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Although I first visited Plainmoor in 1989, I did miss the Leroy years and the fantastic football/attendances that came with it, so my experience of the crowds has always pretty much always been between 1800 and 2200.
To be honest it is amazing, it feels like after decades of living on the edge and doing everything the wrong way, we finally have a plan and are implementing it and the fans are responding.
I expected 3000 for the first few games, then to drop off to somewhere around 2500. To be have these numbers continually through the gates is fantastic and tbh it’s lovely to see the ground looking so full and feel optimistic about the future.

The big test will be if we have a poor run of form/defeats, hopefully most will stay.

On the free tickets, I never know it’s even happening until I see the away end open. I’d say we had 600-700 there on Saturday?

Enzo I can tell you that as I left the Ground yesterday and walked behind Bristows the number of young boys and girls streaming out of the Away End all talking excitedly made me really proud of our Club and the initiatives being used to boost our attendances.

It makes such a diffrence to the Match atmosphere when we fill the Babbacombe End rather than seeing it empty.

Great credit to our New Owners who are getting it right 100% of the time in all areas. It just shows that when you have the right people in charge the sky is the limit.

The crowds this season have surpassed my wildest expectations.

I am presuming that the crowds include a chunk of community tickets given out for the away end? Is that the case? What sort of numbers of the overall crowd are these adding? What was the final season ticket count? Even when such schemes have been used before, it has not had the uptake as it is having this season.

To get nigh on 4 and a half thousand home fans through the turnstiles, whatever the offer is, is a real achievement and testament to the good will at the moment. The board continues to support the manager as demonstrated by the acquisition of Jay - a real statement of intention, so it is great that the Torbay public are supporting them too.

About 1971 I would think !

exilegull wrote: 04 Dec 2024, 17:54 Just been looking at the average attendance, currently standing at 3,330 - currently on track for the highest average attendance in 20 years when the club had a season in League 1 under Leroy (average 3,511). Only once since then has the average exceed 3,000 - in 07/08 in Buckle's first season in the conference when the average was 3,171 and that was boosted by the full house against Exeter.

Its a tremendous response from the town and hopefully this energy can be maintained.

With ongoing thanks to Gulliball (but with no thanks to away fans!) I see that the average is now above that of Leroy's season in league 1, standing at 3,580. I know that the season isn't over but when did we last better that?

There is also a debate on attendances on Beyond the Penn Inn Roundabout and, as I've used Gulliball's data, I quote:

This from Merse:

We ended 2018-19 season with an average home (attendance) of 2,551...way short of today's current average which is 3,327 and was a quarter higher than Woking who were the next best supported side in the NLS in that season.

This from me:

The average from and including Welling just before Christmas 2018 was 3,127 (based on data collected by and with thanks to Gulliball) which included a bumper 5,297 for the last game anticlimax.

In fact only the two Christmas and New Year attendances plus the last two of that season were over 3,000! All the rest were in the 1,000's and 2,000's and the lowest was, wait for it, against Hemel Hempstead with just 1,409 (inc 70 away fans) in attendance. That was in the fourth home match so it wasn't on a cold Tuesday night in February.

The difference this season is optimism from the first match!

Thanks so much UnitedinDevon 10 years ago this coming February how time flies.

Amazing crowd for an FA Trophy Match and the away support was up with the very best considering the distance they had to travel.

portugull wrote: 07 Dec 2024, 19:53 Gulliball only just read your post above about away attendances.

Do you know the number for F C United of Manchester I think it was an F A Cup game in the last 10 years.

It was an FA Trophy game against FC Utd of Manchester where we won 1-0

Total attendance - 3,805
Away fans - 1,365

Gulliball only just read your post above about away attendances.

Do you know the number for F C United of Manchester I think it was an F A Cup game in the last 10 years.

Sorry gullsgullsgulls my mistake I thought you meant our away following.

Yes away support coming to Plainmoor is normally well below 100.

If you look at each Match Report I think it shows the attendance and the away fans numbers.

The game I always remember was an F A Cup game against F C United of Manchester. They seemed to fill the away end. Amazing support.

Have full stats for this, and other seasons back to 2010 here:
https://www.torquayfanstats.com/attendances-2024-25

The average away attendance at Plainmoor this seasin is 69.00.

I doubt that the average away support is any more than 150 and maybe a lot less. WSM arrived at Plainmoor with under 100.....and was for a "local" top of the table side.

Our Yellow Army have made a difference this season with great numbers at home and away.

COYY

portugull wrote: 06 Dec 2024, 19:18 gullsgullsgulls I think you mean triple figures for average away attendances surely that is 250 plus?

I mean teams away at Plainmoor. Happy to be corrected but I get the impression quite a few home games have seen very few travelling away fans.

gullsgullsgulls I think you mean triple figures for average away attendances surely that is 250 plus?

Absolutely superb. If we can get higher up and engage with younger fans after years of doing nothing, we can increase this even more.

Budget-wise, with increased attendance, hospitality sales, merchandise sales and the cash injection from the fan share issue, we must be looking at the healthiest we have possibly ever.