Saturday's attendance???

tinpot lane · Post by **tinpot lane** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 12:12 am

This thread is brilliant.

RaM · Post by **RaM** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 12:12 am

This will intrigue me.

marcengels · Post by **marcengels** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 1:21 am

Swale_Gooner1985 wrote:
AJAAFC wrote:This is the BIGGEST mystery of all...

Arsenal are basically saying that:
For the Standard Liege game at least 10,000 tickets were purchased (either as part of a season ticket or as a single game) from the club for an average price of Â£65 and those people did not turn up...

That's over half a million pounds worth of tickets that people could not find a home for... i.e. friend, neighbour, buyback scheme...???

It just doesn't make sense... the value of the empty seats on Saturday could top Â£1million!!!
There is no mystery! it makes me laugh the amount of people that go on about how low the attendance will be! The place is generally always packed! If you think there will be 20,000 empty seats then your are very deluded!

Have you fucked off or not Swale?

Post by **DB10GOONER** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 8:07 am

Don't believe for a minute it will be down 10K. We've been down 2k-3k on a good few occasions and my money is on about 58000 for this one.

The club lie out their holes about all the 60K sell out games - it only happens for games against the scum, the chavs the manure filth and the bin dippers.

Percy Dalton · Post by **Percy Dalton** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 9:23 am

Isn't it sad that the club has to tell porkies about the attendance at all whether the figure is 10k or 3k?

Still, aslong as the orange-coated *word censored* are happy!

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 9:24 am

You can use your eyes and it's a pretty good estimate on the assumption that every seat occupied = 60,140 or whatever the exact 'capacity' is.

With that in mind we've had more than a couple of 55,000s this season but it's certainly not dipped below 50,000.

Club Level is supposed to be Season Tickets only. It isn't as they can't sell them, given the asking prices of between three and five thousand pounds per season. So they have to sell a considerable proportion - at least 25% - on a match basis and sometimes they can't do that.

Club Level is 9,000 - if you include the boxes. If your missing say 15% each game, that's @ 1,500 empties before you start on the top or bottom tiers.

hatemanu99 · Post by **hatemanu99** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 10:01 am

AJAAFC wrote:Seriously - I will be looking at each section and roughly estimating the empty seats - I'll happily post an apology if it's anywhere less than 10,000!

This is utter tosh. There are around 40 blocks of seats in the stadium. Even assuming say 2000 empty seats in club level, that leaves 200 empties in each block to get to your figure of 10k. In each block! Total nonsense. There's usually a couple of thousand empty seats for any game not invovling the top teams or Spurs, but that's it.

Gunnersaurus · Post by **Gunnersaurus** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 10:04 am

There were a load of tickets on the exchange the other day, loads of lower tier ones.

donaldo · Post by **donaldo** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 10:33 am

hatemanu99 wrote:
AJAAFC wrote:Seriously - I will be looking at each section and roughly estimating the empty seats - I'll happily post an apology if it's anywhere less than 10,000!
This is utter tosh. There are around 40 blocks of seats in the stadium. Even assuming say 2000 empty seats in club level, that leaves 200 empties in each block to get to your figure of 10k. In each block! Total nonsense. There's usually a couple of thousand empty seats for any game not invovling the top teams or Spurs, but that's it.

It may be tosh.But dont tell us every game is sold out and that the attendance is 60,000 when we can see loads of enpty seats around the ground with our own eyes.Why cant the Club tell us the actual attendance of how many fans are in the stadium?

Gunnersaurus · Post by **Gunnersaurus** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 10:35 am

donaldo wrote:
hatemanu99 wrote:
AJAAFC wrote:Seriously - I will be looking at each section and roughly estimating the empty seats - I'll happily post an apology if it's anywhere less than 10,000!
This is utter tosh. There are around 40 blocks of seats in the stadium. Even assuming say 2000 empty seats in club level, that leaves 200 empties in each block to get to your figure of 10k. In each block! Total nonsense. There's usually a couple of thousand empty seats for any game not invovling the top teams or Spurs, but that's it.
It may be tosh.But dont tell us every game is sold out and that the attendance is 60,000 when we can see loads of enpty seats around the ground with our own eyes.Why cant the Club tell us the actual attendance of how many fans are in the stadium?

When they say it's sold out they mean all the tickets have been sold, if people decide not to come or leave at half time then it makes no difference to if they have sold all the tickets or not.

Basil is a Gooner · Post by **Basil is a Gooner** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 11:57 am

60098......

(yeah ,right......

)

LDB · Post by **LDB** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 12:04 pm

Do any of you guys actually watch the football or just play a nice game of counting the empty seats?

franksav63 · Post by **franksav63** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 12:05 pm

LDB wrote:Do any of you guys actually watch the football or just play a nice game of counting the empty seats?

digger · Post by **digger** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 12:22 pm

hatemanu99 wrote:This is utter tosh. There are around 40 blocks of seats in the stadium.

Interesting... I consider myself relatively numerate, and I counted 32 blocks in the lower tier? Are there only 8 upstairs?

marcengels · Post by **marcengels** » Fri Dec 04, 2009 12:24 pm

digger wrote:
hatemanu99 wrote:This is utter tosh. There are around 40 blocks of seats in the stadium.
Interesting... I consider myself relatively numerate, and I counted 32 blocks in the lower tier? Are there only 8 upstairs?

Real fans don't count:

Director's Block
Redaction Block
Family Enclosure
Away Fans
Irish supporters Block.