How many would we have got last night and Sunday at the ricoh (1 Viewer)
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Grendel
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TV game? No chance
skyblue1991
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12k last night
15k on Sunday
If Sun's game was on a Saturday then I reckon about 18k
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15k on Sunday
If Sun's game was on a Saturday then I reckon about 18k
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Otis
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Would have to be a bargain ticket price.
More than 14K for last night. We had more than that for meaningless league games last season. The Mowbray season we had 15K and 16K for night games against Burton and Walsall which weren't nearly as crucial as last night.
Edit, Burton was a Saturday and was 17K.
So less than the TV game against Sunderland last season. Really?
Nick
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Nick
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First game of the season wasn't it, warmish day?
Grendel
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So at normal prices? How many were there last season?
No, end of September.
Grendel
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I doubt it. As wasps are founding out it’s an awful location and a deterrent to go
Evo1883
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We had 16.5K against Sunderland for a12.30pm kick off on TV when we were 14th in the table. Can't believe people think we'd get less than that with the season we're having.
Evo1883
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As history tells us though It's understandable because our attendances have been hard to predict
skybluetony176
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Eleventy billion.
lord_garrincha
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My point of reference for modern times is always the play-off 1st leg...
ATTENDANCE: 17,404 (2,756 away).
Which was a TV game also.
So 12-15k (high end for large away support) for both games would seem about right.
ATTENDANCE: 17,404 (2,756 away).
Which was a TV game also.
So 12-15k (high end for large away support) for both games would seem about right.
Nick
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Ah I am thinking of the Scunthorpe game.
I don't think it would have been much more than that one, Sunderland brought a fair few that day I think.
Grendel
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Didn’t Sunderland bring loads
9K at home to Sunderland? And why the play-off game as a benchmark? That is a game at short notice with no ST holders so is from a standing start. The lowest crowd of the season at Sunderland last season was their play-off semi.
Moff
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A bit of a high estimate Tony, I was thinking more like eleventy thousand!
Grendel
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It’s not easy though. Parking is poor - Birmingham has street parking and either you pay or you really struggle. I’d never ever get the train or a bus to town it’s laughable. The gradual erosion in attendances there is due to location as well as form - if we had a Central ground like the Butts it would be a far better proposition for the casual fan
Well yes, was working on the assumption they'd do so again.
Grendel
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So our home attendance would be the same or slightly more? Isn’t there some issue with trains or logically more would go from there to Birmingham than Coventry
Agree with the last point, but there is no continual erosion in attendances. Crowds went up in 2016, down in 2017, up in 2018 and up again last season. Its fair to say we'd have seen a decent increase this season given how it has panned out.
Grendel
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I’m talking about general erosion once the new stadium factor ended and casuals drifted away
shmmeee
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There’s not. Crowds have been pretty consistent with success for years pre and post Ricoh.
Grendel
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They haven’t crowds rose significantly in the first few years purely as it was a new stadium - we had 25,000 against Colchester when mid table
lord_garrincha
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Point of reference is not a benchmark... but I get your point and anyways... there is no real point getting bent out of shape about it as we are not there... so, for the ones that do attend, enjoy the ride until May!
