Time to Stop These Absurd Pretendances – Now!

[BensGrandad]

What the frick have the players got to do with it

That is the reason for going to the game not to hear the attendance figures or otherwise.

 

[Baron Pepperpot]

I really think some sad people need to get a bloody life.

Who cares? Tickets have been sold, some go some don't, worry about yourself!!! Aslong as we are making progress on the pitch - WHO GIVES A FLYING?

I do, because we are announcing crowds that aren't, and folk like to know the genuine figure. I'm not so sure our crowds are the biggest in the league now.

Anyway, as you said it, I'm off to the market to get a life...

 

[smudge]

Have to admit my seat has been empty & will be till I get home as my card is not left with anyone who can use it, which is what I normally do. I will make sure to make the same arrangement next time I go away. Can't wait to get back there soon & feeling more optimistic now.

 

[somerset]

My seat has never been empty in three seasons, if I can't make it down from the west country a member of my Sussex based family makes use of it....free.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

It doesn't really matter of course, but it is bizarre why they don't tell us the true figure, no logic behind it, and yes, I would like to know what our attendance actually is. If we didn't care, why bother announcing it at all?

 

[Hungry Joe]

The only figure that really matters is the number of fans singing the Adam El Abd Muppet song when he warms up and/or does something funky on the pitch. Why anyone is interested in any other crowd stat is beyond my comprehension.

 

[Notters]

And the empty seats in the Albion's Directors' Box was disappointing...... how about offering them to nearby 1901 bods at 2.45pm as a goodwill gesture (or better still non-1901 fans). Great bit of PR for the Club + the Directors can get feedback from their 'customers'. Just a thought.

Btw does PB still meet with supporters in the concourses in the lead up to KO and at half-time & after the final whistle? I think he did this in Year 1?

You're thinking of Ken Brown. Paul Barber wasn't here then.

 

[Scampi]

Christ on a bike, the things people choose get upset about.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

I do, because we are announcing crowds that aren't, and folk like to know the genuine figure. I'm not so sure our crowds are the biggest in the league now.

Anyway, as you said it, I'm off to the market to get a life...

Biggest average reported crowd, after two home games in the Championship, so far, is ... Leeds United (28,599). Albion are second (26,123).

http://stats.football365.com/dom/ENG/D1/attend.html

 

[MICK PATCHAM]

Maybe because it's dishonest? Doesn't count the crowd? Is a meaningless number, detached from any reality? That good enough?

Yep ..."Pretendances " is genius btw

 

[B.W.]

Simple. Historically, crowds at football matches have always been reported, as one of the game's essential statistics. If these are now to be lost in a web of distortion and manipulation, this will be yet another indication of how money, rather than people, is all that matters in the modern game.

Seriously, get over it.

 

[The Sock of Poskett]

Maybe.

It's the school holidays. It's holiday time for families. It's not a mass boycott of games, in protest at failing to win at Leeds. And it's nigh on impossible to sell a spare ticket through any sort of ticket exchange scheme.

Exactly this. Out of four of us in our usual place in the North Stand, three of us were away on holidays on Saturday. None of our usual suspects were able to use our seats – probably because they were on holiday too – and the club's season ticket exchange was no use because there were still other tickets to be sold. So our 75% of our little section was empty.

No panic - we're all back this Saturday and I've no doubt 90-95% of ST holders will be there. Unless Millwall's naughty mob have put them off, that is.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Every time they read out the attendance from now on, it's going to fill my heart with joy knowing that some bobble hats are squirming in their seat because the number might not be accurate.

 

[MICK PATCHAM]

Every time they read out the attendance from now on, it's going to fill my heart with joy knowing that some bobble hats are squirming in their seat because the number might not be accurate.

flat cap me old son

 

[nwgull]

Is it not something to do with sponsorship and marketing? It makes it more valuable if the commercial department can say that we get an average gate of 26k - the biggest in the league.

Other than that, it really is a meaningless stat for us to wet the bed about.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Every time they read out the attendance from now on, it's going to fill my heart with joy knowing that some bobble hats are squirming in their seat because the number might not be accurate.

You have to wonder why they bother even reading it out any more

 

[Albion Dan]

Oh when will this neverending trend of our support finding something new to wet the bed over end? Although its fairly symptomatic with society in general desperately looking for something to be offended/upset by.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Don't overly care either way but the literal meaning of "today's attendance" I've always assumed meant those attending on the day i.e. bums on seats, clicked through the turnstiles. Any other basis for calculation would be pretty meaningless and certainly not worth an announcement shirley?

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Godwin's law - where an Internet argument goes on long enough someone will alway use a nazi/hitler analogy?

Is North Korea becoming the new Nazi/Hitler analogy?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Is North Korea becoming the new Nazi/Hitler analogy?

All hail beloved leader Kim Jong Il Bloom







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