Edging closer to getting back in to the EFL. The crowds they get as a non league club are brilliant. They have had a tough time in recent years but the fans stand by them.
Which other club anywhere in the world in the fifth tier of their football pyramid system would get attendances like that?
Just got back. Not a lot of quality on show but they just about deserved their win. Ali Omar was playing for Torquay looked composed I can see him getting back into the football league. York had over 6 thousand tonight as well their highest attendance in 15 years and second highest ever in the 6th tier
I think any club, if the time is right and they're on the crest of a wave will pull in near their optimum support level regardless of which league they're in. If we'd been starved of success, fallen from tier two to five and spent a while there like County I'd fully expect us to be getting crowds round the 10, 11k mark as we closed in on the title. Fans love winning, especially if it hasn't happened in a while.
Their average is a couple of thousand lower than Wrexham, and fairly similar to Chesterfield, Southend and Notts County. Don't get me wrong, it's fantastic for non-league football. But there are 6 very well supported clubs in that division in total.
My partner works with a Stockport fan. He put a video in their works group chat last night of them outside the stadium before the match. It was like one of those videos you see of Liverpool fans lining the street when the opposition bus arrives for a champions league game. Flags and smoke bombs galore.
I started a thread on here last week or so that Stockport and Wrexham 8.5 and 9.5 respectively. They'll get more than us in L2 than we will next season. Fair play to them. They've both been treated to the s h I tty endof the stick in recent times.
I remember having a particular dislike to Stockport County when we played them regularly back in the 90s - "a bunch of bionic muscle men chasing massive cross field hoofs" - like watching Val's team but even worse.
