Anyone know if the club will calculate tonight's attendance based upon tickets sold, even though a substantial number of people who attended the original game won't be there?
Given the season ticket holder turnout is likely to be poor too given weather and opposition, they could end up announcing a crowd of 14,000+ despite only 8-9,000 likely to be in the ground.
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Surely if you had a ticket for the original game but can't make the rearranged game, then they have to offer you a refund?
However the web page doesn't mention any refunds so I suspect that you are right NYA. I guess in individual circumstances they might offer a refund or a ticket swap, but there is no indication that any refund will be given - after all the fans did see half a game, and four goals, of course.
With that being the case I would imagine they would have to include all those that bought tickets for the first game.
It's interesting, however, that the club PR managed to fool me into thinking that they had been absolutely generous to the fans by refunding tickets when, I now suspect, that they did nothing of the sort and chances are that very few of those that had bought a ticket for the first game would have paid again, so it's not cost them anything.
If I'm wrong and the club did offer refunds then I do apologise for the 'negative' comments, even though I think that it does, indeed, make business sense not to refund them.
Link: http://www.cafc.co.uk/news/article/20130824-doncaster-tickets-to-remain-valid-1011982.aspx
In addition I'd imagine 2-3,000 season ticket holders won't show, whilst Doncaster will bring 150-200 instead of the original 600+. Put it all together and the original crowd of 13,663 could easily be below 10,000 in reality.
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In terms of the real number in the ground, it will probably be in the range 10-11,000, which would be unremarkable for a midweek game, although potentially could go lower. I'd expect 3,000 plus season ticket holders not to attend and tonight we have the additional loss of some people holding paid-for match tickets as well as absentee comp holders.
For that reason and because it would not be a like for like comparison or consistent with the return to the League, I can't see the club using the turnstile count.
The announced gate could get quite silly if they have issued many additional comps, but there are people who would realise that and probably adjust it down. In short, it is likely to be almost completely meaningless, but in fairness I'm not sure how this could be avoided in these unusual circumstances.
Wait, what? Wrong thread. Anyway, I can barely move.