Today attendance

[Guest]

Of course it matters if the away team brings a good support with them !

 

1) it gives extra income to a non league club

2) brings atmosphere

3) and good to see teams well supportered both home and away !

4) gives your team a boost

5) makes for a good day out !

 

 

Slough have taken between 50-200 supporters away from home this season.to loys of matches..just a shame that other clubs even though doing well still manage to bring desent support with them !

 

EG Staines 6 away supporters !! shocking when they are only 4 miles away !

 

We took about 200 there ! IT DOES MATTER !

 

Remember we are playing away from home - every match and our support has been fair to good !

 

well done the Rebels...

 

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[extaffyjim]

Good for you, im sure thats more important to you than what occurs on the pitch.

 

We have a much better than average support, both home and away, which has been getting progressively better throughout the season, so were really not too bothered.

 

Even with a low turnout yesterday, i would guess we still had more there than Yeading brought to us for a vital top of the table clash.

[extaffyjim]

Oh by the way, your websites knackered. Clicking on 'Rebels hit for six', or some such cliche takes me to some news about a tin pot cup final.

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[Chris]

So what is a 'glamour' tie in this league then? Maybe Dover, Folkestone Chelmsford, but apart from that we are one of the better supported sides in the league.

 

Taking 40 away when you are chasing the title with 500 or so average at home - sorry, but that's poor - and Yeading were down 1-0 at half-time so you would have thought you would have made some noise then.

 

Good team. No sour grapes, but still think Yeading are a better side than them.

[GarySTFC]

We'll find out on Tuesday....

[extaffyjim]

Well you keep worrying about our away following, and we'll keep worrying about our football. Gripes about attendances only seem to come from people who have nothing better to talk about, ie nothing happening on the pitch (enjoy that Bryco cup final by th way). Compared to most teams in this league, 40 away isnt so bad for an off day, we dont all have the luxury of being an ex conference club.

[Ryan.c]

Just being picky but it was more like 60, but I'm sure you'll argue about that! I think we're caught in limbo at the moment as it is very unlikely that we'll win the league and most people are somewhat 'hanging' around for the play-offs. That was possibly our worst turn-out of the season, on a par with Wealdstone/Salisbury. Perhaps you should be concentrating on boosting your average home attendance rather than our away support. After all, you've had some good cup runs this season to entice people in.

[GarySTFC]

We are trying to boost our attendance through the increase of away fans travelling!

[A Rebel and a Saint]

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Will hopefully be the Heybridge game, but if my mate comes we may not stand with you, depends on how his dodgy knee holds up! if its ok ill try and get him to stand with you guys, if not ill turn up at the game in my saints shirt again and meet you before the game, and head for the stands.

[Guest]

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charliethomas said:
glad you appreciated the humour ARAAS, was proud of the way we kept singing right til the 90th minute

whereas a proper fan, would have been to discusted
to sing !!

[GarySTFC]

How so Opti? Are we simply supposed to roar our approval only after goals, shaking rattles and waving scarves at the same time?

 

Appears football has evolved a lot, both on and off the pitch, since you last attended.

[Martin]

I really am getting bored of hearing the same old [****!!****] from you after every defeat Optimistic. We know what your opinion is. Fine. The rest of us disagree with you - are you not bored yet?

 

Billericay were excellent - totally outclassed us. I note that Eastleigh did not carry out a lynching of their team when we thrashed them off the park. I express my disappointment with the team when I feel it is necessary but why can't you just get it through your thick skull that this is a good league, with good teams, good managers and high levels of professionalism. Sometimes no matter how hard our boys try - they will lose.

 

In fairness Billericay's away support was one of the best we have seen this season (which is piss poor really). Given that Staines and Yeading bought a combined total of 16 to our home league fixtures and they are twenty minutes away it is a bit unfair to gripe at those from darkest Essex. I was slightly disappointed that a promotion chasing side did not bring three figures particularly when there was a supporters coach (not seen many of them this season).

But there you go.

 

I hope that you Billericay boys are never in a position where you are totally reliant on attendances to keep your club alive because it is not fun and it is disheartening when away fans don't travel.

[EFC_Callum]

no when you caned us 4-0 we sang always look no the brightside of life!!!!

[extaffyjim]

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Martin said:
I hope that you Billericay boys are never in a position where you are totally reliant on attendances to keep your club alive because it is not fun and it is disheartening when away fans don't travel.

We get one of the best home attendances in the league. Sorry, i know how you must feel, but you cant rely on away teams to make up the numbers, if you want to attract higher attendances youve got to focus on the local population. Obviously thats more difficult for teams in exile such as yourselves, but you cant aim criticism at other clubs for not bringing fans. Quite frankly if your not getting the crowds its your problem.

If you start expceting other teams to bring lots of fans to boost the coffers your going to be vastly disappointed most of the time. Dover, yourselves and Wealdstone brought a few to our place, but not more than 100 any time. Chelmsford will be the only ones to break 3 figures. Plenty of times the away support has beeen countable on fingers and sometimes toes.

[Radders]

We travelled to you on the Tuesday before Christmas and still took around 75 fans. If the game had been a Saturday them I'm sure we would have taken over 100 as we did to both Saturday games against Chelmsford (League and Trophy).

 

Billericay'e home attendances are very good so I think our fans are just pointing out that the percentage of your fans who travel away is not too good compared to some other teams.

[Woody SUFC]

Slough have a good 'away' support but i can only name 3 or 4 sides that have brought a decent lot away. Tonbridge did ok, Hendon (although we didn't see them at home!) Basingstoke and Kingstonian.

 

Slough don't do to bad when they play away against us either!

[Martin]

James, I did not directly criticise. We are not expecting teams to fill our coffers it would just be nice if some other teams in this division would travel in the sort of numbers we take to away games. At least a third of our home support travel to away games. That has not been matched by anyone this season (save for Windsor for fairly obvious reasons).

 

As a club who moved away from our traditional home (and lost supporters in the process) we hoped for a boost in attendances following last season's "promotion." That has unfortunately been fairly limited and it is down to not been able to attract more regular home fans and the fact that the away support we anticipated has not materialised. This is not meant as a dig at Billericay but I for one have been disappointed with our attendances all season both from home and away fans.

[Johnr]

The Schools around the area, Having the two week "Easter holiday"

certainly affected our away turn out.