Thetownend.com

https://www.thesportsman.com/articles/erling-haaland-s-20-goals-the-last-20-goal-scorer-for-every-english-league-club?s=08

How many have we had since the last teams last one? We've been a little spoilt with goal sorted over the years.

Wow there's a surprising number of former Town players on that list.

Beat me to it.

10 other entries with Collins & Cureton featuring for 2 different clubs.

Indeed, the full list of ex Town players.

Twine - MKD
Yates - Blackpool
Mullin - Cambridge
Collins - Luton
Rooney - Salford
Pitman - Pompey
Collins - Crawley
Cureton - Exeter
Cureton - Colchester
Thorne - Stoke

You missed the rather surprising presence of Kyle Lightbourne for Walsall in 1996/7

Proper mad that Northampton haven't had one for almost 30 years.

Blimey thats a name I had entiirely forgotten about playing for us!

Oh come on, who can't remember those memorable times in January 2001... those unforgettable 87 minutes he played for us!

I have zero memory of Kyle Lightbourne playing for us or ever being on loan.

I was at his last appearance vs Bury too and have no memory of it!

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=20010119

I remember him scoring a couple for stoke against us in this one. Kicked off on Fleming Way after this game I remember.

I remember the likes of Lighthouse, Bakakli, etc more than i do some players from the last 3 or 4 seasons!

Anyone for a Neil Fenn or Jim Whitley?

Marko Tuomela or a Kim Heiselberg!

4.904 against Stoke on a Saturday?! Crikey!

Our attendances the past two seasons have been nothing short of remarkable given our last 40 years or so history.  In 2015, a mere 8 years ago, in the season we got to the Play Off Final for Div 3, we managed 6,305 for our second last home game against Walsall.

It was a Tuesday and Walsall only brought 148 fans but I understand what you mean, the previous 4 games and the one after we averaged nearer 8,600.  I think all the sub 7,000 attendances that season were on Tuesday nights, all the Saturday games were quite healthy.

The raise in average in the last 2 years has been astounding TBH.

7th March 2000 Swindon 2 Huddersfield 0 Att: 4,701

In 1994 for our first game in the Premier League our attendance vs Oldham was just 11,940.

As a comparison in the Premier season there was just 7,758 at Wimbledon, 9,771 at Oldham, 9,875 at QPR and only 11,180 at Chelsea!

For the Grimsby game a few weeks back we had an attendance of 11,053 so not too far behind the clubs 1st ever top division attendance, yet, 4 divisions lower low!

I remember the Chelsea away game and how pitiful the crowd was considering they're a big club and surprised how small the QPR away attendance was.

Pretty sure we took near 2,000 there that day too.

Chelsea weren't really a 'big' club then, they seemed to yo you between D1 & D2 for a lot of the 80's and early 90's, it was only really Russian money that took them to the next level, albeit possibly the growth could be traced back to Hoddle's time in charge there?

Lots went dressed as the Blues Brothers plus other fancy dress outfits!

Fair point, at that time they weren't seen as a big club even though historically they would regularly get 50000+ when the likes of Bonnetti, Graham, Hollins, Hudson, Cooke & Osgood were playing for them.

They picked up a few cups under Viali and Gullet pre Abramovic, but they were definitely in a slump in 94.

I think attendances rise in the last year must factor in a clamour/need for being at live events. After Covid-19 Lockdowns and closure of next to all live events to the paying public, as well as factoring in with confidence to mix with other humans (avec and then sans face mask/social distance)...the ''release the hounds Smithers'' style of chomping at the bit probably has some part to play.

Ya know, people making up for lost time. Effectively we're seeing that level off now and I think that might have peaked. On the obvious horizon is a probable dip, as the new/ongoing factor of ''cost of living/inflation/brexit knock-on'' etc does and will impact many of us. Coupled with potential tickets rises across the board, even the part time of financial analysts would be safe to project a dip in attendances for Town next season; even if in the division above.

Although ''build it and they will come'' often strikes a fairly accurate chord regardless of the climate; football does often tend to be one of those pastimes which is much like beer - you're skint but somehow can still afford to drink. I do feel Town would have to be sniffing around the top 8 in L1 to see similar and better gates to last and this season. That's not to say I think they'd drop excessively if in L1 but stay in L2 and I think we'll see lower gates for sure, as more feel the pinch and prioritise accordingly. It is just an unfortunate reality of the current economic time and likely not exclusive to STFC.

I remember watching highlights of Swindon playing against Chelsea (it could have been a Zenith Data Systems cup game) and Stamford Bridge being a shell of what it is now. There always seemed to be cars parked behind one of the goals, including a light blue 'mobility' car that sticks on the memory banks for some bizarre reason.

My first ever Town game was against them in the Simod Cup with a very respectful attendance for a Tuesday night, we missed the first two goals as the traffic was dreadful and my old man couldn't find anywhere to park!

http://www.swindon-town-fc.co.uk/MatchCentre.asp?MatchID=19881103

Great memories, two strong teams a muddy pitch, no mention of formations in the commentary and players wearing short sleeves in the middle of winter!

I agree………though Covid must not have happened in Oxford then!!!!

That's where it came from🤣

I still remember the embarrassment of our first ever game in the top flight attracting only 11.5k. Ok it was Oldham on a Tuesday night but FFS!

Times were different. Every era is different.

They crammed about twice as many people as most grounds hold in back in the 60s and early 70s. By the 80s attendances were completely in the toilet, largely down to a lot of normal people being put off by the levels of hooliganism.

The 90s were a bit of a mixed bag.

Which is why I compared what we have now to 2015 - the uptick is remarkable, not to be taken for granted!

Oh to have someone from the off this season to have been sniffing the 20 mark - Reg would have told it matters not though, not without an experienced Right Back, fuck!

Love to see a stat of our away numbers from the 2015 season compared to the last couple of seasons.

In 2014/15 it was 693
In 2021/22 it was 832 (would have been 706 without the 3590 at Walsall)
In 2022/23 it’s currently 704 (so much the same as last season)

Obviously we have more Northern games this season, but we had restricted allocations at Northampton & Rovers last season after the dickheads at Stevenage

Great work and much appreciated

Wasn't half of Stamford Bridge closed to build the Matthew Harding stand that season? They still had the curve at one end for the running track, and the grass behind the goal where they used to park up a line of blue Invacars when Hoddle first went there I think.

93/94 season Chelsea's average premier league home crowd was 19,211 - highest 37,064 - lowest 8,923

Swindon had the sixth lowest average 15,035 - highest 18,102 - lowest 11,970

Below us were
Southampton 14,764
QPR 14,133
Coventry 13,564
Oldham 12,569
Franchise 10,462

Franchise ???

Quite. That was actual Wimbledon that was.

Statbunker's mistake😀

https://www.statbunker.com/competitions/HomeAttendance?comp_id=12

They were playing at Selhurst Park that season.

I'm surprised Southampton were below us.

The Dell was falling apart back then wasn't it?

Capacity of 15,200

I can't remember the state of the Dell as I only went there in the 80's.

Their highest home crowd was 19,000+ so capacity must have been at least that

The 15,200 was the last quoted capacity, think they developed the terrace behind the goal in 1994, so would have been end of that season I assume.