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TownSNAFU5
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Grimsby is also a lower than average social-economic area.  This would normally deter expensive away travel.

This factor, and the earlier factors, means that barriers have been overcome that would normally limit our away numbers.  This makes our excellent away support numbers even more impressive.

We have a higher share of exiles than many clubs done south.  This increases away totals at southern based clubs.  But not the 1,200 at Stockport.  
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I expect it’ll shoot up after we’ve played Notts , Halifax and Chesterfield which we’ll take 2-3000
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Average of 873 in the league with some really shít fixture / midweek combinations thrown in for good measure. Our only two away games within 180 miles have both been on a Tuesday night.

Chaos mentions League One and Two - I honestly think there's several teams in the Championship who'd struggle to compete with that. It's hard to find complete stats for it but here's a link for Championship away followings in the middle of August, right the start of the season on a Saturday when the weather was nice and we'd all just been allowed back en masse into football grounds:

https://fanbanter.co.uk/every-leagues-away-attendances-at-the-weekend-16th-august-2021/2/

700 Fulham at Huddersfield
430 Bristol City at Boro (fewer than we took to Torquay)
350 Sheffield United at Swansea (fewer than any following we've taken this season, even Bromsgrove)

Without a shadow of a doubt, punching massively above our weight when it comes to away travel. We've been doing that for a good 10 years or so, but this season is something else.


That Sheffield United figure is surprising. I don't know what the asterisk denotes. This article states the Blades have had an average following of 2,075 since then:

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk.....gham-forest-22004423
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That Sheffield United figure is surprising. I don't know what the asterisk denotes. This article states the Blades have had an average following of 2,075 since then:

https://www.examinerlive.co.uk.....gham-forest-22004423


Be great to see attendances like that in the Osmond every week, I think the championship is a totally different league to when we was in it. I’ll be happy with league one nowadays if we ever get there


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We are currently taking more than Lincoln and Hull put together - both had sub 500 for midweek games in Lancashire. I know it's like Town playing in Louth but Stockport had a very impressive 5,100 at Bolton on Saturday - half the crowd.
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Nearly as much as we took to Palace the other year.


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Quoted from TownSNAFU5
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Grimsby is also a lower than average social-economic area.  This would normally deter expensive away travel.

This factor, and the earlier factors, means that barriers have been overcome that would normally limit our away numbers.  This makes our excellent away support numbers even more impressive.

We have a higher share of exiles than many clubs done south.  This increases away totals at southern based clubs.  But not the 1,200 at Stockport.  


All good points, but re: your last paragraph, the trajectory of North East Lincs over the past few decades (opportunities etc for people, younger people moving to cities in greater numbers etc.) has meant there are exiles all over - Leeds and Manchester have loads of Mariners based there. So they would contribute to Stockport, Altrincham etc away followings
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