Attendances....
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Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
A lot of people were coming in through the gate around kick off because the queues at the turnstiles were so big. I don't know if any of them were counted.
PartisanDulwich
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Average attendance at Champion Hill in the Ryman Premier League
now
907
YES 907
Today's attendance against Garys (1047) was higher than all other teams in our League and Conference South
now
907
YES 907
Today's attendance against Garys (1047) was higher than all other teams in our League and Conference South
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Hamlet Pete
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Wow, what a great picture! Very hard to imagine such scenes when I first started going to watch the Hamlet!
PartisanDulwich
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agreed Urban Mikes photo really does bring out the great buzz at Champion hill these days and the growing youthful support (not all with beards)
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not-bono-ever
meh
I didnt go today, but Lordship lane seemed awash with the pink and blue today, not surprised it was a good attendance
PartisanDulwich
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pompeydunc
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This is what happens when Griff is absent! Certainly felt more like 1400. Really struggled to see today.
PartisanDulwich
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missed both goals because of the size of the Rabble
(it was certainly warmer as a result)
(it was certainly warmer as a result)
tasty_snacks
Active Member
There would've been a couple of hundred missing as Palace was at home, too. Next week could push 1500? Shame if a few hundred were missed by coming through the gates - that's a couple of grand gone from the coffers.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
They weren't coming in for free - the stewards were taking money off people so there shouldn't be an issue there.
looks packed !
Matboy_Slim
Active Member
Can concur, one of the times I helped out with the stewarding was at he Burgess Hill promotion game and again we let people in through the gates to help ease the huge crowds - cash was taken but probably not the actual numbers.
We're a much changed club since that day
we need a bigger ground !!
Hopefully we will get one! 
Pink Panther
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There were perhaps not quite as many on the 'Toilets Opposite' side or as many away fans behind the goal as at some recent matches, but still a great attendance even if 1,047 is the accurate figure. Last season the same fixture on boxing Day pulled around 550.
Jamie Wyatt
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that's some achievement by the club
PartisanDulwich
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We are within 100 a gate on beating Southport and Dalington in average attendance
all to nah
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With my experiences from the weekend (Salford City vs Darlo) I can say, that there's no level (accept the quantity) Darlington-supporters are comparable to DHFC-supporters on...
anyway its going to have lots of fans !
pompeydunc
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to be honest...I couldn't give a fuck bout where we are, compared to other clubs in attendances. I'm just enjoying the crowds we currently get. It's not a bloody willy waving contest!
vicarofsibley
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Hahahaha - how many of these contests have you attended Mishi? I bet your attendance is higher than 28th nationwide.
Pink Panther
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I recall Shaun & Burty literally 'running round Cheltenham with their willes hanging out' after we won there in the FA Trophy in 1997!
I bet it's not, please tell me where they were. Believe me, the size of mine isn't one I'd share in contests! It was just an expression about ego's... Our crowds could easily plummet if, or when, Gavin leaves. football comes and goes in cycles...I'd rather we didn't really compare. Yes we get big crowds, but is that so important? I think the atmosphere is more important than the numbers we get.
It was just an expression about ego's... Our crowds could easily plummet if, or when, Gavin leaves. football comes and goes in cycles...I'd rather we didn't really compare. Yes we get big crowds, but is that so important? I think the atmosphere is more important than the numbers we get.
vicarofsibley
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Hahaha - and rightly so!
Pink Panther
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My feelings are similar. What matters is than OUR crowds are bigger than they've been since the 1950's. There are still 27 non-league clubs pulling more than we do, but (without really knowing much about them) I doubt many of us would prefer the matchday atmosphere at many of those other clubs.
Joe K
no al calcio con orchestra di ukulele
Mov(ed)(ing) to Brighton now, actually.
Yes, my first thought after a football-free Saturday went something along these lines: 'I support two non-league clubs whose names begin with 'D', and who currently have quite similar attendances. Yesterday, one organized a food bank appeal and won two-nil playing their usual brand of free-flowing football; the other went to Salford, had two players, the manager and the assistant sent off, and saw their fans punch a steward (alleg.), threaten catering staff (alleg.) and smash up part of the stand (alleg.). There are probably some interesting socio-economic reasons for the difference, and I'm not going to get sucked into producing some kind of moral analysis or hierarchy because these things are always context-dependent. I'm certainly not going to disavow Darlo - in fact, I still enjoy being with that bunch of miserable, occasionally hooliganistic fuckers as much as with Dulwich as, at the end of the day, it's where I come from.'
Pity if people are judging Darlo fans based on this one event. We often bring a lot of lads for the big aways who don't go to 95% of the matches - it's a relic from when the club played in the town centre and the local hard men/ hard drinkers could make spot decisions about whether or not to go to the game based on whether they were going to get any chew or not. Our unglamorous aways (i.e. nearly all of the ones where the BBC aren't making a documentary about our hosts) draw 2-300 characteristically Darlingtonian people, namely sardonic, basically nice, real ale drinkers. I get as many laughs out of them as I do at the Car Wash end. Moreover, Salford are a bunch of cocks - it's Giggs et al jazzing money around as a way of thumbing their noses at FCUM, or, in plain English, Whitehawk + Gary Neville.
Actually feeling quite annoyed about this, TBH.
