Stevenage away record.....

is as good as ours

 

but what about Carlisle's?

 

How's Charltons?

 

https://barnsleyfc.org.uk/threads/carlisles-away-record.326782/

 

Haha

 

Don't think Sir Bobby ever won at Oakwell.

 

He did, in 1964. FA Cup 5th round. I was there

 

What about Charlton Trotter?

 

I was there too. It was a 4-0 drubbing. He wasn't Sir Bobby then, mind - just plain old Bobby. Best and Law were also in the Man United side that day, so the result was hardly a surprise.

 

I was only 11 at the time so not old enough to appreciate the occasion fully. I went on my own as well and had to switch ends at half time. I was crushed at the back of the Ponty End first half and couldn’t see much so I somehow got to the other end for the second half. Stood by the sliding gate and had a perfect view.

38,076 packed into Oakwell. Imagine that!!

 

What about Charlton Morris, or Charlton & the wheelies.

 

I was 15 at the time. I watched from the Terrace, aka West Lower. I went to my first match with an elder brother, when I was 6 and he was a couple of weeks short of 11. We always went together, with no adults, even to local away grounds. Kids aren't allowed to go on their own these days, of course, which seems a great shame in many ways. There was no crowd segregation, as you, no doubt, recall. Just after I started going to Oakwell we played a 4th round cup-tie at home to Blackburn, who, like us, were in the Second Division. We lost 0-1 in front of 38,163 fans. I didn't attend that match. The following season, 56-7, we hosted fellow Second Division side, Nottingham Forest, in front of an "estimated" all-ticket crowd of 40,626, and lost that game 1-2. I didn't attend that either, though I did go to league games at the time. I was present in the 60-61 season when we beat Luton 1-0 in a 5th round tie at Oakwell in front of 32,693, and then again in the 6th round replay v Leicester at Oakwell, when we lost 1-2 aet before 39,250 fans, with many people locked out . That match was pay on the turnstiles only, as the replay, on. Wednesday afternoon, was played only 4 days after the original fixture, leaving no time to organise ticket sales. Were you present at either of those 60-61 season games?

 

What was the official gate for the Forest game ? Because our highest attendance in the record books is against Stoke, and it's less than the figure there by a few hundred.

 

I don't know the answer to your question. I was quoting from Grenville Firth's book: "Oakwell: The Official History Of Barnsley Football Club", which was published in 1978 and has a Foreword by Allan Clarke, who had just arrived at the club as player-manager. I bought this book just after it came out. It is very specific about attendance figures, and often gate receipts, for cup -ties. The Forest match is the only case in which Firth describes the attendance as "estimated", though it seems strange to give such a precise figure as an estimate. You're right about the Stoke game in the 30s being our official highest attendance. Whatever the precise figure for the Forest game, I am pretty sure it was a sell-out. The fact that we used to be able to attract ca. 40,000 to Oakwell for cup-ties against fellow Second Division clubs reflects just how to important the FA Cup was in those days. It really was the major competition, whereas now, for many clubs, it's just a distraction from the league. By the way, gate receipts from the Blackburn match were £5,692. Gate receipts for the Forest match are not given in Firth's book. For the 1961 Leicester 6th round replay, the 39, 250 crowd paid a total of £7727.

 

No I hadn’t started watching them in 60-61. I was at Doncaster Road Juniors at that time and I doubt if pupils would have been let off for that afternoon replay against Leicester although I know that at least some secondary schools closed for that reason.

Season 62-63 was my first but I didn’t get to an away game until the following season, this being the exciting FA Cup 3rd Round tie at the Old Show Ground.

 

Even when I was a kid in the 80's and 90's we had some huge FA Cup attendances, well over our current capacity.

What's our highest league attendance by the way? Guessing it must be a few thousand lower than those bumper FA Cup gates.

 

I was at the Man Utd cup defeat, I seem to remember glimpses of George Best although I could not see much over the crowd. I think he was just 17 yrs old then? I also attended to 3-0 Fa cup defeat at Oakwell against Everton in the snow.

 

40,255 v Stoke City

 

Yes, as I said above, I couldn't see much in first half, having to strain to see over people in front of me from the back of the Ponty. I was aware of the likes of Charlton, Law and Best being on our pitch but didn't see much of their magic.

I don't know how I managed it in such a dense crowd but I managed to get to the Kop for the second half and a perfect view from there. Why can't football be like that now instead of all these stupid restrictions on movement?

That Everton match was played on a thick carpet of snow after the worst winter in the UK for many years. These days it would have been postponed until about June.

 

That was an FA Cup match wasn't it?