Attendance?

[Maldini]

Do you not have anything better to worry about? There are surely more interesting things in your life than the exact number of people who attended a football match?

Personally, I go to a football match to watch the football, strange as that may seem to some!

Just to re-cap,the title of this thread is 'Attendance'.Get it?
O and no I'm not worried about them incorrectly announcing tickets sold as attendance.I'm just making a comment.
Don't worry about it too much.

 

[Maldini]

If it means that much to you, why don't you submit a Freedom of Information request to get the 'attendance'?

It means jack shit.If you take every post so seriously then maybe this forum isn't for you.
As I said before this thread is titled 'Attendance'and I was just saying it's wrong and no-one but no-one can say
29.600 or whatever were at the game because they were not.
Chill out.

 

[Maldini]

It's amazing that people still spout this old myth about transport to and from the Amex being poor.

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Who said that?Find that person and kick him off this site.It's not true.

Transport to and from is good.I get the train from Worthing,get off and Brighton,queue with everyone else to get on the train for falmer and get sardined onto the train.After the game I wait 20 mins or so to get sardined onto the train and then queue with all of the others to get the train back to worthing.The trains are there,plenty,it all works well.What I'm saying is that if I could for example drive to right outside the stadium I would maybe go more often.That;s just me.

 

[Maldini]

The biggest issue is that modern humans seem to have little patience and always want to get somewhere else faster than necessary. Generally, it's so that they can sit on a sofa when they get there and basically do nothing. I just don't get it. People need to chill about how long travelling takes and they might find that they're generally much happier.
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Getting a couple of trains,queuing with thousands of other fans,getting sardined onto a train is one thing on a warm day for a
3pm kick-off,on a winters night it's something else that's why I assume less people come on a winters night.

 

[dazzer6666]

Getting a couple of trains,queuing with thousands of other fans,getting sardined onto a train is one thing on a warm day for a
3pm kick-off,on a winters night it's something else that's why I assume less people come on a winters night.

Better to get sardined on a cold night for the warmth

 

[drew]

I don't know about other grounds.No doubt there are some worse and some better. How easy a ground is to get to and get away from does make a difference.I remember the Goldstone as being pretty easy.Park and walk a few minutes.

In the 70s, driving from Burgess Hill, door to door, probably took about an hour to get home. Now, from the Amex it might be marginally under the hour. Not much difference. Why don't you use the park and ride if getting on trains is so bad, afterall, that's what you used to do at the Goldstone. You could use Mill Road so that you could be in your car within about 20 minutes of leaving the Amex and straight out on to the A27.

If you're going to compare, then do it like for like. Not one being a train journey and the other by car.

 

[drew]

Who said that?Find that person and kick him off this site.It's not true.

Transport to and from is good.I get the train from Worthing,get off and Brighton,queue with everyone else to get on the train for falmer and get sardined onto the train.After the game I wait 20 mins or so to get sardined onto the train and then queue with all of the others to get the train back to worthing.The trains are there,plenty,it all works well.What I'm saying is that if I could for example drive to right outside the stadium I would maybe go more often.That;s just me.

It's what you implied with your post about the transport affecting attendance.

 

[Bombadier Botty]

Indeed. It's petty beyond belief that the powers that be insist on final league position as the criteria for promotion.

The last thing we need is you throwing your oar in on this one Derek! It's bad enough coping with these obscene Amex crowds, it's almost as though every one of the 7,105 who went to watch us at MK Dons now wants to watch us at home as well. It would never have happened at Withdean!

 

[Maldini]

Better to get sardined on a cold night for the warmth

If the other sardines are fit females then yes.If they are your typical hairy smelly football fan then no

 

[nwgull]

Who said that?Find that person and kick him off this site.It's not true.

Transport to and from is good.I get the train from Worthing,get off and Brighton,queue with everyone else to get on the train for falmer and get sardined onto the train.After the game I wait 20 mins or so to get sardined onto the train and then queue with all of the others to get the train back to worthing.The trains are there,plenty,it all works well.What I'm saying is that if I could for example drive to right outside the stadium I would maybe go more often.That;s just me.

If there were enough parking spaces outside the stadium for everyone to drive all the way if they wanted, the resulting traffic would probably cause it to take about an hour to get 3 miles from the stadium after the game.

 

[Maldini]

In the 70s, driving from Burgess Hill, door to door, probably took about an hour to get home. Now, from the Amex it might be marginally under the hour. Not much difference. Why don't you use the park and ride if getting on trains is so bad, afterall, that's what you used to do at the Goldstone. You could use Mill Road so that you could be in your car within about 20 minutes of leaving the Amex and straight out on to the A27.

If you're going to compare, then do it like for like. Not one being a train journey and the other by car.

When they played at the Goldstone either my dad drove and we parked a few minutes away or me and a school mate went by train and took the short walk from the station.It was easier than it is now.Now I've just rediscovered watching Albion play due to a fantastic stadium and a soccer mad 6 year old son.The main thing that stops me going a little more is cost plus I am limited on seats because I have to look around on the website for a good seat from where my son can get a good view and that's not easy.For example I am interested in the Derby game but the seats I've had for the last 2 games are taken and the family section is too low.

 

[the wanderbus]

The last time I looked play-off qualification was on the basis of final league position. Just as well it wasn't bums on seats after 85 minutes.

So promotion isn't decided by final league position them, seeing as a shower of shit that limped into sixth place went up instead of the sides that finished 3rd, 4th and 5th. O.k. then have it your way.

 

[dazzer6666]

If there were enough parking spaces outside the stadium for everyone to drive all the way if they wanted, the resulting traffic would probably cause it to take about an hour to get 3 miles from the stadium after the game.

Bmuff and Reading, for example.......

 

[Thunder Bolt]

When they played at the Goldstone either my dad drove and we parked a few minutes away or me and a school mate went by train and took the short walk from the station.It was easier than it is now.Now I've just rediscovered watching Albion play due to a fantastic stadium and a soccer mad 6 year old son.The main thing that stops me going a little more is cost plus I am limited on seats because I have to look around on the website for a good seat from where my son can get a good view and that's not easy.For example I am interested in the Derby game but the seats I've had for the last 2 games are taken and the family section is too low.

Now I know you're on a wind up. There are no bad views in the stadium. I've been in the East stand for our friendly against Seville, and for an England U21 game, sitting fairly near the front. It wasn't too low.

 

[bhanutz]

When they played at the Goldstone either my dad drove and we parked a few minutes away or me and a school mate went by train and took the short walk from the station.It was easier than it is now.Now I've just rediscovered watching Albion play due to a fantastic stadium and a soccer mad 6 year old son.The main thing that stops me going a little more is cost plus I am limited on seats because I have to look around on the website for a good seat from where my son can get a good view and that's not easy.For example I am interested in the Derby game but the seats I've had for the last 2 games are taken and the family section is too low.

Christ on a bike. Good job your son wasn't around in the Goldstone days! sounds like you wrap him up in cotton wool!

 

[Maldini]

Now I know you're on a wind up. There are no bad views in the stadium. I've been in the East stand for our friendly against Seville, and for an England U21 game, sitting fairly near the front. It wasn't too low.

When you're 6 and your view is blocked by adults then yes there are bad views.As for the East stand,we were a few rows back from the front and it sucks.Too low.

 

[Maldini]

Christ on a bike. Good job your son wasn't around in the Goldstone days! sounds like you wrap him up in cotton wool!

Dude if I was wrapping my son up in cotton wool I wouldn't be taking him to a football game.

 

[bhanutz]

Dude if I was wrapping my son up in cotton wool I wouldn't be taking him to a football game.

It sounds like you don't want too!

 

[Maldini]

It sounds like you don't want too!

Errrr,let me think.Where was I saturday?Brighton v Burnley.

 

[Maldini]

Anyway the title for this thread is 'Attendance' and it seems that it's been decided attendance is nothing to do with how many people 'attend'an event.