An interesting chart has emerged, that shows each Championship clubs’ average home and away figures, alongside a percentage of the home fans that travel away at each team.
Brentford fans come out top of the league, and although our home support is fairly ‘average’ compared to most other teams’, it is still an impressive achievement and a demonstration of the loyalty shown in recent seasons away from Griffin Park.
The fact is, the year the “revolution started at Brentford in 2011 – just after Nicky Forster was installed as the front man (with Mark Warburton actually running the show) – the season Bees list to Carlisle in the Johnstones Paint Trophy, our average crowd was not even 5,000. In came Uwe Rosler the following season and things were starting to look upwards.
The recently published figures were talked about in some detail on this week’s Pride of West London Beesotted Podcast that can he heard by clicking the link below.
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Regarding Dean Smith and his public statements, I wonder how the players felt when he stated he was looking for 3 loanees to bolster the side. Would it have motivated them? We only got one and he was drafted straight in, meaning that two of the side (had the loanees been successfully signed), would have been outed. Would it not imply to the rest of the team that it is two players short? Thankfully we got two good results, so it’s academic now.