Remembering 92/93

[usav]

Why were the home gates so low? I remember Alan Hansen mentioning this as well.

You can probably find Dave Woodhall's answer to this question in a million different places on this site if you really want to.  It applies to many seasons not just this one.

[dave.woodhall]

Why were the home gates so low? I remember Alan Hansen mentioning this as well.

You can probably find Dave Woodhall's answer to this question in a million different places on this site if you really want to.  It applies to many seasons not just this one.

I don't think I've ever given any specific answer because I don't have one. Sometimes our crowds just drop for no apparent reason.

[Damo70]

It might just be my memory playing tricks on me but despite a lot of grounds undergoing work to comply with the Taylor report that season I don't particularly recall having to queue up for tickets. But I do recall having to queue up for tickets for games in the last half of the 1989-1990 season. Didn't we even have a pretty big crowd for the cup game at home to Port Vale?

[usav]

Why were the home gates so low? I remember Alan Hansen mentioning this as well.

You can probably find Dave Woodhall's answer to this question in a million different places on this site if you really want to.  It applies to many seasons not just this one.

I don't think I've ever given any specific answer because I don't have one. Sometimes our crowds just drop for no apparent reason.

Right that’s what I meant, generically not specific to that season.  I also think at the end of the day, we just aren’t as well supported as we like to think we are, even taking fluctuations into account.

[rob_bridge]

Why were the home gates so low? I remember Alan Hansen mentioning this as well.

I remember the prices for the Wimbledon game being dropped to £5. The only lockouts I can remember were Man U (beat them twice in a week) and Spurs in midweek.

Edit - oh and Liverpool

I remember being at the Cov game and it was seemingly rammed in the Holte End.

[PeterWithesShin]

Attendances in general were still low. We ended up averaging 29,500 and that was the third highest in the country that season.

[rob_bridge]

Attendances in general were still low. We ended up averaging 29,500 and that was the third highest in the country that season.

Yep seemed the next season saw an increase and subsequent years. The ‘experience’ changed, grounds improved beyond recognition around then, and it became more commercial and much better marketed. Thatchers Yuppies were now parents and the extended audience was captivated.

[dave.woodhall]

From memory, gates were low at the start of 1994-95, possibly because the Holte was still being finished,  then they took off towards the end of the season and kept rising until about 1999.

[PeterWithesShin]

In 92/93 we went as low as 16K for Southampton and had 2 or 3 other sub 20K, as well as what seems to have been airbrushed from history, a PL record at the time of 45,347 for the Holte's last stand.

In 94/95 capacity at the start of the season was just under 30 iirc and only once on the first 5 or 6 games did we reach that, the Newcastle game after Inter.

[dave.woodhall]

In 92/93 we went as low as 16K for Southampton and had 2 or 3 other sub 20K, as well as what seems to have been airbrushed from history, a PL record at the time of 45,347 for the Holte's last stand.

Which was, of course, the season after.

[PeterWithesShin]

They are the figures for 93/94, I just typed the wrong season like a plum.

[rob_bridge]

The 16k for Soton in deepest November was one of the coldest ever experiences at football. Le Tissier bagged 2.

Made worse when I bumped into the only Southampton fans I have ever met who coincidentally was covering the game for one of the East Mids radio stations.

[olaftab]

Attendances in general were still low. We ended up averaging 29,500 and that was the third highest in the country that season.

Are you sure that was in 92/93 and not another season?

[PeterWithesShin]

Yes.

[Damo70]

The 16k for Soton in deepest November was one of the coldest ever experiences at football. Le Tissier bagged 2.

Made worse when I bumped into the only Southampton fans I have ever met who coincidentally was covering the game for one of the East Mids radio stations.

The coldest I have ever been at a game was at Notts County in midweek in the BFR days. The coldest I have ever been at Villa Park was a night match against Forest in the ZDS cup or whatever it was called that particular year. I think that was in the BFR era too. I know we also played Forest in that competition just before Christmas (1989 I think) one year, but that wasn't the one I nearly froze to death at.