TOPIC: What was today's attendance please?

Shame, should have been a great day for the Club.

There's always next week...

No idea. Not announced yet. I'd guess about 8k.

Only attendance that hasn't been announced - they're not used to counting beyond 5,000!

I was just waved through with my printed ticket, the turnstile man barely looked at it, could have just been a random piece of paper, so dunno how they are gonna get an accurate figure unless they all had clickers

I dont think it will be announced until late or even tomorrow - selling Everton tickets now - not sure what time till?

7461

That sounds way too low - it was over 7,200 at 12pm. If thats the announced attendance someone has very deep pockets on the cash gates!

From cufc

Confirmed attendance today for the visit of @yorkcityfc - 7,461 with a visiting showing of 327 - well done one and all #cufc #ycfc

Depends if you want the official one or the real one.

Considering its just been announced next weekends capacity against Everton is 17,392, I can't see how the double the amount today plus 2,500 could get in.

Thats a dodgy figure - 7,179 home tickets were sold by 12pm. At that stage no tickets had been sold for section 8 of the East stand and then there is cash gates.

They haven't counted any sales from 12pm onwards!

Tickets sales, doesn't mean they all attended

They have to count ticket sales whether they attended or not for tax purposes.

To make up for counting season tickets twice at start of season they left season tickets off todays attendance

Urban Designer wrote: The announced attendance is the amount actually in the ground. (mainly for safety issues & general interest but not tax.)
Tax is worked out on actual ticket sales (not announced).
The figures in each column can differ markedly.

(Yank sports announce the attendance based on actual sales and thus, nearly always higher than the actual number in attendance.)

Rangers did this - announced attendance by including season ticket holders who were not there as a protest. MK Dons always do it - they give away 1000s of tickets and include in attendance figures. Would a thousand odd people buy a ticket and not go to the match? Bit of a coincident that when the online sales were taken off just after 12pm the tickets already sold and the york away pretty much added up to what they announced as the total attendance.

carlisleunited wrote:
Really it's double the amount in the home ends, the plus 2500 will be Everton and a few more

Urban Designer wrote:

They'll say sales and then the attendance....this figure is confirmed attendance

I dont even reckon there was 7k there today.. didnt look 300 or so york fans either..

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How were they counting? They weren't scanning the tickets

Turnstiles have counters on them and/or gatemen have clickers.
Belts & Braces, the automated systems may not be fully up and running yet.

This would suggest the opposite of what people are saying above.


Under FA rules, Premier League clubs must publish the ‘official attendance’ of all home games, which includes everyone who bought a ticket whether they went to the game or not.
On January 30, Man United published the official attendance for the home game against Southampton as 75,600, but police data said the figure was only 59,666.

In December, the Premier League leaders reported crowds of over 75,000 for the games against Sunderland, Newcastle and West Brom, while the police figures were 64,294, 64,996 and 66,847 respectively.

The disparity was even greater for cup games.

It was claimed Old Trafford was not even half-full for the Capital One Cup tie against Newcastle in September. The police recorded the number of people who passed through the turnstiles at 33,409. United gave the crowd as 46,358. In the next round, against West Ham, the police put down the crowd as 51,724, whereas United recorded it as 71,081.

When Man United played Cluj in the Champions League in December, having qualified for the knockout stages, the crowd was announced as 71,521. In fact, the police say it was 46,894.

The Redsaway fans' website claimed they had received the police data under the Freedom of Information Act.

That's premier league rules.
Last time I checked, we're in the Football League (who don't require this).
Various clubs in the Football League do it different ways, Charlton include all season tickets in their announced, regardless of whether they are present or not. Varying reasons for doing this. Leeds do it so they can still call themselves "a big club".
All clubs still have to count both figures either way.
Do you think our dinosaurs will be using 'modern' techniques?

You didnt qualify who it applied to though. I had no idea tbh but i remembered reading about that a while back so i guesed that was the way all clubs did it.

Who f_cking cares what the exact crowd was?

Hello, the ticket office staff printed off a load of tickets for the cash turnstiles so people could get a physical ticket. The attendance then took a bit of working out as they had to adjust what was used compared to what they'd printed off, which is why there was a delay. The cash turnstiles were really helpful yday given the queues for collection, without them people wouldn't have been in for 3pm. Hope this helps.

Cash turnstiles= simplicity at its best and should stay.

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"Hello mr turnstile man, I'd like to come in and watch the match today"
"That will be 15 pounds sterling please sir"
"Here you go"
*turnstile clicks*
"Thank you"

Simplicity at its finest and been used for 100+ years at football grounds the length and breadth of the country.

Somehow CUFC have over-complicated this simplest of procedures!

Or, if you can jump the turnstile it's only a Tenner.

franksidebottom wrote: Give me an extra tenner and I'll let two of you in for the price of one and shove the tenner in my back pocket... Dodgy turnstile blokes and lost club income... Simplicity at its finest and has been happening for 100+ years in football.

Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought those selling tickets for instance in the paddock ticket booth were either club staff of CUOSC volunteers? Rather worrying if they're doing this. Whats the difference in pocketing money in the ticket booth and at the turnstile. There were cash gates yesterday, who was manning these? Were they on the take aswell?

They could put cameras on the turnstiles

Any update on how many sold so far today?

I dont think anyone would be on the rob.. we had some a while back which were dealt with..

Its still the easiest solution to get folk in the ground quickly.. infact cash gates should have been used for everton tickets.. in through the turnstile and out the exit doors once sorted.. no postcode crap.. things will have moved a damn sight quicker

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bruntonpete wrote:
6

Nobody else can get through

markredfox73 wrote:
I think it's an absolute joke you didn't provide written evidence of your postcode and I'll be e-mailing John Nixon about it with your details post-haste.

Expect a knock on the door from some heavies.

I can assure you they would go the same route as previous muppet did when he wanted a go

It felt so good to walk up and pay at the turnstile... most satisfying indeed.. may i congratulate the horsemen with coming up with a fantastic innovative idea..:cool:

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York only brought 327, very poor turnout I thought, despite their lowly position?

CCU wrote: Bet there's not many teams in the last few seasons that have brought more to Brunton than we've taken to them mate.