Expected attendance for leeds?

[Dunne's own goal]

I will be on Man City web site at midnight to book, me and my lads tickets. Can't wait. Neither can he.

I suggest you mate go to bed early and wake up so you'll be ready at 9am when the game will go on sale for those who don't have Blue membership with the ticket priority

 

[northlancs]

I cannot wait to hear them chanting "yarkshire yarkshire" over and over again, sounding like they've all had frontal lobotomies. I miss all that.

when leeds do that i always chant lancashire la la la

 

[Kenney_The_Blue]

You going to the game northlancs?

 

[another generation]

46,732 is my guess.

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

DOG. Great suggestion, as i just found that out.

 

[Hopeitschipskippax]

talking of attendances their are 28 users on here at this moment whilst over on the leeds forum waccoe theres 862 users online.
i rest my case. :-)

Wouldn't your 862 users be better supporter if they actually went to your games. There might even be some Leeds fans in Leeds in the 862 club.

Yeah, Leeds are one of the so called BIG clubs that have been put to the test, when it comes to their fans following them in the lower leagues. Unlike us, they failed miserably. When we were in the 3rd tier of English football, we were getting 30,000 at home; Leeds however, were nowhere near that. Even back in the 80's when we were both in the 2nd tier, our home games were attended by a good 10,000 more than those of Leeds. Your fans do tend to go missin, when the goin gets tough. However, you do have around 13,000 hardcore supporters. City have had one of the best followings in the country, since the 70's. Fact! You can compare Leeds to Both Sheffield clubs, Birmingham, Aston Villa, Wolves Nottingham Forest.........City are way out of your league. Fact....again

 

[JM Mcr]

talking of attendances their are 28 users on here at this moment whilst over on the leeds forum waccoe theres 862 users online.
i rest my case. :-)

Wouldn't your 862 users be better supporter if they actually went to your games. There might even be some Leeds fans in Leeds in the 862 club.

Yeah, Leeds are one of the so called BIG clubs that have been put to the test, when it comes to their fans following them in the lower leagues. Unlike us, they failed miserably. When we were in the 3rd tier of English football, we were getting 30,000 at home; Leeds however, were nowhere near that. Even back in the 80's when we were both in the 2nd tier, our home games were attended by a good 10,000 more than those of Leeds. Your fans do tend to go missin, when the goin gets tough. However, you do have around 13,000 hardcore supporters. City have had one of the best followings in the country, since the 70's. Fact! You can compare Leeds to Both Sheffield clubs, Birmingham, Aston Villa, Wolves Nottingham Forest.........City are way out of your league. Fact....again

As an outsider, with absolutely no affinity to either club, I do think that City are a bigger club than Leeds (much bigger nowadays and slightly bigger in the past) but I think you're in danger of straying from the truth a little to make your point here.

Your average league gate in 98/99 was just over 28,200 - fantastic support for the 3rd tier of the game - and Leeds average league gate in 07/08 when they dropped down to the 3rd tier of the game was 26,546 - again very commendable for that level of the game. Their average crowd remained comfortably above 20,000 for their remaining 2 seasons in the 3rd tier as well, obviously we have no way of knowing whether City's gates would've topped that had they not bounced back from the old 3rd division at the first time of asking.

It's safe to say that neither club has anything to be ashamed of when it comes to their level of support during their lowest point.

 

[northlancs]

You going to the game northlancs?

of course just like every other away game.

but i dont go to home games.

 

[JGL07]

As an outsider, with absolutely no affinity to either club, I do think that City are a bigger club than Leeds (much bigger nowadays and slightly bigger in the past) but I think you're in danger of straying from the truth a little to make your point here.

Your average league gate in 98/99 was just over 28,200 - fantastic support for the 3rd tier of the game - and Leeds average league gate in 07/08 when they dropped down to the 3rd tier of the game was 26,546 - again very commendable for that level of the game. Their average crowd remained comfortably above 20,000 for their remaining 2 seasons in the 3rd tier as well, obviously we have no way of knowing whether City's gates would've topped that had they not bounced back from the old 3rd division at the first time of asking.

Your stats ignore the fact that Maine Road had a capacity of circa 30,000 when in Division 2 wheras Leeds had nearly 38,000.

Given the likely gaps in the visiting support allocation, City must have been near to capacity in the home section for most if not all of the matches.

 

[Hopeitschipskippax]

Wouldn't your 862 users be better supporter if they actually went to your games. There might even be some Leeds fans in Leeds in the 862 club.

Yeah, Leeds are one of the so called BIG clubs that have been put to the test, when it comes to their fans following them in the lower leagues. Unlike us, they failed miserably. When we were in the 3rd tier of English football, we were getting 30,000 at home; Leeds however, were nowhere near that. Even back in the 80's when we were both in the 2nd tier, our home games were attended by a good 10,000 more than those of Leeds. Your fans do tend to go missin, when the goin gets tough. However, you do have around 13,000 hardcore supporters. City have had one of the best followings in the country, since the 70's. Fact! You can compare Leeds to Both Sheffield clubs, Birmingham, Aston Villa, Wolves Nottingham Forest.........City are way out of your league. Fact....again

As an outsider, with absolutely no affinity to either club, I do think that City are a bigger club than Leeds (much bigger nowadays and slightly bigger in the past) but I think you're in danger of straying from the truth a little to make your point here.

Your average league gate in 98/99 was just over 28,200 - fantastic support for the 3rd tier of the game - and Leeds average league gate in 07/08 when they dropped down to the 3rd tier of the game was 26,546 - again very commendable for that level of the game. Their average crowd remained comfortably above 20,000 for their remaining 2 seasons in the 3rd tier as well, obviously we have no way of knowing whether City's gates would've topped that had they not bounced back from the old 3rd division at the first time of asking.

It's safe to say that neither club has anything to be ashamed of when it comes to their level of support during their lowest point.

It's a fair point that. However, Our ground only held 30,000 and we had to save some seats for the visitors. Most games it was full to the brim. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Elland Road have a capacity of around 42,000 back then? What's to say we wouldn't have got 10,000 more in our ground, if we'd had the room to accommodate them? In 2007/8 Leeds average league attendance was 25,720and a season later it was down by almost 2,000. If I'm right with my 42K, then that's a whopping 19,000 off capacity. I see your point, it's still a lot of fans considering league position. I just wanted a neutral like yourself, to come on here and say, City has always had a better following than Leeds ;) Coz I hate Leeds.