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Lincoln Mariner 56
February 7, 2020, 8:13am
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Quoted from pontoon442
Yes Doncaster Rovers1972 Division 4 Championship season when we lost 2-1, over 12,000 there and estimated 8,000 from Grimsby, no way of telling though in them days..


Thinking of that era the first game of the following season saw a massive turn out on a boiling hot day in York. Went on a full bus from Market Rasen and whole bus was taken into custody after one of our lads thought it a good idea to throw a bottle through the bus skylight which ended up smashing a car windscreen so two hours spent with the York Constabulary and JRDent travel refused to take us again so we had PC Coaches from Lincoln a year later for cup game at Coventry.
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February 7, 2020, 8:48am
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When the 4000 of us attended Doncaster we’d just lost Bogle if I remember rightly and put a dampener on the whole occasion.
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February 7, 2020, 9:33am

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He was injured that day (he left the next month) but yeah it was completely flat. We had Jackson and Vernon up front, Donny scored a free kick after about 7 seconds and I don't think we had a shot.


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February 7, 2020, 9:50am

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Quoted from Abdul19
He was injured that day (he left the next month) but yeah it was completely flat. We had Jackson and Vernon up front, Donny scored a free kick after about 7 seconds and I don't think we had a shot.


I mean it wasn’t as bad as the home game to them that season but all the excitement and interest with shifting 4000 tickets and then it just turned in to a really excrement day haha.

I always remember that first game at Alfreton with folk climbing on the roof, people just opening the gates, Hearn destroying them...good times


'the poor and the needy are selfish and greedy'...well done Mozza
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February 7, 2020, 10:04am
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Quoted from coddy60
Forest away early 90's when we lost 5-3


Remembered for Crichton's air shot which led to an own goal (by Futch, perhaps?).
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Quoted from pontoon442
Yes Doncaster Rovers1972 Division 4 Championship season when we lost 2-1, over 12,000 there and estimated 8,000 from Grimsby, no way of telling though in them days..


The largest away League following since 1970 will be either this game or Hull City on a Tuesday night in 1980. Crowd at Boothferry was circa 15k. They were getting about 4k/5k at home and near the bottom of the table. Town will have had at least 7k there. The other really big ones in that season  - 3rd div Champship winning - were Chesterfield, Rotherham, Barnsley and Mansfield; based upon what the home team were typically getting, plus a thousand or two more because they were playing the league leaders, I'd estimate circa 4-6k
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We had alot at Blackpool in Bignuts last game, the Town looked wall to wall B&W
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February 7, 2020, 9:10pm
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The 4 that are most vivid in my mind have been mentioned. Stoke (90/91), Huddersfield Boxing Day (blatant lester penalty),  forest (93) and Halifax with the burger van and the Tony Rees overhead

[/b]Another game that springs to mind is Rotherham (midweek I think)[b]. Seemed a lot there.

Big away followings in non league were the kiddy game and alfreton a couple of times


Had to try and watch the match through a air brick, got there late and old bill shoved us into the home end, kick-off in their stand, was marched around the pitch by old bill, then detained in the back of the away end.  After the game let out, only to be attaked down the alley.
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February 7, 2020, 9:18pm

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Anyone know what the biggest away attendance is for L2 this season ?


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Quoted from louth_in_the_south
Anyone know what the biggest away attendance is for L2 this season ?


Whatever tomorrow’s attendance is.


A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
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