On this day 1972

[Danny-Boy]

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Have you sent a DVD to Oscar? Might give him some ideas after Saturday..and would the ball have run as fast on the grassy pitch you have now I wonder?

 

[Danny-Boy]

Increadable support for a 3rd division side.....and those prats up the road try to tell us we only get big gates at the Amex cos of the JCL's.
Albion have always had a superb fan base.

Well they certainly can't criticise you for not knowing where the exit gates are..

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Have you sent a DVD to Oscar? Might give him some ideas after Saturday..and would the ball have run as fast on the grassy pitch you have now I wonder?

You seem a bit over-excitable. Look it is an Albion thread. Piss off onto the Palace threads - there's a good chap.

 

[The Large One]

Have you sent a DVD to Oscar? Might give him some ideas after Saturday..and would the ball have run as fast on the grassy pitch you have now I wonder?

Well they certainly can't criticise you for not knowing where the exit gates are..

Oh dear. I spy a meltdown in progress.

 

[Peter Grummit]

Classic.

Hard to believe now how big a game it seemed at the time. Aston Villa looked a massive club to us, and the Match of the Day cameras ..... well that didn't happen to the Albion.

To watch the game - then go home and wait to see it on MotD was just incredible. And you only got one chance to see it.



Tell the kids today - and they don't believe you.

And I was too young to stay up for MotD anyway!

A couple of times a season, walking across Hove park you would see the camera scaffold and a frisson of excitement that we were "on the telly". Remember, BBC or ITV were not allowed to pre-publicise which games they would cover for fear of damaging the attendance.

To be fair, my dad remains my hero for taking me to games from the age of 7. He can't get along to games now but still follows avidly on the radio and when we are on Sky.

PG

 

[wolfie]

Increadable support for a 3rd division side.....and those prats up the road try to tell us we only get big gates at the Amex cos of the JCL's.
Albion have always had a superb fan base.

and the Bournemouth game just after Xmas had attracted 30,500+.

 

[Bwian]

I was there!

Me too.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

To be fair, my dad remains my hero for taking me to games from the age of 7. He can't get along to games now but still follows avidly on the radio and when we are on Sky.

You did ok. My old man was not interested in football - so my first game was when I was 11 and at secondary school and could go with my friends. My parents stopped me going one Good Friday though - for a big game against Reading. It being Good Friday we were in church (for what seemed like) the day.

 

[Return of the Rev]

This seems to highlight an inaccuracy in Attila's 'Goldstone Ghosts'.

"Then Villa in the big crunch game. A thirty thousand crowd.
Bald Lochhead scored, but we still won the day."

It seems Bruce Rioch scored, not Lochhead.

28k

 

[Bwian]

and the Bournemouth game just after Xmas had attracted 30,500+.

Don't tell porkies. We only have a fan base of 6000 according to the serial administrators up the A 23 and the Amex is full of JCL plastics.

 

[sams dad]

Me too.

And me!

 

[Hiney]

Don't tell porkies. We only have a fan base of 6000 according to the serial administrators up the A 23 and the Amex is full of JCL plastics.

30,600 was tickets sold.

The actual attendance was 6,347

 

[Peter Grummit]

Don't tell porkies. We only have a fan base of 6000 according to the serial administrators up the A 23 and the Amex is full of JCL plastics.

Tbf, Palace were in the top tier in 1971/72 and they averaged almost 27k. Loyal though their support is, relegation saw a gradual drop off in attendance so that in 1984/85 they averaged...............












6,440!

PG

 

[HAILSHAM SEAGULL]

Well they certainly can't criticise you for not knowing where the exit gates are..

Thats rich coming from a Palarse fan, we were getting bigger gates in the 3rd division than you could even dream of this season in the Premier League.
What was your gate ths year at home to Man Utd, 23,000 odd, and 6,000 of those were away fans.

 

[Johnnyboy]

And me!

And me!!

 

[PFJ]

Seem to remember some fans (hoolies ) wearing a mixture of Clockwork Orange clothing and Alice Cooper make up. Don't ask me if they were Albion or Villa though. I also seem to remember a row of Doctor Martens in the Old Shoreham Road stretching from the Eastern most turnstile at the back of the North to the corner of Newtown Road.
Or was that another game? I was only 11 then , so the mists of time maybe merging some games.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

I also seem to remember a row of Doctor Martens in the Old Shoreham Road stretching from the Eastern most turnstile at the back of the North to the corner of Newtown Road.
Or was that another game? I was only 11 then , so the mists of time maybe merging some games.

Maybe you're thinking of the Arsenal game in 79? That was certainly the case on that occasion.

 

[Lincolnshire Seagull]

I was there too.

What a great game. That season under Pat Saward was surely one of the best ever.

 

[BLOCK F]

Our home crowds after that game till the end of the season:

Torquay - 27,513
Wrexham - 18,156
Blackburn Rovers - 23,269
Bolton Wanderers - 25,074
Rotherham United - 27,928
Rochdale - 34,766 the 3rd highest attendance ever at The Goldstone

Seem to remember at the Rochdale game, it was estimated that a further 3000 fans couldn't get into the ground!

 

[Return of the Rev]

Seem to remember at the Rochdale game, it was estimated that a further 3000 fans couldn't get into the ground!

Not bad for a night game with only a handful of away fans KNEES UP IN THE EAST STAND THAT NIGHT