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Attendance Thread - Watford

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Vauxie said:
? So people dont want the jobs or because of Brexit there is no eastern europeans to do them?
Just asking like?
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By and large, the Eastern Europeans were doing the hard manual stuff (agricultural); hospitality was more Southern European, although a fair number from the Baltic countries too. An awful lot of them left after Brexit, and then more during the Covid lockdown. It's defnitely the case that Brits won't do those jobs (particularly the agricultural stuff), so there's no replacement labour pool, or at laeast a very reduced one.
 
Get Into Em said:
If we hadn't have won against West Brom we likely wouldn't be looking at over 40,000 imo. That means in a short space of time (one working day, or just several hours as of now) the club will have to find those extra stewards, bar staff, first aiders etc. for up to 6000+ people. I don't think it's the cost, it's likely more to do with actually finding the staff to work a Saturday for 7+ hours on less than a weeks notice.

They likely will have the staff by the end of the week, and by the end of the week the likelihood is it'll all be open, but as of now we've barely had one working day to find said staff. I don't blame the club for doing what they're doing - I'd much rather they're sensible and prepared than give thousands of fans an absolute nightmare experience on Saturday and deter then from coming back.
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Bottom bowl was basically sold out before the WBA game. Was always gonna be a 40k plus crowd for this one
 
Grumpy Old Man said:
By and large, the Eastern Europeans were doing the hard manual stuff (agricultural); hospitality was more Southern European, although a fair number from the Baltic countries too. An awful lot of them left after Brexit, and then more during the Covid lockdown. It's defnitely the case that Brits won't do those jobs (particularly the agricultural stuff), so there's no replacement labour pool, or at laeast a very reduced one.
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Ok but how about students, I mean for the hospitality type part time jobs..
The bairn does her 20hrs a week in London.
 
stewart10 said:
I imagine the struggle is finding the stewards, the bar staff, the catering, the policing.

I dont think it's as easy as just flicking a switch and selling the tickets, imagine the carry on if they sold the tickets but didn't have anyone running the turnstiles, or stewards around.
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It's less difficult to find staff for a Block that opens on Monday (5 days in advance) than one that opens on Friday (1 day before).
Surely?
 
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Wrenthorpe Mackem said:
But surely the club could have planned for that scenario?
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You'd think so, but it's the only plausible explanation I can think of. How many extra staff are required for an extra 6000 fans? Can you put that many agency staff on hold in a 'just incase' scenario? We had quite a lot of agency staff in at my work when things started going back to normal after Covid, the companies charge ridiculous amounts, and aren't in any way 'lenient' in their terms & policies. On paper it sounds fairly straight forward (ie. just open the ground up completely), but it's likely an administrative and health & safety nightmare.

You could also argue that 99% of fans are proud of the teams efforts wherever we finish this season, be in the play-offs or out of them. The club could have marketed the Watford game way in advance and so could have prepared for a sell out whether we're in the position we're in or not. If they got the marketing right, I think enough would have turned up to congratulate the team on this season's achievements either way. But they haven't prepared in advance, and so they're left with what they've got.
 
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