841?

[Alan ( GNFC )]

Originally Posted By: ColtheJock

I was there that night when 4,098 were supposedly in the ground for the crunch game with Canvey, we were packed in like sardines then, and the rumours were that the crowd was nearer 5,000. What a season that was, and I was at Bedford Town the day the Fleet won the league. Ok, I have drifted away a little as I sold my house in Gravesend and moved to South East London but I still try and follow the team, and I have posted on here for a few years even if infrequentely.
:-)

I moved away many years ago but also was at the Canvey game which was as packed as the Nott'm Forest game, about 6,500.
Maurice Norman used to record 412 for game after game a few years ago.
Now the club has sold out to computer geeks there is little need to actually watch the game in the cold, interacting with other human beings and their nasty habits when MyFC provide a video link.
Maybe actual (human interaction) gates will soon return back to Maurice Normans 412 ( less me - 411 )

[Hirsty]

Originally Posted By: Chatham Gary

You weren't that p*ssed, were you Hirsty?

....only drunk on the nectar of euphoria & success Gazza !

Cheers,

[PatMan]

Originally Posted By: David Holden

BTW those 841 were very generous, there were 710 50/50 tickets sold.

Just about as much proof as we have that the gate was incorrect!

Also had to queue on way in just after 7pm, also had to queue to buy programme!

(Usual queues for beer, and chips!)

[hopeful]

I was there that night when 4,098 were supposedly in the ground for the crunch game with Canvey, we were packed in like sardines then, and the rumours were that the crowd was nearer 5,000. What a season that was, and I was at Bedford Town the day the Fleet won the league. Ok, I have drifted away a little as I sold my house in Gravesend and moved to South East London but I still try and follow the team, and I have posted on here for a few years even if infrequentely.

:-) if you thought that was packed like sardines, then what do you think it was like in 1963 when 12,000 (give or take a thousand) were there. /quote]

[Slartibartfast]

Originally Posted By: PatMan

Originally Posted By: David Holden

BTW those 841 were very generous, there were 710 50/50 tickets sold.

Just about as much proof as we have that the gate was incorrect!

Ok, I'll be the first to own up....I bought two tickets.

[Hannah]

My Mum bought five...

[eufckev]

Five??? Core blimey. You've got a gambler of a Mum there, thats nearly two pints worth

[BustaGut]

Maybe someone on the gate does not know how to turn there clicker on, or has 350 mates

[Stu M]

Originally Posted By: hopeful

if you thought that was packed like sardines, then what do you think it was like in 1963 when 12,000 (give or take a thousand) were there.

Yeah, but everyone was smaller in the 60s cos you grew up without bananas and stuff cos of the war rationing. I read it in The Sun once or something.

[American FLEET FAN No1]

Originally Posted By: Stu M

Originally Posted By: hopeful

if you thought that was packed like sardines, then what do you think it was like in 1963 when 12,000 (give or take a thousand) were there.

Yeah, but everyone was smaller in the 60s cos you grew up without bananas and stuff cos of the war rationing. I read it in The Sun once or something.

Plus Football Supporters in those days went to actually watch the match, and not start a war, so a limitation on space wasn't a problem. I was there, and the kids were all allowed to stand at the front so they could see. I still have the photo(from The Reporter, when it was a newspaper) of myself and two of my mates behind the Plough End goal!

[waggamick]

Check the ticket seller's recent European trips and look for diversions to Leichtenstein.

[kmj]

Hate to break ranks but I don't think that the official attendance figure was that far out at all. The main stand was really quite poorly populated. The unsegregated end hardly had 75-80 home fans on it during the first half. There was plenty of room in the Stonebridge Road side (even some gaps next to the barriers) and barely half full behind the seated area. Perhaps MyFC will install computerised turnstiles for next season to avoid this perpetual myth of under declaring the attendance. Actually there had been plans to install new turnstiles for the beginning of the season. The Club were interested in buying some that were available at Sheffield Utd (hence my cryptic questions to Hirsty) but for reasons I will not go into the transaction did not take place.

[Hirsty]

Ex Sheff U turstiles (advertised as "hardly used" no doubt ! )?

 

We don't want that sort of talk Wilson !!