Parma Attendance

[Tony Erdington]

Are ticket holders who don't attend included in attendance figs ? Lots of people still on holidays

I think the answer to that is Yes, as they have bought a ticket to the game (every game that season) so attend or not your part of the games attendance.

[Lastfootstamper]

Looking around the ground the upper Trinity was virtually empty,not many in the upper Doug and plenty of empty seats in the lower wing areas,embarrassing !

I decided before kick-off that I wouldn't look backwards for fear of agoraphobia kicking in.

[claret and blue blood]

 

Looking around the ground the upper Trinity was virtually empty,not many in the upper Doug and plenty of empty seats in the lower wing areas,embarrassing !

I decided before kick-off that I wouldn't look backwards for fear of agoraphobia kicking in.

lol

[jeowje]

Now that entrance to the ground is electronically registered it would be arguably easier to give the actual attendance i guess... Obviously better PR to release the higher figure though.

[godzvilla]

So 30k in the end for Newcastle even though I thought there looked more from the TV.

Dosen't exactly bode well for Hull and shows we've probably struggled to even reach 20k in season ticket sales.

My guess is that there were quite a few who decided to go to Edgebaston  where there were 23000 ´Partygoers ´ watching Birmingham Bears in the  T20 Blast . Also, historically August has never been a good attendance month for us due to it being a massive Family Holiday travel month . Living here in Spain I see more Villa Shirts at this time  than at any other time of the Year . Factor in Television plus  a certain amount of ´wait and see´apathy ..........................Godzvilla!

[silhillvilla]

Are ticket holders who don't attend included in attendance figs ? Lots of people still on holidays

Yep, it's tickets sold these days not attendance.

So the "actual" attendance could easily have been sub 30k ? I can't see hull being much better what with it being a Sunday and also kids back to school the next day etc.

[Leighton]

I sit in the North Upper and in the row immediately in front of me, six people who have had season tickets for years didn't renew for this season. 

[saunders_heroes]

The Newcastle attendance was the lowest attended first home game since 2000. Fans are voting with their feet.

[Chris Smith]

The Newcastle attendance was the lowest attended first home game since 2000. Fans are voting with their feet.

Possibly, but how many of those others have been a 12.45 kick off on a Bank Holiday weekend with two more home games to follow in quick succession and live on the box?

I think crowds might take a dip this season but I just think one game given the circumstances above makes it difficult to draw firm conclusions.

[saunders_heroes]

The Newcastle attendance was the lowest attended first home game since 2000. Fans are voting with their feet.

Possibly, but how many of those others have been a 12.45 kick off on a Bank Holiday weekend with two more home games to follow in quick succession and live on the box?

I think crowds might take a dip this season but I just think one game given the circumstances above makes it difficult to draw firm conclusions.

I definitely think fans are voting with their feet because of what we've had to put up with over the last 4 or so years, but as ever at Villa the fans will come back as soon as things start to look up again. That isn't going to happen till we get a new owner though. Lerner is just doing the bare minimum at the moment.

[Clampy]

I think there are obviously some fans who have chosen to give their season ticket a miss this year, which is their right. I'm not sure it's just because of the lack of big money transfers, the appalling home record and last season's terrible run in won't have helped either. Like Chris said though, it was on the telly, a bank holiday weekend with another two home games in 7 days to come. Let's see what the next few attendances look like.

[silhillvilla]

When you have an owner who has gone public saying more or less he's lost interest and this is backed up by a pathetic transfer budget coupled with an atrocious home record, it's not hard to see why 10,000 fans have disappeared. People have had it and said enoughs enough. The challenge will be enticing them back and that won't be as easy as some suggest.

[Chris Smith]

When you have an owner who has gone public saying more or less he's lost interest and this is backed up by a pathetic transfer budget coupled with an atrocious home record, it's not hard to see why 10,000 fans have disappeared. People have had it and said enoughs enough. The challenge will be enticing them back and that won't be as easy as some suggest.

Slight exaggeration, I think we have averaged 40k once or twice at most in 20 years. It's nearer 4k down.

[Clampy]

When you have an owner who has gone public saying more or less he's lost interest and this is backed up by a pathetic transfer budget coupled with an atrocious home record, it's not hard to see why 10,000 fans have disappeared. People have had it and said enoughs enough. The challenge will be enticing them back and that won't be as easy as some suggest.

10,000 haven't disappeared, it was just one game. Why not see what the next few attendances look like before coming out with statements like that.

[silhillvilla]

Well Parma was 10k down on the Malaga friendly and the Newcastle game 8k down on last year.