Atendance?

[Blademan18891889]

we were on there gangway a and there were loads of empty seats near us i would say at least 100 whether people were elswhere on kop who knows

We don't sell tickets to the side of gangway A the whole way down, why I have no fucking idea.

 

[Not_a_Cheat]

No, that would be closer to 200,000

But how many did they take to QPR

 

[LS16Blade]

It will be our highest average attendance whilst in the second tier since 1953, when we averaged 31,027 on our way to winning the league.

We've only averaged more in 4 seasons since, all in the top division:
1954 - 31,313
1972 - 33,819
2007 - 30,512
2020 - 30,869

…And our final average gate figure this season will be one that a certain other club has exceeded only once in the past 54 seasons.

Mind you, as we know, home gates are no longer an important metric. Certainly not as important as away followings…

 

[N20 Blade]

…And our final average gate figure this season will be one that a certain other club has exceeded only once in the past 54 seasons.

Mind you, as we know, home gates are no longer an important metric. Certainly not as important as away followings…

Presumably the average in the Bassett years was much lower, however, much more massaging of the figures. Generally speaking crowd numbers in the 80s and early 90s were much lower at football generally. My impression is that it was the Warnock years when our attendances started climbing again in conjunction with attractive pricing. They have held firm ever since.

 

[S64 Blade]

We don't sell tickets to the side of gangway A the whole way down, why I have no fucking idea.

Yeah I can’t understand it. You can see the pitch.

 

[Cheets]

What I find strange is that the seats in the corner of the BLUT towards John Street are sold as restricted view because they're obstructed by the scoreboard, but there was a largish rectagonal section of empty seats in a more central area of the John St side of the BLUT which would have had an unobstructed view.

 

[Blademan18891889]

Yeah I can’t understand it. You can see the pitch.

Does the new commentary box get in the way at all, doesn't look like it from other stands? Don't understand why they aren't sold for any game ever.

 

[SwissBlade]

Attendance: xx,xxx (Wednesday would’ve selt more)

 

[Balham]

Yeah, it definitely looked a lot less 2,075

To be fair to those who did travel, they made quite a racket until we scored. That view may be influenced by me sitting on row C of the BLUT.

Gangway A, the very far side of the Kop, didn’t seem to have been fully sold last night from what I saw when watching the game back. Not sure why.

Probably was fully sold but the ticket holders were all standing in someone else's spot at the back.

 

[Argentinemanager]

On the kop , 2 seats at side of me are empty, they are not on sale so someone has a season ticket for them, in the last 20years the only time anyone has sat in them was for the big premier league games, man utd, liverpool etc about 10 times in total, its fine by me as ive plenty of room and ive probabaly got horrendous BO but nobody has mentioned it

 

[Sheffsteel]

We've sold out and had attendances only hitting high 28k before now so with out 750 tickets not available on the Kop it seems low. Thats what I'm on about.

SAG punishment from Nov22 was to hold back 1,500 tickets in the Kop
then a month ago they showed some compromise and agreed to release half of them, so it's bee 750 held back in the Kop
and then from last night they now allow us to sell every ticket in the Kop with no restrictions.

 

[Sheffsteel]

It will be our highest average attendance whilst in the second tier since 1953, when we averaged 31,027 on our way to winning the league.

We've only averaged more in 4 seasons since, all in the top division:
1954 - 31,313
1972 - 33,819
2007 - 30,512
2020 - 30,869

We'll average just over 28,700 this season.

In the last 54 years Sheff Wed have only averaged more than this on ONE occasion, in 1993 when they averaged 29K when finishing 3rd in the top flight.

The last time Sheff Wed beat 28,700 whilst outside the top flight was in 1953, that's 70 years ago.
Basically it highlights once again, that Sheff Wed might get 35K or 40K for one off games but they've never has regularly big crowds in living memory.

Although I remember the 1980's and in them days anything over 20,000 was considered "a big crowd"
and Sheff Wed often averaged 22K to 27K, so it's all about context too, at the time this was considered really good support.

 

[LS16Blade]

Presumably the average in the Bassett years was much lower, however, much more massaging of the figures. Generally speaking crowd numbers in the 80s and early 90s were much lower at football generally. My impression is that it was the Warnock years when our attendances started climbing again in conjunction with attractive pricing. They have held firm ever since.

Attendance at English football reached its nadir in the mid-80’s. Run-down grounds and hooliganism made it a pretty unattractive pastime.

Clubs who are generally considered to be well-supported now had pitiful gates in the period. For instance, Middlesbrough averaged 5,135 in Division 2 in 84/85, Wolves averaged 4,020 in Division 3 in 85/86, and Birmingham averaged 10,700 in the top flight in 85/86.

With awful timing United were a club saddled with debt and going nowhere in the second division in this period when people needed little excuse to turn their back on the game.

We retained a hard core of 10-12,000 through the period - which was still invariably in the top 2 or 3 in Division 2 - but by the time Bassett arrived to revive our fortunes in 1988, we had a real challenge to re-build our support - especially with the other lot having had several years in the top flight.

The gates in Bassett’s reign were nowhere near the current ones. Mind you, that isn’t the whole story for that period, of course. Remember that the club was investigated at the time for discrepancies at certain matches between the club’s ‘official attendance’ and the police’s crowd figure. A number of gates in those Bassett years were declared artificially low..!

 

[SUFC Guy]

So would expect that our last home game against PNE will be nearer to 31000?

Would explect them to sell out their allocation.

 

[flashinblade1889]

So 35,000 then using the widely accepted pigonomics formula for football attendances

Plus the 3,000 they took to QPR something that I don’t think they ever mention………

 

[Sheffsteel]

So would expect that our last home game against PNE will be nearer to 31000?

Would explect them to sell out their allocation.

As of this afternoon the PNE twitter account announced they’d sold 1,900 out of their 2,700 allocation.

Their fans aren’t happy that it’s cat A pricing, so they are being charged £33, the same as home fans.

They expect to bring 2K, maybe just over with pay on the day, so might just fall short of 31K but it should be close.