woeful attendance

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Its the lowest crowd for any league game at Villa Park since 16th December 2006. 27,450 against Bolton.

[BC54 VFC]

It was the lowest league crowd at Villa Park since 16th December, 2006 v Bolton (MON's first season), when the attendance was 27,450, but in mitigation it was a 5.15 p.m. kick-off, the penultimate Saturday before Christmas, and clashed with Madness playing at the NEC!

[Cleybrooke]

I thought it was a decent game. More good than bad.

If you'd rather go to Alton Towers than Villa Park, it says more about you, than the football on offer.

Your inability to read and digest a situation says so much more about your good self.

It was choice given to family who saw the dross dished out at the corresponding fixture last session.

I except however you are much "better fan" than I am.

[BC54 VFC]

ALITA: As well as seeing our first games in 1966 we manage to post the same thing at the same time!! O.K., you beat me by 83 seconds!

[PeterWithesShin]

So glory hunters rather than floating fans?

Yeah, let's all queue up and deliver sackful of cash after sackful of cash to the millionaires on the pitch who couldn't give a fuck. I blame the fans too.

Which millionaires on the pitch does that apply to now that it didn't apply to 2 or 3 years ago when 8-10K more people were turning up at VP?

[MarkM]

I think we need to take a step back and wait to see if the drop in attendance is a blip or a longer term problem.

Thier are a lot of potential issues that may have influenced the gate, including the kick off time, live on sky, bank holiday weekend, third match in a week without even considering the issue of the manager / board

The Newcastle game will be a good measure as it is a 3 o'clock Saturday match on a 'normal' weekend

[UK Redsox]

Is the annuned attendance at VP the number of tickets sold or the number that actually pass thro' the turnstiles.

Several ST holders in the TR Loer were absent. I was wonder if they were still counted in the total

[hawkeye]

I think we need to take a step back and wait to see if the drop in attendance is a blip or a longer term problem.

Thier are a lot of potential issues that may have influenced the gate, including the kick off time, live on sky, bank holiday weekend, third match in a week without even considering the issue of the manager / board

The Newcastle game will be a good measure as it is a 3 o'clock Saturday match on a 'normal' weekend

it was a local derby, we were unbeaten, they bought about the same as last season, its an 8,000 drop and they were Villa fans

[hawkeye]

they count the season tickets

[Irish villain]

Not sure we can blame having three home games in a week. Blackburn and Hereford were hardly sell outs were they? Why were we still 10,000 below capacity against Blackburn?

[MarkM]

We can search around for the reason for the drop, but we will find that all the reasons mentioned will have affected the gate.

Their is not a single reason to explain it, and unless we can survey all the ones who stayed away we can only make an educated guess...

1. Economy coupled with higher prices
2. Kick off time
3. Live on TV
4. The manager
5. The style of football
6. All of the above

Perhaps we are just finding our actual natural support level?

[BC54 VFC]

Is the annuned attendance at VP the number of tickets sold or the number that actually pass thro' the turnstiles.

Several ST holders in the TR Loer were absent. I was wonder if they were still counted in the total

Yes, they are.

[andyh]

We can search around for the reason for the drop, but we will find that all the reasons mentioned will have affected the gate.

Their is not a single reason to explain it, and unless we can survey all the ones who stayed away we can only make an educated guess...

1. Economy coupled with higher prices
2. Kick off time
3. Live on TV
4. The manager
5. The style of football
6. All of the above

Perhaps we are just finding our actual natural support level?

well, the board will not be able to complain.
To go with their mediocre ambitions will be mediocre attendances.

[DeKuip]

At look at the half-filled visitors section today tells you all you need to know. This wasn't Blackburn, this was the Wolves from just up the road - always a good set of fans and currently enjoying a good start to the season. Quite simply the price of watching football is far too high - unless that is addressed then crowds will continue to drop.

I am amazed that crowds have stayed so high for so long, but in the current climate they have to dip. Clubs cannot expect to carry on taking the Sky millions and then expect fans to pay full whack for a game that's being televised live. Anyone at the game today who also has a Sky subscription has effectively paid twice and it is wrong. Very wrong.


And another thing....

What's more amazing is the increasing number of people who pay a small fortune to get in, then after 35 mins disappear downstairs to come back up 5 or 10 mins into the second half with a tray of overly priced stinking chips. It's a fucking football match not another excuse to fill your face with junk - and if you ate less of this crap you'd be able to walk quicker when leaving the pissing ground afterwards.

[hawkeye]

blame it on the chips