Don't know what they sounded like to you but I couldn't hear 'em. Just a few outbursts of Camon Fulham as per usual. Having your tops off doesn't make you good fans.<br /><br />-- Sun Feb 05, 2012 8:07 am --<br /><br />danburge82 said:To be fair to them, they had the best fans who have been to our ground this season. There were only twenty or so of them but they didn't stop singing all game (young lads down the front, some had their tops off thinking they were supporting Lech Fulham!). Twenty lads outsung, what I'd say to be, about 44000 City fans - fair play to em!
It's a sell out because the seats are sold out. If people don't turn up the seats aren't taken up unless they've sold their ticket on. That wasn't going to happen yesterday because of the weather.whothefisAlice said:Watching the match again..THERE IS NO WAY ON THIS GREEN AND BLUE AND WHITE EARTH that there were anywhere near 47 or even 46k. Again, if some of you would have read the original post properly, you would see that this is nothing to do with complaining about attendances. I live 4000 miles away, trust me, if I could I would be there week in week out as a season ticketer. I understand that there are times when cars break down, the weather is so bad (a la today) that people simply cannot and do not want to attend a sports even or anything else outside and so on and so forth. Anyway, like I was saying there is no chance we were even close to a sellout attendance (bums in seats that is, not tickets sold). I am watching the match again now, and from kickoff there are loads of empty seats. Can't clearly see how many vacant seats there are/were in the upper tiers, but by the looks of it, I would guess that there is somewhere between 42-44k in the ground at best. The person who asked the question along the lines of 'so you are saying there was 1 vacant seat in every 5?', well my answer would be close enough, but more like 1 in 7 or 8.
Would love to know the EXACT number of people in the stands today at kickoff.
Don't give a shit what others think or say about our club or the '20,000 empty city is yours' song, and all that other bollocks...i'll watch if it's an empty stadium and be just as happy! Again, how the word sellout can be used to describe today's match is literally barmy and fooling nobody...
Those missing were missing for some reason, whatever it was, and who cares?
Whoever is right and whatever the attendance was today, we are still a fantastically supported club, and have been forever, and we will only continue to have fantastic support as we grow and get more successful. We played some great football at times today, so those of you who did go, despite the cold weather you probably had a great day.
Skashion said:Don't know what they sounded like to you but I couldn't hear 'em. Just a few outbursts of Camon Fulham as per usual. Having your tops off doesn't make you good fans.danburge82 said:To be fair to them, they had the best fans who have been to our ground this season. There were only twenty or so of them but they didn't stop singing all game (young lads down the front, some had their tops off thinking they were supporting Lech Fulham!). Twenty lads outsung, what I'd say to be, about 44000 City fans - fair play to em!
-- Sun Feb 05, 2012 8:07 am --
It's a sell out because the seats are sold out. If people don't turn up the seats aren't taken up unless they've sold their ticket on. That wasn't going to happen yesterday because of the weather.whothefisAlice said:Watching the match again..THERE IS NO WAY ON THIS GREEN AND BLUE AND WHITE EARTH that there were anywhere near 47 or even 46k. Again, if some of you would have read the original post properly, you would see that this is nothing to do with complaining about attendances. I live 4000 miles away, trust me, if I could I would be there week in week out as a season ticketer. I understand that there are times when cars break down, the weather is so bad (a la today) that people simply cannot and do not want to attend a sports even or anything else outside and so on and so forth. Anyway, like I was saying there is no chance we were even close to a sellout attendance (bums in seats that is, not tickets sold). I am watching the match again now, and from kickoff there are loads of empty seats. Can't clearly see how many vacant seats there are/were in the upper tiers, but by the looks of it, I would guess that there is somewhere between 42-44k in the ground at best. The person who asked the question along the lines of 'so you are saying there was 1 vacant seat in every 5?', well my answer would be close enough, but more like 1 in 7 or 8.
Would love to know the EXACT number of people in the stands today at kickoff.
Don't give a shit what others think or say about our club or the '20,000 empty city is yours' song, and all that other bollocks...i'll watch if it's an empty stadium and be just as happy! Again, how the word sellout can be used to describe today's match is literally barmy and fooling nobody...
Those missing were missing for some reason, whatever it was, and who cares?
Whoever is right and whatever the attendance was today, we are still a fantastically supported club, and have been forever, and we will only continue to have fantastic support as we grow and get more successful. We played some great football at times today, so those of you who did go, despite the cold weather you probably had a great day.
Don't know why you're so obsessed with seat counting but counting at kickoff at a weather affected match isn't too bright, there were still people turning up in the middle of the first half because journeys were taking double or triple the usual time.
at first you thought there were 32,000 now its jumped up to 42,000whothefisAlice said:Watching the match again..THERE IS NO WAY ON THIS GREEN AND BLUE AND WHITE EARTH that there were anywhere near 47 or even 46k. Again, if some of you would have read the original post properly, you would see that this is nothing to do with complaining about attendances. I live 4000 miles away, trust me, if I could I would be there week in week out as a season ticketer. I understand that there are times when cars break down, the weather is so bad (a la today) that people simply cannot and do not want to attend a sports even or anything else outside and so on and so forth. Anyway, like I was saying there is no chance we were even close to a sellout attendance (bums in seats that is, not tickets sold). I am watching the match again now, and from kickoff there are loads of empty seats. Can't clearly see how many vacant seats there are/were in the upper tiers, but by the looks of it, I would guess that there is somewhere between 42-44k in the ground at best. The person who asked the question along the lines of 'so you are saying there was 1 vacant seat in every 5?', well my answer would be close enough, but more like 1 in 7 or 8.
Would love to know the EXACT number of people in the stands today at kickoff.
Don't give a shit what others think or say about our club or the '20,000 empty city is yours' song, and all that other bollocks...i'll watch if it's an empty stadium and be just as happy! Again, how the word sellout can be used to describe today's match is literally barmy and fooling nobody...
Those missing were missing for some reason, whatever it was, and who cares?
Whoever is right and whatever the attendance was today, we are still a fantastically supported club, and have been forever, and we will only continue to have fantastic support as we grow and get more successful. We played some great football at times today, so those of you who did go, despite the cold weather you probably had a great day.
tasker said:at first you thought there were 32,000 now its jumped up to 42,000whothefisAlice said:Watching the match again..THERE IS NO WAY ON THIS GREEN AND BLUE AND WHITE EARTH that there were anywhere near 47 or even 46k. Again, if some of you would have read the original post properly, you would see that this is nothing to do with complaining about attendances. I live 4000 miles away, trust me, if I could I would be there week in week out as a season ticketer. I understand that there are times when cars break down, the weather is so bad (a la today) that people simply cannot and do not want to attend a sports even or anything else outside and so on and so forth. Anyway, like I was saying there is no chance we were even close to a sellout attendance (bums in seats that is, not tickets sold). I am watching the match again now, and from kickoff there are loads of empty seats. Can't clearly see how many vacant seats there are/were in the upper tiers, but by the looks of it, I would guess that there is somewhere between 42-44k in the ground at best. The person who asked the question along the lines of 'so you are saying there was 1 vacant seat in every 5?', well my answer would be close enough, but more like 1 in 7 or 8.
Would love to know the EXACT number of people in the stands today at kickoff.
Don't give a shit what others think or say about our club or the '20,000 empty city is yours' song, and all that other bollocks...i'll watch if it's an empty stadium and be just as happy! Again, how the word sellout can be used to describe today's match is literally barmy and fooling nobody...
Those missing were missing for some reason, whatever it was, and who cares?
Whoever is right and whatever the attendance was today, we are still a fantastically supported club, and have been forever, and we will only continue to have fantastic support as we grow and get more successful. We played some great football at times today, so those of you who did go, despite the cold weather you probably had a great day.
i think that last line is all we can ask of peoplePalerider said:It was a sell out! That's really all that matters. I've no doubt that City have nowhere near the fanbase of United and at this stage any fan not actually turning up will be missed. i.e. an empty seat. What we do have is an extremely high proportion of our fans who actually go to matches. Our attendances and fanbase will increase in proportion to our success as with any other team. It will not be instant but if we do win trophies regularly then our attendances will take care of themselves. In the meantime lets all just go to as many matches we can given our very differing circumstances.