Applause for away fans

[ExmouthExile]

Bollocks to the applause, whatever happened to that old chant, "Come in a taxi... did you come in a taxi?"

 

[BadFish]

Why do we give a polite round of applause when the number of away fans is announced ?

politeness?

 

[BHseagull]

I always wondered this first season at the Amex, but since then it's gradually turning to booing!

 

[Justice]

Many have travelled a long way, good of them to make it.

It's the decent thing to do, i.e. effectively saying "thanks for coming".

Obviously we don't extend the same pleasantries towards certain teams

The decent thing to do would be to kick there heads in on the way back to the train station.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

The overall attendance as well as the away attendance is announced at the same time. I'm sure an awful lot of those clapping are clapping the home/overall attendance.

Absolutely. I'm mostly applauding the arithmetical creativity that goes into claiming that over 27,000 are present in a ground that holds 30,000 when around a fifth of the seats are empty.

 

[Gullys Cats]

I clap!

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

It does no harm.

 

[Working class pride]

Absolutely. I'm mostly applauding the arithmetical creativity that goes into claiming that over 27,000 are present in a ground that holds 30,000 when around a fifth of the seats are empty.

Very odd post. Brighton sell 27000 tickets for the game, then they have 27000 paying punters. To record otherwise might er make the Revenue want to know why! Its also how every club does it, so this little whine is very wide of the mark.

 

[FloatLeft]

The claps come from the East Stand, the boos from the North so depending on your position, your experience of boos/claps differs. I sometimes clap, I sometimes boo. Depends what mood I'm in.

 

[Peever]

I remember 2 seasons ago against watford (2-2) the attendance was announced a bunch if fans clapped then a bunch belted out "is that all you bring away!!" Had a laugh at the time.

 

[The Brighton Buzz]

Many have travelled a long way, good of them to make it.

It's the decent thing to do, i.e. effectively saying "thanks for coming".

Obviously we don't extend the same pleasantries towards certain teams

This

 

[Husty]

Very odd post. Brighton sell 27000 tickets for the game, then they have 27000 paying punters. To record otherwise might er make the Revenue want to know why! Its also how every club does it, so this little whine is very wide of the mark.

Incredible post. To suggest that the club can not announce the real attendance due to tax reasons demonstrates either a shocking level of faith in the club or just simple stupidity.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Bollocks to the applause, whatever happened to that old chant, "Come in a taxi... did you come in a taxi?"

You're not allowed to come in a taxi any more. Most of them won't even let you in with a kebab.

 

[Superphil]

Incredible post. To suggest that the club can not announce the real attendance due to tax reasons demonstrates either a shocking level of faith in the club or just simple stupidity.

It makes no sense, other than it's what all other clubs in the top two divisions do, perhaps there is some reason that all clubs do it, maybe an email off to mr Barber might clarify.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

The claps come from the East Stand, the boos from the North so depending on your position, your experience of boos/claps differs. I sometimes clap, I sometimes boo. Depends what mood I'm in.

Plenty of people booing Leicester in the east I can assure you. More generous reaction to Huddersfield though.

 

[Husty]

It makes no sense, other than it's what all other clubs in the top two divisions do, perhaps there is some reason that all clubs do it, maybe an email off to mr Barber might clarify.

Because it looks better to say you had 27000 through the gate than 22000. That's all it comes down to. Barber will spout some spiel about being a truer representation of our earnings from the match - which is true. But no one cares how many tickets we gave away, all anyone cares about is how many bums on seats.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Because it looks better to say you had 27000 through the gate than 22000. That's all it comes down to. Barber will spout some spiel about being a truer representation of our earnings from the match - which is true. But no one cares how many tickets we gave away, all anyone cares about is how many bums on seats.

Both figures must be available given modern technology. I'd like to see clubs forced to declare both. The argument "everyone else does it" always strikes me as odd. If everyone went for trap two by default at sexytime we'd die out as a species.

 

[somerset]

I'd like to see clubs forced to declare both.

Why would the club or in fact any organisation, put information out there that makes them look bad...why would or should they publish negative spin that could affect their marketability going forward......its not a lie...its a fact that 27k tickets were sold and a fact also that the inland revenue will tax the club on that figure, not just on those seats that end up having bums on them.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Why would the club or in fact any organisation, put information out there that makes them look bad...why would or should they publish negative spin that could affect their marketability going forward......its not a lie...its a fact that 27k tickets were sold and a fact also that the inland revenue will tax the club on that figure, not just on those seats that end up having bums on them.

Why would it make them look bad? If the two were close to each other it would stop speculation about what the bums on seats might be. If there was a vast difference it would give the club leverage against people who block book seats and don't turn up. I'm interested in getting as many people as possible actually at the game and making some noise to help the team.

Besides I'm a pedant and what we announce is the ticket sales, not the attendance.

 

[Brighton Mod]

Clap if you want, boo if you want, but treat other s as you would wish to be treated yourself. Some on here have a very low self esteem.