City Fans Leaving Early/Empty seats

[Keith Lemon]

Sold tickets

 

[Bill]

Just out of curiosity, are attendances these days calculated on how many have come through the turnstiles and actually at the game or how many tickets have been sold??

best ask the rag PR department.

 

[jrb]

Put a Cadbury's Cream Egg under peach seat, and tell the fans there's a white one, but the eggs can't be opened until after the final whistle. That would make the early leavers stay.

 

[blueparrot]

Just out of curiosity, are attendances these days calculated on how many have come through the turnstiles and actually at the game or how many tickets have been sold??

Same way every club do it, tickets sold. Even in the old pay at the turnstiles days all season ticket holders were probably counted, I'd assume so anyway.

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

I’m 53 years old and I’ve attended almost 1400 matches. However, night games have become a complete pain in the arse, and I don’t blame anybody for leaving early/not bothering.

Firstly, since the increase in capacity, there hasn’t been a single improvement in travel conditions. Subsequently, I’ve either got to find a window in the A6 traffic (post rush hour-pre match) or gamble that the motorway won’t be horrific at Bredbury.

City have a huge following from the South Stockport/Peak District area, but a 50 minute journey from Whaley Bridge is occasionally taking closer to 90 (an absolute nightmare if you haven’t finished work till 6pm) and it’s getting worse.

Parking is a joke, and that’s with me being one of the lucky ones, who thanks to working in Stockport, has a slight time advantage. It’s then a 20 minute walk to the ground, past overzealous traffic wardens.

The football is glorious, but the journey is becoming the main part of the experience. The only alternative is the train, which means getting home after midnight.
We can moan and moan about the Tram, but until there's a proper link to Stockport or Bredbury, we won't see a proper difference

That’s why people leave early, because frankly, once the result is determined, they just want to get home.

 

[waspish]

We sell out 99% of our games 1 game we down by 10k and it’s endless shite in social media!

 

[Henkeman]

Just to note that Stamford Bridge was 1,500 below capacity last night, in a much smaller ground, against superior, and local opposition.

 

[dickie davies]

I hear you... the slow walk down the steps at 87+.... I've seen a couple of late goals on those steps... I love the view from RR where we are but I do think every time I descend the steps that the view improves drastically toward the bottom... it's a tough call however to justify the price difference as I have mentioned as I see exactly the same game as the posh seats for a price that makes me smile every game!

I think I will continue to annoy the masses who criticise the early exodus and keep the bragging rights on my Seasoncard bill

Which is why I despised my seat in the third tier of East stand
People who did the slow walk down the aisle and blocking my view of the game
Sergio's debut vs Swansea. I didn't see his 25 yard goal because of people stood up in the aisle

 

[Saddleworth2]

I’m 53 years old and I’ve attended almost 1400 matches. However, night games have become a complete pain in the arse, and I don’t blame anybody for leaving early/not bothering.

Firstly, since the increase in capacity, there hasn’t been a single improvement in travel conditions. Subsequently, I’ve either got to find a window in the A6 traffic (post rush hour-pre match) or gamble that the motorway won’t be horrific at Bredbury.

City have a huge following from the South Stockport/Peak District area, but a 50 minute journey from Whaley Bridge is occasionally taking closer to 90 (an absolute nightmare if you haven’t finished work till 6pm) and it’s getting worse.

Parking is a joke, and that’s with me being one of the lucky ones, who thanks to working in Stockport, has a slight time advantage. It’s then a 20 minute walk to the ground, past overzealous traffic wardens.

The football is glorious, but the journey is becoming the main part of the experience. The only alternative is the train, which means getting home after midnight.
We can moan and moan about the Tram, but until there's a proper link to Stockport or Bredbury, we won't see a proper difference

That’s why people leave early, because frankly, once the result is determined, they just want to get home.

100% spot on.

 

[Bluemanc100]

Which is why I despised my seat in the third tier of East stand
People who did the slow walk down the aisle and blocking my view of the game
Sergio's debut vs Swansea. I didn't see his 25 yard goal because of people stood up in the aisle

Soz