Good answer brb,I agree with you,however watching Charlton is hardly seeking glory football,I can't see why anyone from Gillingham would rather get on a bus to watch them than follow their local team. Incidentally our fans have always stayed with the team through thick & thin,average home attendances never dipped despite the extortionate prices Bates charges,& every away game we sell our allocation. Anyway,good luck for the new season,hopefully you'll be shipping them in from Charlton instead one day.
Leeds average attendance Premier League 2003/4 36,666 League 1 2009/10 24,817 I make that a third of your fanbase disappeared when the going got thin
Born in Leeds in 1938. Forever a Leeds fan. Got it stamped on my backside when I was born in St James. Moved away from Leeds in early fifties to Co Durham with my family. Followed every move with Raich Carter and my boyhood hero John Charles...destroyed when he left for Juventus. Went through hell in '73 when the local team Sunderland beat us at Wembley with that save BY MONTGOMERY. (They still remind me ??) Loved the glory days with the Don and later with O'Leary but coudn't believe the rapid fall from the top down to League 1. Now we are on the way up...it may take a few more years but with the fantastic support we enjoy..we will be back. So when the do the autopsy on me they will look at my backside and say "He followed a great team" LOYALTY of all its fans is why I am proud of Leeds United.
So what? Every club does that when relegated. Millwall average attendance Div 2, 1968-69 - 16,343 Div 3, 1975-76 - 7,667 More than half of the fans disappeared. Div 1, 2001-02 - 13,380 Div 1, 2002-03 - 8,512 More than a third of the fans disappeared. Hardly remarkable that a club gets more fans when successful and less when unsuccessful, is it? There's no club which doesn't, in fact, so it hardly means any club has less loyal fans for it.
Leeds in 2008-2009 had the highest league one agerage gates of 24,197. 2009-2010 leeds had the league one highest average league one attendance of 24,817. So TC how is that dissapearing fans? remember if Millwall were ever to be in the premiership and then drop two divisions, do you seriously think you would keep every single fan? Would Millwal then break attendance figures for that division like Leeds did? mmmm i dont think so.
Blimey you lot are touchy tonight I was just correcting LeedsinEssex when he posted that your "average home attendances never dipped" when they did infact dip by over a third - I agree,it does happen at most clubs so please don't pretend Leeds are different
He actually said "average home attendances never dipped despite the extortionate prices Bates charges", so I assume he meant they haven't dipped inordinately since Bates came in even despite his the horrendous cost of following Leeds.
Yes,that's it,that's exactly what I meant! Thanks Donald. I was refering to average home attendances since Bates took over,& it was in response to a Gillingham fan,so what its got to do with Millwall **** knows.
Yet another thread spoilt by the neanderthals. I thought they'd be resting after their longest day celebrations! One day Millwall man will walk upright.................. please log in to view this image Millwall fan of the season.
Elland Road also makes me proud to be a Leeds fan. The East Stand's a bit of a monstrosity in my view, but I'm not complaining when there's 40,000 in the stadium under the floodlights on a big-atmosphere night game. People say it's a decrepit ****hole of a stadium, but at least it's not a soulless, symmetrical boredom arena like the Emirates, Walkers, KC or any of the other horrible stadia which have been recently built and all distastefully bear the names of sponsors. As the song goes: "Elland Road is the only place for us". I hope we never leave the place.
