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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: StocktonRover on December 01, 2015, 09:31:10 pm
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Morcambe v Dagenham tonight with a paltry 1027 in attendance - even for a Tuesday that's poor
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Not really, it's a horrible night weather wise,less than 4 weeks until Christmas, they played each other there a fortnight ago in a F A cup replay, and also they are two of the three smaller clubs in the division
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When the weather is bitter in Morecambe .....you just want to be anywhere else.
I tend not to comment on attendances elsewhere these days given ours :(
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It's not that long since that'd have been a decent Tuesday night attendance at BV.
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Really, I only recall a few games under 1000.
Fair play to the 26 Daggers fans that went!
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In 97/98 we averaged about 1,700 with big games like Rotherham pulling the average up a long way. We definitely had a lot of games around the 1,000 to 1,500 mark and at least 3 games were in the hundreds - Barnet certainly was.
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There were two sub-1000 crowds in 1997-98, the midweek games against Chester and Barnet.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%E2%80%9398_Doncaster_Rovers_F.C._season
I didn't attend either. I had something else on the night of the Chester game, which was a shame because we won.
I was planning to go to the Barnet game, but at work that afternoon I suddenly thought "do I want to drive 100 miles to go and watch that lot get thrashed again?" The gate suggests there were a lot more people thinking likewise!
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Thanks TRB. I was convinced that there were 3 such low crowds for league games - Rochdale in the League Trophy must have been the other one - I thought it was a league game. Anyway, the point that we are not so far away from a time of appalling crowds remains
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There were two sub-1000 crowds in 1997-98, the midweek games against Chester and Barnet.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%E2%80%9398_Doncaster_Rovers_F.C._season
I didn't attend either. I had something else on the night of the Chester game, which was a shame because we won.
I was planning to go to the Barnet game, but at work that afternoon I suddenly thought "do I want to drive 100 miles to go and watch that lot get thrashed again?" The gate suggests there were a lot more people thinking likewise!
Chester at home and Peterborough away were the only bright spots of that season...
I really miss that they don't put the attendances on the results on teletext/ceefax/redbuttontext. I never look at attendances anymore, even ours. I'm guessing it was a cost cutting exercise but I wish they hadn't stopped doing it.
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Thanks TRB. I was convinced that there were 3 such low crowds for league games - Rochdale in the League Trophy must have been the other one - I thought it was a league game. Anyway, the point that we are not so far away from a time of appalling crowds remains
There were some pretty low crowds in our second and third season in the Conference.
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We've had our moments ...
(http://i1224.photobucket.com/albums/ee376/Davosthorne/9%20BV%20v%20Newport_zpsb1qt79eh.jpg) (http://s1224.photobucket.com/user/Davosthorne/media/9%20BV%20v%20Newport_zpsb1qt79eh.jpg.html)
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I seem to recall an LDV game (or whatever it was called then), when we had around 800...maybe against Blackpool? It may have been the same evening that the game was stopped due to the rain being so heavy. Anybody recall that?
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I recall a game v Blackpool circa 93 in that competition. Around Christmas weather, was dreadful, with about 600 crowd. Drew 2-2. Nicky Limber was our top man that night.
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http://www.11v11.com/matches/doncaster-rovers-v-blackpool-17-december-1991-292090/
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Imagine that at the Keepmoat. You would still have a queue at the ticket office and the kiosks would run out of food.