maldino2004 Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 1 hour ago, townend_owl said: Yeah if you have a city only just smaller than ours and have only one club in it, you're bound to expect good away support - and they do deserve the plaudits for their away support. Home support is pretty embarrassing though. Partly due to running of club I imagine, but still... Leeds is not a smaller City than ours, the population of Leeds is over 751.000, Sheffield's poupulation is Only 563.000, some 33/34% Lower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteG_1984 Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Why are Brighton even on that list? Surely Derby or Forest would better candidates than them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orlando_Trustful Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Leeds should be first, with us a close second. We've both been through a lot of crap and still pull in fans home and away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Claw Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 40,000 @ Wembley, I would say that's some sell+ for us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belfast Owl 2 Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 3 hours ago, HirstWhoScoredIt said: Newcastle can have a vote when they have been out of the PL for 16 years. We'll see if they're still getting 50,000 then. As for Leeds. They were in The Champions League 14 years ago. They had 5 years in a row between '98 and '02 when they finished in the top 5 of the PL every season. A chance to build up their fan numbers considerably. Despite this and despite the fact that they have had lower prices than us last season and this season. Despite the fact they are above us this season. They still are getting lower gates than us. So you can stick their away support up their arse. After the Wolves match we'll be averaging more than Brighton who are in a spanking new stadium and looking certainties for the top 2. There is only one winner of that poll and that is the Super Owls! Excuses Newcastle and Leeds are bigger clubs with bigger supports. Trotting out the 16 years of crap claptrap is tedious now. Our support has been just above average for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grez Bez Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Quote Wednesday have been another surprise package this year as they continue to defy expectation and belief. They currently sit in seventh place with 34 points as a play-off place is within their reach What??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 11 minutes ago, Belfast Owl 2 said: Excuses Newcastle and Leeds are bigger clubs with bigger supports. Trotting out the 16 years of crap claptrap is tedious now. Our support has been just above average for years. How can you say our support has been just above average? We have been out of the top flight for the best part of a generation, prior to last season we had finished in the top 30 in England once in 15 years. Tell me how well Newcastle were supported before they got back into the top flight at the start of the PL boom...... Both Newcastle & Leeds are 1-club cities. Sheffield's combined support if far batter than Leeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belfast Owl 2 Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 (edited) 13 minutes ago, hirstyboywonder said: How can you say our support has been just above average? We have been out of the top flight for the best part of a generation, prior to last season we had finished in the top 30 in England once in 15 years. Tell me how well Newcastle were supported before they got back into the top flight at the start of the PL boom...... Both Newcastle & Leeds are 1-club cities. Sheffield's combined support if far batter than Leeds. Very average ST sales for years. Very low PL attendances after 1993 and some pretty shabby away attendances. Barely scraping 19k when home to Yorkshire sides live on Sky 19k home fans v Pigs in Owusu game? Taking 1000 to Leeds every year. Myths about selling out many away games. We have big crowds when it is dirt cheap tickets and massive games. Apart from that it is bang average crowds in a stadium too big for us and ok away attednances Edited December 21, 2016 by Belfast Owl 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 (edited) 18 minutes ago, Belfast Owl 2 said: Very average ST sales for years. Very low PL attendances after 1993 and some pretty shabby away attendances. Barely scraping 19k when home to Yorkshire sides live on Sky 19k home fans v Pigs in Owusu game? Taking 1000 to Leeds every year. Myths about selling out many away games. We have big crowds when it is dirt cheap tickets and massive games. Apart from that it is bang average crowds in a stadium too big for us and ok away attednances Selling out very few away games? You seem very critical. The stats about our away following are not myths, we are consistently in the top 6 if not top 2 or 3 in the division for away following despite spending most of the time in the bottom 6 in the table, how is that poor? Our large stadium doesn't help the atmosphere or look of the crowd but averaging around or over 20,000 having spend more than a decade between divisions 2 and 3 is not bad, how many more teams have managed that level of support during one of the worst periods in their history? Why have you chosen to highlight the poor crowd for the derby 14 years ago to make a point? By the same token we could say how many teams have attracted 36,000 home fans for a league game against Wycombe? Were our PL attendances that low in comparison to the whole of the PL at the time, especially for a team on the slide? Newcastle didn't have 15 years of dross in the 80's & 90's but a just a couple of bad seasons hit their crowds much harder than ours. Edited December 21, 2016 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owl in Nottingham Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Who really gives a monkeys about these votes? The sort of people who watch x factor or simply? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Princeabdullah Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Newcastle sheffield wednesday leeds united aston villa in that order Newcastle are awesome fans simple as that. Wednesday will always travel and generate 20-25 at home thousand regardless. Away support is amongst the best I've ever seen (Watford away when you stopped us winning league) Leeds fans in my opinion are a bit delusional but follow and support regardless, even though I can't stand the club the fans turn out so fair is fair. Aston Villa I see on par with Wednesday good club with a good honest fan base home and away. The rest seem just seem to be caught up in a moment, where the bigger clubs have the roots. As a watford fan thats my take on the best fans in the championship. Special mention for forest aswell quality club, but fans seem to have give up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owls about that Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 4 hours ago, Bassett's Allsorts said: Happily admit Leeds' away support is fantastic, but they use that to disguise the fact their home support is absolutely garbage. Leeds is the UK's third biggest city and there's only one football team in it, yet their game against Newcastle was the first time they had sold out since 2010. Leeds do well for away games as they have supporters all over the country from their times in the 70s, you notice the difference in their home crowds when they are at home midweek to being home on a Saturday, they don't just drop by a couple of thousand, it is drastic down by 5,6 or 7 thousand, recently they had over 31,000 at home to villa then the next game they were down to 21,000 midweek at home to reading, a drop of 10,000, it is simple the southern Leeds fans don't travel up midweek, but attend many away games down south. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The only way is S6 Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 5 hours ago, Blue n White Rampage said: why is newcastle the first on the list but the rest are in alphabetical order? why are brighton fans on the list? i'd have them near bottom of a championship table Brighton fans near the bottom. Is it just me or what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swafty Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 were leading now on 40%....keep voting!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Sl-OWL-ly Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Jeese, if some of our own supporters can't vote for us in a peetake poll what chance does Mr C have of trying to drive loyalty ? no wonder so many young kids today claim to support the bigger "brand names" in football rather than their local club.. It just goes to show how many soft do gooders there are around, bring on feckin Brexit ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Sl-OWL-ly Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 1 hour ago, The only way is S6 said: Brighton fans near the bottom. Is it just me or what? Nah, it's a common perception that Brighton fans are always near a bottom... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawkeye Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 How are villa in that list? I'd vote for the dingles over most of them. Might be thicker than paste, but fair play to them they have followed their team through a lot of dross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Sl-OWL-ly Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 TBF There's only just over 2,600 votes been cast, considering the size of the MASSIVE fan base plus all the others that's really pooh C'mon, get voting ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CS5swfc Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 If you want DC to take note of our 'loyalty' vote with your wallets not an a peetake poll! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pompeyowl Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 16 hours ago, TheEnchanter said: Leeds winning Not anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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