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Last night the attendance was announced as being just over 17k, but looking at the ground i would have said there would have been more like 13-14k at the Lane last night.

Are season ticket holders automatically counted in the attendance figures?

If they are i can imagine there will have been quite a few non-attendees last night, due to it being a cold night in the middle of Feb, one of several night matches we have at the minute, and kids who wouldn't have gone because of the cold and it was a school night.
 



I think they started including non-attendees in the attendance figures in the mid-90s. In the Bladerunners book, Andy Daykin explained that it made the club more attractive to advertisers/sponsors. Prior to this, attendance figures often raised eyebrows the other way. For example, in 1985/86 we spent much of the season challenging for promotion to top flight and were in 2nd place for a spell, but our home league crowds officially never went above 14,000, despite the fact that the ground felt very full for certain games.
 
Preston was said to be 13,000 and there definitely didn't seem 4000 more. The fact that was cup goes along with the season ticket theory, we have 3 and I was the only one there last night, I suspect many were the same.
 
Also don't forget we had the "free" chairy ticket scheme in operation and you could you see that there was decent take-up in the BLLT. Maybe 800 there I would say.

It was very cold though and I know one or two people who went to Gillingham and decided not to bother last night.

We've had a lot of games and not everybody can afford to go to all of them - and Colchester aren't exactly a visiting team to set the pulse racing are they?

I reckoned about 15k in real human beings
 
If we fail to get promotion again they could close 2 sides of the ground next season.

With shit loads of money being pumped into the money laundering machine that Is "Football" and £8 million being cut from youth development cash strapped punters will not turn out to watch the poor football (4-1 result aside) we get dished up on freezing cold nights.

The beatiful game has been turned into an ugly business. Rant over soap box in shed!
 
You'd think they'd be able to produce a more or less spot-on attendance figure nowadays what with the bar-code scanners as opposed to the blokes taking cash on the turnstiles in the old days.
 
Only 3 Championship games out of 11 last night pulled a bigger attendance than Sheffield United v Colchester, considering Colchester only brought a very small number of (108 to be exact) fans, thats pretty impressive...
 
I don't think you can knock our support in the slightest this season home and away when you take everything into consideration. In fact on Saturday the only positive I took from the day was our travelling support who were fantastic again despite watching a sub-standard performance in cold weather on a stand built of Meccano.

Obviously we will get a good few fans dusting off the old laver shirts and jumping back on the band wagon when we finally get back up to the promised land of the championship but if these last couple of seasons have taught us anything it is that the have a good solid support. I remember a going back a few years when things were dire at the lane, we had to sponsor ourselves and everything else and the morale around the place wasn't so good, we struggled in the league around that point and attendances were down and everything else but despite our recent struggles the fans have been superb.
 
Just to reiterate what other posters on this thread have mentioned, not only last night, but as we've become a Division 1 fixture, and can attract crowds that many clubs of supposed higher status would love to attract, aren't our fans just about as good as it gets? I cannot fathom why, after so long in this dump of a division, supporters continue to turn out in such numbers, but there you go, a mystery within a puzzle within a conundrum.

So, I'm assuming that promotion would also deliver a hefty increase in numbers at home games? I can't recall, but didn't the last stay in the Premiership give us an average of around 27-28 thousand? What with the newly publicised deal that's been announced for the footballing rights on Sky and BT, I hope the Prince smells the ink on those newly printed banknotes? Further investment now will push SUFC closer towards the Championship and then the Premiership, all of which makes the Brayford signing seem like jingly in the Prince's back pocket.
 
highpeakblade said:
I don't think you can knock our support in the slightest this season home and away when you take everything into consideration. In fact on Saturday the only positive I took from the day was our travelling support who were fantastic again despite watching a sub-standard performance in cold weather on a stand built of Meccano.

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How was your chat with your mate Mr Baki last night? You said you was going to share with us?
 
Silent Blade said:
How was your chat with your mate Mr Baki last night? You said you was going to share with us?
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Who said I was seeing Mr Baki "last night"..........??? Oh yeah that's right more assumptions from the know all, internet warrior. Google "Small Dick Syndrome".

Your boring mate!.....I pity you whilst laughing at you!
 



Silent Blade said:
How was your chat with your mate Mr Baki last night? You said you was going to share with us?
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highpeakblade said:
Who said I was seeing Mr Baki "last night"..........??? Oh yeah that's right more assumptions from the know all, internet warrior. Google "Small Dick Syndrome".

Your boring mate!.....I pity you whilst laughing at you!
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Pack it in you two, please
 
BornOnShoreham said:
Pack it in you two, please
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He's a grade one tool BOS mate. Going out of his way to bait and insult. Doesn't bother me in the slightest but he needs putting in his place! Hate people who suddenly think they have the right to act billy big bollocks in the comfort of their own home hiding behind a computer screen!
 
highpeakblade said:
He's a grade one tool BOS mate. Going out of his way to bait and insult. Doesn't bother me in the slightest but he needs putting in his place! Hate people who suddenly think they have the right to act billy big bollocks in the comfort of their own home hiding behind a computer screen!
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I've PMd you
 
JL94x4 said:
Only 3 Championship games out of 11 last night pulled a bigger attendance than Sheffield United v Colchester, considering Colchester only brought a very small number of (108 to be exact) fans, thats pretty impressive...
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Could I just ask where you got that figure from ?
 
highpeakblade said:
Who said I was seeing Mr Baki "last night"..........??? Oh yeah that's right more assumptions from the know all, internet warrior. Google "Small Dick Syndrome".

Your boring mate!.....I pity you whilst laughing at you!
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I think Silent Blade was referring to this what you said in your well written thread of can't sugarcoat that. In which i have been eagerly awaiting in anticipation myself mate.

highpeakblade said:
Near 24 hours later I am still fuming however I have had a rather fruitful conversation with Mr Baki which is ongoing so hope to share some thoughts from that with you all.
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itsinyerblood said:
I cannot fathom why, after so long in this dump of a division, supporters continue to turn out in such numbers, but there you go, a mystery within a puzzle within a conundrum.
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A couple of years ago I stood outside Blundell Park, with a Grimsby Town mate of mine, who was queing to renew his season ticket.

If you think watching United is bad, then you aint seen nothing compared to them.

As the final whistle went a group of lads came around the corner, and shouted 'You're never paying to watch that crap are you? (or worse to that effect)

An old bloke, in front, turned around to the chavs and said 'Why not, I've been watching them for over 65 years. What else am I going to do on a saturday afternoon. Now Piss off'. :D

Although I can't declare I've been watching the blades that long, I share the sentiment.

Last night, the little un and me, may have been freezing in the second half, but for him it was better than homework and for me it was better than pretending to enjoy the 'real housewives of New Jersey' or whatever s**te the missus was watching. :)
 
Hahaha this reminds me of daft Facebook arguments.
Come on fellas, let's leave the falling out until after we lose
 
cahill said:
Could I just ask where you got that figure from ?
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From the 'View from Colchester' thread:

As an exile my home games are through necessity (a round trip of 520 miles) limited and I tend to watch about 15 away games per season. Last night was a somewhat easier 220 mile round trip to Sheffield United (A1/M1 road works notwithstanding) to sit with 148 members of the faithful. Attendance was an incredible 17,162 - obviously there for the Col U or for the chance to witness the biggest win of the season for the Blades!
 



Blade56 said:
If we fail to get promotion again they could close 2 sides of the ground next season.

With shit loads of money being pumped into the money laundering machine that Is "Football" and £8 million being cut from youth development cash strapped punters will not turn out to watch the poor football (4-1 result aside) we get dished up on freezing cold nights.

The beatiful game has been turned into an ugly business. Rant over soap box in shed!
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Look forward the next post.
 
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