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Guess the crowd for today

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  • Redmidland
    Redmidland Posts: 44,700
    16,389
  • cafcsinger
    cafcsinger Posts: 5,563
    17,231
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    18.560
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,208
    I declare Stonemuse the winner.  Five out.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,073
    I declare Stonemuse the winner.  Five out.



    Yeehah
  • Clive Mendonca
    Clive Mendonca Posts: 36
    The official attendance was 17,506 today. Looking round the ground today I reckon there looked more like 20,000. No way could you have got another 10,000 people in there...
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    Tax dodge

  • cafc999
    cafc999 Posts: 4,971
    easily 20K there today!
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,185
    I'm certainly surprised that less Charlton fans turned up to this than for the Preston game (17,486, but only 543 Preston). Must have been around 1000 Brentford, right?. 
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,368
    17,500 crowd with another 1,500 electricians on double bubble....

    Looked far more than Oldham game.

    Queues for tickets before were very big....

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  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,914
    Yeah, surprised when it was announced at 17.5k. Usually base my predictions on how full East & West are and there were good numbers in both today.
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,757
    edited January 2012
    It's likely the Oldham and Brentford crowds were closer than appears because many more ticket holders are likely to have missed the Oldham game, but rest assured that if there had been more than 17,500 tickets issued today we'd have announced a bigger gate!

    Bear in mind that the north upper issue shifted people around and there were 2,200 empty seats in the Jimmy Seed stand for a start.
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,185
    Airman, in that case aren't you a little disappointed that less Charlton came today than for Preston, especially with the weather being ok?

    17,500 is of course a good gate at this level, but I just hoped that we 'd see a steady improvement as we continue our table topping form...
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,757
    Airman, in that case aren't you a little disappointed that less Charlton came today than for Preston, especially with the weather being ok?

    17,500 is of course a good gate at this level, but I just hoped that we 'd see a steady improvement as we continue our table topping form...
    It's about price. No offers today. Fewer comps, probably. Am I disappointed we get 17,500 for a third division match? Hardly.
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,757
    Today will probably have easily been the highest number of home full price matchday tickets sold for a game since the end of 2009/10, if that explains things better.
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,185
    yes it does, of course. That is good news. I knew you'd have the answer :-)
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,368
    edited January 2012
    I know times are hard but is there usually just 1 pc terminal for 4 windows in the North Stand ticket office?

    I have more pc's at home!
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,757
    Until recently there were no computers in use in that box office and only two or three of seven windows were used for cash sales. I am changing that but we do not have enough equipment or trained staff to open the three tills that are set up there - and this in fairness is because we haven't needed them in recent seasons or this season so far, and the reduction in permanent staff since 2008.

    There are no computers on the right side as you look at it and the casual staff selling there can't use them anyway.

    In addition, because it fronts the road, which is open to vehicles, the police are very wary of queues from this ticket office.

    We cannot put in any significant number of barriers to manage the queues, such as we have at the west. However, it is becoming difficult to manage the various west queues too. Unfortunately we are stuck with the windows and geography that we have.

    I'm looking to get six or seven windows open in the north for Sheff United as a precaution but it's horses for courses. We won't need seven for Bury or Rochdale, for example.

    Good problems to have in some ways, because they arise from greater demand, as well as the circumstances of the game, but it takes longer to cut than expand and the business case sometimes needs to be visible as well as theoretical.




  • redman
    redman Posts: 5,296
    Airman - I'm sure this is not a new idea but is a cash turnstile a possibility. Other clubs do it eg Orient and it so quick to hand over £50 for 2 tickets and be given 2 tickets.
  • falconwood_1
    falconwood_1 Posts: 7,368

    All I was trying to do was upgrade a ticket, with cash, and it was literally like pulling teeth yesterday.

    There is a severe lack of information provided to anyone wanting to buy or upgrade a ticket at street level.

    None of the stewards know where the main ticket office is........even if it's not their job you would hope if there is an incident they would know major points around the ground?

     

     

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