Low ticket sales for Burnley game?

[Colossal Squid]

So not only are we being encouraged to buy as many tickets as we like, the club is now advertising the game across the Argus site.

This is the first time I've seen display advertising for a Brighton match and I'm not criticising it, I'm just curious about its appearance. It makes sense to promote our games in local media but I do wonder whether we're going to see a record number of empty seats tomorrow.

 

[crodonilson]

Naturally we are at some point going to see a dip in audiences at the Amex at some point, our historic average crowds point to the fact that the current audiences are unsustainable at this level and to be honest whatever the audience is tomorrow I am amazed it is still that high. If we were to still be in this division 3/4 years down the line I expect averages would be around the mid/high teens (in thousands).

Anything the club can do to advertise is good news, so long as the cost of advertising is relatively cheap.

 

[culvers]

Am sure they have advertised on the Argus Website for other games - even remember seeing the Palace game advertised on there. Maybe I visit it too often.

 

[Left Footer]

I would imagine their will be loads of empty seats at the Amex tomorrow, lets hope for 26k Saturday.

 

[Seasider78]

These have been on the argus site before and makes perfect commercial sense to advertise in this way. I would expect burnley to attract fewer fans as not the most glamorous game and this is still a time where lots off people are on holiday. At a guess reckon this will be somewhere between 24-25k

 

[Sergei's Celebration]

So not only are we being encouraged to buy as many tickets as we like, the club is now advertising the game across the Argus site.

This is the first time I've seen display advertising for a Brighton match and I'm not criticising it, I'm just curious about its appearance. It makes sense to promote our games in local media but I do wonder whether we're going to see a record number of empty seats tomorrow.

It was also done for the last home game as well. I wouldn't read too much into it.

 

[Colossal Squid]

Am sure they have advertised on the Argus Website for other games - even remember seeing the Palace game advertised on there. Maybe I visit it too often.

I must admit I am often quite oblivious to advertising so it could well have been a regular thing that I've only just picked up on. But the current ads really do stand out so perhaps this is a new style they've gone for?

 

[Driver8]

There will be at least two seats empty in the WSU for the first time as I can't go and are not allowed to advertise them anymore.

 

[nwgull]

It doesn't suggest a low crowd just because we're advertising tickets a couple of days before a match: We now have a 30K capacity stadium, and Burnley aren't likely to bring more than 1000 so around 5000 tickets to non STHs available. I reckon 27K, which would've been more or less a capacity crowd this time last year.

 

[Rugrat]

Bank Holiday weekend ... lots will be away

 

[culvers]

There will be at least two seats empty in the WSU for the first time as I can't go and are not allowed to advertise them anymore.

Clever!

 

[nevergoagain]

I see that S1F has now gone up online (along with other blocks in East Upper and WSL) I thought Barber had said that they definitely don't hold tickets back but I can't see that S1F is an area where sponsors/comps are located and have been returned.

 

[Stat Brother]

It's just a desperate attempt by Barber-out to counteract all the negativity the Albion attracts on internet message boards

 

[sam86]

I do wonder whether we're going to see a record number of empty seats tomorrow.

No more than any other non-match day.

 

[Giraffe]

They are not helping themselves with the way they are still releasing blocks too late. People looking early think it is too expensive.

 

[Yorkshire-Seagull]

I bought my tickets when they went on sale, and still haven't received them in the post. Hope they're not advertising my seats

 

[nwgull]

They are not helping themselves with the way they are still releasing blocks too late. People looking early think it is too expensive.

The cheapest tickets of £25 (+ £1 booking fee) have been available since tickets went on sale.

 

[Driver8]

Have you not tried the official ticket exchange?

That only becomes operational once a game is sold out. Lets face it, that's not going to happen too often this season.

 

[Czechmate]

If we can beat the crowds at Leeds v Sheff Wed (23,765) & Derby v Leicester (23,437) we can't be doing much wrong .

 

[el punal]

I can't see the attendance figure being reported for less than 26,000, despite there being scores of empty seats, as the club base the attendance on tickets sold not bums on seats.

As 24,000 +/- season tickets have been sold, it's a fair assumption that another 2,000 tickets will have have been sold on a match by match basis.

Also, August is traditionally a poor month for attendances - with people on holiday, doing summery things etc. I reckon matches in September and October will give a truer reflection on crowd figures - on the basis that the Albion are playing well of course!