Saturday's attendance figure? Accurate for once?

[Spun Cuppa]

Approx 25 and a bit thousand

We've been in smaller '28 thousand odd' gates

Nice touch if true

 

[dougdeep]

They're always accurate, They're the number of tickets sold.

 

[Puppet Master]

I counted 23 thousand and gave up, so probably

 

[Grassman]

I thought the official announcement was 26,700 odd...

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I thought the official announcement was 26,700 odd...

According to the club site it was 26796.

 

[nwgull]

I thought the official announcement was 26,700 odd...

It was. Amazing what a nice bit of weather can do to get people along.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Funnily enough I thought exactly that on Saturday, looking around and thinking that 26,700 was possibly an accurate reflection of actual attendees for once.

 

[Acker79]

I'm sure there were 26,796 people there, however it was obvious there were less absentees than v Bournemouth, which had a larger official attendance. I would suspect there were so many absentees v Bournemouth that there were fewer people there than v Birmingham.

 

[matt_32510]

Looked like the east stand was more full than usual (except the bit by the away fans)

 

[Spun Cuppa]

Just on the tickets sold v attendance debate, my take is that attendance at any event is people in attendance at that event. If we go on tickets sold, the figure on the big screen should have 'tickets sold' after it, not 'attendance'. Simple...

 

[Notters]

Looked like the east stand was more full than usual (except the bit by the away fans)

Indeed, though still around 1/4 of seats empty. I reckon there were about 22k there.

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

Edit: Uploaded a photo, but it BROKE the page.

 

[Giraffe]

If it's sunny and not too cold and a saturday then most people turn up so the number sold reflects the number of attending quite well. If it's wet, or cold or in mid week, or during the summer holidays there is a fair chance about 10-15% of those with a ticket won't go. The lazy good for nothing, disloyal little ****ers.