retired_nekh_20

I just started a new game of CM as i was bored to feck and decided to take over Kettering.

Anyway, i had a friendly already lined up with whitby town and decided to use multimap to find my local rivals. Anyway, Played whitby and got an attendance of over 6k, Ketterings ground size is 6.5k. As i played a fe wmore freindlies i realised the attendance being near full capacity every game.

Well, this suprised me as even though it was against my local rivals, i was getting near enough max attendance. Just wondering if anyone else has looked up and played their local rivals and what type of attendance they had, and is it the same when your club is higher up in the league?

Rushden are also my rivals, but they rejected a friendly, overated poofs.

retired_mj_ducky

ive never tried that before and to be honest im quite shocked it worked :eek:

KingsbayYHPE

At Leigh the biggest crowds I got, breaking all records, were against Gillingham!!! Who, I'm reliably informed by a genuine Pooflander, come from Kent.

Not exactly local

retired_seabury

Same happened to me Craig when I took over Kettering - attendances were 5.5K to 6K in the friendlies and then attendances dropped to around 1K in the league.

I know two of the friendlies were against Corby and Bedford, who would both be local rivals

retired_nekh_20

I found that my game against corby brought in 1k spectators. and whitby i am suprised at, because that's near me.

retired_amberger

I remember from my original 01/02 game during my East Stirling days, my highest crowds were always against Dunfermline. Not Celtic or Rangers.

Assumed they must be the local rivals, but I didn't think Dunfermline was any closer to Falkirk than Edinburgh or Glasgow was. Maybe one of the jocklanders will confirm this.

retired_blondielovespink

Yep, scheduling rivals does boost attendance for friendlies. Also scheduling teams with a higher reputation will do well too. One of my favorite teams to schedule is Boca Juniors. But with Reading I was getting between 11-16,000 for friendlies simply by scheduling teams nearby.

KingsbayYHPE

Dunfermline would be the closest of the big teams, but Falkirk, Stirling Albion, Stenhousemuir and Albion Rovers, and probably Alloa, would be what I'd imagine to be the "rival" teams for East Stirlingshire.

retired_michelle147

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Craigtheman0:
I found that my game against corby brought in 1k spectators. and whitby i am suprised at, because that's near me. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Good old Corby. They are in the same league as the team I follow. Chatham Town. We play Corby away on the 12th April. I shall let you all know what their ground is like.

retired_nekh_20

I will hazard a guess and say ****e!