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Post by MungO on Aug 20, 2024 8:31:46 GMT
I can't imagine that anyone can honestly put an exact figure on it , but here is my calculations..
So I'm in my 40's, been attending regularly since I was 2 years old.
So I'm going with 40 seasons of attending.
I don't go to every home game now, and since having a family I attend less away games.
46 league games per season, 1 or 2 pre season, maybe 4 cup games on average each year?
I reckon on average O's play about 50-52 games per year, home and away including cups and pre season.
I think I attend about 30 of the games each year.
So 42 seasons, on average attending 30 games each season I work out that at the start of the season I'd attended 1,260 games over my lifetime.
What about you? How do you work it out?
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Post by mrb on Aug 20, 2024 8:38:20 GMT
I haven’t a clue!!
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Post by stamfordo on Aug 20, 2024 9:28:55 GMT
No wish to remember most of them
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Post by dohnut on Aug 20, 2024 9:45:16 GMT
Live games, not Streams. Some seasons only 42 games plus cup games and others like friendlies that I enjoyed.
60+ years, circa 20 games a season on average including home and away, excluding times gone by when I watched the reserves. So circa 1200 maybe. But who knows? Safe to say best guess over 1,000 covering the top 5 tiers. Sadly from now on live games will be between 5 and 10 as age takes its toll.
I did once work out the costs involved, including away trips and hotels etc, since I retired and mileage covered even to home games and decided not to continue working it out. Cost/benefit don’t look good.
Being Champions twice since our new owners the cherry on what has been a poorly tasting cake.
All in all the above is the definition of a bloody idiot and completely at odds with my logical brain. Makes no sense whatsoever.
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Post by redshank on Aug 20, 2024 10:32:44 GMT
Must be between one and two thousand not all first team games.
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Post by OrientEd on Aug 20, 2024 11:11:59 GMT
S**t loads!!!
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Post by arrgee on Aug 20, 2024 11:53:35 GMT
So 42 seasons, on average attending 30 games each season I work out that at the start of the season I'd attended 1,260 games over my lifetime. What about you? How do you work it out? Easier for me. About 2 games/season from 1974 to 1982, A dozen or so games from 1983 - 2016, and since then about 10/season. I would say about 100. But making up for lost time  |
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Post by orientsouthmassive on Aug 20, 2024 13:11:27 GMT
myself and my dad only started going in 2015 after watching from afar so from then until covid hit id say at least 120m including away hadnt been back since covid and my dad passed last septemeber so my first game in 5 years was bolton a week ago
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Post by haroldwoodo on Aug 20, 2024 13:17:17 GMT
I use the Futbology app to keep track. I'm on 1446 Orient matches so will hopefully be pushing 1500 by the end of the season.  |
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Post by Thor on Aug 20, 2024 13:28:10 GMT
HO that's pretty impressive noting all that down.
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Post by haroldwoodo on Aug 20, 2024 13:33:43 GMT
HO that's pretty impressive noting all that down. To be fair the app is pretty good. If you pay for the full version (£10 a year I think it is) then you just select old ones from a drop-down list. When you go to a new one you just open the app in the ground, it uses GPS to locate you then asks if you want to add it. |
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Post by mrb on Aug 20, 2024 13:50:50 GMT
HO that's pretty impressive noting all that down. And patience |
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Post by bigron on Aug 20, 2024 14:37:44 GMT
A bit over 50 years , 20 to 30 games season I reckon 12 to 14 hundred games 🤔
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Post by kbola on Aug 20, 2024 14:46:59 GMT
No wish to remember most of them Lol |
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Post by mayland0s on Aug 20, 2024 15:00:30 GMT
I started in 1962 ,aged 11 and on average up until 4 years ago , 15 games a season . I started to cherry pick my games about 12 years ag ,soon after Russ went . I don’t particularly like RW’s style of play so I am going less and less these days . In fact this could be my last season . Really gone off a lot of footie recently and my interest is going . Some of the stuff that O’s play sends me to sleep .
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Post by OrientEd on Aug 20, 2024 15:47:53 GMT
No wish to remember most of them Especially during the winless away record of the mid 90's and the whole of the 94/95 season I'm guessing?! |
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Post by osoldest on Aug 20, 2024 21:00:46 GMT
Been attending all home games ( other than where not possible) for 74 years, inc in all the early years the reserve games, called the football combination then, plus the away games within easy travelling distance, and cherry picking away cup draws or games away to top clubs. Got to be between 1500 and 2000. Some great memories of some great past players the likes of I will never see again at Orient.
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Post by dohnut on Aug 20, 2024 21:42:06 GMT
Been attending all home games ( other than where not possible) for 74 years, inc in all the early years the reserve games, called the football combination then, plus the away games within easy travelling distance, and cherry picking away cup draws or games away to top clubs. Got to be between 1500 and 2000. Some great memories of some great past players the likes of I will never see again at Orient. Wow that is some achievement. And some really great players in that time too. The likes we will ever seen again for sure. great memories, Top tier, great train robbery filming at the ground, the Roffey punch, walls collapsing vs Chelsea and the 3-2 Chelsea game too. The Birmingham promotion game with hundreds climbing over the walls. The shocking toilets. Tanner a bag peanuts, the bucket going round, the relegation games, champion winning games. So much to remember, even more to forget. 👍 |
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Post by MungO on Aug 20, 2024 21:59:48 GMT
myself and my dad only started going in 2015 after watching from afar so from then until covid hit id say at least 120m including away hadnt been back since covid and my dad passed last septemeber so my first game in 5 years was bolton a week ago Welcome back. Hope it wasn't too difficult without your dad 👍 |
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Post by MungO on Aug 20, 2024 22:04:13 GMT
I started in 1962 ,aged 11 and on average up until 4 years ago , 15 games a season . I started to cherry pick my games about 12 years ag ,soon after Russ went . I don’t particularly like RW’s style of play so I am going less and less these days . In fact this could be my last season . Really gone off a lot of footie recently and my interest is going . Some of the stuff that O’s play sends me to sleep . I can see my interest going too. Not through Richie as I find his style of play quite exciting. But football in general has lost my interest. It's pushed the boundaries of commercialism a little too much for my liking. Not Orient. Just in general |
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