Attendances

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Bournemouth had 500 tickets left as of this morning. They look like they are going to sellout. This could be a new stadium record next Saturday. Unbelievable really given the opposition: really great support from a small club travelling such a long distance. Respect!
 
willipp said:
I thought this might of been the first slight dip but sounds like we will be over 53k which is fantastic. What kind of numbers do you think we need to maintain to push the next phase forward? Or has that decision already been made do you think?
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I'm guessing they will be announcing plans early next year. I definitely think the contractors will be in by June, leading to an opening of the north stand in the 17/18 season. I'm not itk, but I can't see us waiting around.
 
Manchester_lalala said:
I'm guessing they will be announcing plans early next year. I definitely think the contractors will be in by June, leading to an opening of the north stand in the 17/18 season. I'm not itk, but I can't see us waiting around.
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If it's to be ready for 17/18 they'd have to start early 2016. A lot of the enabling works for the South Stand started February 2014 from what I remember.

I'm sure someone said the stadium was housing some events next summer and if that's the case, we're looking at it being ready for 18/19.
 
ManCityX said:
If it's to be ready for 17/18 they'd have to start early 2016. A lot of the enabling works for the South Stand started February 2014 from what I remember.

I'm sure someone said the stadium was housing some events next summer and if that's the case, we're looking at it being ready for 18/19.
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They could still hold events next summer, it would be the summer after they would need to keep free.
 
blueparrot said:
They could still hold events next summer, it would be the summer after they would need to keep free.
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It'd be both. If they started next year they'd be pulling the North Stand back roof off in the summer and piling in the foundations.

The year after they'd be pulling the rest of the old roof off etc like they did this summer.

Edit - Might be wrong actually. Think an event can still be held during the first year of works, although access is restricted due to the hoardings.
 
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Norwich also selling well. Couldn't get three together in any of the cheeper seats in the family stand or south stand. Ended up at the back of Colin Bell. The ticket office said they were supprised how well it was selling.
 
Anyone any idea why it was such a poor attendance for the rugby yesterday 50,770?
Know it was a dead rubber but thought it sold out years ago .
Was expecting a new stadium record to be set
Wonder if they counted people in the ground not tickets sold?
 
Clearly every game (if we do well) is going to be 52k plus in the league. Impressive.
 
mrtwiceaseason said:
Anyone any idea why it was such a poor attendance for the rugby yesterday 50,770?
Know it was a dead rubber but thought it sold out years ago .
Was expecting a new stadium record to be set
Wonder if they counted people in the ground not tickets sold?
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My understanding was the game sold out in two hours
However it seems the RFU kept most tickets back and released them through their club structure
I was talking to a guy on the train from London yesterday and he was taking his son, and he had bought them through his club, although he was told they didn't have an adult and child together, but he could buy two adults together (try explaining that one RFU) so it cost him £175 per ticket for a friendly!

The most annoying thing was I asked him if he was staying over with the game ending so late?
No, he says, they've put on extra trains to take people back!!!!

Ffs when we played Wigan and Scum at Wembley there were no extra fucking trains put on and there was a lot more of us going down than the handful who had come up from London yesterday.

Clearly the message is, if the game's held in London it's for Londoners, and if it's held in Manchester it's for Londoners, and we just get fucking screwed over
 
squirtyflower said:
My understanding was the game sold out in two hours
However it seems the RFU kept most tickets back and released them through their club structure
I was talking to a guy on the train from London yesterday and he was taking his son, and he had bought them through his club, although he was told they didn't have an adult and child together, but he could buy two adults together (try explaining that one RFU) so it cost him £175 per ticket for a friendly!

The most annoying thing was I asked him if he was staying over with the game ending so late?
No, he says, they've put on extra trains to take people back!!!!

Ffs when we played Wigan and Scum at Wembley there were no extra fucking trains put on and there was a lot more of us going down than the handful who had come up from London yesterday.

Clearly the message is, if the game's held in London it's for Londoners, and if it's held in Manchester it's for Londoners, and we just get fucking screwed over
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Still seems odd to have nearly 4000 empty seats for a game that sold out so soon and only became a dead rubber last week.
Wonder if they were going to try and screw the punters and release the extra tickets at inflated prices if England had something to play for and ended up getting stuck with them ? Or were the first three rows covered up or something ? Just seems very odd
 
mrtwiceaseason said:
Still seems odd to have nearly 4000 empty seats for a game that sold out so soon and only became a dead rubber last week.
Wonder if they were going to try and screw the punters and release the extra tickets at inflated prices if England had something to play for and ended up getting stuck with them ? Or were the first three rows covered up or something ? Just seems very odd
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If City sell the tickets they are counted as attendance whether you turn up or not

Either the RFU didn't sell out all the tickets, or they counted those who turned up only

I fully expected a near 55,000 capacity, but I'm glad it wasn't
 
squirtyflower said:
If City sell the tickets they are counted as attendance whether you turn up or not

Either the RFU didn't sell out all the tickets, or they counted those who turned up only

I fully expected a near 55,000 capacity, but I'm glad it wasn't
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My thoughts exactly at least the record attendance will be for a city game now
 
squirtyflower said:
If City sell the tickets they are counted as attendance whether you turn up or not

Either the RFU didn't sell out all the tickets, or they counted those who turned up only

I fully expected a near 55,000 capacity, but I'm glad it wasn't
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Not sure how true it is but I heard that after England got knocked out last week some fans returned their tickets for a refund. Would make sense I suppose as I doubt they would've been able to re-sell too many dead rubber tickets at those prices.
 
M18CTID said:
Not sure how true it is but I heard that after England got knocked out last week some fans returned their tickets for a refund. Would make sense I suppose as I doubt they would've been able to re-sell too many dead rubber tickets at those prices.
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That would make a lot of sense
The guy I spoke to had forked out £350 for two tickets for him and his son.
If I'd had done that I'd have taken a hit on the train loss and got my money back if at all possible, although he was travelling first class
 
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