Attendances (17 Viewers)

[Legia Sky Blue]

The only justifying I've saw is our fans defending the ticket prices...

Really? I dread to think how many posts you've made about the ticketing for this game

 

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[pusbccfc]

Really? I dread to think how many posts you've made about the ticketing for this game

Yeah, I'll keep banging on about it and rightfully so.

 

[Legia Sky Blue]

It's a bit boring when you keep repeating the same mantra though!

 

[The Reverend Skyblue]

Watching the Arsenal vs spurs game, both of whom we will be playing against next season, and the fans look to be segregated by just a couple of seat widths , same for the Leeds game, so surely if they can manage having such a small gap can’t Cov
Yesterday it looked huge the segregated gaps, we lose out on selling those seats and it adds to the atmosphere by having fans closer
Are we barred having a small gap
Sorry if this has been covered before

 

[skybluelee]

tbf the seats you could see empty on the TV, at least in the home end, were pretty much all seats that were sold and people that either couldn't be bothered when they saw the wether or somehow moved elsewhere a bit more out of the rain. The family zone was particularly bad for this.

Not sure you can draw too many conclusions about the seats in the block that only became available in the days before the match not being full.

What's the difference between average attendances when you compare A+ and B games? Not got time to work it out right now now so could be way off but some quick mental arithmetic looks to not be more than a few hundred. Suspect you'd have to see a much bigger difference for King to view it as a failure.

29.2K yesterday. Last year v West Brom (and cheaper prices) was 31.5K. Time will tell but I'm fully expecting 31K plus for Charlton.

 

[Grendel]

There were loads of resale sold for Sheffield United.

If the game is sold out, why wouldn't you click a button to resell the ticket?

I honestly couldn’t be bothered

 

[David O'Day]

Yep. I'd rather we were filling every seat.

Looked dreadful on telly yesterday.

did it fuck

 

[David O'Day]

10 years ago we were lucky to get 10,000 through the gate when there were huge gaping spaces throughout the ground, while our support base is now as high as its ever been. Yesterday was not terrible. You have have been banging on about the crowd for the West Brom game for weeks, so I guess your statement is a means of you further justifying that viewpoint.

Confirmation bias in action innit

 

[David O'Day]

Yeah, I'll keep banging on about it and rightfully so.

no mate, you were wrong so just give it a rest

we had over 29k there yesterday, it was brilliant

 

[CV22SBA]

no mate, you were wrong so just give it a rest

we had over 29k there yesterday, it was brilliant

You're kidding yourself if you think 29K actually turned up. Tickets sold, yes but nowhere near that many actually attended the game.

 

[bigfatronssba]

You're kidding yourself if you think 29K actually turned up. Tickets sold, yes but nowhere near that many actually attended the game.

That’s the same at every club

 

[David O'Day]

You're kidding yourself if you think 29K actually turned up. Tickets sold, yes but nowhere near that many actually attended the game.

ok, we sold 29k tickets which is what is important

 

[MTK]

Don’t believe it, will be the council staff skewing that.

Saying the average wage 40k, I know a lot of people and the vast majority earn nowhere near that.

There are plenty of employers in Coventry paying good wages. Not all the people working in these places live in Coventry though

 

[David O'Day]

There are plenty of employers in Coventry paying good wages. Not all the people working in these places live in Coventry though

I know a few people who commute to London as well.

 

[skybluegod]

The only justifying I've saw is our fans defending the ticket prices...

The vast majority of our fans are now season ticket holders. Who in reality don't give a shit about the match to match ticket prices, like it or not that's the reality.

So rather than people defending it, they probably just don't care that much as it's not affect us. So they rightly see it as 'well of Doug makes extra money to spend on the club then so be it'

 

[pusbccfc]

no mate, you were wrong so just give it a rest

we had over 29k there yesterday, it was brilliant

Shame it wasn't fully sold out like it should be but yes it was brilliant as all the games are at the moment.

 

[pusbccfc]

The vast majority of our fans are now season ticket holders. Who in reality don't give a shit about the match to match ticket prices, like it or not that's the reality.

So rather than people defending it, they probably just don't care that much as it's not affect us. So they rightly see it as 'well of Doug makes extra money to spend on the club then so be it'

Yep the classic example of not caring about something that doesn't affect them.

Let's hope we don't get charged £45 a ticket anywhere.

 

[chiefdave]

29.2K yesterday. Last year v West Brom (and cheaper prices) was 31.5K. Time will tell but I'm fully expecting 31K plus for Charlton.

tbf that was a 3pm kick off on a bank holiday in April. Not sure you can really conclude much when you compare it to an early kick off in shit weather in November. Could just as easily point to the season before, cheaper tickets and 23,971 attendance but again not sure that really tells you much when you compare it to this season.

Ultimately I think King has access to far more data than us. While we can speculate 'make the tickets cheaper and make it back on beer' he, or whoever he trusts to do this, will have the figures in front of them when they're making these decisions.

We've also seen several u-turns when they've got things wrong on ticketing so we have to trust that if the current setup is 'wrong' it will be changed. The category system gives the flexibility to do that.

There's a different argument to be had over whether ticket prices for football should be suppressed below market level out of some sort of moral duty. But that's a very different thing.

We're in a position where we're complaining that the ground isn't totally sold out every week. Something we couldn't have imagined being an issue in the recent past.

 

[wingy]

The vast majority of our fans are now season ticket holders. Who in reality don't give a shit about the match to match ticket prices, like it or not that's the reality.

So rather than people defending it, they probably just don't care that much as it's not affect us. So they rightly see it as 'well of Doug makes extra money to spend on the club then so be it'

Home yes but not good for away fans though and I emphasize our away fans who are copping for it as well.

 

[skybluegod]

Home yes but not good for away fans though and I emphasize our away fans who are copping for it as well.

Again it links into the point of that's 2000 people. Doug will push to get away with everything he can to squeeze revenue.

I'm not slagging him off or saying it's right or wrong. It's just the reality.

The fact is Doug knows those that travel to every away game will continue to do so no matter the cost pretty much as they are the same people that were turning up when Simeon Jackson and Marcus Tudgay were playing for us.

 

[bigfatronssba]

Charlton selling very well now, and Swansea just a handful of single tickets left