Who Are Rovers? Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 Out of interest, why MK? You can have as many as you desire in the away end, to an extent of course. But it's easy to access, not to far away, we should be looking to get close to what Wolves did last year, would be a great achievement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchay Red Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 What about the 5-0 win at Swansea in 1990, didn't SuperBob get a hat-trick that night. Think we had a sizable following. I recall a lot of slow traffic getting to the ground, but cant find any stats to back up my unreliable memory! Edit: Just found that the attendance was only 5,857 so we couldn't have had that much of a huge away following! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bristol Rob Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 Sure there was an away at Bolton when 000s made the trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazooka Joe Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 Some that I remember with big support at away matches. 1957 Villa FA Cup1967 Tottenham FA Cup at least six train loads 1976 WBA league 1976 Arsenal league 1977 Coventry reputedly 15,000 1989 Forest League cup s/f 1993 Liverpool I don't count any mataches v Rovers away because it so close. Been at Cardiff in the 50's with several train loads. Also v Leicester FA Cup when Jacki played his first game. Estimated 10.000 City went to Tottenham that year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 Considering we were shite , and at a very low point (well just starting the way back up). The following to Chester to win promotion from the (old) fourth division was special. One of my favorite away days, our train was turned into a 'special' , and there were more City there than Chester. Ah the Trevor Morgan free kick, don't think I saw him take one before or since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityloyal473 Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 Sure there was an away at Bolton when 000s made the trip. I seem to recall a figure of 5000. Not sure if the old memory is playing trick on me. Part of me thinks it may have been midweek too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiceRed Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 In recent years what about the 4.5k to reading. Scared reading so much they vowed never to give that allocation away again. Pullis's first game. Also remembered for the Lavin red card. Some of our fans tried to run into the home end. We had to walk back to the station as they wouldn't let us on buses. Took ages. I hate that ground, middle of nowhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoldenBall Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 Pullis's first game. Also remembered for the Lavin red card. Some of our fans tried to run into the home end. We had to walk back to the station as they wouldn't let us on buses. Took ages. I hate that ground, middle of nowhere. You're getting confused.. When we took 4,500 to Reading that was in 2009 under Johnson.. won 2-0 Adebola and an own goal http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/7883610.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manon Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 4,499 + me. What a day that was. Just a shame the ground is located in possibly the worst place in the football pyramid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gillies Downs Leeds Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 Can't remember figures but the season that both us at Watford went up we took a huge following to Vicarage Road. We drew one all I think with the Goat scoring for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidered abroad Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 How many were at Leeds in 73? No segregation that I can remember so impossible to quantify. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aussie Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 How many were at Leeds in 73? No segregation that I can remember so impossible to quantify. Excuse my ignorance if wrong (this game before I was born) but wasn't that played in the middle of the three day week strike? Can't have been huge numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Portland Bill Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 We have taken big support to most of the midlands teams, West Brom,Brum,Leicester,Derby and both Nottingham clubs. We have taken over 5,000 to Forest 2 or 3 times and took about 4,000 to Notts County for an FA cup tie when we were in the 4th Division. Most of these big away followings have been when we were still shite! Give us a successful side and they would be the norm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southside Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 Sure there was an away at Bolton when 000s made the trip. It was April 1990, a saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazooka Joe Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 It was April 1990, a saturday. Yeah, we packed the Open End. Then as more of our lot came in late they opened up the gates to give us half of the big grandstand as well. Much to the annoyance of Bolton's not so solid crew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huntstile Red Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 89 Forest was superb. The 1st Div away followings were great, obviously, but remember we were in the 1st Div. 1989 at Forest was us in the 3rd. And cr*p beyond measure in the league. 19 league defeats that season like 1-5 at home to Fulham, a habitually terrible January with four 0-1/0-2s in a row (a month without scoring...!) and, just after the Forest games, 0-4 to County (h). Remember it like the day before yesterday. In amongst all that was a growing feeling of something special in the cup, the Oxford and Palace games with Ralphie Milne scoring a belter, Tranmere, then, in January beating 2nd Div Bradford at theirs (think Bug Joe is still trying to talk his way out of that booking...) So the game v Cloughie was pretty special in a poor, poor season, hard on the heels of heartache the year before v Walsall in the play-offs. I remember getting in to the City Ground near the corner flag and being astonished to see a full tier of City fans along the touchline as well as in the 'end'. I had to stand with one foot on the ground, on the crumbling concrete supporting the floodlight. Cracks in the floor, rubble and stones everywhere, clinging on to the fencing and some kiddies scaling the pylon itself to get a better view. There must have been more than the allocated number in there, surely? When we scored I ended up at least 30 yards away from where I'd started, black and blue such was the (enjoyable) crush. Madness. Exactly 2 months later? Hillsborough. Football grounds were a disaster in those days, an absolute disgrace and Sheff Wed and Forest were two leading top division grounds, literally falling apart under our trainers. So obvious now, looking back, that Hillsborough was going to happen. It could have happened on any number of match days for any number of years previous to 15.4.89 But the City support that day was, for me, the best I've ever witnessed, despite John Pender's bloody og. The utter chaos and madness of City fans in some pub in Ashby-de-la-Zouch on the way to the ground - City fans literally hanging off the upstairs balcony of the pub - the sweaty, humid February air inside that pub as we opened the door to be greeted by absolute pandemonium and lunacy...that will stay with me forever. As will Paul Hardon's strike. Cor blimey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Rag Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 Estimated 10.000 City went to Tottenham that year. Went to the spurs game on a coach with my dad and his work mates. Got there at half time after traffic delays and promptly gave myself a black eye with my rattle. Just a bit to enthusiastic that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huntstile Red Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 Yeah, we packed the Open End. Then as more of our lot came in late they opened up the gates to give us half of the big grandstand as well. Much to the annoyance of Bolton's not so solid crew. That was SUCH a bloody 'City' performance: big game, massive following...turd of a performance. Poor old Bob wasn't fit, he shouldn't have played and you just knew (if yr pessimistic like us) that we were done for (in terms of winning the title over some other non-entity team) after that defeat. Turns out, pessimistically, we were right. Still p*ss*s me off, remembering that game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazooka Joe Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 Can't remember figures but the season that both us at Watford went up we took a huge following to Vicarage Road. We drew one all I think with the Goat scoring for us. Another great day - 4,000 plus? including a very happy Baldrick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeepUpLino Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 Everyone's forgetting the huge following we took to vicarage rd the year we finished runners up, we filled there whole away end, must have been near on 7,000 fans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Port Said Red Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 Went to eastville I think it was 0-0 went to Nottingham Forrest in a cup game think about 8000 city fans there that night Coventry was over 15000 I think Just remembered something about this game. I was with my dad and my mate and we got in quite early. I think the police were a bit surprised by our following because we started off in one little segment of the away end (pre hillsborough, lots of fencing) but they kept having to open segment after segment until we filled the end. Then when we scored we noticed that about a third of the enclosure in front of the stand to our left was celebrating too. That must have been an extra 1000 at least! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gasbuster Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 What about the 5-0 win at Swansea in 1990, didn't SuperBob get a hat-trick that night. Think we had a sizable following. I recall a lot of slow traffic getting to the ground, but cant find any stats to back up my unreliable memory! Edit: Just found that the attendance was only 5,857 so we couldn't have had that much of a huge away following! It was so loud in there, it just seemed there were more inside ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gasbuster Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 89 Forest was superb. The 1st Div away followings were great, obviously, but remember we were in the 1st Div. 1989 at Forest was us in the 3rd. And cr*p beyond measure in the league. 19 league defeats that season like 1-5 at home to Fulham, a habitually terrible January with four 0-1/0-2s in a row (a month without scoring...!) and, just after the Forest games, 0-4 to County (h). Remember it like the day before yesterday. In amongst all that was a growing feeling of something special in the cup, the Oxford and Palace games with Ralphie Milne scoring a belter, Tranmere, then, in January beating 2nd Div Bradford at theirs (think Bug Joe is still trying to talk his way out of that booking...) So the game v Cloughie was pretty special in a poor, poor season, hard on the heels of heartache the year before v Walsall in the play-offs. I remember getting in to the City Ground near the corner flag and being astonished to see a full tier of City fans along the touchline as well as in the 'end'. I had to stand with one foot on the ground, on the crumbling concrete supporting the floodlight. Cracks in the floor, rubble and stones everywhere, clinging on to the fencing and some kiddies scaling the pylon itself to get a better view. There must have been more than the allocated number in there, surely? When we scored I ended up at least 30 yards away from where I'd started, black and blue such was the (enjoyable) crush. Madness. Exactly 2 months later? Hillsborough. Football grounds were a disaster in those days, an absolute disgrace and Sheff Wed and Forest were two leading top division grounds, literally falling apart under our trainers. So obvious now, looking back, that Hillsborough was going to happen. It could have happened on any number of match days for any number of years previous to 15.4.89 But the City support that day was, for me, the best I've ever witnessed, despite John Pender's bloody og. The utter chaos and madness of City fans in some pub in Ashby-de-la-Zouch on the way to the ground - City fans literally hanging off the upstairs balcony of the pub - the sweaty, humid February air inside that pub as we opened the door to be greeted by absolute pandemonium and lunacy...that will stay with me forever. As will Paul Hardon's strike. Cor blimey. What a night that was ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forbespm Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 i remember going with my dad to QPR in the late 70's.the cats laid on free coaches and city took tover 10k. a couple of QPR fans asked if they could walk with us to the game so they felt safer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidered abroad Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 Excuse my ignorance if wrong (this game before I was born) but wasn't that played in the middle of the three day week strike? Can't have been huge numbers. There were a lot there but as you say it was the three day week so even though I was there, I would find it difficult to hazard a guess. It was a complete full house at just over 47,000. So I will guess I will at between 2,000 and 4,000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huntstile Red Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 What a night that was ! It's funny how you can look back on what was, ultimately, a disappointing result yet have great fondness for it. I share your sentiments, Gasbuster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1960maaan Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 i remember going with my dad to QPR in the late 70's.the cats laid on free coaches and city took over 10k. a couple of QPR fans asked if they could walk with us to the game so they felt safer! Not quite that many , there was only 16,000 there, but there were a lot. Our coach broke down and we had to wait for a replacement, then in the ground the Police were getting funny about bad language so the chant was changed to... "he's here, he's there, we're not allowed to swear, Gerry Gow" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1960maaan Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 Birmingham , i think it was the promotion year, 4-0 in front of 4,000 traveling Reds. It doesn't get much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S. Bristol Born & Red Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 Reading away (April 1984)...G*s at Eastville (FA Cup Dec 1983)....Notts County away (FA Cup Jan 1984)...all big followings... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ciderhead433 Posted October 14, 2014 Report Share Posted October 14, 2014 Not quite that many , there was only 16,000 there, but there were a lot. Our coach broke down and we had to wait for a replacement, then in the ground the Police were getting funny about bad language so the chant was changed to... "he's here, he's there, we're not allowed to swear, Gerry Gow" Remember the coach breaking down our driver waiting as well mate got kicked out for swearing and QPR scored in the last min. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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