Nicked off FB. Harsh times post-Miner's strike.

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  1. Andy Mac

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    Pretty poor crowds all round to be fair - 17k average at Leeds for example
     
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    Birmingham 7.5k and Sheff Utd and West Brom both under 10k. Football was really in decline in the late 80s.
    Still preferred it then though lol......
     
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    Just sad that 4/5 years previously we were around 13k and seemed to be the only club thriving. Anywhere
     
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    Would take that and 11th in the Championship all day long.
     
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    Largely a level playing field too.....pre Sky and the Prem. Even the bigger clubs didn't have a lot more money to spend.
     
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    It got a bit repetitive though, not moving up or down. I was missing the heady promotion days of the Clarke/Hunter era. We were stagnating a bit
     
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    It was quite nice having seasons where there was little drama to be honest.
     
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    The club did nothing to try stem the flow of fans lost forever, who chose food on the table rather than football, having got out of the habit. I wrote to the club re the last match of season v Carlisle. At home in may 1984. 2 months into the strike. To see if they would reciprocate the offer Carlisle did the yr b4 in the last game of the season (1983) by charging a minimal entrance fee to all fans (home and away)
    Spinks was Secretary at the time. The board discussed it and decided against it. If I remember rightly nothing was offered the next season. Strike finished march 1985.

    81/82 average 12k
    82/83 average 15k
    83/84 average 12k Start of strike
    84/85 average 7k+ End of strike
    85/86 average 6k+
    Took years to reach a reasonable level.
    96/97 to reach double figures
     
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    You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone.
     
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    They dint wanna go up (allegedly) :)
     
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    They always used to say that in the old 4th division in the 70s before Allan Clarke came.
     
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    Unbelievable when you look back that the club did nothing and let all those fans just disappear. They lost a lot of goodwill that took years to get back.
     
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    Looked bad, but either side of the Clarke/Hunter era, those gates were pretty much our norm dating right back to the 1950s boom time.
     
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