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Re: All-time Attendances
« Reply #15 on: February 10, 2019, 02:26:33 PM »
The 8456 v Southampton , is that our lowest gate for a 1st team game post 70s ?.
I cant think of any lower .

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Re: All-time Attendances
« Reply #16 on: February 10, 2019, 02:29:07 PM »
The 8456 v Southampton , is that our lowest gate for a 1st team game post 70s ?.
I cant think of any lower .

I would say Simod Cup and ZDS cup games were lower. I think we might have got about five and a half thousand for the game against Bradford early in SGT's reign in whatever the chosen name of that Mickey Mouse competition was that year.

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Re: All-time Attendances
« Reply #17 on: February 10, 2019, 02:30:34 PM »
Six thousand-odd for Exeter in the League Cup that season.

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Re: All-time Attendances
« Reply #18 on: February 10, 2019, 02:33:00 PM »
The 8456 v Southampton , is that our lowest gate for a 1st team game post 70s ?.
I cant think of any lower .

I think it’s our lowest (ever recorded) league attendance.

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Re: All-time Attendances
« Reply #19 on: February 10, 2019, 02:34:39 PM »
Didn't they get an 8,000 crowd last week? Muppets.

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Re: All-time Attendances
« Reply #20 on: February 10, 2019, 02:37:38 PM »
Six thousand-odd for Exeter in the League Cup that season.

I think our game against Southampton was our only league game with less than 10,000 there around that time. But I think there were a few when we might have been as low as 12,000-14,000.

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Re: All-time Attendances
« Reply #21 on: February 10, 2019, 02:39:25 PM »
I was one of the 8,456 against Southampton on 01/02/86 which was actually a Saturday afternoon game, mostly notable for Dave Ismay getting the bird from a sparsely populated Holte for his ‘get behind your team’ speech. Heaven knows what Tony Barton made of it who returned as part of Saints coaching team.
10-12,000 was commonplace that season, including a 4-1 defeat to Arsenal watched by 10k for another Saturday 3pm game.

Another few big sides had a few shockers:
Spurs vs Blues, old div 1, 16/04/86 - 9,359

Chelsea vs Walsall in old div 2, 04/10/88 - 6,747

Chelsea are not big. They are rich.

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Re: All-time Attendances
« Reply #22 on: February 10, 2019, 02:40:23 PM »
The 8456 v Southampton , is that our lowest gate for a 1st team game post 70s ?.
I cant think of any lower .

I would say Simod Cup and ZDS cup games were lower. I think we might have got about five and a half thousand for the game against Bradford early in SGT's reign in whatever the chosen name of that Mickey Mouse competition was that year.
Yeah I thought possibly ZDSCup game but because the Southampton game always gets mentioned I thought that maybe been our lowest ever

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Re: All-time Attendances
« Reply #23 on: February 10, 2019, 02:44:38 PM »
The 8456 v Southampton , is that our lowest gate for a 1st team game post 70s ?.
I cant think of any lower .

I would say Simod Cup and ZDS cup games were lower. I think we might have got about five and a half thousand for the game against Bradford early in SGT's reign in whatever the chosen name of that Mickey Mouse competition was that year.
Yeah I thought possibly ZDSCup game but because the Southampton game always gets mentioned I thought that maybe been our lowest ever

I would guess most people don't count attendances at Simod Cup/ZDS Cup games as attendances for that competition were pretty pathetic in general.

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Re: All-time Attendances
« Reply #24 on: February 10, 2019, 02:48:06 PM »
Bradford in the Simod Cup was something like 4200, we also had Derby in the same competition the previous season and it was about 5200.

85/86 was the nadir for most clubs. Our highest home attendance in the league was 27,626 v Man Utd, sha was 26,694. Of the 42 league games we played that season only the away games at Man Utd and Everton had more than 30K, and only 10 of our 42 league games had more than 20K.

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Re: All-time Attendances
« Reply #25 on: February 10, 2019, 02:54:09 PM »
Bradford in the Simod Cup was something like 4200, we also had Derby in the same competition the previous season and it was about 5200.

85/86 was the nadir for most clubs. Our highest home attendance in the league was 27,626 v Man Utd, sha was 26,694. Of the 42 league games we played that season only the away games at Man Utd and Everton had more than 30K, and only 10 of our 42 league games had more than 20K.

I think it was pretty poor from about 1984 to 1986 in the main. Apart from Liverpool and Manure who stayed around 40,000 a lot of the time teams like Villa, Arsenal and Spurs (even though Spurs were doing pretty well around then) were all regularly getting less than 20,000. I think Everton were getting similar crowds to us and were sometimes down to 12,000-14,000 before they suddenly came to life in the second half of 1983-1984.
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Re: All-time Attendances
« Reply #26 on: February 10, 2019, 02:55:47 PM »
Going back to the original post, an Albion fan talking utter cobblers. Who’d have thought it?

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Re: All-time Attendances
« Reply #27 on: February 10, 2019, 02:59:59 PM »
Going back to the original post, an Albion fan talking utter cobblers. Who’d have thought it?

Small Heath and Albion fans rewrite history even more than those who deny the holocaust atrocities.

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Re: All-time Attendances
« Reply #28 on: February 10, 2019, 04:49:12 PM »
what explains the severe downturn in attendances generally in the mid eighties? I've just trawled back through history and the lowest attendance I can find in 1970/71 was just over 16,000 so my memory was playing tricks. The following season home attendances were ridiculously high.

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Re: All-time Attendances
« Reply #29 on: February 10, 2019, 04:53:42 PM »
what explains the severe downturn in attendances generally in the mid eighties? I've just trawled back through history and the lowest attendance I can find in 1970/71 was just over 16,000 so my memory was playing tricks. The following season home attendances were ridiculously high.

They'd been going down for decades but a combination of hooliganism, Heysel, awful conditions and the media saying that if you went to a match you were likely to end up at least dead if not worse all came to a head in 1985-86. Our decline was probably steeper than most because the joys of 1980-83 had stopped it for a bit.

 


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