"Disappointing" attendances

Thomas Hearns said:
Big Mick's header that day ? No way would we have had 20k tickets unsold for a derby. Think the capacity was 48 by then maybe 44 but even so there must've been a reason for such a small crowd - one of the stands closed ?
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I was there. There were big ticket selling restrictions beforehand due to crowd trouble. And those was the era of poor attendances across the board.
 
jrb said:
It’s no secret that he is frustrated by our home support, the early leavers, and the lack of atmosphere, and the lack of support his teams get at the Etihad.

It is a massive contrast to Bayern and German football in general.

As for Barcelona, we are talking about a ‘99,000’ seater stadium. Even with average crowds of 76,000 it’s impossible to fill it on a regular basis. I think Barcelona have filled it once this season in the CL? I’m sure it was full at times when Pep was Barcelona Manager.

Regardless if my opinions are right or wrong, Pep seems to have an on-going issue with our home support. In his defence he hasn’t said a bad word about our away support.
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https://m.football-lineups.com/match/96006/

Copa Del Rey whilst Pep was managing Barca. Less than we had today.
 
Thomas Hearns said:
Capacity was 65k for Charlton :-)
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At least!

A fucking outrage that attendance. There were folk sat in the aisles in all the stands, most especially the Platt Lane, and the Kippax was so overcrowded it must have been unsafe. It certainly looked it. Swales was an absolute liberty taking cünt. A small-time chancer who blagged his way to getting control of our club.

Not sure if I've posted this before, but I was right next to the tunnel for that game. I was on Match of the Day when the teams came out! My dad sorted the ticket out about two hours before kick-off from a ‘business associate’ and slapped it in my hand. Made up, although I’d lost a little bit of interest in City after we got relegated in ‘83 if I’m being entirely honest. Not hugely, but City just became slightly less important. That game reignited my fire, which remained even when we went to shit. One of my favourite ever games. Brilliant day to be at the old stadium.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
At least!

A fucking outrage that attendance. There were folk sat in the aisles in all the stands, most especially the Platt Lane, and the Kippax was so overcrowded it must have been unsafe. It certainly looked it. Swales was an absolute liberty taking cünt. A small-time chancer who blagged his way to getting control of our club.

Not sure if I've posted this before, but I was right next to the tunnel for that game. I was on Match of the Day when the teams came out! My dad sorted the ticket out about two hours before kick-off from a ‘business associate’ and slapped it in my hand. Made up, although I’d lost a little bit of interest in City after we got relegated in ‘83 if I’m being entirely honest. Not hugely, but City just became slightly less important. That game reignited my fire, which remained even when we went to shit. One of my favourite ever games. Brilliant day to be at the old stadium.
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Brilliant day, my uncle (RIP) took me to the game as a late Birthday present.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
I was there. There were big ticket selling restrictions beforehand due to crowd trouble. And those was the era of poor attendances across the board.
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The mid to late 80 was a low point for crowds but even so 32 for a derby is an anomaly. As you say the restrictions must've been a big factor.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
You might be right about 48k. I think it was a capacity of 52k for Charlton in ‘85, but Bradford might have led to the fire regs changing in stadiums. That’s certainly ringing a bell. it definitely went down around that time without the stadium changing.

Yes, Big Mick’s header. Fucking brilliant goal. It was a Sunday afternoon iirc and live on ITV. No other reason for the low crowd as far as I can remember. No stands closed, no. United fans were (inter alia) in the Platt Lane. Crowd of 32 to 35k seemed about right from what I recall. Definitely less than 40k.
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I think the Kippax centre section was closed for some reason, a huge empty section of terrace and the biggest no mans land since WW1
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karen7 said:
Just watch it back,pep talks about th fans first,spoon fed them
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To be fair Karen whether he was spoon fed or not , the club should instruct him to refrain from making comments about our attendances , he might be a god but he's also an employee and he is also an intelligent guy , surely he has witnessed the crap our fan base has endured , he should be speaking positively about the third highest attendance of the round ,not worrying about our numbers for Wednesday night against the Rags. He wouldnt do it to Barca or Bayern fans and we deserve the same respect.
 
Thomas Hearns said:
Capacity was 65k for Charlton :-)
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No chance. The biggest crowd I was ever in at Maine Road was 63500 in 1971 vs the rags and I was stood up in the newly opened North Stand. So 2 stands out of 4 were standing, only the Main Stand and Platter Lane were seated.
When the North Stand became all seats in 1972 the capacity was reduced to 52500.
And it stayed at that capacity for about 20 years.
 
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Thomas Hearns said:
The mid to late 80 was a low point for crowds but even so 32 for a derby is an anomaly. As you say the restrictions must've been a big factor.
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I think I remember it now. We had three games fairly close to each other which I think were Leeds (or was it wolves?), Chelsea and United. Chelsea fans and maybe wolves too had been banned from away games. The turnstile operators gave you three vouchers when you went to Maine Road at one game and you needed that voucher to buy a ticket. So lots of people couldn’t buy tickets even though they wanted to go.

There was still loads of trouble at that derby particular outside after.
 
jimmygrimblesboots said:
To be fair Karen whether he was spoon fed or not , the club should instruct him to refrain from making comments about our attendances , he might be a god but he's also an employee and he is also an intelligent guy , surely he has witnessed the crap our fan base has endured , he should be speaking positively about the third highest attendance of the round ,not worrying about our numbers for Wednesday night against the Rags. He wouldnt do it to Barca or Bayern fans and we deserve the same respect.
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I think he's just being smart. He's in charge of getting results. It's important that there's a full house against Utd and a good atmosphere, and it will happen now. I'm glad Pep raised the topic. The supporters are important and matter.
 
manclad said:
No chance. The biggest crowd I was ever in at Maine Road was 63500 in 1971 vs the rags and I was stood up in the newly opened North Stand. So 2 stands out of 4 were standing, only the Main Stand and Platter Lane were seated.
When the North Stand became all seats in 1972 the capacity was reduced to 52500.
And it stayed at that capacity for about 20 years.
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I don’t think he was being entirely serious, mate :-)
 
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