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Altrincham FC First Team / Re: Opening day Match Thread.
« on: August 08, 2022, 06:32:05 PM »And just to go back to the crowd. I’m puzzled that some people think it was a below par attendance?
Opening day attendances early in August with so many people on holiday (see our great travelling support at Torquay last season) are always much lower than you’d think. 800-900 used to be par.
1,717 is great and further proof of our progress. I haven’t got reliable enough WiFi on our campsite in Cornwall to check but it’s possibly our highest opening day attendance in the past 4 decades??
Maybe just edged out when Exeter brought 7-800 and we got circa 1,800 against them a few years ago.
Edit: Exeter was 1,314 so Saturdays attendance is certainly nothing to be disappointed with.
I think there may have been more in the ground for York at home in 2018 but in terms of home supporters, it’s an age since we’ve had as many as 1500 on an opening day.