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....nicking Sturrock didn't do them much good did it. Will be good to see them next season, if things don't work out.

Wonder how long it'll be before they are sub 5-6k attendances again.

Not long.

The visits of Rochdale et al will scare many of their "Well, I support Liverpool really" fans back to the sofa and pub.

I don't think we're in too much of a position to mock other clubs about their attendances. Sarfend and the Dongs had more than us on Sat....

Was I mocking?

I lived in Plymouth, I worked with MANY of them. They went from Red Gerrard shirts to Argyle-4-Life within a blink of a promotion.

I only went to Home Park a few times when I was down there, the first with a 20,000 attendance....

Replacing him with Paul Mariner was never going to help either!

I saw the New England Revolution play when Mariner was Steve Nicol's assistant... To be honest they played some good football which was without doubt Championship standard.

The damage was very much done when Mariner arrived.

Meh, either way they deserve relegation for nicking our manager.

Exactly.

Southend were doing 1 adult and 1 child tickets for a total of £5. Franchise also had more empty seats than us.

Plus I bet Brighton took more to Southend than Walsall bought here.

Maybe our fans are saving up for the play offs?

Wot I couldn't understand about their game tonight was why they allowed so much Newcastle celebration - even helping them along by playing 'we are the champions'  - home club just relegated an all.

wouldn't put up with that at the CG - tell them to get lost and go and celebrate somewhere else if it ever happens here.

Not like the good old Rikki Hunt days when we gave Sunderland fans, the club that gladly took our place in the old 1st Division in 1990, both the Townend and Stratton Bank in 1998 so we could fill the ground and take the cash. Still at least Sunderland fucked it up in the playoffs on pens

There were Walsall fans there?!  :eek:

Supposedly...

I have always had proper dislike for Plymouth. So much so they're in my top 10. A nasty bunch and there's always some aggro with them. Glad to see them coming back down where they belong.

It was the Newcastle celebrations that got me, they was celebrating get out of the Championship - a league they shouldn't have been in in the first place if they had not had so much mis management - I'm sure the chairman is now loved again

A bit like us when we got out of the 4th division then ? (without the chairman being loved obviously)

Thats a bit harsh, I think newcastle fans are entitled to a bit of happiness after the last few years. I'm pretty sure they realise they havnt just won the champions league.

I saw nothing wrong with the celebrations. What do you expect them to do, stand and applaud politely and then file away to their trains/buses up to Newcastle?

Everyone was laughing at them when they got relegated, even on here saying they didn't expect them to get back into the Premiership and that their support would drop drastically. Haven't looked at the stats but they must have averaged 40k in the second tier in England and probably have the best away support as well.

No idea why people are so against Newcastle, they thoroughly spanked the Championship this season and deserved their celebrations. Fair play to Plymouth for allowing the celebrations as well, they should be applauded.

Motion seconded! Welcome back to your natural home Argyle.

Home Park holds 19630.

2009/10 attendances:

Highest = 14,792
Average = 9,780
Lowest = 7,243

That's a poor average for a club that thinks it's a monster in waiting. Averages of 8-9000 next season though I would expect.

Just for the LOLz, Oxford are only 2000 average behind your 7000.

http://www.mikeavery.co.uk/Attendance%20Tables%20Median%202009-10.htm

our average is over 8.

For the second half of the season maybe. Our attendances have been steadily rising, but 7000 sounds about right to me.

Our average is 8,295 this season

Linkage please Random

http://stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/D2/attend.html

For a team that are having an awful season Southend have got a pretty decent average attendance.

Record for when opposition scores first stats fans

http://stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/D2/oppscfst.html

You can actually see this figure on another page from the same site.  The figure quoted in this page is the median (as opposed to the mean).

Thankyou Carol Vorderman.

That's all right, sweetie.

the southend figure is wrong, they have an anonamly in there it says they had an attendance of 16 thousand or something.

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Maybe the other 11,000 were dinosaurs who came through the anomaly