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  1. It's so rare to see us have fans in the south stand, it will be great to see fans there regardless instead of it just being empty. The club just released more blocks and a whole load of other seats this morning and can see that they're already being snapped up. Win tomorrow, still 4 days to go, should be our biggest gate of the season. Teams around us like Burnley, Blackburn, PNE, Wigan could only ever dream of having potentially 25,000 turning up for 3rd division home game.
  2. Tell you what though you can't blame any of our supporters for being either confused or angry about the situation, been a complete farce. They were apparently returning a month ago, then they're out, then back, then out shake it all about, one goes off on international duty, doesn't play, then still out and now this. Tbf, if Evatts pissed off too, then I can't blame him. Either way, it's been an absolute mess. I think the best thing for now is to leave this in the background. If they are out, then let's focus on the 11 or 16 available. We've got more than enough to get promoted. It's all about the team against Stevenage on Good Friday. Players have had a rest and have reset, no excuses.
  3. Yeah, my point is that the discount we've done has barely had an impact at all on the size of the away followings. This time being an exception, could be looking at 1,500 Reading fans coming, whereas it probably would've been 500 max beforehand. Agree that the club has to be smart on these things. Dates being a huge factor but also the opposition club, obviously make no sense doing such a discount for when Derby, Wigan or Blackpool come to town.
  4. They've confirmed sold 1,200. I know cheap tickets, but it's felt like the first time in ages, if ever since doing these cheap community days, where the away team has brought more than a taxi, certainly over 1,000. The matches I can remember of the top of my head: Posh, Leyton Orient, Exeter, Charlton, Accrington. I think Reading will bring more than those combined.
  5. I think seeing this season, when the demands been there they do release those stairwell seats, not sure if they have done that already but I guess so if they've resorted to opening the SSL. Think finally for a community day, the away team is bringing a good following, heard reading have sold a good amount of the top tier, 1.5/2k probably on the day. Absent season ticket holders aside, another week of sales to go and hopefully a positive result Friday, could be looking at the remaining SSL blocks being opened and sold. Could be seeing potentially a completely full Toughsheet in all corners for the first time in a long time. There will obviously be some that are away on Easter hols and will still be counted in the attendance. Either way I think this will be our biggest attendance of the season, 25,000+
  6. Derby are shite, old team of dinosaurs playing non league football, they're incredibly reliant on Mendez Laing for everything. But we're even worse if we can't finish above them, nobody but ourselves to blame this season. It's almost as if we're trying to throw away 2nd place and yet it keeps present itself back to us, tempting us once more. One thing though, if somehow we find Pompey, Derby and ourselves in the Championship next season, I'd be willing to bet my house that us and Pompey do better than Derby there. They'd get butchered as much as any previous Paul Warnes Rotherham side.
  7. It's an extra 2 hour round trip for us compared to Derby. Also it's later in the season and a bigger game than it was for us in December. They only brought 2,800 to us this season, we brought 3,000 to them. Our support is extremely good for this level and would still be good in the Championship regardless.
  8. This is why I really don't buy into the whole "we get more supporters so we're bigger" if the club is selling most of their stadium pretty well then fair fucks, but they're limited by capacity at the end of the day. Nottingham Forest are a fair bit bigger than West Ham, yet they average just 29,000 compared to West Ham's 62,000. Pompey average 18,000, whilst Brighton average 31,000. Pompey are infinitely bigger than Brighton. Just the same with us. Brighton, Southampton, Fulham, Palace, Bristol City, Middlesbrough all average more than us this season, yet we've won more major trophies than all of them put together. Crowd sizes are a factor of course, but only 1 of several.
  9. Either way you look at things, there's certainly a lot of things to be proud about when saying you're a supporter of such a magnificent, traditional club of the English game like ours. Whether you mention Lofthouse to a 90 year old, or Okocha to a 30 year old, people across the world know of us. There's a lot of things about us that makes us unique. There's only a handful or two of clubs you could pull out that have achieved more or have had as big as an impact in England than us. Founder of the league, first scorer, first team to win at Wembley, highest ever recorded attendance, first team to sign up to the army in the 2nd world war, 4x FA Cups, 3x runners up including Stanley Matthews final, 2x runners up League cup, 73 years in the top flight, only bettered by Sunderland & WBA outside the top current flight, 2x in European football knockout stages. There's a lot there. Our footprint on the English game is certainly huge. In short, we are massive.
  10. https://youtu.be/SdpJnb777Qs?si=CnmhEXXB2ooy0KZn I remember seeing this video a while back. As of 1965, we ranked 4th in terms of number of points won in the top flight, only behind Villa, Everton and Sunderland. I know that was a while back, but still I just find it crazy to believe that my parents were growing up with us being so high, ahead of the Liverpool, Arsenal, Man City, Man United, Chelsea etc.
  11. I get that completely. My point was that in reference to Ipswich and to a lot of other clubs as well, is we've been relevant or have been competing in the top division for most of our history, even so in the past 15/20 years, despite seeing some of the clubs darkest days. Other clubs like Ipswich, PNE, Sheff Weds can't say they've done that. However despite that, the club is long overdue another real major trophy which we've been extremely close in the past 20 or so years. Although Newcastle predate our wait for another major trophy, been waiting since 1955 compared to us in 1958. Imagine that will change soon for them though.
  12. UEFA Cup is certainly impressive, however we're still clear of them imo, 4 fa cups to their 1, more trophies overall, founder of the English game, first team to ever score, white horse final, Nat Lofthouse. They had a really great spell in the in the 70s and 80s, but aside from that in 140 years, we've been more successful than them. In my lifetime I only remember Ipswich in the premier league for 1/2 seasons, whilst we were there for a long time, European knockout stages twice, 4 top 8 seasons, and of course, the players, Okocha, Hierro, Anelka.
  13. The clubs in the first paragraph have 5 trophies between them. The clubs in the 2nd paragraph have 26.
  14. I make the point of recency, because prior to their move to London stadium, yes they averaged more fans at uptown park, but we've still won more domestic trophies than them and spent longer still in the top flight. Although like I said, the past 5 or so years have pushed West Ham way beyond us. Another fact I forgot to include is that we are also a proud founder of the football league, a special title most other clubs cannot say they have
  15. Birmingham are below us in the "massive tiers" in my opinion. Think folk focus too much on crowd sizes, when it is certainly a factor but there is a lot to consider. For me, it's about, Trophies, recent and historical attendances, players, years in the top flight, stadium size, recent successes(past 15/20 years). When you factor that all in, I believe we're beyond the likes of a team like Birmingham, comfortably. Major Honours Bolton - 4 Birmingham - 2 Years in top flight Bolton - 73 Birmingham - 57 Current average attendance Bolton - 20,608 Birmingham - 20,306 Record attendance Bolton - 69,912 Birmingham- 59,971 Stadium capacity Bolton - 28,723 Birmingham - 29,409 The facts present themselves. The only thing they come close to us is on crowds, yet we still beat them this season in a lower league and have done in the past, despite them being the 2nd largest city in the country and us being a town. In short, we are much bigger than Birmingham City. Teams id put similar to Birmingham are the likes of Southampton, Norwich, Crystal Palace, Fulham etc. We're more comparable to the likes of Ipswich, Sheff U, even West Ham more historically, Derby, Pompey, West Brom Etc.
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