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Being half term and a 'sad' individual, I thought I would look at home gates vrs Wolves and see if the 20k is ever likely... My records go back 30 years and make 'interesting' reading.

Over these years leagues have been 'renamed' and so I cant be certain if we had 'gone up a league' or the league had renumbered itself'... but .

in 86/87 in league 4 the gate was 12592
by 88/89 in league 3 it was 14126 finished 3 - 3 - was this the Worthington goal game?

then a big gap until league 1 & seasons

00/01 and 15457 followed by
01/02 14381 and
02/03 16070

the next time we played them we were championship (rename)
04/05 16296
05/06 16885
06/07 15748
07/08 12090

then a season Wolves were going for promotion and Iwelamo scored 3 and got sent off :-

08/09 17567 KICK OFF DELAYED 15 minutes due to traffic congestion - loads of Wolves fans I recall.. but like this weekend?

then a gap where we met in league 1
13/14 16593

by the time we had both won promotion it was
15/16 13049 and finally LAST season...
16/17 12683

So the Highest gate was that 17567 when Wolves were 'top' ?

The lowest 12090 a decade ago.....with last seasons 12683 being the 3rd lowest in 3 decades....

Consistent gates but no sign of ever getting to 20k......

so the question must be- WILL WE GET OUR HIGHEST HOME GATE V WOLVES THIS MILLENNIUM ON SATURDAY ?
 
I would be massively disappointed if we couldn't shift 11967 for this. So yes absolutely we will!!

I'm surprised the league 1 crowd was only 16593, but think it was the opening day of the season? They brought about 5000 after back to back relegations.
 
sports rehab said:
Being half term and a 'sad' individual, I thought I would look at home gates vrs Wolves and see if the 20k is ever likely... My records go back 30 years and make 'interesting' reading.

Over these years leagues have been 'renamed' and so I cant be certain if we had 'gone up a league' or the league had renumbered itself'... but .

in 86/87 in league 4 the gate was 12592
by 88/89 in league 3 it was 14126 finished 3 - 3 - was this the Worthington goal game?

then a big gap until league 1 & seasons

00/01 and 15457 followed by
01/02 14381 and
02/03 16070

the next time we played them we were championship (rename)
04/05 16296
05/06 16885
06/07 15748
07/08 12090

then a season Wolves were going for promotion and Iwelamo scored 3 and got sent off :-

08/09 17567 KICK OFF DELAYED 15 minutes due to traffic congestion - loads of Wolves fans I recall.. but like this weekend?

then a gap where we met in league 1
13/14 16593

by the time we had both won promotion it was
15/16 13049 and finally LAST season...
16/17 12683

So the Highest gate was that 17567 when Wolves were 'top' ?

The lowest 12090 a decade ago.....with last seasons 12683 being the 3rd lowest in 3 decades....

Consistent gates but no sign of ever getting to 20k......

so the question must be- WILL WE GET OUR HIGHEST HOME GATE V WOLVES THIS MILLENNIUM ON SATURDAY ?
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Had we any chance of the play-offs in the above like we have now😕
 
The Worthington goal was 86/7. I wasn't at that game unfortunately.

I was at the 88/89 game though which was the last game of the season. It was a very big crowd for the time for us as Wolves were the champs (with Steve Bull and Andy Mutch up front) and filled the old town end completely, which didn't happen very often.

The game theoretically could have meant something when tickets went on sale but by then they'd sewn up the championship and we were safe in 6th so it turned into a rioutous end of season kickabout. Although looking at the table we could have got 5th with a win which would have meant playing Fulham instead of Port Vale in the playoffs and who knows what could have happened?

Another note on this - the plastics only got 14,000 for their own playoff semi that season and 16,000 for the final (played over two legs back then) and they were a league higher? Makes the loss of potential fans to them in the early 90's even more galling.
 
sports rehab said:
the next time we played them we were championship (rename)
04/05 16296
05/06 16885
06/07 15748
07/08 12090

then a season Wolves were going for promotion and Iwelamo scored 3 and got sent off :-
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I seem to recall one of those games, perhaps the 05 one, early spring I think, when Hoddle had just been put in charge of Wolves. Was it 2-2? I seem to remember Matt hill getting a very bad head injury and being stretchered off after a very long break. For some reason as well I aslo believe this was the game where, in trying to drum up vocal support (where have I read that recently I wonder......?) North End introduced a solo singer at half time singing to Let it Be. Did I dream this?
 
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15.5k on sat i reckon, think we will be well shy of 20k

sunderland had the grayson and mcgeady factor to attract the casuals, this will have the opposite effect, the casuals will expect us to get beat.
 
bobbydavro said:
15.5k on sat i reckon, think we will be well shy of 20k

sunderland had the grayson and mcgeady factor to attract the casuals, this will have the opposite effect, the casuals will expect us to get beat.
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Have we had a home crowd less than 11k this season? playing top of the table while 7th would be a funny time to start.

Wolves have also sold out 5,600+

Even if there is no improvement in home crowd, that will see a gate of 17k+
 
bobbydavro said:
15.5k on sat i reckon, think we will be well shy of 20k

sunderland had the grayson and mcgeady factor to attract the casuals, this will have the opposite effect, the casuals will expect us to get beat.
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So you think we will have our lowest home take up of the season?

I don't think you have thought this through.

PNE are expecting to be close to the 18,500 (in total) that attended the Sheff Wed game.
 
budgierustler said:
Had over 15,000 home fans for the Sunderland game earlier in the season....... only need 14.440 on Saturday for 20,000
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The Sunderland game had a massive edge to it though John with Mr Grayson and Mr McGeady being in the opposition camp !!

Im going for a flat 19,000 on saturday !
 
There was a time, not too long ago, that we'd easily manage to muster up 15k home fans for a game of this magnitude.

Even in the early stages of our League one rendezvous we were regularly getting 11/12k through the gates.

It's a shame what's happened to our home support.

Our away support remains impressive though. Pound for pound amongst the very best in the country. Boisterous, loud and pissed.
 
Do we really need two threads full of posters worrying about what the crowd will be on Saturday?
 
I remember the game which was delayed. Wolves had 3k. Delayed due to a double whammy. M6 accident and Fulwood Barracks had an open day. We lost 3-1 and our fans had a do with McCarthy.
 
Longsandswhites said:
I remember the game which was delayed. Wolves had 3k. Delayed due to a double whammy. M6 accident and Fulwood Barracks had an open day. We lost 3-1 and our fans had a do with McCarthy.
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I remember McCarthy applauding the ref Martin Atkinson at ht - he got some stick for that alright
 
Tom Barkhuizen believes Preston have shown they can mix it with anyone in the Championship with pace-setters Wolves up next.

North End have lost just one of their last 15 games in the second tier ahead of welcoming the runaway leaders and title favourites.

Saturday’s visitors to Deepdale are 12 points clear but if their 3-2 win over PNE at Molineux back in October is anything to go by, they have a real battle on their hands with Alex Neil’s side this weekend.

“We’re confident,” said Barkhuizen, who got his sixth goal of the season in the 1-1 draw at Brentford last time out.

“I think we’ve shown this season we can match anyone.

“We’ve got Wolves who are top of the league and flying but if anyone’s given them a game this season it’s probably us.

“We went there and we were unlucky to go 3-0 down. We were all looking around wondering how it was that score at the time.”

While the visit of the Nuno Espirito Santo’s side will certainly capture the imagine, Barkhuizen insists no game matters more than any other between now and the end of the season.

North End head into battle three points shy of the play-off places knowing they can afford few slip ups.

“Any game’s a big game,” said the winger.

“It’s not about the performances, it’s just about getting those three points.

“We’ve just got to stay in and around it.

“We’ve gone under the radar a bit and probably don’t get the recognition we deserve, especially from the outside.

“But that’s how we like it, teams probably don’t take us as seriously as they should do.

“That seems to be working in our favour and hopefully we can keep it going.”

Barkhuizen has been battling illness in recent weeks but is increasingly looking back to his best.

“Around the Barnsley game at Christmas I had a bit of a cold and that just sat on my chest,” said the 24-year-old.

“A week after that I got ill with a sickness bug and it just didn’t seem to leave for a few weeks.

“I get a bit of asthma too so I’ve had everything really.

“I went to the doctor last week to just make sure everything was okay and I’ve managed to play 90 minutes in the last couple of games.

“At Brentford I was managing to sprint around at the end as the lone striker.

“I know a big part of my game is high power running and doing work for the team off the ball.

“Thankfully I’m back to doing what I’m good at and I’m feeling good.

“I’m ready for the run in and hopefully we can do something that everyone’s going to shout about.”
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https://www.lep.co.uk/sport/footbal...tom-barkhuizen-ahead-of-wolves-test-1-9016742

I'm a tad disappointed that Tom didn't mention Wolves spending £80M...
 
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