I don't have a problem with the club thanking us for attending - I think they should. I suppose I could turn the tables and ask you and HT why you wouldn"t want to know the actual attendance? If someone is going to report facts and figures, I want them to be accurate.
Because I don't see the point in clubs reading out the attendance figure if it is miles off the number of people in the stadium. The club knows their revenue from ticket sales - I am interested in how many people are there.
It would also allow us to roughly calculate how much the club has...
Unfortunately the attendance figure relates to tickets sold, including season tickets of course. If clubs had to announce the number of people through the gates on such occasions I think there would be a difference of several thousand.