Have any away fans ever celebrated on our pitch?

[N20 Blade]

16k? Bloody hell. Hard to imagine now, especially when it's a relegation decider.

Mind you, our attendances have historically fluctuated quite significantly. My first season as a season ticket holder was 1999/00 and the average gate that year was 13,718. That was in the second tier as well. The same season that we drew 8,965 at home to Port Vale.

i think attendances were a work of fiction until the early nineties. swansea last home game in div 3 a case in point.

 

[WORKSOPBLADE]

Yep I remember that game (we wore Colchester's away shirt that day). I was stood on the terrace behind the goal to the left of the TV cameras ( the goal where Edwards scored a consolation for us in the second half) and that was split between home and away fans. I remember Edwards scoring and a right melee kicking off to our right as I think the United naughty boys started the trouble in the home end. It went on for a while as the match just carried on. Different times (thankfully).

It was Millwall that were there that day kicking off!

 

[Katzenjammer]

i think attendances were a work of fiction until the early nineties. swansea last home game in div 3 a case in point.

What was the crowd for that one?

 

[Weasel]

i think attendances were a work of fiction until the early nineties. swansea last home game in div 3 a case in point.

I can't remember the attendance but I seem to remember the official attendance announced was way lower than the crowd that was actually in the Lane that day.

Occasionally around this period I would get invited through work contacts into the corporate hospitality section for the matches at the Lane and they would have the usual competitions and chances to win the match ball etc. One of them was what was the attendance and I would usually look around and be pretty close to the actual crowd (won the competition a couple of times!). I vaguely remember that was one the few home games where my guess was a good thousand of the announced attendance. That's because on certain games it was clearly made up. 6 pointer game v Port Vale at the Lane in the season we went up with Wolves, and the league cup match v Newcastle (where we won 3-0) just off the top of my head, where we we laughing at the official attendance.

Someone was pocketing a lot of money back then on the take. Still, when you were run by our board of directors it's not surprising. I think Reg ran off with most of the Indian Jute pension fund that he had set up for his employees only when they got to retirement age they realised there wasn't anything there...quite despicable really.

 

[diplomat]

I'm surprised Leeds didn't celebrate on the pitch in 1992. Were they in the upper tier on Bramall Lane?

Many were too busy dismantling seats.

No they had all the standing underneath but were remarkably well behaved for a bunch of Neanderthal wankers. But they had just won I suppose.

I love our invasion of Leicester tho when we went up. I wish I’d been there. I was just running around my garden with the radio on to my underwhelmed parents. Had to settle for a slightly more upbeat wait for the green un at my local newsagent who always stayed open late for it and about ten blokes who stood in Silence waiting for it normally, actually looked pleased

 

[diplomat]

What was the crowd for that one?

Claimed to be about 15,000 from memory. Great game, Agana bagged a trick and his mum had come to see him. Remember a small number of ours ran to there end and climbed the fences but they just clapped and chanted back.

 

[diplomat]

I can't remember the attendance but I seem to remember the official attendance announced was way lower than the crowd that was actually in the Lane that day.

Occasionally around this period I would get invited through work contacts into the corporate hospitality section for the matches at the Lane and they would have the usual competitions and chances to win the match ball etc. One of them was what was the attendance and I would usually look around and be pretty close to the actual crowd (won the competition a couple of times!). I vaguely remember that was one the few home games where my guess was a good thousand of the announced attendance. That's because on certain games it was clearly made up. 6 pointer game v Port Vale at the Lane in the season we went up with Wolves, and the league cup match v Newcastle (where we won 3-0) just off the top of my head, where we we laughing at the official attendance.

Someone was pocketing a lot of money back then on the take. Still, when you were run by our board of directors it's not surprising. I think Reg ran off with most of the Indian Jute pension fund that he had set up for his employees only when they got to retirement age they realised there wasn't anything there...quite despicable really.

Newcastle game was 18,000 my first game on the kop and it seemed enormous to me but it was a vast stand back then so impossible to say how full it was. I think the kop alone could officially hold that back then. There was loads of space at the front because we had fences up and anyone would not want to watch through them. That’s where I ended up and met loads of kids from school who had ended up there.

 

[diplomat]

I can't remember the attendance but I seem to remember the official attendance announced was way lower than the crowd that was actually in the Lane that day.

Occasionally around this period I would get invited through work contacts into the corporate hospitality section for the matches at the Lane and they would have the usual competitions and chances to win the match ball etc. One of them was what was the attendance and I would usually look around and be pretty close to the actual crowd (won the competition a couple of times!). I vaguely remember that was one the few home games where my guess was a good thousand of the announced attendance. That's because on certain games it was clearly made up. 6 pointer game v Port Vale at the Lane in the season we went up with Wolves, and the league cup match v Newcastle (where we won 3-0) just off the top of my head, where we we laughing at the official attendance.

Someone was pocketing a lot of money back then on the take. Still, when you were run by our board of directors it's not surprising. I think Reg ran off with most of the Indian Jute pension fund that he had set up for his employees only when they got to retirement age they realised there wasn't anything there...quite despicable really.

I remember the Burnley cup game where they had 9,000 and a section on the south stand. Ground looked pretty full because the FA cup was actually a draw rather than a chore. Gave it as 22,000 or something but south stand was chocka and I was on what felt like a pretty full kop with no gaps on John st. Wasn’t full but it was a good few thousand more than given.

 

[Guesty]

16k? Bloody hell. Hard to imagine now, especially when it's a relegation decider.

Mind you, our attendances have historically fluctuated quite significantly. My first season as a season ticket holder was 1999/00 and the average gate that year was 13,718. That was in the second tier as well. The same season that we drew 8,965 at home to Port Vale.

You're confused mate, there were at least 250k people at that Port Vale match.