Bolton get 17 more tickets than Oxford

NewburyOne said:
As of 2hrs ago Oxford have sold 25K, Bolton have sold 26K. With 5 days of sales left, I'd expect both teams to sell over 30K.
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Yeah - ours opened to more general sale this morning and we sold 10k in the first hour. I'd expect us to be at 30k by tonight. Bolton seemed to have cooled off - but we're easily looking at 60k so far...
 
neyo said:
Yeah - ours opened to more general sale this morning and we sold 10k in the first hour. I'd expect us to be at 30k by tonight. Bolton seemed to have cooled off - but we're easily looking at 60k so far...
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Have a good one pal 😎
 
Can they beat the record attendance of 76,935 from 1999 with a little club called Man City playing Gillingham? Fair play Bolton on 28k and Oxford on 25k with 10,000 sold today.
 
We never had 37k against Cardiff its a complete myth you only have to watch the match back or look at some of the images there were whole blocks empty

It was like 32k

Yeovil was around 24k and West Ham around 27k
 
82,244 was the official attendance against Cardiff, with Blackpool selling 37K. The final against West Ham had an attendance of 78,523, with Blackpool selling 32K. The official attendance for the Yeovil final was 59,313, of which more than half was from Blackpool. Those are terrific figures given the size of our club and the distance/cost of travelling down to London. When you compare that to the ease in which the majority of Oxford fans have getting to the capital, plus the fact they've not been to Wembley in a while, they absolutely should sell their allocation.
 
Chishandfips said:
I would somehow doubt if we'd take 5k less to the West Ham game than we took to the Cardiff game because the fan base had extended a lot by then thanks to the year in the Prem.
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i would agree - but it is the case, i remember there being a few empty seats in one corner and also not forgetting we had a lot of West Ham in ours.
 
Phil_bfc deux said:
We never had 37k against Cardiff its a complete myth you only have to watch the match back or look at some of the images there were whole blocks empty

It was like 32k

Yeovil was around 24k and West Ham around 27k
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That would mean Cardiff had 50k, bollox. There were empty seats at both ends but the only whole blocks empty were in the middle corporate section. I was at all three games too.
 
There were updates everyday, we sold 37000, there was a block in the small middle tier that was empty. That was mirrored in the Cardiff end where there were also some empty seats in that particular section. I'll grant you they did sell a few more than us but not a lot. 82,244 was a fabulous attendance.
 
Yeovil 2007:
30,000 (Gazette)

Cardiff 2010:
37,000 (Gazette + Guardian)

West Ham 2012:
30,000 (BBC, Gazette + Guardian)

Multiple sources, boycott and covid not included we've never taken sub-30,000 to the new Wembley. Fantastic numbers for a club our size, from a town like ours with the distance and cost it takes to get to Wembley. UTMP 🍊

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I remember our side of Wembley seeming much sparser in comparison to Cardiff a couple years before against West Ham. Even worse was the fact West Ham were at home and filled the entirety of their side. They played Glad All Over pre-match and we still had people coming in, sounded piss weak and then they played Forever Blowing Bubbles - I went with some mates and we all looked at each other like "** hell.." at the noise from their side which was practically full at that point.

West Ham embarrassed us home and away didn't they? I remember at home they had their keeper sent off, put an outfield player in goal and we barely tested him - their fans took the absolute piss. Our record against 'em that season and the element of it being West Ham with their reputation, basically being at home may have put people off. Plus the prospect of beating Cardiff and getting to the Prem felt like a once in a lifetime opportunity, the prospect of beating West Ham after just coming down from the Prem didn't have the same magic - as big an achievement it would have been for little ol' Blackpool to go back up.

I've spoken to West Ham fans since and they were absolutely buzzing to get us in the play-offs. The day turned out very differently as we all know!
 
If the gate against Cardiff was over 82k and Phil states we only sold 32k, that means there was 50k Welsh there?

That's 5k greater than half the capacity of Wembley.

Doesn't quite stack up does it 🤔

Not disputing there weren't more Cardiff than Pool and 45k / 37k was about right.
 
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Satriale's Pork Store said:
If the gate against Cardiff was over 82k and Phil states we only sold 32k, that means there was 50k Welsh there?

That's 5k greater than half the capacity of Wembley.

Doesn't quite stack up does it 🤔
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You have to take into consideration the Wembley gold ticket members plus the prawn sandwich brigade, but the official figure was 37,000 Pool fans so perhaps some of our fans were suffering from the heat or had sun in their eyes.
 
Satriale's Pork Store said:
If the gate against Cardiff was over 82k and Phil states we only sold 32k, that means there was 50k Welsh there?

That's 5k greater than half the capacity of Wembley.

Doesn't quite stack up does it 🤔

Not disputing there weren't more Cardiff than Pool and 45k / 37k was about right.
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Yeah there's gonna be loads of 'open' corporate tickets unallocated to either side that make up the official attendance. It'll be interesting this weekend to see what the difference is between the rough declared tickets both Bolton and ourselves (currently both over 30k) declare to see what that gap looks like.
 
TangerinePeel said:
Yeovil 2007:
30,000 (Gazette)

Cardiff 2010:
37,000 (Gazette + Guardian)

West Ham 2012:
30,000 (BBC, Gazette + Guardian)

Multiple sources, boycott and covid not included we've never taken sub-30,000 to the new Wembley. Fantastic numbers for a club our size, from a town like ours with the distance and cost it takes to get to Wembley. UTMP 🍊

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Yeah but Phil says it's less so ignore all these sources with absolutely no reason to manipulate the figures 😝
 
Satriale's Pork Store said:
If the gate against Cardiff was over 82k and Phil states we only sold 32k, that means there was 50k Welsh there?

That's 5k greater than half the capacity of Wembley.

Doesn't quite stack up does it 🤔

Not disputing there weren't more Cardiff than Pool and 45k / 37k was about right.
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it's about tickets WE sold not the total attendance split in whatever percentage by the two teams. your numbers fail to take into account, club wembley, all the other various sponsors, efl dignitaries etc. i'm with phil, our crowd for whu was significantly less than it was for cardiff, jeez, even whu fans were coming on avftt saying how loads off their fans had got tickets in our end, We didn't believe them til the actual day when it was proved to be right. And there were still a good number of empty seats in our end for cardiff
 
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I'm not disputing our attendance wasn't significantly less for West Ham than Cardiff; best part of 10k less.

Whole families and floaters went in 2010, less so two years later...

Our attendance in 2012 was still decent for a town of our size, distance from Wembley and the fact that we had been a frequent visitor there.
 
20togo said:
it's about tickets WE sold not the total attendance split in whatever percentage by the two teams. your numbers fail to take into account, club wembley, all the other various sponsors, efl dignitaries etc. i'm with phil, our crowd for whu was significantly less than it was for cardiff, jeez, even whu fans were coming on avftt saying how loads off their fans had got tickets in our end, We didn't believe them til the actual day when it was proved to be right. And there were still a good number of empty seats in our end for cardiff
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None of what you say after "its about tickets WE sold" matters because its been proven on multiple counts that we sold 30,000+ tickets. Have a look at my last post - the ticket sales for each final since 2007 are laid out as objective fact with sources.
 
TangerinePeel said:
None of what you say after "its about tickets WE sold" matters because its been proven on multiple counts that we sold 30,000+ tickets. Have a look at my last post - the ticket sales for each final since 2007 are laid out as objective fact with sources.
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so if WE sold tickets to west ham fans do you consider they were Blackpool fans for the day? So of course it matters! And only one of all those quotes says "more than" ...none of the others do so they are not objective facts at all.
 
Satriale's Pork Store said:
I'm not disputing our attendance wasn't significantly less for West Ham than Cardiff; best part of 10k less.

Whole families and floaters went in 2010, less so two years later...

Our attendance in 2012 was still decent for a town of our size, distance from Wembley and the fact that we had been a frequent visitor there.
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yep agree with that. Our attendance for whu was as you say well down on cardiff.
 
TonyParrsDodgyMic said:
Am surprised at that - thought the Prem season would have consolidated and grown our support.
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yeah it was, see Satrials post 79. I know of whole families going down for the Cardiff game, so many non BFC and non football fans, for the day out and experience. So as such, they didn't bother for WHU.
 
20togo said:
always loved watching this

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Hadn't seen that for ages, thanks for posting 20s. Particularly nice as between 15-20 seconds that is some of my lot (including one particularly handsome fellow scratching his nose 😉), one of whom is sadly no longer with us . As you say, oh for that day again.🥲
 
My company have Club Wembley tickets and have so far sent 3 e-mails offering tickets for this weekend out .. zero interest and can't be arsed going all that way to watch Notlob!
 
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