Warnock's Visit to The Lane

[upthemaggies]

Very interesting stats!

I'd just picked out a few key seasons and then tagged last season on for where we're at now. I expect there will be seasons where it's dipped below 25%, it will have gone up and down rather than a straight crash but there will obviously have been a general downward trend as a result of Clough/Taylor in percentage terms. What impact Fwords success this year will have going forward on the split between r*ds and b&w stripes in our fair city remains to be seen.

[Woodypie]

He marched us up to the top of the hill and then had a great fall.

Duke of York or Humpty Dumpty? Make your mind up!

[Woodypie]

And that's the problem. They are wedded to a particular style whether it works or not. So far, it has proven to be ineffective and insufficient.

Seems so

[Elite_Pie]

I'd just picked out a few key seasons and then tagged last season on for where we're at now.

Don't know if you can confirm it UTM, but I have a random memory that for just one season we had a slightly higher average home attendance than them. It would be early 70s when Allan Brown was their manager, but then shortly afterwards Sam Longson sacked Clough at Derby. The rest is history, and not in our favour,

[upthemaggies]

Don't know if you can confirm it UTM, but I have a random memory that for just one season we had a slightly higher average home attendance than them. It would be early 70s when Allan Brown was their manager, but then shortly afterwards Sam Longson sacked Clough at Derby. The rest is history, and not in our favour,

1972/73 they averaged 9.995, Notts 10,701, so in percentage terms that would be 107%
Before that you have to go back to 1955 when we averaged over 2k more than them. In 1950 we had 13k higher average than them, 159% of their average.

[Elite_Pie]

1972/73 they averaged 9.995, Notts 10,701, so in percentage terms that would be 107%.

Thanks for that, you've made an old man feel very happy.

The annoying thing is that when their 72/73 attendance tripled under Clough, all 30,000 of them insisted they had been there for years!

[The_Don_ORiordan]

Those stats are actually pretty impressive when you think about it. I mean last season was our joint lowest league finish ever, while it was Forest's best season this century. Forest as a club seem way more than four times bigger than us. The amount of money they have is probably closer to 4000x than 4x. So to get a quarter of their gates is pretty good really.

It's strange about the low gates when we were last a decent side. I think we average just over 10k in the top flight. We'd probably get that if we made it back to L1 now, given the momentum and excitement that would generate.

A few comments I would make. Firstly, the late 80’s early nineties were the start of football’s revival. Italia 90 the premier league and all seater stadium brought fans back. So those low gates weren’t so bad.

On the flip side, last seasons comparison is also a little false. The reds sold out many games last season and had they a bigger stadium the comparison would have been greater.

So the bad not so bad, and the good not so good imho

[crazyfists]

Best time ever to be a Notts fan. Emphasises how pathetic it is now.

Agreed, they were the best years of my being a Notts supporter and I long for those days to return.