Prawn Brigade Boxes

[Crispy]

Apparently Bournemouth season tickets are upwards of £500 next season...

Fuck that, absoloutely disgusting. I suppose they need to recoup the money they've spent this season.

[Reg Smeeton]

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We talking about the middle part here?

That's it those blocks with the holes in visible...were laid down along the whole length. I reckon you'd have to lose 5 or 7 rows of seats.

[luckyluke699]

55%? I worked it out at 5.48% looking at your original figures  

Haha I stand corrected. What is everyone worrying about? We'll never fill all 15,5000 seats!

It's more like 14500 now, because of the missing seats in the bottom corner of the Stratton Bank. We got 14434 against Villa.

A quick look at the Npower Championship avg attendances suggests you're correct, but we used to struggle for high attendances when we were in the old division 1 (as it was then).

Let's all hope the CG being full too often is a burden we regularly have to cope with! ;-)

[sonicyouth]

Our average attendances from our last four season spell in the Championship (or D1 as it was) were as follows: 9,265, 9,505, 8,656 and 6,977

[Bukkake Regiment]

Our crowds have almost doubled in 8 seasons, progress is being made.

[tans]

If we were in the championship it would be full most weeks.

Doubt it, we didnt sell out many games when we were in the Premier League

[luckyluke699]

Our crowds have almost doubled in 8 seasons, progress is being made.

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[Ardiles]

Our average attendances from our last four season spell in the Championship (or D1 as it was) were as follows: 9,265, 9,505, 8,656 and 6,977

This was in the late 1990s.

Doubt it, we didnt sell out many games when we were in the Premier League

And this was in the mid 1990s.

Both too long ago for any comparison to mean much, in my view.  Go back less than 10 years, and the attendance figure would often start with a '5' and sometimes even with a '4'.  Huge progress has been made since then, and the new owners are going to have to be pretty smart to keep it going.

[Paolo69]

This was in the late 1990s.

And this was in the mid 1990s.

Both too long ago for any comparison to mean much, in my view.  Go back less than 10 years, and the attendance figure would often start with a '5' and sometimes even with a '4'.  Huge progress has been made since then, and the new owners are going to have to be pretty smart to keep it going.

Agree with that Ardiles. Can't remember the 4's though. Not for a league game anyway.

Probably just selective memory on my part though.

[sonicyouth]

Our crowds have almost doubled in 8 seasons, progress is being made.

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I think we've kind of plateaued. I reckon you could add a couple of thousand to the home attendances maximum if we were in the Championship and the away attendances would likely increase somewhat, although would have no impact on the capacity of the DRS.

Regardless I can't see anything happening given that it would involve the board planning something...

[Crispy]

I used to love the old 2800-odd at home on a tuesday night under Iffy, tremendous.

[dagrumpymunki]

That's it those blocks with the holes in visible...were laid down along the whole length. I reckon you'd have to lose 5 or 7 rows of seats.

That looks about right to me to as well. I'd guess they'd run across the central 6 blocks at the most, so we'd lose a maximum of 30x6x7 seats - c1250.

[sonicyouth]

Agree with that Ardiles. Can't remember the 4's though. Not for a league game anyway.

Probably just selective memory on my part though.

9 of our 23 home league fixtures in 02/03 had an attendance of below 5,000.

I think thewashbag did something about this recently but I created a spreadsheet a couple of months ago to look at the attendances, file is attached.

[Berniman]

I reckon we would average around 10-11k in the Championship.

[Reg Smeeton]

Agree with that Ardiles. Can't remember the 4's though. Not for a league game anyway.

Probably just selective memory on my part though.

The lowest crowd I can remember, which lies just outside the ten year time frame was 01/02, when we had just ober 3000, for a home game v Notts County on a Tuesday night Jan. Wasn't even all that cold. Took me back to the days of Div 4 in the 80's when you could luxuriate in the TE in splendid isolation.

Main difference in the 80's you'd mostly stand, although a haemorrhoid inducing sit on terracing was not unknown, whereas in 02, you could sprawl over several seats, and have an uninterrupted view.

Never underestimate the ability of the average Town fan to vote with his/her feet when they see shit hitting the fan both on and off the pitch....no coincidence that prob just about the lowest gate of the season was a couple of weeks ago v Crewe.