Average Attendances

[Darthblade]

I've just read some horseshit in the Wed***day Star that the little old pub team that needs to "mind the gap" are above the Scum in the average league attendances this year

Surely ……. this cannot be correct as they are a MASSIVE Club !!

The figures must be wrong, mis-quoted or maybe they don't include their 165,000 season ticket holders.

But …… well done to all Blades this year and looking forward to another one …..

UTB & FTP

 

[super_pig]

I've just read some horseshit in the Wed***day Star that the little old pub team that needs to "mind the gap" are above the Scum in the average league attendances this year

Surely ……. this cannot be correct as they are a MASSIVE Club !!

The figures must be wrong, mis-quoted or maybe they don't include their 165,000 season ticket holders.

But …… well done to all Blades this year and looking forward to another one …..

UTB & FTP

it’s inly because we gave away half a million tickets to students .. apparently

 

[Scooter_mcgavin]

They charge 100 a ticket, season tickets are double the price and we hand our spares out to kids and dogs.

 

[metalblade]

Half of our crowds are students on free tickets

 

[Sean Thornton]

And we're all riddled with Chlamydia.

 

[metalblade]

I blame the kid for a quid offers.

 

[Bashar Al Asaba]

Successful clubs don't prattle on about attendances. The fact that both ourselves and the subhuman S6 scum do so frequently speaks volumes unfortunately.

It'd be lovely if I never heard anything about crowd sizes ever again. Fat chance of that bizarre little fixation ever ceasing though.

 

[Booker4]

Successful clubs don't prattle on about attendances. The fact that both ourselves and the subhuman S6 scum do so frequently speaks volumes unfortunately.

It'd be lovely if I never heard anything about crowd sizes ever again. Fat chance of that bizarre little fixation ever ceasing though.

With respect mate, and I do get your view, successful clubs don't talk attendances because they all have huge attendances, selling out every week with fans from all over the country if not beyond, often there because they want to support a team that wins trophies regularly. We've not won a trophy since pre war and that's not the Falklands war either! So for both Sheffield clubs to get a combined average of over 50,000 in the second tier is worth talking about and even more when we've got more than they have! Aside from league position, what else shall we compare between the the clubs? Trophies won?!

 

[snootyfenooty]

Aside from league position, what else shall we compare between the the clubs? Trophies won?!

IQ?

 

[SUFC Guy]

They charge 100 a ticket, season tickets are double the price and we hand our spares out to kids and dogs.

yeah but that's just a Wuff estimate

 

[EddieColquhoun]

A little nostalgia for those of us who miss baiting Fat Les:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/f...ised-for-rich-pickings-says-Lee-Strafford.htm

 

[mosbolad]

I've just read some horseshit in the Wed***day Star that the little old pub team that needs to "mind the gap" are above the Scum in the average league attendances this year

Surely ……. this cannot be correct as they are a MASSIVE Club !!

The figures must be wrong, mis-quoted or maybe they don't include their 165,000 season ticket holders.

But …… well done to all Blades this year and looking forward to another one …..

UTB & FTP

You would think on a forum such as this there would be a way to link to the story to which you are referring!

Sort it art Foxy!!!!

 

[dublin 10 blade]

yeah but that's just a Wuff estimate

Get thee coat

 

[Keef Chedwyn]

Don't get it. Thought everyone preferred Wednesday??

 

[Ainsley Harriott]

I blame the kid for a quid offers.

Blame the injuries

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

They charge 100 a ticket, season tickets are double the price and we hand our spares out to kids and dogs.

Dogs? Are you sure they’re allowed in?

 

[Dkc]

# Team sum Matches average
1 Aston Villa 738.226 23 32.097
2 Leeds United 724.975 23 31.521
3 Wolverhampton Wanderers 650.851 23 28.298
4 Sunderland AFC 635.605 23 27.635
5 Derby County 625.034 23 27.175
6 Sheffield United 617.633 23 26.854
7 Sheffield Wednesday 597.893 23 25.995
8 Norwich City 593.059 23 25.785
9 Middlesbrough FC 587.502 23 25.544
10 Nottingham Forest 567.638 23 24.680
11 Birmingham City 483.960 23 21.042
12 Bristol City 481.916 23 20.953
13 Cardiff City 463.772 23 20.164
14 Fulham FC 457.616 23 19.896
15 Reading FC 383.099 23 16.656
16 Ipswich Town 374.241 23 16.271
17 Bolton Wanderers 365.408 23 15.887
18 Hull City 359.312 23 15.622
19 Queens Park Rangers 320.337 23 13.928
20 Preston North End 316.791 23 13.774
21 Barnsley FC 315.187 23 13.704
22 Millwall FC 307.458 23 13.368
23 Brentford FC 235.376 23 10.234
24 Burton Albion 106.837 23 4.645

 

[Agreasychipbutty]

I'm sure it's a misprint, they just missed a few 0s of the end of the Wednesday figures...and didn't include season tickets, it's the only explanation

 

[Dkc]

We'd have finished in the top six (with the pigs missing out) if placings were based on attendances

 

[ChipButtyBlade]

# Team sum Matches average
1 Aston Villa 738.226 23 32.097
2 Leeds United 724.975 23 31.521
3 Wolverhampton Wanderers 650.851 23 28.298
4 Sunderland AFC 635.605 23 27.635
5 Derby County 625.034 23 27.175
6 Sheffield United 617.633 23 26.854
7 Sheffield Wednesday 597.893 23 25.995
8 Norwich City 593.059 23 25.785
9 Middlesbrough FC 587.502 23 25.544
10 Nottingham Forest 567.638 23 24.680
11 Birmingham City 483.960 23 21.042
12 Bristol City 481.916 23 20.953
13 Cardiff City 463.772 23 20.164
14 Fulham FC 457.616 23 19.896
15 Reading FC 383.099 23 16.656
16 Ipswich Town 374.241 23 16.271
17 Bolton Wanderers 365.408 23 15.887
18 Hull City 359.312 23 15.622
19 Queens Park Rangers 320.337 23 13.928
20 Preston North End 316.791 23 13.774
21 Barnsley FC 315.187 23 13.704
22 Millwall FC 307.458 23 13.368
23 Brentford FC 235.376 23 10.234
24 Burton Albion 106.837 23 4.645

Love to know what % those figures are in relation to ground capacity.

 

[FATTYFOULKE]

Been saying it for a while now.

United have caught and overtaken Wednesday’s fanbase. They’ve been stagnant for years, doing nothing to develop and grow what they had. As a result their fanbase has over time actually shrunk a little as supporters lose their affinity to the club and find other things to do.

(Saying that IMO their support has always be exaggerated. I’ve never seen anything crowd wise to justify this myth about them being potentially a huge club)

While this was happening McCabe had incentives such as cheaper tickets and looked after the younger future supporters of the club. Add to that the undoubted extra support from students who get hooked and then settle in the city (again thanks to McCabe targeting the Universities)

The year in the Prem did us no harm either.

But the biggest unfathomable thing for me is the incredible hardcore loyalty of the fans that’s kept the club going over the years.

There is not another club in the country with our record of having shit kicked in our faces and under achievement on a epic scale who can match our numbers.

It’s a bit perverse but the more shit we go through, the bigger our fanbase gets.

 

[Pinchy]

Attendances do matter. There is a limit to what you can build, sustain and ultimately achieve without large crowds.

Personally I’m delighted we’re battering the pigs on the only indicator they care about.

We’re truly massive. Our potential is enormous. Mid-table Premiership enormous. We’ll get there and, hopefully, tackle it properly next time...

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Daft to compare really.

If Wednesday had had our season and we'd had theirs then their attendances would have been higher than ours.

 

[Fanny magnet]

Daft to compare really.

If Wednesday had had our season and we'd had theirs then their attendances would have been higher than ours.

You've become a bit of a parody now petie

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

You've become a bit of a parody now petie

Do you disagree?

 

[MobileBlade]

Daft to compare really.

If Wednesday had had our season and we'd had theirs then their attendances would have been higher than ours.

Last season when they finished 4th they had average attendance of 27,130. Season before when they finished 6th, which I would argue was a more comparable season to ours this season, they averaged 22,641

 

[tomtheblade]

If either team had a significantly bigger fanbase than the other it may be a valid point of pride, but we don't, so it isn't.

Arguing over a few hundred or even a couple of thousand here and there does just seem petty.

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

If either team had a significantly bigger fanbase than the other it may be a valid point of pride, but we don't, so it isn't.

Arguing over a few hundred or even a couple of thousand here and there does just seem petty.

Well said.

I honestly don't know why people get so tetchy about it.

Wednesday have a bigger stadium than us and slightly more fans.

So what? Why does it matter? Get over it.

 

[metalblade]

Got to laugh though haven't you the last thing the piggies could crow about is no more ............................ or so we thought. Now their favourite is if we'd had the season United have just had our average would have been bigger that about sums it up eh PeterNdlovu081

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

Got to laugh though haven't you the last thing the piggies could crow about is no more ............................ or so we thought. Now their favourite is if we'd had the season United have just had our average would have been bigger that about sums it up eh PeterNdlovu081

You disagree then?