ticket machine : Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:13 am  

I was told last night by an employee of the lsv that on sunday the ticket machine broke down at 1375 sales, but there were nearer 1800 on the ground on sunday can parky jnr confirm or put this one to bed. i personally thought there were getting on for 2000 on the ground on sunday( which for a game againts skolars is excellent ). was anyone at the genises v fc united game when the OFFICIAL crowd was 1300 + if so how did that crowd compare to sunday's. i just belive we as supporters have been being done with attendance figures announced for years and looks bad on us.

Re: ticket machine : Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:15 am  

The Publican wrote:

was anyone at the genises v fc united game when the OFFICIAL crowd was 1300 + if so how did that crowd compare to sunday's. i just belive we as supporters have been being done with attendance figures announced for years and looks bad on us.

Think there were more in the North for the LGFC game but only one half of the West was open and, although it was busy that night, I suspect it was busier on Sunday. More in corporate on Sunday as well.

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:19 am  

We are now all-ticket for all matches so therefore surely the attendance is based on ticket sales rather than who walks through a turnstile on matchday?

(correct if I'm wrong, but turnstile attendance for an all ticket game is purely for H&S requirements?)

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:23 am  

POPMAN wrote:

We are now all-ticket for all matches so therefore surely the attendance is based on ticket sales rather than who walks through a turnstile on matchday?

(correct if I'm wrong, but turnstile attendance for an all ticket game is purely for H&S requirements?)

It'd be in our interests to announce the ticketed attendance as that would include non-attendees (including non-attending season ticket holders; including free juniors) and therefore bump the figure up a bit

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:30 am  

Leyther_Matt wrote:

It'd be in our interests to announce the ticketed attendance as that would include non-attendees (including non-attending season ticket holders; including free juniors) and therefore bump the figure up a bit

Isn't that the case, (with the exception of freebies)??

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:09 am  

POPMAN wrote:

Isn't that the case, (with the exception of freebies)??

Don't know, but it's common practice at most other clubs to include all non-attending freebies.

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 11:56 am  

There was no problem with the ticket machines.

I believe a fault developed with the turnstile clocks, but as to exactly what it was I don't know.

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:22 pm  

Leyther_Matt wrote:

It'd be in our interests to announce the ticketed attendance as that would include non-attendees (including non-attending season ticket holders; including free juniors) and therefore bump the figure up a bit

Absolutely.

Non-attendance or not, those tickets have been sold and cannot be re-sold, so they should count on the attendance figures. You can bet the RFL & all interested parties will make sure they get their cut of what's actually sold rather than trusting announced figures or checking League Express on a Monday, so we're not gaining any advantages by underestimating the figures, just making our support appear poorer than it really is.

The actual figures may not matter to some people, but over the course of the next couple of seasons if they make it even a little bit easier for us to tick a box on a superleague application then I'd say they're pretty important.

And so far we've been very careful not to overspend the other salary cap criteria of 50% of what we bring in, but later in the season if we want to know whether we've managed to put enough bums on seats to justify making a late signing or two they could be even more important...

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 4:24 pm  

The attendance figures are SENT to the RL very week so announcing them at games is pointless in that context.

: Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:43 pm  

We could do with the bloke who does the counting at the Willows.