did that to make the columns fit.
Notts had a better average in 71/72 at 13,941 (The first season in the third). I remember us having a massive crowd against Villa that year ... over 34,000. In 72/73 it shows our average as 10,635, lower than the previous year but higher than Forest, who had just been relegated.
http://european-football-statistics....nclub/notc.htm
Forest did indeed plummet to 9,994 in 72/73 after their relegation (see link). Loyal supporters, eh?
http://european-football-statistics.co.uk/attnclub/notf.htm
Last edited by Bohinen; 11-06-2018 at 08:02 AM.
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I wish people would learn how to spell Sirrel.
Some of the attendances for our away games during the 91/92 season are interesting.
I appreciate we were not the most attractive opposition that season.
Chelsea only drew 15,847.
Coventry City 10,685.
Villa 23,020.
Everton 24,230.
Spurs 23,364.
Liverpool 25,457.
Man City 23,426.
It's amazing what a bit of success can do.
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Those were fairly typical attendances for the most part at the time, they'd be much higher now. Chelsea's visit to Man City for example only attracted 200 more people than Notts. Less people were at Main Road to watch their league clashes with QPR, Coventry, Luton and Wimbledon.
Our visit to Fword was their biggest crowd for a number of years and I'm not even sure it's been bettered since.
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My spelling has gone downhill in recent years - I blame this site.
At least I got Dunnett and Hateley right.
Attendances over recent(ish) years:
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