Crowds of less than 10k

Don't help with keeping Nyatanga, De Silva and Macken, nor finding a 20 goal a season striker.</p>

Let's be fair, Davey and the players are doing their bit, it's about time them stopping away decided to pop along. Now, what we need is a well advertised community day or something......</p>

 

Wrong time of year mate.

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Everything takes a dip so we can buy each other piles of stuff we don't want. I don't think it'll pick up 'till February.</p>

 

agreed mate

you could charge nothing for entry on Saturday and still struggle to get a crowd above say 12k

 

If it's a matter of money

Then that's fair enough, if you're skint you're skint, and I understand the pressures family budgets are under this time of year ( year round in fact ) but if folk are stopping away so they wrap a Terry's chocolate orange for Auntie Mabel then there's truly nothing the club can do and we'd all better get ready for a poor 2nd half of the season.</p>

Also if the Barnsley public are stopping away for reasons related to tinsel and wrapping paper then they forgo any right to crtiticise the club.</p>

 

Add to that the wife/budget interface and they have little choice.

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What we need is a few thousand more BMW driving single, retired, solventproper fans.</p>

 

RE: Add to that the wife/budget interface and they have little choice.

But we don't play Luton this season so they can't trumpet their superiority for driving down the M1 when they have fck all other commitments and watching a football game.</p>

Meanwhile, back in the real world - my views on this are somewhat clouded by watching Barnsley through the widerness of the 2nd spell of Clarke/Machin/Anderson years when I got roundly pillockedfor doing so by ******* that were then asking if I could get them a season ticket when we got to the Prem. This also adds to my chagrin when professional fans decide to give it large for attending an away match.</p>

 

Get off my soap box

4 pack of Carling and subscription to Hatton v Mayweather = £20

Ticket to watch Barnsley v Crystal Palace = £15

Sense of pride walking away from games this season = priceless

YHM

 

Bored

With upsetting folk with porn links so thought I'd try and suggest a few that stop away ought to try a game at Oakwell.

 

I went to Southampton, me.

And I knew two of the players' names.

Proper fan.

 

Many years ago

We lost 2-0 at home to Wimbledon in the first leg of whatever guise the league cup was.</p>

I went to the away leg. Narthen. </p>

 

port vale away in a pre season friendly 1992

Av that !!!!</p>

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mind you I was working in Stoke that week.</p>

 

It's very depressing but...

.. I think it's true to say that all our sub 10k attendances have been on evening games, which is roughly on a par with last season.</p>

However, the more disturbing aspect is the overall average season attendance, currently 10,386, which compared to last season's overall average of 12,733 is bloody abysmal. Not even the yet to come DeeDar fixtures will be good enough to make that up on their own, and unless there is a significant upturn soon (we are nearly half-way through the season) then we don't look as if we will match last year's attendances.</p>

It must be pretty galling for the board, considering the efforts, the outlay, the cost of players and most of all the performances, which are easily the best we have played in this division over the last ten years.</p>

Also - it's not as if we can blame the drift to Wednesday or Leeds either, who were both Premiership sides at that time. I dunno what the answer is. Other teams get by on less, but when you see how crowds are responding at other places (Bristol C for example) it's really sickening.</p>

 

RE: It's very depressing but...

Last season was also helped by big away followings at the back end of the season from Birmingham and Sunderland who were going for promotion - can't see any of those sort of attendances in the last couple of months.

 

Scarborough away in a pre season friendly

Sometime in the '80's

 

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Last season after 10 home games

... we were running at 11,241, and that was before the bigger later attendances. We are well down on that even now.

 

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RE: I went to Southampton, me.

You went to meet your nemesis, IOWT - not go to the game.
He invited me to the meet up too but I bottled it cos I had to feed my hamster.

 

"I had to feed my Hamster...

... into the tube that was placed up Richard Gere's bumhole.&quot;

 

No FFs !!

He (Peter) died recently. He's buried in a crevice.