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At Sheffield Wednesday today....that is incredible for LGE 1.

Always had a soft spot for the Owls being my first proper away match at an awesome stadium.....is this a record for league 1?
I know Villa got some big crowds years back in this league............38000 is mindblowing :clap:

I'm pretty sure that back in my younger days, when they were both in the old Div 3 (may have even been the old Div 4), there was 50 odd thousand at Hillsborough for the boxing day derby game

I've been to Hillsborough. We lost.

Anyway, must have been quite an atmosphere there today.

Just noted that Charlton got 101 points....pretty good achievement as well.

not too many big teams in L1 next season, there's going to be quite a high number of teams with the potential to do well. this should work in our favour :)

Wednesday are one of those teams that shouldn't have been down this far in the first place - especially when you look at the likes of wigan in the premiership.

just wish the new season starts tomorrow

The Blades are quite a big team. They'll bottle the playoffs.

Coventry are also quite big for L1. And Portsmouth, yet they may not even make it.

if sheff utd bottle the playoffs, it wouldn't surprise me if they experience second season syndrome with wilson.

Coventry, could go into free fall too i reckon.

Coventry have been hanging in the Championship for quite a while.
I don't expect them to do that well next year. Probably mid-table.

Doubt very much if Pompey will be competing for the top spots next season, they are due a massive clearout. Nice awayday though for me

And me.

Coventry are a strange club...I saw us stuff them at the CG 4-1 in 65, and since then one league visit in the Prem.

Somewhere in the intervening years, they had a decent season to get up to Div1, and since then outside of a cup win have been remorselessly mediocre....along with the scum, they've never been in a PO, although of course unlike the scum, for many seasons they weren't eligible, being in the top flight.

I often used to think if I was a Coventry fan I wouldn't mind going down, just to experience a decent winning season, a bit like us this season.

So I think it's entirely possible, that if they can get competitive, and start winning some games, the novelty might kick start something for them..

Coventry may not have a football club next year though. You know that the brown liquid is about to hit the fan when your club start offering lifetime season tickets for just over a grand.

Bloody hell, that is shit central.

Fucking Hell, el desperado

Heard on the radio on Friday that some Sheffield Wednesday tickets were going for a grand on eBay!!

I know they're in shit street, but I hope they sort it out...I like Coventry, possibly unique in being a bijou English medieval place that got bombed to ruins by the Hun, and then town planners did the rest. And The Specials came from there, which will do for me.

Sheffield Wednesday are a huge club and belong in the Premier League.

As for the 38,000 in League 1, Leeds had 38,234 against Rovers when they went up from League 1 in 09/10.

Man City were down in League 1 too. What was Maine Road's capacity ? About 35,000 if I remember right ?

I wouldn't mind betting that Wolves had massive crowds when down in the third tier too.

I can remember Villa being in the third tier in 71-72 in the days of the great Andy Lochead' they won the league after dropping from the top and were getting regular crowds of 45000

I know what you mean but thankfully, it's all about the 11 players on the pitch and not how many you get through the turnstiles. It would be very boring if that was what determined league position.

And yes, Wolves did get massive crowds in div 3 (and 4 that matter). Similar to Wendies this season.

Biggest ever crowd in national 3rd division was the Sheffield derby in 1979 mentioned earlier at 49,309

Villa's biggest in 1972 was 48,110 vs Bournemouth

Biggest since Premier League days was Leeds v Pikeys, 38,256 last game of 07-08 season.

Nothing to do with crowds, Wednesday are a huge club.

Having lived in Sheffield I loathe Wednesday with a passion. Their fans think they are a huge club & nothing wrong with that as they get great crowds but what used to hack me off was if any of the opposition players started to turn it on & show class or skill they'd be urging the Wednesday defenders to kick 'em into the air & even break legs!  Horrible, horrible fans.  I'm not surprised that Bostock didn't get many games on loan for them - they don't need a midfield.

I hated them so much that when Wednesday played Southend in a League Three relegation game back in the '70's I went with some mates to cheer on Southend, something I have never ever done against any other club.