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  • oohaahmortimer
    oohaahmortimer Posts: 34,166

  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,745

  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,051
    Turnstile count was just over 16k
    Thought so.
    Bloody excellent when most games last season possibly had a count of half that.
    There were some Tuesday night games last season against teams with small followings that I reckon had an actual attendance of about 6k. 

    Great attendance yesterday, really hope we can keep the enthusiasm going with a decent start to the season.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,235
    An attendance of 18,512 at the Valley yesterday afternoon for the visit of Leyton Orient. 

    Charlton’s highest league attendance when at home on an opening day of the season since 2015 when the Addicks beat QPR 2-0 in front of 19,469.
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,964
    Any pictures of the covered end crowd? Seemed pretty full in there to me. Strangely quiet though, which was a bit disappointing.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,235
    edited August 2023
    Any pictures of the covered end crowd? Seemed pretty full in there to me. Strangely quiet though, which was a bit disappointing.


    Photo courtesy of L Mendez 
  • I think the fact that the premier league starts next week helped us….in the same way non league clubs see attendance boosts during international fixture periods.

    Some people just want to see a game on a Sat afternoon & I expect there was a fair few ‘Spurs / Arsenal / Chelsea supporting mates’ at the match as a result.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    seth plum said:
    Got talking to a bloke in the Valley Cafe before the match and he was a Leyton Orient season ticket holder from Dumfries.
    Goes to all their matches. Proper quality supporter I thought.
    If travelling from Dumfries that could be a very large carbon footprint, unless he's offsetting somehow. Did he mention whether he travelled by train or other mode?
    Train.
  • newyorkaddick
    newyorkaddick Posts: 3,052
    seth plum said:
    seth plum said:
    Got talking to a bloke in the Valley Cafe before the match and he was a Leyton Orient season ticket holder from Dumfries.
    Goes to all their matches. Proper quality supporter I thought.
    If travelling from Dumfries that could be a very large carbon footprint, unless he's offsetting somehow. Did he mention whether he travelled by train or other mode?
    Train.
    The Orient Express
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,745
    Any pictures of the covered end crowd? Seemed pretty full in there to me. Strangely quiet though, which was a bit disappointing.


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  • seth plum said:
    seth plum said:
    Got talking to a bloke in the Valley Cafe before the match and he was a Leyton Orient season ticket holder from Dumfries.
    Goes to all their matches. Proper quality supporter I thought.
    If travelling from Dumfries that could be a very large carbon footprint, unless he's offsetting somehow. Did he mention whether he travelled by train or other mode?
    Train.
    The Orient Express
    I heard it got derailed at Charlton 

  • Dazzler21 said:
    West 4K
    East 2.5K
    North 7K (difficult to tell when you're in it)
    South 3K
    16.5K announced as 18.5K
    Whatever it was, it was a great attendance.
     I believe it was definitely close to the suggested attendance.
    When we’re in our seats before the game I always estimate the crowd and am usually not far out. Yesterday I suggested 17-18,000.
  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 7,908
    Be interested to see when they announce the season ticket sales - difference between the 16k turnstile count and the 18.5k attendance would be the season ticket holders on holiday i guess and maybe some complimentaries not turning up? 
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,643
    Official attendance  -  18765
    Actual bums on seats  - 14972.
    Not too far out on the actual. 


  • SE9toDA2
    SE9toDA2 Posts: 141
    They where telling supporters to use the exit gate to the Alan  Curbishley  stand at about 2.40, these wouldn’t have been in the turnstile count
  • CAFCTrev
    CAFCTrev Posts: 5,982
    seth plum said:
    Got talking to a bloke in the Valley Cafe before the match and he was a Leyton Orient season ticket holder from Dumfries.
    Goes to all their matches. Proper quality supporter I thought.
    If travelling from Dumfries that could be a very large carbon footprint, unless he's offsetting somehow. Did he mention whether he travelled by train or other mode?
    I think he said private jet?
  • swordfish
    swordfish Posts: 4,234
    Club's are required by law to know the number of actual fans attending for safety reasons.
  • MartinCAFC
    MartinCAFC Posts: 3,224
    NSK ?

    that’s (now) only showing as 1 seat available for Orient 


    Was a few empty seats dotted about in here yesterday rather than just the one, can only assume people were on holidays as a few familiar faces weren't there.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    I think less than half of the East Stand turnstiles were in action yesterday.
    Given they have had all summer to fix what is likely to be a minor or routine problem for the first game, nah it didn’t happen for us plebs. As the Chief Operations Officer often says ‘if you don’t like it don’t come’. It would have been too much effort for burger boy to walk from his territory behind the West Stand to monitor and fix.
    The guy is as rancid as his manky cheese sandwiches. Still he has had an electric car charging point installed in the car park for his car.

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  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Oops sorry
    The Alan Curbishley Stand
  • seth plum said:
    Got talking to a bloke in the Valley Cafe before the match and he was a Leyton Orient season ticket holder from Dumfries.
    Goes to all their matches. Proper quality supporter I thought.
    If travelling from Dumfries that could be a very large carbon footprint, unless he's offsetting somehow. Did he mention whether he travelled by train or other mode?
    I presume you don’t go to away games then, if you are so worried about ‘carbon footprint’ - god forbid ‘if’ we ever got into Europe !!!!! 
  • swords_alive
    swords_alive Posts: 4,275
    edited August 2023
    seth plum said:
    Got talking to a bloke in the Valley Cafe before the match and he was a Leyton Orient season ticket holder from Dumfries.
    Goes to all their matches. Proper quality supporter I thought.
    If travelling from Dumfries that could be a very large carbon footprint, unless he's offsetting somehow. Did he mention whether he travelled by train or other mode?
    I presume you don’t go to away games then, if you are so worried about ‘carbon footprint’ - god forbid ‘if’ we ever got into Europe !!!!! 
    I don't do games by car or plane anymore so that should help ease your concern, @Ducktapeshoerepairs
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,833
    edited August 2023
    seth plum said:
    I think less than half of the East Stand turnstiles were in action yesterday.
    Given they have had all summer to fix what is likely to be a minor or routine problem for the first game, nah it didn’t happen for us plebs. As the Chief Operations Officer often says ‘if you don’t like it don’t come’. It would have been too much effort for burger boy to walk from his territory behind the West Stand to monitor and fix.
    The guy is as rancid as his manky cheese sandwiches. Still he has had an electric car charging point installed in the car park for his car.
    There were only 4 working when I got there. Instead of queuing, I went in via a hand scanner at the gate which proved much quicker. 

  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,236
    SE9toDA2 said:
    They where telling supporters to use the exit gate to the Alan  Curbishley  stand at about 2.40, these wouldn’t have been in the turnstile count
    They would have been counted as they had a guy there with a hand held ticket scanner.

    I know because that's when and how I got in.
  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 7,908
    All has become clear now - the 'buy a season ticket' thing on the main site was clearly a 'buy a match ticket' because there are now a lot more season tickets available - bit of a f**k up really coz my youngest could have bought a season ticket next to us instead of 5 rows away - never mind, shit happens   
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,925
    DOUCHER said:
    All has become clear now - the 'buy a season ticket' thing on the main site was clearly a 'buy a match ticket' because there are now a lot more season tickets available - bit of a f**k up really coz my youngest could have bought a season ticket next to us instead of 5 rows away - never mind, shit happens   
    You can move seats very easily if you ask 
  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 7,908
    shine166 said:
    DOUCHER said:
    All has become clear now - the 'buy a season ticket' thing on the main site was clearly a 'buy a match ticket' because there are now a lot more season tickets available - bit of a f**k up really coz my youngest could have bought a season ticket next to us instead of 5 rows away - never mind, shit happens   
    You can move seats very easily if you ask 
    ok thanks
  • DubaiCAFC
    DubaiCAFC Posts: 2,461
    edited August 2023
    Weather would have helped, with cricket being wiped out on Saturday.
  • Dippenhall
    Dippenhall Posts: 3,919
    DubaiCAFC said:
    Weather would have helped, with cricket being whipped out on Saturday.