Hornchurch Attendances

[Eastside Urchin]

Does anyone have any of the highest attendances from the old days.

Many romturd fans always seem to harp on about our days gone by when 2 men and a dog used to watch the urchins,which is of course complete garbage,but when i started watching in the early 80's gates were half decent but i believe in the 50's,60's & 70's we used to get some very large crowds,does anyone have any figures???

[aka PeteBeatz]

I started watching Urchins in the 67/68 season and they averaged about 330, the best league gate that season was 555 against Cheshunt.

[Eastside Urchin]

Not bad crowds considering we had a non league super club 3 miles down the road

[Eastside Urchin]

The biggest crowd i can remember,before the previous owners was an FA Cup game against Chelmsford in the 90's,think there was around 6-700 in attendance,other than that we used to get a good 2-3'000 for pre season friendlies against the likes of west ham & arsenal.

[Dagger03]

Rob wrote - Many romturd fans always seem to harp on about our days gone by when 2 men and a dog used to watch the urchins,which is of course complete garbage.

 

Yes, Rob, it is complete garbage - dogs were banned from The Bridge when one ran onto the pitch and bit one of the players in the early 50s - therefore no dogs were allowed.

 

For more details of attendanances, please refer to the Official History of Hornchurch Football Club, where all known official attendances are listed. The current capacity of the ground is 3500 and therefore the gate of 3500 against Tranmere cannot be surpassed unless the capacity is increased

[Eastside Urchin]

Are the attendances in the book or on the disk,i was hoping we could have some on here as i didnt think they were in the book and i can't use disk on this old computer

[aka PeteBeatz]

Perhaps dogs were banned from the stadium in the 50's, but on several times I came with my dog well into the seventies and sat over on the the riverside.