Match Attendance At Argyle Games

There has been much talk of late regarding the size of the match attendance at Argyle for this current season, 2015 - 16.

It has been said over the road there that perhaps it should be bigger, with some wild crowd predictions stated.

Anyway, I was looking back to the 2001-02 season (the last time we were top of this league) to compare crowds sizes with this season and it makes interesting reading.

Back in 2001 - 02 the lowest crowd was a figure of 3,850 Vs Swansea City on 06/09/01 and the highest was a figure of 18,517 Vs Cheltemham Town on 20/04/02.

The early season crowd figures were between 3,850 to 6,572, only increasing (with some  dips) after the Christmas break, something another poster has pointed out.

Full Run Down Of Attendance Figures From Argyle's Home Fixtures For The 2001- 2002 Season.

11/08/01 Shrewsbury Town - 5,087
25/08/01 Rochdale - 4,198
11/09/01 Swansea City - 3,850
22/09/01Macclesfeild Town - 4,227
29/09/01 Luton Town - 5,782
13/10/01 Halifax Town - 5,065
23/10/01 Lincoln City - 6,572
03/11/01 Hartlepool United - 5,723
24/11/01 Carlisle United - 3,716
15/12/01 Darlington - 5,041
26/12/01 Torquay United - 12,677
29/12/01 Rushdon and Diamonds - 9,503
12/01/02 Hull City - 9,134
22/01/02 Scunthorpe United - 5,804
26/01/02 Oxford United - 8,239
09/02/02 Mansfield Town - 14,716
23/02/02 Kidderminster Harriers - 8,758
26/02/02 Exeter City - 16,369
05/03/02 York City - 10,801
16/03/02 Leyton Orient - 9,438
30/03/02 Bristol Rovers - 15,732
06/04/02 Southend United - 10,021
20/04/02 Cheltenham Town - 18,517

Your dates aren't quite correct.

Our lowest crowd that season was on September 11th, the day of the tragedy, I'm certain.

The Swansea game was definitely 9/11/01 and we had lost our first 2 home games as well. That would probably have been the lowest gate irrespective of the terrible events that day.

Interesting to see that holiday time aside, crowds didn't grow until February time

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Yep, 100%.

The early season game attendances were stifled by the ground redevelopment. The Lincoln game was pretty much full house with exception of Bobby's Garden area used for away fans.

As green_genie states, only the Mayflower was open until boxing day of the 2001-02 season so not a true comparison.

But generally gates are lowish before christmas, rise during christmas/ NY (partly due to exiles) and start to gradually increase. Post easter (if we're still top) we'll see lots of capacity crowds.

I found the whole thing of being crammed into the Mayflower a very weird experience, and not to my liking. Exciting to see the new structures going up every week, but something was lost.
I remember the Hartlepool game in particular with the result ground out, when it was clear the team were going up.

ejh wrote:

Your dates aren't quite correct.

Our lowest crowd that season was on September 11th, the day of the tragedy, I'm certain.

Sorry, amended that now.

Sir John Hawkins wrote:

I found the whole thing of being crammed into the Mayflower a very weird experience, and not to my liking. Exciting to see the new structures going up every week, but something was lost.
I remember the Hartlepool game in particular with the result ground out, when it was clear the team were going up.

Yeah, that was totally different and bizarre tbh.

The darlington home game that season was my stag do.
I helped boost the crowd that day

I've seen a lot of posts elsewhere bemoaning current attendances.

As a non-attender for quite a number of years aside from the occasional, why should I drop my current lifestyle because Argyle suddenly find themselves on a roll? Moreso when I don't believe the owner to have a care in the world which division we play in?

6k+ today. Damn good for an FA cup tie which many no longer (if ever considering generation) see as an important fixture when compared to the league.