Last Night’s Attendance

Maybe 3500 have handed in their ST's!

If they are quoting actual numbers in attendance last night instead of ST's sold, there was no way that there were over 11000 fans there last night. Its years since I have seen as many empty seats for a league match in the lower kop, as there were last night

 

And that's the single most important topic about last nights game?

 

Oh come on Silverbantam ........... With all the turmoil at VP, you choose to take issue with recorded attendances ?

REALLY ??

FWIW, I would prefer the 'actual' figures, and not the 'receipted' ones.
It also serves to show Edin how MUCH enthusiasm has been lost during his tenure.

So ...... Let the truth be told, and heard, I say !

 

I wasn't there, idlebantam .......... However, our capacity is 25k, and various pics show the ground appearing less than half full. Yet these photo shots can be deceptive, and perhaps 11k isn't too far away from the truth ?

 

I would have estimated no more than 9000 city supporters and around 1000 from Coventry

 

Cannot see any of the upper Kop from where I sit, but looking around the rest of the ground, it was no more than a third full. I would say actual attendance last night, no more than 8000

 

OK.
But here's a little nostalgia ........... Remember the old Supermarket gimmick .......... 'Guess how many balloons', in a crate full of various shaped inflated balloons ?
Well years ago, the group I was with used to 'play' this at Away games ......... 'Guess the crowd !' The 'winner' got free pints from the rest, once back in the pub in Bradford.

(We hated Gerry the Geek ........ He seemed to win every second outing. Little wonder he later became a pisshead ? )

 

I know someone who hasn’t even bothered picking his season ticket up

 

The consensus around my group was between 8k and 9k. It was never 11k unless 2k were staging a protest somewhere unseen!

 

This is how bad it was. Even the bloke who sells bags of sweets on Midland Road didn't bother turning up. Grim night all round - no points and no jelly snakes

 

Away on a family holiday. Will be back for next home game

 

Phew!! Things not as bad as I thought!

 

What ever the attendance was, all the empty seats just show how feed up the fans are, in what is happening with the club. Hopefully Edin and co. will see the ground photos.

 

By no means, but it does matter for those of us who keep records.

I too thought we'd sold some 15,000 season tickets. If attendances have always been reported based on tickets sold, not actual bums on seats, then for consistency's sake that should continue through the season. Changing the method halfway through messes up the season's records, and makes one wonder why the change has been made.

RCB

 

I suppose you could always contact the club then. I'm sure they'll have both figures on record.

 

I think it is 17075 and someone has transposed a 1 for the 7

 

Maybe Edin was on holiday and somebody wanted the truth to come out.