Mattmc Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Don't think Spartans had any fans at Stair Park last night, big ask to travel from Blyth I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonLichtie Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 3 hours ago, Jimmy Shaker said: Cove occasionally put together a crowd, but they've spent the last year on the road and even though we're only halfway through August, they've done some amount of travelling already this season due to their lack of a home ground and participation in group stages of cups and the like. They took about twenty-odd last night, I think, looking from where I was standing. Their home crowds at Inverurie are pretty solid, but the attendances for Highland League games have nosedived of late due to the works teams wasting everyone elses time Don't want to sidetrack the topic - but what are attendances generally like overall in the Highland League? Discounting home fans I get the impression Wick and Buckie seem to get decent crowds (200+ most games?) with more for bigger/ derby games, at the other end Rothes, Strathspey, Fort William etc. get 50 on a good day with the rest between 50 and 150 or so depending on opposition/ form/ league position? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smuggfifer Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 I do believe if Cove could get a stadium in their hometown or Portlethen, they could attract a decent support in the lower leagues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bogs_Dollox Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Farce of a competition anyway. Devalued to f**k with the introduction of colts teams . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowdenbeath Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 5 hours ago, LongTimeLurker said: Announced attendance and actual attendance are often two very different things given that non-attending season ticket holders and unused comp tickets can be factored in when clubs are keen to boost numbers up to appear respectable in the newspapers. This also isn't really a derby fans of either club have ever cared about that much. For Accies the local rival that is taken seriously is Motherwell and for Albion Rovers it is Airdrie, while Airdrie and Motherwell tend to take each other more seriously as derby rivals than their immediate neighbours, hence 1000+ showing up at their game. The numbers for the colt team games were less than stellar overall, but they were far from catastrophic, and the on-field performance has been reasonable, so I think the people who want to introduce colt teams into the lower tiers of the senior grade's pyramid in a manner similar to what happens in a lot of continental countries, because they see it as the way ahead in player development terms will see this experiment as a success so far. You would have got a true crowd from games last night as you have to give opponents a share of the gate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cmontheloknow Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 On crowds at lower levels, it can look bigger if there are a healthy number of sponsors, comps etc in. If they don't pay in, they don't get counted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdinburghBlue Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 326 at Stranraer v Spartans tonight Any Spartans fans other than the official party? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALDERON Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 4 hours ago, smuggfifer said: I do believe if Cove could get a stadium in their hometown or Portlethen, they could attract a decent support in the lower leagues. They didn't muster a decent support when they played in Cove before. Literally about 30 of them made the trip to play us at Forfar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 Turriff v Montrose - 180 Arbroath v East Fife - 335 Rangers 'B' v Stenhousemuir - 324 No idea what Turriff get normally but as low as 180 surprises. Despite no first-team game this week and Stenny being a bigger name than Stirling Uni, crowd at Rangers 'B' was down 35%. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StewartyMac Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 For all the Arbroath fans bluster about 'boycotting' games against the Colt sides, they can't even be bothered to turn up to a game at home to a higher division league side in a fixture that would have been commonplace in the old format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 For all the Arbroath fans bluster about 'boycotting' games against the Colt sides, they can't even be bothered to turn up to a game at home to a higher division league side in a fixture that would have been commonplace in the old format. It's not the old format though No difficult Stewart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StewartyMac Posted August 17, 2016 Share Posted August 17, 2016 9 minutes ago, 1320Lichtie said: It's not the old format though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poet of the Macabre Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 6 hours ago, StewartyMac said: For all the Arbroath fans bluster about 'boycotting' games against the Colt sides, they can't even be bothered to turn up to a game at home to a higher division league side in a fixture that would have been commonplace in the old format. I think the boycott was the whole competition, no? I won't be going to any Dunfermline match in the tournament because of the changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1320Lichtie Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 Well it makes your point completely invalid It would've been common place in the old format aye, but this isn't the old format, this is a new format, a new format that's totally stupid and ridiculous Just cause your team got punted out your favourite competition don't start getting moody with everybody Stewart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomGuy. Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 Surely the best action would be to boost the crowd for the "traditional" games, and boycott the Colts games, so the authorities could see the difference between the two? All thats happened here is "normal" games are having just as shite crowds as the Colt games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingboots Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 15 hours ago, SimonLichtie said: Don't want to sidetrack the topic - but what are attendances generally like overall in the Highland League? Discounting home fans I get the impression Wick and Buckie seem to get decent crowds (200+ most games?) with more for bigger/ derby games, at the other end Rothes, Strathspey, Fort William etc. get 50 on a good day with the rest between 50 and 150 or so depending on opposition/ form/ league position? Traditionally the derbies naturally got big crowds, not so sure nowadays though. I remember a title decider between Buckie and Deveronvale about 5 years ago was well over 1,000/. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shull Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 " colts galore " can now be removed from the Title Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowden Cowboy Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 On crowds at lower levels, it can look bigger if there are a healthy number of sponsors, comps etc in. If they don't pay in, they don't get counted. Why would comps not be counted - they should be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CALDERON Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 Inverurie usually get 3-400 from what I remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caledonian Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 If Ayr United got drawn against an under-20s team I would definitely boycott the match. The concept is an insult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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