Terrible Support

seems a lot of our identity is mixed with burnley

 

true.

 

Thought we were Burnley?

Think i've ****** up here.

 

Burnley have always been the dingles. We never were till the deedahs started calling us it cos they didn't like being called deedahs n couldn't think of owt original to call us!!

 

Wednesday fans call us the dingles because they heard Preston fans (I think) singing about Burnley and calling us Dingles. My mate was at the game and a few thought it was funny as Burnley sounds like then as the game went on they started laughing about it and more and more fans joined in.

Barnsley has a population of around 260,000. I’m from Wombwell so what some are saying I don’t live in Barnsley. 74000 is the population of the Town Centre. In my work I deal with figures of populations as its important for the figures I produce.

And also its all good saying that Wednesday fans may live in Barnsley (or to be awkward the metropolitan borough), but Man Utd, Man City, Liverpool and Everton fans live in Bolton and similar places.

For me the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley is Barnsley. If you live in Wombwell or Hoyland that for me is Barnsley. The City of London is one of the most least populated area in the country with about 8000 living there.

So for a town the size of Barnsley we need to do better for butting bums on seats.

 

sounds like a job for the full ponty

 

The actual population of Barnsley is 231,000

https://www.barnsley.gov.uk/media/C...Census Information/Census 2011 Statistics.pdf

However, as has been said above this includes places where the residents don't really consider themselves as part of Barnsley or identify with the club so we are never going to attract these people.

 

How can we go from being one of the best supported towns with crowds of 10,000 to one of the worst supported with crowds of 10,000 based on some stupid local government reorganisation in the 70's which meant that indepedent towns like Penistone, Goldthorpe, Wombwell and Hoyland were swallowed up by the Metroplitan Borough. What towns has Bolton swallowed up? Bolton has always been a bigger town than Barnsley now all of a sudden it isn't. Forget the Metropolitan borough - they could have called that the South Riding - the town of Barnsley is the town and that's it. Every town has a catchment area of football fans. The bigger the football club, the bigger the catchment area. To say that the population of Barnsley is twice that of Bolton is utter ******.

 

When I first saw this thread title I thought it was on about our tuesday night crowd.

 

That's exactly the point I was trying to make.
Bolton as a town is roughly the same catchment as it has always been but Barnsley as some say swallowed up towns that were never associated with Barnsley as stated in my posts above and a lot of these towns villages etc were Wendy ,Blunt, weeds or any other club you care to mention. So the point is someone from Bolton who supports another team can just say for arguments sake be a traitor but someone from the Barnsley borough supporting one of these teams will never have had a sense of actually coming from Barnsley so support one of the above as natural.
Confused, so am I

 

Good skills! However, one thing your info doesn't take into account is demographics. I may be completely wrong here, but I am assuming that many of the villages mentioned which make up the metropolitan area of Barnsley are populated by a much larger percentage of elderly people than most of Sheffield, as bigger cities tend to be made up of a higher percentage of people of working age. People who are more likely to have the health, energy, and disposable income to attend football matches regularly. I suppose this could of course be countered by the fact (again not actually a fact, just an educated guess) that Sheffield contains far more people than Barnsley who don't originate from the local area, and therefore may well continue going to watch their own local team.