Attendance Today

[Nick Jansky]

There was a time when teams had a style/way of playing so you'd get a different challenge every week. Nowadays, most teams tend to play the same or similar way. You get a crazy team playing out from the back (Swansea), you get lumpers (Luton) but most other seem to just try and keep it tight and get something on the break. Games become less memorable and much of a muchness.

Yep, very few risks taken, most teams keep it tight to the point it becomes sterile.

 

[Blademan18891889]

Of our league games so far this season we’ve had 3 games below 27k. I can see this one, at home with 10 games left and 2nd in the league, breaking 27k. Bristol will bring 1k as they’re a well supported club away from home. We only need 2k or 3k floaters and we’re there.

If we don’t I stand corrected but I don’t see us dropping to 25k again this season.

Ticket sales look to be well down on yesterday , Bristol city have sold 500, it might even be less than 25k. Upper tier looks as though it will be almost empty.

 

[EddieColquhoun]

Not when we went to Elland Road (until they had scored) and very quiet at the Lane until they scored.

Talksport commentator mentioned how quiet they were today.

 

[MiserableBlader]

Sorry for creating another thread but I would just like to say that the attendance was so poor today. So many fans on this forum have been moaning about the fact that we barely have any 3pm Saturday games but the one time we do nobody fucking turns up.

We are literally about to get promoted, 10 games left. Where is everyone?

We only had 27,000 fans today, and we play Bristol City on a Tuesday night next week so I dread to think what the attendance will be for that. 25,000?

Nothing to do with the imbecile manager proudly proclaiming - and being allowed unchallenged by cowardly wendy biased thick press - ''that you can win or play attractively and he wants to win'? And goes out with the team brain dead boring almost every game.
NO incentive to go. You are just praying for another lucky win - successfully most weeks in this worst of all second divisions.
How this LIE that the two are not compatible but somehow mutually exclusive is truly orwellian double think.
Like everything evil in this country.
I for one hate Sat afternoon football at home games - particularly sunny warm days. They usually take up and waste a whole day even for home matches and have little or no atmosphere unlike night matches.
My feelings could be biased as first match was a night game.
I was hooked by the wall of noise and the sights of the floodlit pitch as I waked holding the hand of a Unitedite in law uncle into the shed at the back of the kop. (Yes, missed the kick off)
ps Day tickets generally far too expensive. If you are going to go you have to be a season ticket holder. Memberships were good but now just another rip off. Just buy online commentaries and match replays.

 

[BladeByChoice]

I think my post from the atmosphere thread is quite relevant here.

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again.

Many of our fan base refuse to accept that Sheffield United is a business, the fans are customers, the players are commodities and the infrastructure are assets.

The club is driven by financial targets not atmosphere, the club want the most income generated from the least number of customers, 500 people paying £20 is better than 1000 paying £10 in the clubs eyes, less people to police and clean up after for the same return.

What we spend in the stadium is irrelevant because the caterers have already paid the contract, if they sell 1 pie or 1 million, the club get the same..........

The club made a mistake making this category A and that’s why the Preston numbers were lower then normal.
Some of their fans boycotted this fixture.

Tickets were £36 + £1 booking fee = £37 on the Kop and £41 + £1 = £42.00 in the other stands.

Who’s going to pay £42 to watch us play Preston?

Having a Season Ticket, I don't usually notice the Category of our home games but making yesterday a Cat A game is mindboggling.

Whoever judged Preston to be Cat A obviously hasn't had a look at the League Tables since Tom Finney was a lad.

Your assuming that whoever decides the category is basing that on the opponents league position, my view is very different, (no evidence of this just 20 years working in similar situations and applying common sense)

An accountant has looked at the spreadsheet and seen we are not where we should be on ticket sales at this point of the season so has decided to squeeze fans at a 3pm Saturday kick off to make up the shortfall, or, is trying to make up the projected loss on ticket sales from reducing the Coventry game to 20 quid.

Lets step into the real world, to the club, we aren’t fans, were punters (even Wilder called us that all last year), the club want maximum income from minimum viable product.

Which translates into human speak as:

How much can we screw the mugs for, to stand there and watch shit football and 1-nills week after week, so our American owners can show ROI to their investors.

looks like the POTD fans have had enough, guess what nothing will happen untill you vote with your feet.

 

[Carlton Blade]

Those bastards, saving their money for the biggest games in the middle of a cost of living crisis. Imagine thinking that over £150 day out for a family of 4 to watch a pretty dull United team play a pretty dull Preston team, with the almost nailed on conclusion being a close home win with little to remember it by, is a bit steep.

BASTARDS

 

[Pedro's Winger]

Given the prices and lack of away fans the crowd was pretty reasonable.
If Preston had sold out the away end and the crowd was 29000 no-one would have batted an eyelid.

 

[Sharrow Snuff Mill]

For many Preston fans, I guess it was a toss up between paying daft money for Blades away, and buying a ticket for an FA Cup sixth round tie which is their first since 1966.

 

[finlaytheblade]

I take my daughter and I can rarely afford to go. Sorry if that makes me less of a blade.

That's exactly it! Why not have a one adult + child cheap day ticket would encourage parents to bring a kid.For £41adult + child would work I'm sure.Bramall lane upper has plenty of spare seats to try this.
Most older blades started going with A parent usually dad when 4/5 year old ! that is the age to introduce kids to the atmosphere generated by a live game.
Hooked for life?! I was!.

 

[MobileBlade]

That's exactly it! Why not have a one adult + child cheap day ticket would encourage parents to bring a kid.For £41adult + child would work I'm sure.Bramall lane upper has plenty of spare seats to try this.
Most older blades started going with A parent usually dad when 4/5 year old ! that is the age to introduce kids to the atmosphere generated by a live game.
Hooked for life?! I was!.

But there is no atmosphere at the Lane. I read it on here. I might also be out on a limb and said I actually quite enjoyed Saturdays game and the win was quite convincing despite the score. But then I was at the game not watching it on the telly so maybe I am wrong on both counts.

 

[Guesty]

It literally will be 25k

Fair fucks mate, 70 over 25k tonight.

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

A cold un to watch that poor performance. Don't blame anyone sticking to tele at home.

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

26.4k with the cheap tickets... I'm guessing alot got refunds? On the original Sunday it'll been nearly 30k..

Not sure how much difference they'd be in the Oxford following either...

 

[Harry's Game]

Actual figure closer to 22 k than 26 k let’s be reight

 

[dingledog]

I didn’t go tonight, two reasons, I’m off on dream holiday tomorrow and we currently have 6 inches of snow here in Holmfirth.

 

[Harry's Game]

I didn’t go tonight, two reasons, I’m off on dream holiday tomorrow and we currently have 6 inches of snow here in Holmfirth.

6am inches of snow? How you getting to that dream Holiday? Compo and Clegg getting the sledge out ?

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

They were here, there everywhere, empty seats, empty seats.

 

[Blade In Flame]

Actual figure closer to 22 k than 26 k let’s be reight

Pigs round it up if it was them. Let's say 30k using pigonometry

 

[dingledog]

6am inches of snow? How you getting to that dream Holiday? Compo and Clegg getting the sledge out ?

Interestingly, we are off to Antarctica, so it’s good training. Roads have been cleared and gritted overnight, so put sledge away.

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

Actual figure closer to 22 k than 26 k let’s be reight

Guessing alot of families took the refunds.

When Charlton game was cheap we got 30k plus

 

[FATTYFOULKE]

I think the following is one of my favourite ever posts from Porktalk. So many inaccuracies, wishful thinking and insults in one post it’s a monumental effort.
The bitterness is just brilliant. You can tell he tried to get as many insults in as possible and I bet he went over and over it until he was happy..

Horatio Hornblower​

Posted 19 hours ago

Their weakness is their inconsistency, they conceded 4 to Mansfield with a full strength team out.

They were losing to Oxford last night and the fans were starting to jeer up until they equalised just before half time.

In a way Bannan not playing may help us, as they’ve not got a focal point within our team to target and in that ‘Bladesman mentality’ try and create a target to get one over on.

Another weakness is Wilder not knowing how to tactically out think the opposition, he knows how to set a team up for a physical battle but when they’re either matched physically or the sting is taken out then he struggles.

We can’t match them physically so we need to take the sting out of the fixture the best we can. If I was Pedersen I wouldn’t get drawn into the ‘it’s a derby it’s a special game etc’ I’d diffuse it by saying that there’s absolutely no comparison with squads and we are simply seeing the season out by fulfilling fixtures and focussing on next season. If we start with the fighting talk it’ll play into Wilders hands.

Another weakness is their fickle fan base. When they win they’re the best team in the world and Wilder is the second coming, when they lose/are losing the fans quickly get irritable and slate the players, doubt Wilder and also start blaming the recruitment last summer.

As I’ve said, we haven’t the players for a battle, we haven’t the quality to outplay them, so our only option is to frustrate them and try and catch them on the counter attack. The longer we keep it at 0-0 the more their fans will get frustrated. Hopefully we can do that and keep the score respectable.

Remember though that no matter what the score, no matter how we play, no matter how they play, their fans will gloat and find some random stats which end up in their favour to cling to and try and bombard us with. Strangely despite us being at our lowest ever ebb, the Blades fans obsession seems the strongest it’s ever been! I think it’s because they’re massively underperforming and in typical ‘Bladesman mentality’ they want to deflect away from that.

They’ve a generational inferiority complex. The best analogy that I can think of is it being like the uglier, fatter, younger brother who suddenly starts making a huge deal of winning a 100M sprint against the older, fitter, more successful brother who happens to currently have two broken both his legs. The victory is empty, but the resentment is so strong that he builds the victory up way out of proportion to somehow make up for the years previously of inferiority, but even he won’t genuinely believe it.

Our bones will heal and the cream will once again rise to the top. It might take a few years, but our fanbase isn’t built on the weak foundations of resentment like their fan base is. We need to try not to embarrass ourselves and -unlike the Derby at hillsborough- give it everything, then in my opinion we can’t ask for more than that.

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[FATTYFOULKE]

^^^^^^
Sorry, wrong thread

 

[Bladesman]

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

30.4k 'sellout'... obviously segregation doesn't help us get 32k anymore.

Our capacity fullness seems to change less n less every season?

 

[bladesmanluke]

We wa are losing about 500 capacity every season it seems.

 

[Bladesman]

We wa are losing about 500 capacity every season it seems.

SAG costing the club money really.

 

[Borbokisfreekick]

The segregation yesterday was so over the top. Away end was 700 below capacity, then the end block of the upper tier wasn’t opened for whatever reason and then there were 5-6 rows of the upper tier blocked off, plus the extra unopened seats in the bottom corners of the south stand and John street.

In previous years all these seats were sold. Do they think fans are really going to jump out of the stand, run 50 feet and jump into the away end for a scrap?! Or decide to jump down from the upper tier. It’s ridiculous and means we don’t sell a potential 1500 tickets more.

Then you see the segregation for Manchester and north London derbies and it’s one line of stewards!

 

[wizadry]

The segregation yesterday was so over the top. Away end was 700 below capacity, then the end block of the upper tier wasn’t opened for whatever reason and then there were 5-6 rows of the upper tier blocked off, plus the extra unopened seats in the bottom corners of the south stand and John street.

In previous years all these seats were sold. Do they think fans are really going to jump out of the stand, run 50 feet and jump into the away end for a scrap?! Or decide to jump down from the upper tier. It’s ridiculous and means we don’t sell a potential 1500 tickets more.

Then you see the segregation for Manchester and north London derbies and it’s one line of stewards!

We were always going to lower the pigs allocation due to what they give us, considering the size of their away end they give us a measly amount of seats all things considered.

…..and your middle paragraph, someone did just that and obviously got escorted out for it.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

I guess it’s the crude gesticulation they don’t like…We don’t want to disregard fans fragile sensibilities by encouraging the vigorous use of the wanker sign…Although it didn’t stop Sydie doing exactly that.

 

[Sheffsteel]

30.4k 'sellout'... obviously segregation doesn't help us get 32k anymore.

Our capacity fullness seems to change less n less every season?

Due to changes to the stadium there’s no longer 32K seats.
Believe the official number of seats is now 31,700 however we’re not allowed to sell the front row on the upper tier.

2 years ago when we were last in the PL our biggest crowd was 31,543.
Also last season when we played Wednesday there was 31,127, when SAG reduced away tickets by 400 less than the normal amount.

Suspect the current working capacity is now around 31,500.