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Early 80s yes- especially 82 when they were going well, reigning champions and essentially completely took HR over

I don’t see anyone saying we have ‘massive’ home support. We’re in the same bracket as clubs like Southampton & Stoke really- give it a good run of success and it’s gonna reach consistent high 20ks without too much of an issue. That’s not ‘massive’, but the potential is absolutely there for...

Who are these biggest rivals? I would argue we don’t have any ‘biggest rivals’ apart from quirks of league positions and what’s happening at the time

Wrong again- remember it, thoroughly depressing game with Steve Morgan’s long range shots our main attacking threat- Villa didn’t sell any in the lower tier at all, under 2k from them. Dire atmosphere (as it often was at HR despite the understandable nostalgia) And are you saying that our...

lol- got confused on who I was replying to 👍 apologies

Point is that they rarely sold out Prem games either. Their support was always very similar to ours (apart from finger count). One club capitalised on their move to a new ground, had multiple promotions, a championship, FA Cup Win. One club threw away any benefit of moving and utterly...

We never, ever had less than 10,000 home fans v Villa in the 90s. That’s just made up.

Sheff Utd might be different but pretty sure none of the others ever averaged 35k across a single season like we did. Pretty sure that there was one stage in the 70s where we were the best supported team in the midlands by some distance.

Not true- go back through the years and up until we fell to pieces our all time average was more than theirs. And we didn’t even get to the top division until 1967, they were there in the 20s I think?

Doubt it all you want, it’s a fact.

There’s actually an argument the other way to his point. To be pulling the amount of fans that we can after all the crap we’ve had- and yeah I know about the last 4 years but that’s the blink of an eye historically- that suggests that should we do the improbable and go up, there’d be a wave of...

It’s always beyond me how some people stubbornly insist that the same rules & factors that impact every other club somehow don’t apply to us, and no matter what happens we’ll only ever have an absolute ‘ceiling’ of 20k fans. None of what you say is true anyway, facts refute your point.

Nor did Leicester, in fact the last time we were both in the Premier we had more than them. Was 20k their ceiling as well?

We have quite a cynical bunch of fans outside of the ones who already go each week- and that’s not a dig in the slightest- you can hardly blame them after all the shit that’s gone on. But if there’s a whiff of a playoff place come the end of the season we’ll easily shift 25k home tickets. Even...

Hate this talk of ‘ceilings’- there is no such thing. We had 19k home fans in the latter years of the Premier League because there were no more tickets available, no other reason. The only ceiling to how many people will want to go to games is how well the team does. Will take time but...

I was reading that the extended period of lockdown may have messed up people’s natural resistance to.. normal life really- plus perpetually heightened anxiety as well, so nothing to do with vaccines but covid related of sorts

The second I saw grendel’s post about people who profit from animal slaughter being sociopaths, I was looking forward to someone producing something like this.. just as I now look forward to the response 👍

Would the sheep be compelled to hand over its government-provided TV & smartphone if you saved it? In the fucked up world of Alan, these small details might just make all the difference

Whoever he was responding to- the guy needs professional help if that’s the kind of thing that he spends his time pondering

Depends if they’re English farmers or Immigrant farmers probably