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Attendance Thread - Fulham


Steedy M said:
Agree with this, there's been rumours about him wanting to have a bigger stadium than Newcastle but not sure how true that is. No doubt 48K is fine if we're flying in the Premier League but I think Murray needed to judge our gates when things aren't going well before extending.

It's left us vulnerable to comments about empty seats even though averaging over 40K during our largely dispiriting 10 seasons in the PL was a miracle.
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Could be worse, could give away 10k season tickets
 
Randy Savage said:
They’ve always had more fans mate. Simple geography. North of Tyne is theirs, despite a few pockets of our fans in South East Northumberland in particular. That’s not saying we don’t have fans elsewhere north of the Tyne, as we do, all over in fact, just not in any numbers.

South of Tyne they have Gateshead by about 75/25 (and I might be being generous to us there), and I’d say South Tyneside was split. NW Durham probably 65/35 them, and Durham City and SW Durham I’d say 60/40 us.

The only areas we are dominant are Sunderland (the town) itself and East Durham. Other parts of the City of Sunderland I’d say 50/50 Washington (55/45 SAFC at a push), but more dominant for us in Houghton and Hetton (maybe 70/30 overall).

Therefore, the fact we haven’t been a kick in the arse off them for many years, despite having faced a lot more shit on the pitch, is testament to our supporters.

As a percentage of matchgoing fans to total support I think we’d win that contest easily, for what it’s worth.
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Think them Gateshead numbers are a bit skewed. I spent the last year working there and it was 60/40 at a push in their favour IMO. Even the mags I worked with said it was about 50/50.
 
SR7 said:
Think them Gateshead numbers are a bit skewed. I spent the last year working there and it was 60/40 at a push in their favour IMO. Even the mags I worked with said it was about 50/50.
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Agree mate, when I get the metro over from Gossy there is always a few in red n white on but when you get to Gateshead there are a load get on, see 2 women get on all the time with faces painted red n white, i would applaud their bollox if they had any
 
SR7 said:
Think them Gateshead numbers are a bit skewed. I spent the last year working there and it was 60/40 at a push in their favour IMO. Even the mags I worked with said it was about 50/50.
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Fair enough, but you get the gist. I'd say no better than 65/35 in their favour in my experience.
Wrenthorpe Mackem said:
I know they aways had more fans mate. It's the money now I'm referring to.
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Oh right, sorry.
 
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