Attendance!

[snootyfenooty]

It’s for this reason and the word that commercial sales are at capacity why I can see the club progressing the long overdue increases to the south and kop stands. We can’t stand still on or off the pitch.

It would help if the existing capacity was available to people who wished to attend games. A kop extension would add 3.5k seats taking capacity to 35.5k but the "real" capacity would be about 3k less than that after SYP have their say - the same as 5 years ago!

 

[Broomhall Blade]

Agree, everything about yesterday suggests a much higher crowd.

Traffic driving to the ground was busier than normal, normally parking spaces full had to park miles from the ground, much longer queues outside the Kop, BLUT upper tier looked much fuller than normal. I also predicted 28K maybe touching 29K.

Yes the queue out side Man fridays was longer than normal.

Bill Froggit had his pine cones, i have the queue out side Man Fridays.

 

[Grappler]

Fair play to Sunderland, watching that fucking rubbish!

My work mate is a Sunderland fan and he reckons they only got 10k for the last home game, fans just had enough.

 

[Houston_Blade]

The fans on the Sunderland forum laugh at the official attendance figures.
Their fans reckon recent gates are 15 to 20K but they are announced as official gates of 25 to 27K.

It seems that 8000 season ticket holders have recently stopped attending matches at the Stadium of Light.

Do the fans who think they only get between 15k and 20k sit there and count them every week? I don’t think you’d manage it over 90 mins and you’d have to start again if someone got up and went to the bog.

 

[leedsblade1982]

It would help if the existing capacity was available to people who wished to attend games. A kop extension would add 3.5k seats taking capacity to 35.5k but the "real" capacity would be about 3k less than that after SYP have their say - the same as 5 years ago!

Totally agree about utilising the full asset and when the FSF representative meets with SYP and SAG (whoever they are!?) I’d like to see this being a serious question. There is no consistency.

 

[Houston_Blade]

More info on this one

I’d be interested to see total away attendances in the same table.

 

[Fanny magnet]

Totally agree about utilising the full asset and when the FSF representative meets with SYP and SAG (whoever they are!?) I’d like to see this being a serious question. There is no consistency.

According to pingpong chansiri the sag committee top man is a pig and should be favourable to them

 

[FinchleyBlade]

Disagree, I think its poor.

2nd in the league, playing outstanding and entertaining football each week, and we have 5-6k empty seats each week. In particular the John Street stand looks embarrassing on TV, like its half empty.

Should be getting close to sell outs in the home stands each week.

 

[Ranmoorblade]

Birmingham game the upper tier is shut. with kid a quid deal thats going to cost us alot.

It's not shut, just not selling tickets until other parts of the ground are sold out.

 

[leedsblade1982]

According to pingpong chansiri the sag committee top man is a pig and should be favourable to them

Feels a lot to me like we are being victimised for the failings at Hillsborough both past and present. This isn’t rose tinted spectacles but there would never be any chance that they would host a world wide event (Brooks fight) at the sty!

 

[Berkshire Blade]

It's not shut, just not selling tickets until other parts of the ground are sold out.

ah okay. Thanks. South is nearly sold out and its weeks away so i guess they'll open it it. cat b plus kid a quid even with it being on sky suspect it will be needed.

 

[snootyfenooty]

Totally agree about utilising the full asset and when the FSF representative meets with SYP and SAG (whoever they are!?) I’d like to see this being a serious question. There is no consistency.

The irony is, if United had to increase capacity to 35.5k with the kop extension just to get 32.5k in the ground due to police restrictions, then the police would still have the same 32.5k to deal with if they opened the rest of the ground up now. Surely SYP can't be that thick to not realise this.

 

[snootyfenooty]

It's not shut, just not selling tickets until other parts of the ground are sold out.

I think the club are using this part of the ground as overspill. By leaving it until last then the occasional supporters buying tickets are likely to be the most benign ones, which would suit the club and SYP to the ground due to the proximity to the away fans. They may also have got wind of the efforts of forum members to liven the place up a bit, which is probably giving SYP anxiety attacks at the moment.

 

[metalblade]

I think the club have once again got it spot on with allocations for away fans and I don't think we are losing as much money as one or two posters suggest. Only half the teams in the Championship average over 20,000 home fans so they are never going to sell out the allocations we give them as we have seen time and again so far. If you were to give the like of Leeds, Villa, Derby, Forest and the pigs the whole away end then our own fans would be pushed out into restricted view seating on the kop if they wanted to attend. Why should our fans have to sit in inferior seats to away fans in order to squeeze a few more bums onto seats? This is NOT the way to build up home support good quality seats must be available to home fans if this means smaller allocations for away supporters then phuck em they turn up once per season home fans turn up 23 times per season.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

Regardless of those wanting to 'get things going' in the BLUT, we're losing money hand-over-fist with the current arrangements. One of the benefits of being in the Championship is the chance to cash in on away support with teams like Wolves, Villa, Derby, Forest, Leeds, Middlesbrough, pigs, Barnsley, Birmingham and Sunderland all capable of bringing between 3k and 5k. Sorry, BLUT-ers, there's plenty of space in the kop/SS wing and the John St/Bramall Lane end of the 'family stand' (another ill thought-out idea). Chuck in that ridiculous 'pie corner' and we should be looking to maximise take-up in our parts of the ground, not turning away visiting supporters.

I'm going to disagree with you on this one. Most clubs in this league only give a couple of thousand tickets to visiting fans even though their ground has plenty of spare capacity. Giving away fans all The Lane end would just give the visitors a boost in having the whole of the end behind them which is something we don't need.
Any advantage we can gain no matter how small must be taken and having Blades on all four sides of the ground must be better for the team. Why give Derby any help just because they say they could have sold more tickets? Sod them and all the rest.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Disagree, I think its poor.

2nd in the league, playing outstanding and entertaining football each week, and we have 5-6k empty seats each week. In particular the John Street stand looks embarrassing on TV, like its half empty.

Should be getting close to sell outs in the home stands each week.

Embarrassing ? Half empty?

If you're going to moan, as usual, at least try to be factual.

 

[8lade]

My guess is, not that it matters, is that we’ll finish 3rd in that table but top in the one that counts.

Half of what you said matters !

 

[bladesmanluke]

How about we sell the empty 800 seats in the bottom tier to away clubs before even talking about who’s having the top tier?

 

[RammyBlade]

It's not shut, just not selling tickets until other parts of the ground are sold out.

If the bird in your avatar came to Bramall Lane attendances would soon balloon !

 

[RammyBlade]

The irony is, if United had to increase capacity to 35.5k with the kop extension just to get 32.5k in the ground due to police restrictions, then the police would still have the same 32.5k to deal with if they opened the rest of the ground up now. Surely SYP can't be that thick to not realise this.

SYP thick ? err let me think about that for a nano second and ask the 1000 ish Blades who were forced to miss half of bouncing day because of their incompetence !!

 

[Tunstall Fred]

Disagree, I think its poor.

2nd in the league, playing outstanding and entertaining football each week, and we have 5-6k empty seats each week. In particular the John Street stand looks embarrassing on TV, like its half empty.

Should be getting close to sell outs in the home stands each week.

Pork smell I

 

[SteveBlade]

Between 25-28k is about what we should expect as a Championship club. What's the issue? Who do some people think we are?

Bollox to giving away fans the BLUT. What's being suggested is that an extra 2k away supporters should take priority over a higher quality matchday experience for 2k Blades.

No.

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

The attendances at the Lane for the last five seasons are:
13/14. 17,507. Lge 1
14/15. 19,804. Lge 1
15/16. 19,803. Lge 1
16/17. 21,893. Lge 1
17/18. 26,259. Championship

I make that an almost 67% increase in attendances over five seasons. What's the problem?

Any business who increased their customer base, sorry fans, by that amount would be doing cartwheels up the Moor and baring their arses on the Town Hall steps.

 

[Bladesthorpe]

Yes its heartbreaking our crowds are as big as they've ever been

Bet you enjoyed it when we were getting below ten thousand in the ground

I take it your not very old FM, because if you think our crowds are as big as they have ever been you are sadly wrong. Yes I was in the below 10,000 crowds pre Warnock and took no pleasure from it at all. You only have to go back to our last season in the prem where we averaged over 30,000 or the Tony Currie years when I've stood in crowds of over 40,000 more than once. Then when you count the floating fans who go to Wembley there must be room for improvement so I have no regrets about telling them to get off their arses and support CW and the lads.

 

[Fanny magnet]

I take it your not very old FM, because if you think our crowds are as big as they have ever been you are sadly wrong. Yes I was in the below 10,000 crowds pre Warnock and took no pleasure from it at all. You only have to go back to our last season in the prem where we averaged over 30,000 or the Tony Currie years when I've stood in crowds of over 40,000 more than once. Then when you count the floating fans who go to Wembley there must be room for improvement so I have no regrets about telling them to get off their arses and support CW and the lads.

We are in the championship and our crowds are as high as they have ever been in this division ,they will get bigger if we carry on as we are

To bring up seasons when we were in the top division is a bit silly as we aren't in the top division now

 

[SRBlade]

Dull - averaging 15,000, despite these being the most successful years in their shitty club's history.

For that, they deserved the footballing humiliation that was served up to them yesterday during that heavenly 2nd half.

But also, they needed to be shown proper 21st century Yorkshire footballing excellence. Hopefully we game them an example to learn from

Not that I like Hull, but i'm going to defend them on the basis that they are being shafted pretty badly from their owner.

Imagine if United only sold top price tickets to all adults, OAPs, Children, Students etc, I'd anticipate that we would only be getting 15k a week too

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

I take it your not very old FM, because if you think our crowds are as big as they have ever been you are sadly wrong. Yes I was in the below 10,000 crowds pre Warnock and took no pleasure from it at all. You only have to go back to our last season in the prem where we averaged over 30,000 or the Tony Currie years when I've stood in crowds of over 40,000 more than once. Then when you count the floating fans who go to Wembley there must be room for improvement so I have no regrets about telling them to get off their arses and support CW and the lads.

I think you need to get large attendances and average attendances in perspective.

Even in the "Tony Currie years" we only averaged over 30k once, and that was in the Year following promotion in 1971. Apart from that we have averaged low to mid 20k at best. You have to go back to the late forties to mid fifties for the halcyon days of large attendances, at that is even before my time.

I too have stood in 40k plus crowds but they were a rarity, and were averaged out by much smaller attendances during any given season. The fluctuation, as I recall, was enormous from match to match.

Apart from the Premier Legue season and the promotion season mentioned above our current average attendances ARE the biggest in living memory (well, most of us!!)

What we have had for the last few seasons is remarkably similar attendances throughout the season and it is this consistency we need to nurture and build on.

 

[bornablade]

The attendances at the Lane for the last five seasons are:
13/14. 17,507. Lge 1
14/15. 19,804. Lge 1
15/16. 19,803. Lge 1
16/17. 21,893. Lge 1
17/18. 26,259. Championship

I make that an almost 67% increase in attendances over five seasons. What's the problem?

Any business who increased their customer base, sorry fans, by that amount would be doing cartwheels up the Moor and baring their arses on the Town Hall steps.

These are commendable figures for the league we were in. No one could ever accuse the fans of being fair weather supporters.

Were there really over 19800 of us in 2015/16?

We must've all been on drugs.

 

[mancunianblade]

I'm not sure why this really matters? They've sold the tickets, so it should count in the attendance.

Have to disagree for me the term attendance is the the dictionary definition of being there in person.

Also for the sake of safety surely the clubs/Police know exactly who is in the stadium?

And whilst I do love to see the Lane full I’m not one who sees it as the be all and end all

 

[Eddiecolquhounsleg]

These are commendable figures for the league we were in. No one could ever accuse the fans of being fair weather supporters.

Were there really over 19800 of us in 2015/16?

We must've all been on drugs.

Yes. One less than the previous season. I think the person who didn't turn up every week was Conor Sammon!!