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Eh? Care to explain that? Saturday's figure won't be any more accurate than the league games, as it will still be tickets sold, rather than bodies through the turnstiles.
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Eh? Care to explain that? Saturday's figure won't be any more accurate than the league games, as it will still be tickets sold, rather than bodies through the turnstiles.
clippedgull
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so by people reckoning 6,000 odd people bought a ticket but didn't turn up! Obviously things crop up and people can't attend but that's still a large amount of people to just not show up. 
nwgull
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Because you wouldn't buy a ticket for a 1-off game and then not turn up.
super-seagulls
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dougdeep
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The attendance wasn't announced. The amount of tickets sold was announced. Jeez.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
The tannoy announcement was that the 'ATTENDANCE today was 28K which included **** Bournemouth fans'.
The club has said attendance means tickets sold. It's a measure of the number of people intending to go.
Can't see the big problem with this to be honest, and I personally have no issue with people planning to go to the match, but missing it for illness, holiday plans or hangovers etc.
Can't see the big problem with this to be honest, and I personally have no issue with people planning to go to the match, but missing it for illness, holiday plans or hangovers etc.
so by people reckoning 6,000 odd people bought a ticket but didn't turn up! Obviously things crop up and people can't attend but that's still a large amount of people to just not show up.
No trains from london, new years day + rubbish weather not surprising attendance was poor.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
Holidays, illness and rubbish weather, it all adds up.
Cheeky Monkey
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You're saying the stadium was only 2/3rds full? 25-26k would probably be more accurate, even the upper West north side wing was populated.
SouthCoastOwl
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Highlight was not getting too wet walking from the Bridge car park oh and
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Seagull58
In the Algarve
Pour the coffee over the pie?
Crispy Ambulance
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Perhaps they should call it Intendance then. Attendance should mean those who have attended. By all means announce how many tickets have been sold but also tell the truth about how many are actually there. I know it's how every other club announces their attendances but it looks and sounds 2 bob.
On a related note, if I were the club, I'd want to know why people who had bought tickets did not attend. Ok, the club has banked the money but, for non-attending ST holders, there may be a risk of non-renewal and, therefore, risk of reduced income next season. They must have the data which shows which ST's were used for a particular game and which weren't. If the same ST hasn't been used for 2 or 3 consecutive games, that should generate an automatic letter/questionnaire asking why and if the ST is intending renewing next season, not in a Big Brother way but in an attempt to better understand someone's reason for not attending whilst highlighting the risk of non-renewal much earlier.
Hungry Joe
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willow147
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JJ McClure
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Agree with that. He's got the creativity we've been lacking.
spring hall convert
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Strictly speaking you wouldn't be though with the difference between season ticket and match by match pricing. I haven't done the sums but off the top of my head I reckon it would be cheaper to buy a season ticket, in the knowledge that you'll miss 5 games per season rather than pay match by match, wouldn't it? Now STH's that I know tend to give/ sell their ticket to someone else and I reckon finding others to come may have been a bit tougher on New Year's Day
Prince Monolulu
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Shirley after the Christmas Pie, Breakfast Pie, Spanish Pie etc etc then the 'Coffee/Tea infused Pie' is only a meeting away
pasty
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Starting to agree with that. This issue really never used to bother me that much, but yesterday was farcical announcing an "attendance" of over 28K when it clearly wasn't anywhere near that.