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http://european-football-statistics.co.uk/attnclub/olda.htm

http://www.worldfootball.net/attendance/eng-league-one-2016-2017/1/

 

Highest since 2019/10  (although some big away followings clearly helps - that may well be repeated next season looking at ups and downs)

 

2009/10  4630

2010/11  4392

2011/12  4433

2012/13  4129

2013/14  4415

2014/15  4349

2015/16  4361

2016/17  4514

2017/18  ??

 

5k plus for next season?  A good season could produce this imo.

 

Be interesting to see the average away attendances over the same period.  Not sure where to find it??

 

 

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....you also need to factor in, travelling support at Home games.

 

By my reckoning, our average Home attendance this season has been a nudge over 3,600, which is disappointing. our average Away support this season has been a little over 600, or about circa 17% of our Home gate, which places us no 1 out of 24 League 1 teams on that metric.

 

This means the average Away attendance at SPD.comP - bolstered by Bratfud, Blunts, Bucket Shakers, Wanky Wanderers and Dogdale - has been about 900 this season. Which, if only Sheffield United leave us, could be higher still if the Plastics and B@stard Rovers come down, with Donny, possibly Blackpool and even though they're some distance away, Pompy and the Pilgrims who both travel well.

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3 minutes ago, lookersstandandy said:

....you also need to factor in, travelling support at Home games.

 

By my reckoning, our average Home attendance this season has been a nudge over 3,600, which is disappointing. our average Away support this season has been a little over 600, or about circa 17% of our Home gate, which places us no 1 out of 24 League 1 teams on that metric.

 

This means the average Away attendance at SPD.comP - bolstered by Bratfud, Blunts, Bucket Shakers, Wanky Wanderers and Dogdale - has been about 900 this season. Which, if only Sheffield United leave us, could be higher still if the Plastics and B@stard Rovers come down, with Donny, possibly Blackpool and even though they're some distance away, Pompy and the Pilgrims who both travel well.

 

Where did you get the away % figure from.  I noticed a Dale fan was saying they have the best away % following.

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1 hour ago, kowenicki said:

 

Where did you get the away % figure from.  I noticed a Dale fan was saying they have the best away % following.

 

Technically they do, with us and Scunny......

 

Team Away % of Home Rank
Oldham 608 17% 1
Scunthorpe 665 17% 2
Rochdale 433 17% 3
Northampton 879 16% 4
Bury 468 16% 5
AFC Wimbledon 637 16% 6
Oxford 1083 14% 7
Peterborough 626 13% 8
Bolton 1698 13% 9
Port Vale 503 12% 10
Bristol Rovers 1056 12% 11
Sheff Utd 2427 12% 12
Millwall 937 11% 13
Walsall 446 10% 14
Southend 694 10% 15
Coventry 845 10% 16
Gillingham 504 9% 17
Charlton 832 8% 18
Shrewsbury 400 8% 19
Swindon 517 8% 20
Chsterfield 377 7% 21
Bradford 1285 7% 22
Fleetwood 162 6% 23
MK Dons 449 5% 24

 

 

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1 hour ago, lookersstandandy said:

 

Technically they do, with us and Scunny......

 

Team Away % of Home Rank
Oldham 608 17% 1
Scunthorpe 665 17% 2
Rochdale 433 17% 3
Northampton 879 16% 4
Bury 468 16% 5
AFC Wimbledon 637 16% 6
Oxford 1083 14% 7
Peterborough 626 13% 8
Bolton 1698 13% 9
Port Vale 503 12% 10
Bristol Rovers 1056 12% 11
Sheff Utd 2427 12% 12
Millwall 937 11% 13
Walsall 446 10% 14
Southend 694 10% 15
Coventry 845 10% 16
Gillingham 504 9% 17
Charlton 832 8% 18
Shrewsbury 400 8% 19
Swindon 517 8% 20
Chsterfield 377 7% 21
Bradford 1285 7% 22
Fleetwood 162 6% 23
MK Dons 449 5% 24

 

 

I think 608 is considerably down on last year. Obviously the Robinson tenure didn't help in the first half of the season...

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The 4514 figure being up on last season is interesting.  My educated (debatable) guess is the club made circa £200, 000 profit by taking more match day cash from home support based on 1,000 fans declining to renew at full price on the wing and a prayer of a potential refund and threat of league 2 football. 

 

Hence our ability to get Shez back and sign Clarke and Gérard on long term contracts. 

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Nobody has considered the free game against Posh which added around 200 to the average home attendances figure.

 

As for 17/18 I reckon on an average pushing 5000 depending on how kind the fixture list is to us.

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1 hour ago, sjk2008 said:

I think 608 is considerably down on last year. Obviously the Robinson tenure didn't help in the first half of the season...

 

You're correct, it was 743 last year...... which was nearer 20%..... however we lost Barnsley, Blackpool, Donny & Wigan, where we took decent numbers......

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2 hours ago, Magister said:

How many grounds did Sheffield sell out at thus diminishing their ability to take more than our 17%.

 

Good question, dunno. They took 4,300 to both Bolton & Port Vale and 7,500 to MK Dons on Sat'day. Top of the league or not, seriously impressive. I used to love the days when we took as many.....

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2 hours ago, Ritchierich said:

I'm impressed by Northampton's away support...879 average !

 

2 hours ago, ghostofcecere said:

I suppose being pretty much in the middle of the country no away game is further than about 2 hours drive, it may go someway to explaining it.

 

Impressive all the same though

 

Exactly. They only brought 250 to us - but it was a midweek game...... they topped 1,000 on 6 occasions, at Cov, MK Mongs, Peterboro, Sheff Utd, Charlton & Oxford..... all achievable within or just over an hour.

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1 hour ago, yarddog73 said:

Nobody has considered the free game against Posh which added around 200 to the average home attendances figure.

 

As for 17/18 I reckon on an average pushing 5000 depending on how kind the fixture list is to us.

 

We had nearly 6,800 Home fans at that game, so well on the way to double the run rate..... I thought it interesting to note the dirty red b@stards and Citeh not playing on Saturday could have contributed to a few floating Oldham'ers turning up for a the team they used to watch, instead of the one they now watch.

 

I'm not particularly advocating it, however one could create an argument for playing Home games on a Friday night (like Tranmere & Stockport? used to), Sat or Sun luchtime or evening, to maximise these 'supporter' numbers.

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I dont think there is an argument for playing Sat or Sun lunchtime or evening, there may have been good reasons for playing Friday nights (used to love a friday night fixture myself) but with shift work being the norm it may impact negatively playing on a Friday. 

  This is all guesswork on my behalf and shouldn't be taken as fact.

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7 hours ago, lookersstandandy said:

 

I'm sure I went to one. Maybe it was Good Friday evening?

Wasn't it Blackburn at home on a Friday evening where it was flashing up the 'Please Joe, Don't Go' message on the scoreboard? It was when BFJ was being linked with the Everton job. We beat them 2-0 I think. I think it must have been the 'Pinch Me' season. The season after (the Championship season) we drew with them 1-all. One of the few home matches that season where we didn't steamroller the opposition.

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