Attendance on Saturday (and Thereafter)

[SwissBlade]

Swiss - where do you get this £4k extra season ticket sales from after the deadline? Have you asked someone at the ticket office?

As Tuns said - you seem to be expecting circa 6k to pay on the day. 14k plus 6k plus 1,500 Brentford.

I think you will be miles out at 21,500, apologies if not!

Wendy to average 4 or 5k more than us this term.

It was something I read on here a while ago, i seem to remember 14k being the number quoted from the ticket office.

1st home game is always pretty well attended if the weather is decent and we've made a decent start then we can expect a decent crowd

 

[BexleyBlade]

It was something I read on here a while ago, i seem to remember 14k being the number quoted from the ticket office.

Nowhere near 14,000 I'm afraid. Was just under 11K when I asked last week. I'd expect us to get around 17,000 tomorrow and could average that all season should we be in and around the mix. Maybe 25K against Wendy though so could bring average up...

 

[Cool Clint]

So how many season ticket holders are boo boys?

 

[oldblade]

I can see Brentford bringing at least 1k tomorrow. Their first away game, straight up the M1 is not that bad a trip and we actually might be quite a decent draw for their fans who won't have visited the Lane for a long while.

Added to which I cannot ever remember us beating Brentford at Bramall Lane. We must have done so at some stage, but not for a very long time. I know we haven't played them for a while, but we did meet them quite often in the 1980s and didn't beat them at all at home.

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Slightly tangential subject but back in the good old days the highest and lowest crowds were much further apart than they are now. In our first season in D3 our lowest crowd was 8500 ish v Wimbledon and our highest 45,000 v Wednesday - over 5 times greater than our lowest crowd.

This season its unlikely our highest crwod will be double our lowest.

Darren, you're slipping! Our home attendance against Wednesday in 1980 was 42,526.

 

[99.9%Blade]

If other Blades like me are genuinely exited about the prospect of the Bees at home and the fact you can get two tickets for £18.50 if you have been a sado like me and collected 4 tokens from the Sun then an optomistic 17,221 me thinks UTB

 

[Zlatan]

Saturday - close to 19,000

For the remainder of the season - 16-18,000

 

[Toronto Blade]

Just has a drink out of a glass with some blue on it, 2 million at the Lane tomorrow.

 

[bricktop]

I think we will get about 20k tomorrow and then it will even itself out at about 16k.

All summer i've refused to put my hand in my pocket to pay for a season ticket, but this afternoon i went with the intention of picking up a couple of match tickets for tomorrow having decided to go earlier on in the week.

End result was that after 5 minutes of madness, i came out with my season ticket renewed.

 

[GainsboroBlade]

19,000 and I can't wait! UTB!!

 

[axel smeets]

I think we will get about 20k tomorrow and then it will even itself out at about 16k.

All summer i've refused to put my hand in my pocket to pay for a season ticket, but this afternoon i went with the intention of picking up a couple of match tickets for tomorrow having decided to go earlier on in the week.

End result was that after 5 minutes of madness, i came out with my season ticket renewed.

silly fucker

 

[MunXy]

I'm optimistic, ill say 22-23K if we get a run going average 18-19k then if we are in the mix come march/april last few games around 24-25k.
and of course our average will be more than wendy's by a coupla thousand.

MunXy

 

[MobileBlade]

As of last Friday we'd sold just over 11k

19k or so tomorrow I'd guess

I got told from quite high within the club around 12000 had been sold (this was early June) - and that well over half paid by monthly installment!

 

[RealMcCoy]

silly fucker

good decision brownie. let's hope you don't regret it all season!

 

[SwissBlade]

My optimistic guess of 21500 was clearly way off - actual attendance of 17,769. Extremely poor attendance

I guess then we're looking at an average of 14,000 then

 

[LA Blade]

pre season I thought 15K.

 

[Micalijo]

My optimistic guess of 21500 was clearly way off - actual attendance of 17,769. Extremely poor attendance

I guess then we're looking at an average of 14,000 then

Not really poor, just a reflecttion of McCabe's disgraceful management of the club. Some people with their finger on the pulse got it right though it has to be said.

Very comfy win though and I love Danny Wilson - bye bye Doyle, fantastic. Brentford were very, very poor.

 

[broomhillblade]

My optimistic guess of 21500 was clearly way off - actual attendance of 17,769. Extremely poor attendance

I guess then we're looking at an average of 14,000 then

I would have thought that 17,000+ is extremely good for this Division, bearing in mind there will be quite a few on holiday.

 

[Sensiblade]

Still 10k better than any other game in the division today.

 

[gavtheblade]

and on par with most of the prem teams an`all!

 

[grafikhaus]

I would have thought that 17,000+ is extremely good for this Division, bearing in mind there will be quite a few on holiday.

Quite right - best in our division, better than six in the Championship and better than two in the Premier.

Football, like going to the pub, is ridiculously expensive now and if more clubs don't want to go the way of pubs, they'd better wake up. I saw a perimeter ad. at Blackburn on MoTD last night advertising season tickets for £225. And that's in the Premier.

Maybe some are disappointed that The Massive got over 21k last week. Get real. They've sold about the same number of season tickets as us (10-11k) so are we to believe that:

• Around ten thousand people, in the middle of the holidays, thought 'I know! I'll pay full whack to see Rochdale!' or
• Wendy continue to let vast numbers in for nothing or next to nothing?

Go figure.

 

[Jim Chimmerney]

Still 10k better than any other game in the division today.

and on par with most of the prem teams an`all!

Quite right - best in our division, better than six in the Championship and better than two in the Premier.

Football, like going to the pub, is ridiculously expensive now and if more clubs don't want to go the way of pubs, they'd better wake up. I saw a perimeter ad. at Blackburn on MoTD last night advertising season tickets for £225. And that's in the Premier.

Maybe some are disappointed that The Massive got over 21k last week. Get real. They've sold about the same number of season tickets as us (10-11k) so are we to believe that:

• Around ten thousand people, in the middle of the holidays, though 'I know! I'll pay full whack to see Rochdale!' or
• Wendy continue to let vast numbers in for nothing or next to nothing?

Go figure.

Spot on, we tend to look at our crowds in isolation but the trend all over the country bar the top teams and those recently promoted etc is a decline. I'd hazard a guess that getting on for 50% of the teams in the top two divisions would be happy with our crowds.

 

[raul]

Mixed feelings about it myself. On the one hand when you consider the train-wreck on the last two years it's remarkable that so many are still turning up but it's still sad to see the Lane with that many empty seats. A lot will depend on how strong the clubs' you're either in or you're out stance holds firm which in turn will depend on how much bigger the crowd for the Bury fixture will be.

 

[Foxy]

I sometimes think people forget the crowd numbers we've had in the past

 

[grafikhaus]

That's right, Foxy. My thread a week ago showed us at home to Brighton with, if I may say so, a more exciting manager and players than we have now. 12,653 in 1989.

I remember standing on the kop v. Arsenal in 1968 and there were 13k there. Sure, Arsenal weren't as 'big' as they are now, but it was in the top flight.

It amazes me that, with football never being more expensive, far more things to do and watch, that so many still turn up.

 

[MunXy]

OPR a recently promoted club got less than us for a prem fixture, its all relative, ive been at the lane in league 4 (old) with 25k+ and in the championship with 12K- so 17K against brentford in league 3(old) i dont think is bad considering the last couple of seasons.
im still expecting when everything settles 18K average and definately top 3 average attendences for our division.

MunXy

 

[axel smeets]

That's right, Foxy. My thread a week ago showed us at home to Brighton with, if I may say so, a more exciting manager and players than we have now. 12,653 in 1989.

I remember standing on the kop v. Arsenal in 1968 and there were 13k there. Sure, Arsenal weren't as 'big' as they are now, but it was in the top flight.

It amazes me that, with football never being more expensive, far more things to do and watch, that so many still turn up.

Even in the 1990's when I first started going, despite the likes of Borbokis, Deane, Fjortoft, Hutchison, Holdsworth and Alan Kelly in the side we still were only getting 17500 on the opening day of 97/98 v Sunderland when we blew them away with fantastic football. The previous season that saw us reach the play off final saw an average of around 17000 and the 97/98 season, when we reached the FA Cup Semi Final, only 1000 more was on the average.

In 02/03, we averaged 18000 in a season where we played in two domestic cup semi finals and a play off final. Even in the promotion season, our average was 23800, which was 500 or so behind the massive team in S6. So really, on the basis of the last 15 years, 17800 at the Lane is not bad going for a Third Division fixture.

 

[bricktop]

When i first started going in the early to mid 80's, 8,000 crowds were not uncommon. I think football crowds have increased in general due to the improved facilities and the amount shown on television.

On your point about 17500 on the opening day against Sunderland in 97/98, that was still a decentish crowd as the seasons before we had got used to crowds of 12/13/14,000. Our crowds did take a leap during the magical 2002/03 season a lot of the supporters who came on board then are still on board now.

 

[axel smeets]

During the 99-07 period, United's crowds increased every year I think. From an average of 13500 when he took over to 30500 when he left. Warnock and McCabe together did a lot I felt to build up and sustain larger crowds at the Lane.

Looking at the crowds back then, I know they were smaller anyway. I definitley agree about the facilities etc. People with families won't take their kids to a ground where they have to use portacabins for toilets etc. Rotherham I reckon after all those years at Millmoor with their 'facilities' will see a surge in attendance when their new stadium is ready.

 

[bricktop]

Your right, as when clubs move you usually see a surge in attendances, but after a few years they tend to drop.

I remember when Boro moved from Ayresome Park which was a right shithole to the Riverside back in the 90's and they sold out every week for years, but now their crowds have dipped back down to around the 16,000 mark.

The only club who didn't have a surge with their new stadium seems to be Coventry. I liked going to Highfield Road as it was a proper ground, but the Ricoh is a soulless place

 

[axel smeets]

Sunderland went from 19-20000 at Roker Park to 42000 average within months of moving to SoL, although they have always IMO been a big club anyway. Never went to Highfield, but I have been to Ricoh about 4 times and the first thing that strikes me about is that it is way way too big for Coventry and of course, it's one of the Ikea flat pack grounds.