Ipswich away in 2023 must've been pretty close. Not sure how many they gave us but the away end was pretty full that day and the home areas were completely sold out
I'm just posting on Steve's behalf 'cause he has an unexpectedly busy day today :)
With a complete sell-out announced , you guys are welcome to keep predicting but from this point onwards your predictions won't count in the season-long competition. Poor Steve was so annoyed with himself when he realised it was a sellout and he hadn't made a prediction himself but luckily his computer screen survived the announcement intact xD
He also wanted me to pass on his apologies that he didn't post any warnings to you guys as a sellout got more and more likely. Here's hoping that we put on a proper show for the St Andrews crowd ;)
Wycombe Wanderers on Twitter/X have tweeted that this is the "biggest away crowd for a league game in a generation".
What is the most recent League away game where we took more than 2000? It can't include the playoffs because we took 2228 to MK for the second leg in 2022.
Was this when we got two red cards and it turned out to be "mistaken identity?" (McSporran and Senda). To solve the problem the ref sent both of them off.
Gallen was celebrating like he’d won the Champions League after he won a penalty. At this point McSporran was 50 yards away and Senda took umbrage to Gallens celebrations. A large scuffle took place with McSporran turning up late as he was so far away.
Senda was in the middle of everything and the ref immediately sent him off, though he’d actually sent McSporran off by mistake.
He then conferred with his linesman and sent Senda off to. QPR then missed the penalty. This all happened just before half time with the scores 1-1.
Superb atmosphere in the away end and we managed to score twice in the second half with only 9 against 12.
Unfortunately QPR scored 3 in the second half and we lost 4-3.
“Nine men, we only had nine men” rang out from the visiting contingent at full time. I was in the top tier, had to bend in half and lean forward to see the corners being taken. Should be a great atmosphere tomorrow. Hopefully no kerfuffles about seating, standing and general goonery. And hopefully all three points in a famous win!
Congratulations to @williwycombe, Forecaster of the Week.
Most were blindsided by the maximum capacity being less for us than it was for Reading, Wrexham and Newcastle earlier this season.
Nobody was within one hundred and @Alexo was the only other forecaster within two hundred.
Those shown in yellow are entries which came after @railwaybeth's kind post on my behalf to say that further entries would not count in the 'Tour de Season' because, as @DevC pointed out, both clubs had declared a complete sell out.
That same rule has been applied in the past and will apply for at least the rest of this season, so I will put up a thread for the Wrexham game soon.
Top Twenty Four for the Away Crowd: [1930]
Many Congratulations to @NewburyWanderer who was closest to our number, with the only underestimate in the top 24.
Everyone was within 5% [96.5] - so congratulations all round.
Top Twenty for the Home Crowd: [Calculated 25,592]
Many congratulations to @williwycombe who was closest for the home crowd as well as the total crowd, not surprising considering how close to each other all the away crowd predictions were.
Congratulations to @Alexo who was the only other forecaster within one hundred.
I will start other prediction threads before updating the 'Tour de Season' updates for the Birmingham match.
I reckon the top ten are now these, going by my records. Official figures wherever possible. Some figures may be different from different sources. Always may be some variations along the way.
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Does look like this is now a complete sell out of both home and away areas. Must be quite a long time since we last had one of those??
Ipswich away in 2023 must've been pretty close. Not sure how many they gave us but the away end was pretty full that day and the home areas were completely sold out
29,408 with 1,999 Chairfolk
Hiya,
I'm just posting on Steve's behalf 'cause he has an unexpectedly busy day today :)
With a complete sell-out announced , you guys are welcome to keep predicting but from this point onwards your predictions won't count in the season-long competition. Poor Steve was so annoyed with himself when he realised it was a sellout and he hadn't made a prediction himself but luckily his computer screen survived the announcement intact xD
He also wanted me to pass on his apologies that he didn't post any warnings to you guys as a sellout got more and more likely. Here's hoping that we put on a proper show for the St Andrews crowd ;)
Game was fully sold out at 12.26 yesterday according to the clubs twitter feed.
Oh that’s a shame I’ll predict anyway Birmingham 29.400 Wycombe 1.998
27,789 with 1,968
29,300 with 2000
29345 with 1999 Chairboys
Wycombe Wanderers on Twitter/X have tweeted that this is the "biggest away crowd for a league game in a generation".
What is the most recent League away game where we took more than 2000? It can't include the playoffs because we took 2228 to MK for the second leg in 2022.
Recent large away league attendances include:
Charlton (Dec 2024) - 1457
Reading (March 2024) - 1652
Oxford (Oct 2023) - 1467
Oxford (Oct 2022) - 1386
Burton (April 2022) - 1622
Wimbledon (April 2022) - 1200
Oxford (Sept 2021) - 1505
MK (Feb 2020) - 1834
Oxford (Dec 2019) - 1802
Having gone through Chairboys on the Net, I've found the answer!
Reading (a), 22 September 2001. We took 2711
Edit: I missed out QPR (a) on 29 December 2001. We took 2343 that day. So we did it twice in one season, but not since then
I think Reading was the 'orange away day'
I read on another site that we returned some tickets does anyone if it's true?
@WanderingDays You're right. QPR on that date, but for some reason I've got 2,298.
At least 60 away followings for FL matches over 1,000.
Only about eight over 2,000.
Was this when we got two red cards and it turned out to be "mistaken identity?" (McSporran and Senda). To solve the problem the ref sent both of them off.
That’s the one.
Gallen was celebrating like he’d won the Champions League after he won a penalty. At this point McSporran was 50 yards away and Senda took umbrage to Gallens celebrations. A large scuffle took place with McSporran turning up late as he was so far away.
Senda was in the middle of everything and the ref immediately sent him off, though he’d actually sent McSporran off by mistake.
He then conferred with his linesman and sent Senda off to. QPR then missed the penalty. This all happened just before half time with the scores 1-1.
Superb atmosphere in the away end and we managed to score twice in the second half with only 9 against 12.
Unfortunately QPR scored 3 in the second half and we lost 4-3.
Epic away day.
Just watched the highlights from this incident and at one point the ref had actually sent off Keith Ryan!!
“Nine men, we only had nine men” rang out from the visiting contingent at full time. I was in the top tier, had to bend in half and lean forward to see the corners being taken. Should be a great atmosphere tomorrow. Hopefully no kerfuffles about seating, standing and general goonery. And hopefully all three points in a famous win!
26898 with 2005
What are the 8? Before 2001-2002 COTN doesn't give away figures?
28882 with 1958
27,802 with 1987 away.
27,890 with 1,998 away please
28,765 with 1,996 Chairboys.
28590 with 1995 of us please - just for fun!
27522 given which is 460 odd below current capacity due to our smaller allocation and segregation issues.
1,930 Chairfolk according to GasMan.
Top Twenty for the Total Crowd: [27522]
Congratulations to @williwycombe, Forecaster of the Week.
Most were blindsided by the maximum capacity being less for us than it was for Reading, Wrexham and Newcastle earlier this season.
Nobody was within one hundred and @Alexo was the only other forecaster within two hundred.
Those shown in yellow are entries which came after @railwaybeth's kind post on my behalf to say that further entries would not count in the 'Tour de Season' because, as @DevC pointed out, both clubs had declared a complete sell out.
That same rule has been applied in the past and will apply for at least the rest of this season, so I will put up a thread for the Wrexham game soon.
Top Twenty Four for the Away Crowd: [1930]
Many Congratulations to @NewburyWanderer who was closest to our number, with the only underestimate in the top 24.
Everyone was within 5% [96.5] - so congratulations all round.
Top Twenty for the Home Crowd: [Calculated 25,592]
Many congratulations to @williwycombe who was closest for the home crowd as well as the total crowd, not surprising considering how close to each other all the away crowd predictions were.
Congratulations to @Alexo who was the only other forecaster within one hundred.
I will start other prediction threads before updating the 'Tour de Season' updates for the Birmingham match.
I reckon the top ten are now these, going by my records. Official figures wherever possible. Some figures may be different from different sources. Always may be some variations along the way.
22/09/2001 Reading 2,711
08/05/1999 Lincoln C 2,643
27/12/1994 Oxford U 2,600 approx
21/10/1995 Oxford U 2,311
29/12/2001 QPR 2,298
14/10/2000 Reading 2,295
21/03/1995 Brentford 2,200 approx
09/10/1993 Northampton T 2,000 approx
12/04/2008 MK 1,943
01/03/2025 Birmingham C 1,930
Interesting that the top 8 are all within an 8 year period between 93 and 01. No game has surpassed any of those numbers for 24 years. I wonder why?