Stoke fans

[Hendrickxz]

Very committed the Stoke fans -- three who turned up in a pub near me for a meal must not have fancied their chances. Having travelled all the way up here they just decided to carry on eating and drinking and gave the match a miss. That's dedication for you!

[Quickenthetempo]

Why do they sing that stupid Delilah song? Most of their team is made up of foreigners who wouldn't have a clue what the words are. Do they think it would inspire some bloke from Eastern Europe or Africa on a wet Tuesday night.

EDIT, I think Topclaret may have answered that.

It was sung in a pub before a game in the late 70s by fans and they won that game so they carried in on as a good luck charm ever since.

That was the explanation from a Stoke fan the other week.

[TheFamilyCat]

Your bait is out of date. Get a chunky lob worm on or you'll catch nowt on here

Well he definitely caught something although I think it was the equivalent of a shopping trolley in the canal.

[Top Claret]

Stoke brought about 600. Poor support for a side just over 1hr down the road. Our turnout was OK, night match, poor conditions. If that had have been a championship fixture the crowd would have been lucky to get past 10,000.

[UpTheBeehole]

Yes. Jimmy Mac was half full. At best slightly more, so there’s 2,500 seats. 1,600 spare in the away end of the CFS gets you to 4,100.

Then you have the Bob lord which had a minimum 1,000 spare seats. Gaps everywhere.

Couldn’t see the Longside but there were gaps all around me in the upper tier, and the lower tier had its usual spaces for a midweek game, so yeah, 6,000 no problem, and probably more.

Very unusual to see so many seats spare, and I haven’t seen that since Fulham in 2015-16, but the weather likely explains it.

Talking rubbish.

The Jimmy Mac was not half full.
You're saying the Bob Lord was only 2/3rds full?

What rot.

[UpTheBeehole]

Stoke brought about 600. Poor support for a side just over 1hr down the road. Our turnout was OK, night match, poor conditions. If that had have been a championship fixture the crowd would have been lucky to get past 10,000.

Stoke brought 976.

[Top Claret]

Well who would have thought it, Mr Bee Hive

[Claretforever]

Talking rubbish.

The Jimmy Mac was not half full.
You're saying the Bob Lord was only 2/3rds full?

What rot.

I don’t know where you sit, but you’d have to be partially sighted to not have seen all the empty seats in both of those stands. Big gaps everywhere. The upper tier of the Jimmy Mac was decimated. No wonder when you consider it’s the family stand, kids had school the next day and the weather was so bad.

And yes, the Bob Lord looked around 2/3 full, which is where I got the 1,000 from. The old fellows and families often miss midweek games, especially in inclement weather.

[cav]

Claretforever is right, there was no more than 16,000 (at a push!) on the Turf Tuesday night. Empty seats everywhere!