The9 Posted 16 January, 2012 Share Posted 16 January, 2012 (edited) Would be interesting to see an average distance from other teams in your division though it would probably take ages to put together. Saints must have a well above average distance, much higher than clubs in the Midlands and M62 regions. There's a website, I'll track it down. Badda bing : http://www.sportmapworld.com/distance-between/soccer/england/championship/ No total mileages though, but that's out there too somewhere. ADDITIONAL EDIT : I just worked it out for Middlesbrough, Saints and Leicester to get mileage comparisons (could have done the lot but that table's formatting is an ar5e pain): Leicester fans in the middle of the country have just 1905 miles to travel to all 23 aways this season Saints fans 2853 Boro fans 3751. Edited 17 January, 2012 by The9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chez Posted 16 January, 2012 Share Posted 16 January, 2012 They do have a geographical advantage though, with loads of clubs within 100 miles of them.agreed but they sold out Fratton last season, easily. 270 mile trip that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david in sweden Posted 16 January, 2012 Share Posted 16 January, 2012 Any football league team below Luton should be ashamed with themselves! I noted that, too..... 3 divisions below CCC, and they still have more away fans than Watford! (still it's sad situation for a club that used to be Division 1 as far back as 1992.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chez Posted 16 January, 2012 Share Posted 16 January, 2012 Any football league team below Luton should be ashamed with themselves!new groundtastic for them though. Some clubs have been stuck in the respective divisions for yonks and it can become a little bit monotonousness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRM Posted 16 January, 2012 Share Posted 16 January, 2012 new groundtastic for them though. Some clubs have been stuck in the respective divisions for yonks and it can become a little bit monotonousness. Luton have always taken very good numbers , a good stat would be to show average home , average away and the % that travel away, saints don't fair so well on that compared to the Luton's and AFC Wimbledons for that. Our away support is much better now than it was in the prem days which is party accounted for by a) in those days we seemed to go to the same old ground year in year out and b) we actually win some away games now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Diamond Posted 16 January, 2012 Share Posted 16 January, 2012 Is that right?? I'd have thought they'd be well up for it! What are they going to do if/when they meet in the league? The policy has always been no one turns up, home or away. I can't see it changing either. The Wimbledon Guardian has launched a petition to get Franchise to drop the 'Dons' from the end of their name too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 Anone know how its going to work for Watford and West Ham tickets? Just had a look on the football ground guide website and it seemed to suggest that both tend to only give about 2.2k tickets, but for the West Ham one it can be up to 3.6k. What are our chances of getting bigger alloations for either of these? Will both be a case of us getting an initial allocation and seeing how many/how quickly we sell those? Would be great to take 3k plus to both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 As suggested elsewhere, Watford had been sticking with the 10% rule and giving visitors just over 2k, but have apparently relaxed this and have given larger allocations when there has been demand, due to them never selling out anyway. West Ham will have to give us the option to have a 10% of the capacity, which is about 3.5k. I imagine we'll get an initial allocation of 2k or so, with more available up to 3.5k (ish). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 (edited) As suggested elsewhere, Watford had been sticking with the 10% rule and giving visitors just over 2k, but have apparently relaxed this and have given larger allocations when there has been demand, due to them never selling out anyway. West Ham will have to give us the option to have a 10% of the capacity, which is about 3.5k. I imagine we'll get an initial allocation of 2k or so, with more available up to 3.5k (ish). Yeah, but my post is, does anyone know how these additional allocations are managed? For example, on what basis would Watford give us more tickets? How do West Ham allocate their additional allocation? Is it at a non-return basis for the visiting club, therfore putting off teams taking the extra allocation, especially at West Ham prices? Edited 17 January, 2012 by Sour Mash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
This Charming Man Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 Yeah, but my post is, does anyone know how these additional allocations are amnaged? For example, on what basis would Watford give us more tickets? How to West Ham allocate their additional allocation? Is it at a non-return basis for the visiting club, therfore putting off teams taking the extra allocation, especially at West Ham prices? Given the demand for tickets for recent away games, we would easily sell whatever allocations we were given for them. The club would have to be pretty daft not to take the most we can possibly get... oh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daren W Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 Anyone have a link to the site that published these away figures? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 Given the demand for tickets for recent away games, we would easily sell whatever allocations we were given for them. The club would have to be pretty daft not to take the most we can possibly get... oh. My fear exactly. We'll hopefully find out pretty soon one way or the other, particularly for West Ham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 new groundtastic for them though. Some clubs have been stuck in the respective divisions for yonks and it can become a little bit monotonous. Luton are in their second season in the Conference now, the new ground effect will have mostly disappeared from playing most of the same teams last season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashby Saint Posted 17 January, 2012 Share Posted 17 January, 2012 There's a website, I'll track it down. Badda bing : http://www.sportmapworld.com/distance-between/soccer/england/championship/ No total mileages though, but that's out there too somewhere. ADDITIONAL EDIT : I just worked it out for Middlesbrough, Saints and Leicester to get mileage comparisons (could have done the lot but that table's formatting is an ar5e pain): Leicester fans in the middle of the country have just 1905 miles to travel to all 23 aways this season Saints fans 2853 Boro fans 3751. So what we need now is someone to normalise the attendance data to total distance travelled to remove this factor from the figures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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