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Time to Stop These Absurd Pretendances – Now!
- Thread starter Gilliver's Travels
- Start date
Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise
Disagree.
It's the acoustics of the stadium combined with the number of people prepared to sing/chant that make the atmosphere.
Southover Street Seagull
Well-known member
If it reflects the number of tickets sold why doesn't the club call it 'tickets sold' then?
Attendance means something different:
▶noun
1 the action or state of attending.
2 the number of people present at a particular occasion.
nwgull
Well-known member
Didn't we win a game or something yesterday?
Southover Street Seagull
Well-known member
I've said this in other threads about this subject but couldn't the club publish the actual attendances in the club programme? They could have two figures: attendance and tickets sold.
dougdeep
New member
Yes, highest attendance in the league too.
Surely if a season ticket is sold then the expectation is that person will attend and it is 'money in the bank'. If the season ticket holder decides not to turn up due to weather etc., then the club cannot be held responsible as they will not have had chance to have resold the ticket.
I appreciate the points that most are making in terms of announcing the true figure of people attending and how with the technology it is easily possible, but I just can't see that it matters that much......
I appreciate the points that most are making in terms of announcing the true figure of people attending and how with the technology it is easily possible, but I just can't see that it matters that much......
Steve Foster
Well-known member
So long as all clubs disclose their attendance figures on the same basis, then I am more than content with the club announcing the attendance figure as the right one.
Who cares whether people turn up or not?
Is there ever 60,000 at Arsenal's ground?
Who cares whether people turn up or not?
Is there ever 60,000 at Arsenal's ground?
Thanks Acker.
- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,639
Why does anyone CARE?
All clubs do it, the Albion have done at Withdean and the Goldstone, Palace do it, why is anyone remotely bothered?
All clubs do it, the Albion have done at Withdean and the Goldstone, Palace do it, why is anyone remotely bothered?
I refer the honourable lady to post #18.
I can't believe it took less than 24 hours after another impressive win, and more importantly a further step forward under Oscar, before the same tired, dull, boring, moans began surfacing.
Oh I had to queue.
Oh my pie was burnt and all they did was replace it.
Oh I had to wait for a train.
There's still no water slide from the WSU.
Oh the counter staff misheard my order.
Oh I paid £14 for Sausage and mash.
C
CT1
Guest
yeah but who cares?
GoingUp
Well-known member
Why dont the club do two things, work out for their own records how many should/could turn up.
Then for match days and our actual benefit clock how many tickets go through the turnstiles and give an official match day attendance for people like us at the game (which i thought they already did, but clearly not).
Then for match days and our actual benefit clock how many tickets go through the turnstiles and give an official match day attendance for people like us at the game (which i thought they already did, but clearly not).
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MintonNo.4
New member
- Sep 4, 2011
- 13
2nill to the Albion, surely the only numbers worth worrying about and definitely the only numbers worth starting a thread about. IMO
portslade seagull
Well-known member
It won't be because we have sold 23k season tickets so will always be in or around that number, if it were however pay on the gate you would probably be correct
Because there are some on here for whom the need to get their knickers in a knot about something, anything, no matter how silly is a pathological and deep-seated one which needs to be constantly satisfied.
TheMajor
BHA>CPFC
The reading out, and big screen announcement, of the matchday attendance is the only reason I go. 
This thread is ace. Some people.
Think of it another way.
An author gets a book published, they sell 10000 copies. By the attendence logic sum being argued the author should count how many have read the book not bought it.
How does it work with accountancy if we sell 26k tickets but then announce 25k attendence. Wouldn't that get quite complicated.
Think of it another way.
An author gets a book published, they sell 10000 copies. By the attendence logic sum being argued the author should count how many have read the book not bought it.
How does it work with accountancy if we sell 26k tickets but then announce 25k attendence. Wouldn't that get quite complicated.