You are of course correct as usual SOG. It would be fun to give the pikeys an allocation of about 4k next March and see them fail to sell them. :lolol:
Except it's not 16k - it's considerably less - they average at the moment less than 16k including away supporters (about 1.5k). Plus they count non attending STH's as present - so it is accurate to say that about 13k Palace turn up each week to watch a team currently top of the league.
If some...
Take a look on the BBS Away End- Nearly every thread is Albion related.
As explained before re Withdean - most years spent there were in League One & Two and capacity was about 85% full - only dragged down by poor away attendances (such as Palace who failed to sell out a 700 allocation).
In...
The mark of Palace's hardcore support is their attendance when they don't have a league game and people can't use their season tickets. They got about 5k when they played Middlesbro in the Carling Cup last season when we got 17k against Gillingham in the same round. Enough said.