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The older fans could be much higher as there were way more games played in the 60s and early 70s.
I need to go and calculate mine. I've been watching since mid 70s as a small kid and regularly from 78/79

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Quote: PopTart "The older fans could be much higher as there were way more games played in the 60s and early 70s.
I need to go and calculate mine. I've been watching since mid 70s as a small kid and regularly from 78/79'"


It’s got to be an approx for most, you’d seriously have issues in your life if you could remember them all. You must be over a 1000 if as you say you take into account how many games were played in a season up until SL.

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I started watching Trinity in 1956. As PT stated in those days and through to the 70s they played more matches than today. If you say an average of 17 home league games per season (allowing one per season off for hols) that would be 64x16 = 1024: say average of 3 home cup games per season that would be 64x3 = 192; Total approx. 1216. Not a very scientific exercise, but there you go.

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I initially started going to 'A' team matches in the mid 70's as my mate's dad used to take us down to Belle Vue on a Saturday afternoon and we used to volunteer to operate the scoreboard (the massive old wooden structure that used to be at the back of the north terrace in those days) and then one day we got asked if we wanted to man the scoreboard for the first team as the old guy that had been doing it for years wanted to pack in AND we were offered free admission for doing so!! Unsurprisingly we said yes, so that was probably when I started watching the first team in earnest, so I'm guessing that I will be in a similar position to PT ??

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Quote: vastman "It’s got to be an approx for most, you’d seriously have issues in your life if you could remember them all. You must be over a 1000 if as you say you take into account how many games were played in a season up until SL.'"


I've a friend who started a journal when he was 8 in a school exercise book detailing all the football matches he attended from Internationals through to non-league reserve games. He can probably remember them all. His wife wobbled before the wedding when she found out about what had become a series of books

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Quote: vastman "How many home games do you think you've seen? I've included CCup games, YC and Regal.

Started properly in 1989, I've averaged it out at 20 games a season but you can use any formula you want. I have not always been a season ticket holder due to other commitments so I can't use that as a guide but you can. I have not included away games, I don't think I'd know where to start on that.

So for me, it's 600 games of which I can only recall a few dozen with any clarity.

Compared to some I'm a novice and I also know a few who do remember almost every game in astonishing detail.

Over to you, I expect some whopping numbers from some.'"


Started watching at the same time as you.
20 games a season, without away games sounds like a hell of a loth though ?

I go to all home games and most away games and would average that at 22/23 games a season.
Mind you, I stopped going for 2/3 seasons when we got "relegated" to allow SL to start, only coming back after a pal suggested watching Trinity v Bradford in the cup QF I was totally hacked of with what happened to get summer rugby of the ground and many of those lads have never watched another game so, somewhere around 650 games, plus some reserve game, academy matches and loads of internationals.

Watching Trinity is a bit like how Ozzy Osborne described his alcohol addiction, 1 game is too many and 650 is not anywhere near enough, like alcohol, Trinity gets in your blood icon_biggrin.gif

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About 420-440 from 1997/1998 for me.

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Quote: wrencat1873 "Started watching at the same time as you.
20 games a season, without away games sounds like a hell of a loth though ?

I go to all home games and most away games and would average that at 22/23 games a season.
Mind you, I stopped going for 2/3 seasons when we got "relegated" to allow SL to start, only coming back after a pal suggested watching Trinity v Bradford in the cup QF I was totally hacked of with what happened to get summer rugby of the ground and many of those lads have never watched another game so, somewhere around 650 games, plus some reserve game, academy matches and loads of internationals.

Watching Trinity is a bit like how Ozzy Osborne described his alcohol addiction, 1 game is too many and 650 is not anywhere near enough, like alcohol, Trinity gets in your blood
You could be right, it’s just an average. I think the top division has had as many as 16 teams at some point. If you chuck in CCup games, YC and RT games and serious pre season games and even the odd play off it might scrape that number but I’ll gladly downgrade. It still seems like I’ve seen them thousands of times icon_wink.gif

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My first games were in 1967 at BV my first cup match was Barrow away in 1968 the season we got to the water splash final. I have mainly travelled home and away since then other than when I was away at Sea or working overseas.

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Good topic...i started in 88-89 but attend the odd game before but cant remember.i revkon for 20 years i attended 99% games home and away and prob bout 80% other times i first went with my dad but now with my 2 sons who themselves are grown up ish .never thought about how many games id been to but averaging at say 25 games a year for 32 years it adds up.i also attended acadamy and scolaship games.

As for memories theres few bits n bats that i remember like mason down the wing in the first season watching us rack up a cricket score v runcorn i think at belle vue with conway scoring points a plenty the drive over to chorley in the snow and anothwr record score the bradford try which was 3ft short.but the one that comes to is the pearman season when the money shortfalls first came to light and we played saints i remember been stood there wstching lads warm up thinking wow gonna get smashed as alotof our so called stars wasnt plsying..but we won easily

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Quote: FIL "I initially started going to 'A' team matches in the mid 70's as my mate's dad used to take us down to Belle Vue on a Saturday afternoon and we used to volunteer to operate the scoreboard (the massive old wooden structure that used to be at the back of the north terrace in those days) and then one day we got asked if we wanted to man the scoreboard for the first team as the old guy that had been doing it for years wanted to pack in AND we were offered free admission for doing so!! Unsurprisingly we said yes, so that was probably when I started watching the first team in earnest, so I'm guessing that I will be in a similar
position to PT ??'"


You aren't one of the guys who was always putting the wrong scores up to much laughing and jeering from the crowd every time you got it wrong are you FIL icon_confused.gif icon_surprised.gifops: :lol

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On the theme what is your earliest memory mine is seeing Berwyn Jones make a cover tackle in front of me in corner where burger bar is, he seemed to come from nowhere due to his pace
Also being at park side and remember Neil fox winking at me stood against the fence as he went back into position after kicking a goal both must have been early 60s as don’t remember when hunslet park side shut
I also have memory of hospital radio commentator in wooden sheds in front of old east stand and them steaming up in winter and being unable to see they used to hang out of the door, admire the service they provided

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Quote: Redscat "You aren't one of the guys who was always putting the wrong scores up to much laughing and jeering from the crowd every time you got it wrong are you FIL
No, no, never...you must be confusing me with my predecessor eusa_whistle.gif eusa_whistle.gif

We did get it wrong once or twice to be honest, but the biggest problem we used to have was on windy days. The numbers were painted on 8 inch x 12 inch steel plates which just hooked on a nail at the top and had a loose twist catch at the bottom, so when it got windy they occasionally blew off and fell on to the terracing below, if we didn't catch them in time. It's a good job that no-one ever got hit by one as it could have easily proved fatal icon_eek.gif icon_eek.gif

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OK. I know its pedantic but I have nothing else to do so I checked how many home games we have each season.
We average about 15.
The numbers are there for super league so I know from 1999 to 2019 we played 315 home games in 21 season including various playoff types and cup games.
We played 19 in 2015 which is the biggest.

2020 we played 8 home games but you could only have attended 3.
Before SL the stats are not easily available without asking Trinity Heritage so based on the number of teams and the stats that are available we played 15 home games each season through the 90s and 80s. Plus cup games which weren't many as we didn't win many and half were away.

The cup game data was more available so we had a lot more games in 70s and obviously the 60s than we did after that but of course semi and final were never at home.

Given all that, I reckon if I discount the ones my dad took me to when I was too young to know what was going on, I started watching in 77/78.

That gives me a good estimate of 680 home games.
I only really missed more than a couple a season the year my son was born so I reckon I've done 650ish.
I reckon I've done more than half as many away too.

That's a hell of a lot. If you work that out in £ to get in I could be a rich man with a lot less disappointment in my life if I hadn't but I'd have missed a lot of the happiest moments of my life too.

In answer to my first memory I was probably led by my older brother but I remember us losing to Leeds and getting the blame as it must have been because I went to this one.
But the first player I remember is Andy Fletcher. I liked him but eventually switched to Mike Lampkowski once I knew what was going on.
Clearly Toppo was everyone's favourite then but Lampi had something special I really latched on to.

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My earliest vivid memory was in 1957/58 season I believe it was When Trinity second rower, Les Chamberlain was in a tackle against Workington Town and broke his leg. The "snap" sound of the limb fracturing echoed around the ground. It's still sickening now when I think about it.

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