Only 11 seats left in the north stand for the 1st home game

So taking off the seats from the North that means around 8,400 sold then
That's seats available to purchase, based on the official capacity figures from the last published safety certificate by the council.
We don't know how many seats are reserved, netted off, or unavailable for other reasons. We also don't know if the capacity figure includes the disabled seating at the front of the stands.
It's very simple. All we can really do is count the change in availability so we can get an idea of number of tickets sold since the last count. In the case here, the last count was before Cardiff tickets went on sale, so since they did, there are 389 less seats available, so that's 389 seats either sold for the Cardiff match, sold as season tickets, or taken off sale for other reasons in the past week.
 
Cheers TT.

Yeah best to count the difference between counts which we can guess with high confidence are majority matchday sales.

Even the count i did minusing off the north seats and a row in the south was about 7800 and the actual ST sales were 7500, so was still over.

The counts I did by eye were really tedious, much easier though if stands are either really full or really empty.

We have no update yet on hospitality which if they sell the 800 ish then that'll make a big difference.

I think as it gets closer to the match sales ramp up, a win at Bristol would be huge for the buzz.

But going off previous sales patterns it ramps up towards matchday and the habits of some was to come on the day, should still be possible but not sure this time.

That 8400, given last ones were overestimated id guess at 8200, if all corporate is sold that 9k.

Still plenty of time to go, hard to call right now, just got to keep seeing it tick away.
 
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Only 28 now in the north, last chances to be in amongst the scenes.

The north corner block f is filling out a lot so that atmosphere should be even louder and spread round to the west.

Just need the other corner block to fill up a bit more but at an estimate probably a bit over 3k now in the north and corners.

Once filled and if the hospitality bit in the corner fills up too, we could have 3.5k ish in the north and corner, given the noise 4k made spread around the stadium for the Oxford game, nearly that amount from one area with all the singers involved will be pretty epic.

👍👍
 
Imagine being a kid these days and coming to the club compared to what it was when I was a kid at that age, an absolute rust bucket of a place really, a certain nostalgia but still, its night and day now and a place kids want to be. The way the club is run and the direction its heading. Even compared to when we had the 2 stands, tin pot feel.

So much better now so you feel like your at somewhere more special.
Yes true but in the old days kids could go on their own and pay pennies to get in, the excitement was raw and scary and electric, the...a dangerous cheap thrill.....it’s very sanitised now in comparison
 
Yes true but in the old days kids could go on their own and pay pennies to get in, the excitement was raw and scary and electric, the...a dangerous cheap thrill.....it’s very sanitised now in comparison
True, but the football was pretty dire during most my youth. The product wasn't there, nor the appeal to people wanting a better experience.

Now we have that and a top atmosphere. You look around and you don't see bits hanging off or think that looks crap.

It helps attract families etc as well as still appealing to the hardcore.
 
True, but the football was pretty dire during most my youth. The product wasn't there, nor the appeal to people wanting a better experience.

Now we have that and a top atmosphere. You look around and you don't see bits hanging off or think that looks crap.

It helps attract families etc as well as still appealing to the hardcore.
Yes but your point was that “kids” nowadays would enjoy it a lot more because it’s shinier........I loved it back in the 70s/early 80s because it was raw, raggedy, falling to bits and with an edgy atmosphere with a constant hint of danger
 
Yes but your point was that “kids” nowadays would enjoy it a lot more because it’s shinier........I loved it back in the 70s/early 80s because it was raw, raggedy, falling to bits and with an edgy atmosphere with a constant hint of danger
Yeah there's a nostalgia to the crapness and I'm sure some would enjoy that, but I think to have a more mass market appeal these days parents wouldn't take their kids to football like it was as much. Falling down stadiums lost their appeal to many. Things moved on.

The standard is better, everything is better the pitches are smooth, the football much better, its just far more a professional feel.
 
Yeah there's a nostalgia to the crapness and I'm sure some would enjoy that, but I think to have a more mass market appeal these days parents wouldn't take their kids to football like it was as much. Falling down stadiums lost their appeal to many. Things moved on.

The standard is better, everything is better the pitches are smooth, the football much better, its just far more a professional feel.
A bit like skate boarding parks.
Football is losing kids😕
 
A bit like skate boarding parks.
Football is losing kids😕
I chuckled about the nobbers only apparently selling about 6k ST'S in some previous seasons and the rest being given away to young kids, but tbh we could try and get more youngsters involved ourselves.

However if we play well and get results the buzz will draw more in.
 
I chuckled about the nobbers only apparently selling about 6k ST'S in some previous seasons and the rest being given away to young kids, but tbh we could try and get more youngsters involved ourselves.

However if we play well and get results the buzz will draw more in.
Hopefully tangerine finger nails crossed Holly 😡👍
 
Yes but your point was that “kids” nowadays would enjoy it a lot more because it’s shinier........I loved it back in the 70s/early 80s because it was raw, raggedy, falling to bits and with an edgy atmosphere with a constant hint of danger
The constant hint of danger was the chance of the stand collapsing or getting tetanus from a cut from some rusty metalwork.
 
I took my young son when he was about 3 as the missus said, if you're going to the football take him with you 😬 I think it was his first game & we played Chesterfield around 1989, we sat in the South stand & won 3-1. I spent more time watching him or taking him for a pee, I only actually saw 1 goal go in 😂 undeterred I continued to take him & it paid off.
 
I took my young son when he was about 3 as the missus said, if you're going to the football take him with you 😬 I think it was his first game & we played Chesterfield around 1989, we sat in the South stand & won 3-1. I spent more time watching him or taking him for a pee, I only actually saw 1 goal go in 😂 undeterred I continued to take him & it paid off.
Did you indeed, bet he doesn't remember that but the buzz was probably subconsciously embedded in his soul, am sure he will have turned out a great lad, probably sits in the north stand now helping make the atmosphere for all we know......
 
I took my young son when he was about 3 as the missus said, if you're going to the football take him with you 😬 I think it was his first game & we played Chesterfield around 1989, we sat in the South stand & won 3-1. I spent more time watching him or taking him for a pee, I only actually saw 1 goal go in 😂 undeterred I continued to take him & it paid off.
Sooty, very soon he will be watching you and taking you for a pee! 😂
 
Fuck it JJ, just buy the bloody tickets!
A, hem.....I've got these friends, desperate to go to the match....
I'm not that generous 😬

But maybe for those on here who always say they would give more... plus lots would probably chip in.

Setup a just giving pot, with all money to to used to give some free tickets for first time pool fans or making people pool fans.
 
True, but the football was pretty dire during most my youth. The product wasn't there, nor the appeal to people wanting a better experience.

Now we have that and a top atmosphere. You look around and you don't see bits hanging off or think that looks crap.

It helps attract families etc as well as still appealing to the hardcore.
I went as a kid in the 50’s, on my own or with mates, travelling from Layton and it was awesome. Especially when the illuminations were on there were gates of 30,000 plus when Wolves, Manu, Arsenal were the visiting team. Still good in the 60’s too although we weren’t quite as good as the 50’s team. Used to sit on a tiny stool on the cinder track in front of the Kop
 
I went as a kid in the 50’s, on my own or with mates, travelling from Layton and it was awesome. Especially when the illuminations were on there were gates of 30,000 plus when Wolves, Manu, Arsenal were the visiting team. Still good in the 60’s too although we weren’t quite as good as the 50’s team. Used to sit on a tiny stool on the cinder track in front of the Kop
Well I was born in the mid 80s, so all around my youth pool were generally not the best, some nostalgia yes for the ground etc and the era, but not exactly compelling the youth of the day to flock to Bloomfield Road.

By the time I was old enough to be taken...

This is where the club was and what it was able to offer, not exactly inspiring stuff for the masses under the previous regime. Football of a low standard, ground falling to bits.

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