FAO darlo pete

[Jazz Maverick]

I've just sobered up enough to make a coherent post.

You said there'd be close to 1000 darlo fans there yesterday. I said you were talking s***.

Can't remember the announcement and haven't read on here, but I'm guessing there was bloody close to 1000 from what I saw. So as promised, I apologise for saying you were full of s*** when you were in fact correct.

In other news, what a fucking day.

[mikkyx]

1,072 in the end which was bang on half the attendance and an incredible effort from all concerned.

Even at my most optimistic I would only have said 700-800 would make the trip. We made Darlo proud and the 2,000 there in total made football proud.

[Darlo_Pete]

Thanks for that Jazz, it was just a guess on my part, but I thought it was realistic given the response on here over the few days leading up to the game. No hard feelings & cheers again.

[comeondarlo]

Thanks for that Jazz, it was just a guess on my part, but I thought it was realistic given the response on here over the few days leading up to the game. No hard feelings & cheers again.

You're on a good run of being right at the moment

What the future of Darlo hold?

[Mullet69]

1,072 in the end which was bang on half the attendance and an incredible effort from all concerned.

Even at my most optimistic I would only have said 700-800 would make the trip. We made Darlo proud and the 2,000 there in total made football proud.

Unofficially we did have more though, as there were 3 of us who couldn't be arsed to queue so paid in the home end and got transferred through.

I know of at least another half dozen that did that too, but at the time we didn't realise that KO had been put back ten minutes.

[LoidLucan]

I think there was actually more from Darlington than the official figure shows. As the queue got bigger and bigger outside the ground, the stewards opened a side gate and allowed in Darlo fans who had the correct amount of cash. Quite a few entered the ground this way and obviously they are not reflected in the turnstile entry figures as the cash was just handed to a gadgie in a green jacket!

[Hilly]

Barrows Official Website now has us down as having 922 fans in the away end.

[darlotoon]

plus the 150 seats they gave us =1072 , possibly

[Hilly]

Just going off the following article...

http://www.barrowafc.com/news/?article= ... um=twitter

[Darlo_Pete]

I think there was a few more than 1072, which miraculously was half the crowd. Barrow probably didn't want to admit that the away following had outnumbered the home support.

[Dave (Barra)]

I think there was actually more from Darlington than the official figure shows. As the queue got bigger and bigger outside the ground, the stewards opened a side gate and allowed in Darlo fans who had the correct amount of cash. Quite a few entered the ground this way and obviously they are not reflected in the turnstile entry figures as the cash was just handed to a gadgie in a green jacket!

I was that gadgie - when the gate was opened I had a steward stood nearby making a note of how many people came in. I didn't keep checking that he was still around as I was too busy doing the maths of multiple entries but I think he was. Normally I just pay myself in so apologies to anyone if I seemed a bit rusty on the kids/concessions/carers rates. I know it wasn't the smoothest of operations but I volunteered to help out to get as many of you into the ground by kick off as possible.

Good luck for the future lads and lasses.

[wylam_rangers]

I think there was a few more than 1072, which miraculously was half the crowd. Barrow probably didn't want to admit that the away following had outnumbered the home support.

Hear, Hear.

[polam lane]

1,072 in the end which was bang on half the attendance and an incredible effort from all concerned.

Even at my most optimistic I would only have said 700-800 would make the trip. We made Darlo proud and the 2,000 there in total made football proud.

There were 1072 paying supporters in the away end. I stood behind the other goal to save queuing and to get an alternative series of photographs of the match showing the away support from all angles of the ground ( I was free to wander round 75% of the ground) along with a few other Darlo supporters, possibly as many as 40-50. I would therefore say there was in excess 1100 away fans

[wylam_rangers]

We clearly outnumbered them probably nearer 1200/900 but it would be wrong and ungracious to embarrass such splendid hosts.

[LoidLucan]

And what a fine job that gadgie did! I was able to get one of the last remaining programmes, plus hotdog, plus visit to the executive portakabin bogs all before kick-off. To be honest it seemed like everything everyone did at Barrow was geared towards helping us as much as possible. I can think of quite a few grounds where we would have been treated like cattle and subjected to taunts of "You're going bust in the morning". Such a refreshing change.