14,367 (777 away)

oohaahmortimer said:

By comparison millsmall had 12,568 for their semi final play off first leg

I'm going to assume that you specifically went to look that up just to try and take a small, and completely irrelevant, crumb of comfort from last nights result.

I hate to break it to you but that stat wont give you any extra impetus for the away leg (where, to save you the time after Sundays game, we took 1200 fans to Scunthorpe for our fixture last year).

You're definitely obsessed, mate

kentred2 said:

msomerton said:

At least last nights attendance figures put to bed the idea that crowds will pick up when Roland sells. Once people stop attending they get out of the habit and do not return. Roland or no the gates will be around 8,00 or below which ever league we are in except for the premiership.

No. People are boycotting.

the returning boycotters will account for 500 absolute tops in my opinion

msomerton said:

At least last nights attendance figures put to bed the idea that crowds will pick up when Roland sells. Once people stop attending they get out of the habit and do not return. Roland or no the gates will be around 8,00 or below which ever league we are in except for the premiership.

How exactly? Roland is still the owner.

Also a crowd of almost 15k for a thursday night game live on sky, is hardly an indication that crowds won't increase when RD is gone.

and every one of those 20 will say 'I know 20 boycotters'....but at the end of the day that's still only 20.

Cant believe that figure,north stand was full west maybe two thirds,I sat in east so could not really see,but crowd looked about 16-17000 to me

Bedsaddick said:

PragueAddick said:

AFKABartram said:

Whatever it was, it come across great and supportive on the telly. Well done all those there tonight who backed the team well. Even the West Upper were at it!

Would rather have 14k getting behind the team like that than 25k people who want to see Premier League football

https://twitter.com/joshhirst/status/994687239438454785?s=21

Hmm. Well maybe watching on an illegal stream makes a difference, but I thought the crowd overall sounded a lot less supportive than against Plymouth and Rotherham. For sure I could hear the Covered End chanting all the way through but it sounded disconnected from the rest of the mainly silent crowd. Sorry, but that's how it sounded to me. Believe me I wanted it to be better, I was up for this, and the whole thing was a bit of an anti climax. Kicking the wrong way didn't help, as you said on the match thread.

I think you need to find a better feed in future mate . The place was buzzing all night and the atmosphere was superb.

I watched on Sky and I thought the fans sounded amazing all night. The Shrewsbury fans had a bit of a sing after they scored, but it was the Charlton fans I could hear the most through my TV.

That figure can't be right. North was packed, East was busier than normal. West Lower was ram-jam full.

Definitely a Diane Abbott count going on there

hoof_it_up_to_benty said:

Won't be anywhere near 20000 for a long time. A lot of fans won't come back - I think the bond with the club has been broken.

What worries me is the terms of any takeover - we may not be a lot better off.

A lot of it will obviously depend on what division we are in. We have no chance of reaching those numbers in League One and for the the most part, the Championship. It's possible that if we win the play-offs and have a great season where we are sitting near the top for long periods, we might see the attendance creep up to that kind of level, but even in the Premier League where we packed the ground out every week, there were a lot of neutrals/other supporters who made up the numbers. Those guys aren't exactly going to come and watch us grind out results in lower divisions.

Whilst there are a number of people boycotting, I think disillusionment has a larger part to play. Whether that is with the club in general or the football itself I don't know, but I suspect it's a mix of both.

Big_Bad_World said:

oohaahmortimer said:

By comparison millsmall had 12,568 for their semi final play off first leg

I'm going to assume that you specifically went to look that up just to try and take a small, and completely irrelevant, crumb of comfort from last nights result.

I hate to break it to you but that stat wont give you any extra impetus for the away leg (where, to save you the time after Sundays game, we took 1200 fans to Scunthorpe for our fixture last year).

You're definitely obsessed, mate

I thought it was a pathetically small gate and so wanted to compare it to a pathetically small club with a similar fixture , where better than smallwall for that comparison
in fact i was disappointed your crowd wasn't bigger so i could slate our numbers (it's what i do)
and in fact 1200 for a same time similar distance is a poor turn out as well
ffs millwall you're not helping my point that our away support ,numbers for our touchy fans, is poor

the club must be counting unused comps as well as Sts in their normal gate count, as last night was deffo above average attendance from what I could see in all home stands, although not by an enormous amount, maybe 2-3k

oohaahmortimer said:

Big_Bad_World said:

oohaahmortimer said:

By comparison millsmall had 12,568 for their semi final play off first leg

I'm going to assume that you specifically went to look that up just to try and take a small, and completely irrelevant, crumb of comfort from last nights result.

I hate to break it to you but that stat wont give you any extra impetus for the away leg (where, to save you the time after Sundays game, we took 1200 fans to Scunthorpe for our fixture last year).

You're definitely obsessed, mate

I thought it was a pathetically small gate and so wanted to compare it to a pathetically small club with a similar fixture , where better than smallwall for that comparison
in fact i was disappointed your crowd wasn't bigger so i could slate our numbers (it's what i do)
and in fact 1200 for a same time similar distance is a poor turn out as well
ffs millwall you're not helping my point that our away support ,numbers for our touchy fans, is poor

1200 allocation. 1200 sold. I'm assuming you'll sell your allocation for Shrewsbury and then take over the home ends. I look forward to hearing about it.

I hate to break it to you but, at the moment, out of the two clubs, you are actually the pathetically small one. This is despite our pathetically small crowds and pathetic history where we have, rather pathetically, not won very much.

You're right, some of you are very touchy.

oohaahmortimer said:

Big_Bad_World said:

oohaahmortimer said:

By comparison millsmall had 12,568 for their semi final play off first leg

I'm going to assume that you specifically went to look that up just to try and take a small, and completely irrelevant, crumb of comfort from last nights result.

I hate to break it to you but that stat wont give you any extra impetus for the away leg (where, to save you the time after Sundays game, we took 1200 fans to Scunthorpe for our fixture last year).

You're definitely obsessed, mate

I thought it was a pathetically small gate and so wanted to compare it to a pathetically small club with a similar fixture , where better than smallwall for that comparison
in fact i was disappointed your crowd wasn't bigger so i could slate our numbers (it's what i do)
and in fact 1200 for a same time similar distance is a poor turn out as well
ffs millwall you're not helping my point that our away support ,numbers for our touchy fans, is poor

The real tough test in matching them will come if we get to Wembley. When they have been to Wembley, the Diaspora crawls out from the woodwork. The ones who claim to be 'Wall but when you test them by asking who started at centre back last Saturday, will answer "er, I think Barry Kitchener". My Spanner mate here in Prague is a perfect example. Been to Wembley twice but never to the New Toolbox. Doesn't even know why I call him a "Spanner".

SheffieldRed said:

Friend Or Defoe said:

777 was a decent turn out from the Shrews on 4 days notice.

Thought it was poor.

Biggest game for ages. They will have London based supporters. Other clubs with similar sized support would have brought more.

Having said that those that came gave their team good backing

think that's a bit unfair. Have you ever met anyone in your life who claimed to support them? Or even comes from there? Not me, even going back to Uni days. I can think of at least one Scunny fan for example (the Guardian reporter who covered the Valley Party). And one of my best mates is Blackpool born and bred. Old boss at the London agency was Plymouth, etc, etc. But Shrewsbury? Nope.

Hats off to them, I say.