Smallest Away following

[paultheroyal]

Swansea away, Friday night around 1993 I reckon. I just got over before Severn bridge was closed off. Just a sprinkle of us made it, travelled in my good ole Renault Clio and witnessed uwe Harte Berger score an equaliser in the dying moments!!

[Ian Herring]

Think the Cube's details clear up my (somewhat beer-f*cked) memory. Was the goalkeeping idiocy related to one Nick Colgan? Christ, it's all merging into one mass memory (pass the adult Pampers).

The Colgan goalkeeping idiocy (far, far worse) in a 1-0 defeat at Crewe came seven years later. Time to start looking at clinics, I think.

Oh dear. I think you're right.

[BenReadingFC]

witnessed uwe Harte Berger score an equaliser in the dying moments!!

Super Sub!

[Fluff]

I remember going to Huddersfield circa 1987, there were more plastic inflatebles than fans.

[No Fixed Abode]

I remember (well I don't really - too pissed) a couple of away games in the 80s with bunyan and Rab C nesbitt. Must have been about 15 away fans there.

[Jackson Corner]

Carlisle away Tuesday night 1981, I reckon about 30-40 Royals. Maurice Evans gave the fans who went up the players complimentry tickets what a gentleman he was.

[blueroyals]

I remember going to Wembley circa 2011, there were more plastic than fans.

[Big Foot]

What about the 125ish at Derby, BF? The one that you saw 10 minutes of...

Good call m8 - actually got there in the 59th minute of the match just in time to see Derby equalise

Smallest away attendance I've been in full stop for RFC is 33 fans for the game v NK Cejle in Slovenia last Summer

[Terminal Boardom]

Smallest I've been in was Shrewsbury on a Tuesday night in 1987. Less than 30.

Was that in the Full Members Cup when Bob Hazell made his debut? If so, I was there and Mad Max was giving away free tickets to everyone who was on the supporters coach.

One of the lowest must have been at Moss Rose to see us play Chester. There were only 630 at the game in total. Pitiful night and an incredibly desperate performance. No idea on the away following though but it sure as hell wasn't many.

To be fair, nearly every away game I went to in the good old bad old days had at least 1 supporters coach fully booked so there is 55 for starters.

[Vision]

Slightly more recent times but there can't have been much more that about 30 or so of us idiots that ventured to Hereford for a Leyland DAF game under Pardew's regime.

Remember Nick Ive begging people to do the Fans Verdict for the EP.

[Royal Lady]

Slightly more recent times but there can't have been much more that about 30 or so of us idiots that ventured to Hereford for a Leyland DAF game under Pardew's regime.

Remember Nick Ive begging people to do the Fans Verdict for the EP.

LOL

Should have just asked Compo.

[Schards#2]

When I first started watching Reading away circa 78/79, we often used to take only one coach for games north of Birmingham, that, and a handful by car and train meant a turnout of around 70 odd. Usually grounds had no segregation and this in an era when football violence was common place. I do wonder how some of our gobby younger fans would have got on in this environment.

Looking back, i'm amazed I didn't get a good kicking on more than one occassion.

[Mr Angry]

Lowest I've attended was Stockport County in 1998. Arrived late, Reading were already 2-0 down, Stood on the terrace in the pissing rain to see us get an arse whooping 5-1.
There were 34 Reading supporters in attendance (including me) if memory serves me well.

Dreadful, dreadful game; at least I took a seat in the stand to avoid the monsoon.

[LUX]

Great memories on here, brings a tear to my eye, seriously.

Ok, how many of us were at Oxford on 29/12/77 (?) when we lost 1 0 very late on in the snow?

We had a few coaches, but there was not one chant all game. I got my silk scarf nicked.

Also, how many at the Watford league cup replay defeat, 0-5 iirc in about 1978? Those were very low turnouts for local games.

[Mr Angry]

Crewe away on a Friday night one sleet-infested evening. Seemed like only 13 away fans but that's possibly apocryphal. It was about a hundred or so, maybe more, terracing.

I think 'Sunbed' Maskell was playing for us but that might also be wrong.

Remember Kirby being there, and us all laughing at one particular pair known as Dawsey and Scarface who were escorted back to the sparsely populated away enclosure from the opposite stand having 'taken their end'.

1-1 draw if I recall, although it may have been 0-0.

Late eighties, methink'um .

It was on the Friday night before the Bank Holiday, and the traffic was so bad coming North the coaches turned around near Brum; I had (as was my wont at the time) wangled a business trip in the local area so I could attend. Less than 10 mins before kick off, there were 3 Reading fans on the terrace, plus another 3 or 4 in the stands. A few more dribbled in before kick off, but it was still a terrible turn out. Also, the toilet at the back of the away terrace looked as if a stray Luftwaffe bomb had hit it circa. 1941 and no-one had bothered to fix it since.

[Schards#2]

Great memories on here, brings a tear to my eye, seriously.

Ok, how many of us were at Oxford on 29/12/77 (?) when we lost 1 0 very late on in the snow?

We had a few coaches, but there was not one chant all game. I got my silk scarf nicked.

Also, how many at the Watford league cup replay defeat, 0-5 iirc in about 1978? Those were very low turnouts for local games.

Yep, 0-0 at half time. It's hard to tell how many went to games like this as fans didn't tend to congregate.

[LUX]

Oxford was 1976 I think.

Brentford away about a year later, 2-2, we scored direct from a corner. Our coachload was standing down one side. Under 100 Biscuitmen there?

[From Despair To Where?]

Smallest I've been in was Shrewsbury on a Tuesday night in 1987. Less than 30.

Was that in the Full Members Cup when Bob Hazell made his debut? If so, I was there and Mad Max was giving away free tickets to everyone who was on the supporters coach.

No it was in the league the following season. We won 1-0 with Francis Joseph scoring. IIRC it was the lowest attendance in the whole division that season, a shade over 2,000.

[Tony Le Mesmer]

That game at Moss Rose is still fresh in my memory for all the worng reasons. They gave the crowd out as 1,003 out of embarassement i think, then changed it back to the 631. I reckon we had 50 odd there."Arrest" asked averyone on the coach where they wanted dropping off. I said A4 as near to Twyford as possible. He said OK, and i ended up being dropped off at the top of Bennett Road. W@nker.

[Barney]

Great memories on this thread. And my own recollections below will be recalled by a few of you on here I am sure.

Small away followings;
Hereford on a Tuesday night. Around 1976/77. 0-0. One coach load.
Plymouth midweek. early 80s. 1-1. Rained all night, and the few RFC fans huddled under a Union Jack on the open terrace.
Numerous away pre-season friendlies (why did I do this !!!) in early 1980s..Witney, Gloucester.
Watford - Group Cup. 4-0 hiding very early 80s.
Southend away on a Friday night. Lost 2-4 if I recall. Early 80s I think

Interesting away followings;
Portsmouth away - 1975/76. We won 2-0 (Hiron and someone). Dodgy place to go in those days.
Wycombe away a few weeks later in the Cup. We won 2-1 (Friday scored both). Mad that day.
Newport away in 1985. 4,000 RFC out of a crowd of 6 thousand and something
York away a couple of times in the early 80s (up in York pub, Riverside, as it opened at 10.30).
Barnet away - 1995 ? Over 1,000 from Reading out of a total crowd of 2,000.