Play off games v Average attendances


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People are free to make their own decisions, I can only relay my own feelings. I am gutted we have not been promoted automatically and the last thing I wanted was to fork out my hard earned for another two tickets, but my support for Sunderland has always been unconditional, I am just pleased we avoided administration at the beginning of this season so I am delighted that we have an opportunity through the playoffs to secure promotion. Results can't be guaranteed, but that's what makes it interesting to me.

To each their own, but however it is spun I will never understand those who make that conscious choice not to attend the most important game of our season to date.

Nobody is saying you have to agree with it but it's why it's happening.
 
Surely people cant pay on the door, would make segregation and limiting Portsmouth tickets pointless.



Leeds got 36,000, absolutely amazed we did not smash that when we got 41k for a league game just 3 weeks ago.

They can pay at the ticket office on the day which is what I meant. The 41,000 a few weeks ago included everyone who bought a season ticket and a part season ticket plus 4,000 Pompey fans. To expect that same attendance three weeks later when everyone has to pay again is unrealistic. Both sets of fans have already had a Wembley weekender and have one eye on a second one. People have limited cash.

The crowd we get will be massively impressive by historical league one play off standards but as I said, our lot will turn a positive into a negative. Its what we do best of all.
 
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They can pay at the ticket office on the day which is what I meant. The 41,000 a few weeks ago included everyone who bought a season ticket and a part season ticket plus 4,000 Pompey fans. To expect that same attendance three weeks later when everyone has to pay again is unrealistic. Both sets of fans have already had a Wembley weekender and have one eye on a second one. People have limited cash.

The crowd we get will be massively impressive by historical league one play off standards but as I said, our lot will turn a positive into a negative. Its what we do best of all.
Pompey didn’t have 4000 fans for starters
 
We've been crap recently and I personally don't think we'll get through, I'm going more in hope than expectation, but I'm going.

Same people will be complaining if we get to wembley and the club say phase one is season tickets plus a play off ticket...............
 
We've been crap recently and I personally don't think we'll get through, I'm going more in hope than expectation, but I'm going.

Same people will be complaining if we get to wembley and the club say phase one is season tickets plus a play off ticket...............

I think season ticket would be enough, a good few genuinely cant get to the game but wish there was a way of making those who say they cant be arsed to go to semi final miss out on Wembley ;)
 
We've been crap recently and I personally don't think we'll get through, I'm going more in hope than expectation, but I'm going.

Same people will be complaining if we get to wembley and the club say phase one is season tickets plus a play off ticket...............

We have been pretty much 'crap' the whole time I have supported us which is now 45 years mate. What's New?

I don't support us because we win and I never did. I very much doubt many of the rest of our supporters are glory hunters either,
 
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We have been pretty much 'crap' the whole time I have supported us which is now 45 years mate. What's New?

I don't support us because we win and I never did. I very much doubt many of the rest of our supporters are glory hunters either,

Exactly this, we have hardly won a game at home in years before this season and still people went....The weird bit is deciding to stop going in the year we actually won some games at home......Were some of our fans honestly just going to watch the opposition?
 
We have been pretty much 'crap' the whole time I have supported us which is now 45 years mate. What's New?

I don't support us because we win and I never did. I very much doubt many of the rest of our supporters are glory hunters either,

Agree marra I've been supporting for years to, was specifically meaning the drop off towards the end of the season rather then over history.

Then again the way attendances fell post premier league, we do have a fair amount of fair weather supporters (could hardly call them glory hunters as we've had none since i was six months old).
 
Where did anybody say that? A club that averages 32,000 and then manages just 26,000 for the biggest game of the season is plastic support of the highest order. The year Leeds were in league 1 for the first time they average 26,000 and increased that 10,000 for the play offs.....If their support had matched ours for this game the would have had under 20,000.

Your argument disproves your pathetic theory.

Leeds only had an average of 26000 but got ten thousand more at a playoff game. How the f*ck does that make them less fickle than our magnificent support, you great steaming fanny?

Their fans stayed away in droves until they thought they might have something to cheer about. Now that's what I call fickle.

Our fans have been superb but have understandably lost faith over the past couple of months, where our team has pretty much capitulated.

Nobody can criticise our long suffering fans and yet you do, at every opportunity. :oops::oops:
 
Your argument disproves your pathetic theory.

Leeds only had an average of 26000 but got ten thousand more at a playoff game. How the f*ck does that make them less fickle than our magnificent support, you great steaming fanny?

Their fans stayed away in droves until they thought they might have something to cheer about. Now that's what I call fickle.

Our fans have been superb but have understandably lost faith over the past couple of months, where our team has pretty much capitulated.

Nobody can criticise our long suffering fans and yet you do, at every opportunity. :oops::oops:

Plus we do not know what the actual attendance tomorrow will be yet. Lots will pay at the ticket office on the day.

Looks like about 26,500 already sold and I think the walk up will be big. I am still goings for around 31,000 but it really does not matter. What matters is what those of us who are going do.

Get behind the lads. We can still get what we wanted.
 
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If you're a supporter of safc why wouldn't you go to this game? If you haven't got a valid reason not to be there then you can't be classed as a true supporter, the clue is in the word 'SUPPORTer'. It's meant to be through the good times and the bad. Kid yourself and justify your reason for non attendance, claim yourself to be part of an amazing set of fans, but you'll never be that, shame on those it applies to, you know who you are!
 
Leeds is an excellent example.....In 2007-2008 they dropped to the 3rd tier for the first time in their history....This a team that a few years earlier had been in the Champions league and winning the Premiership, on top of that they went into league 1 on minus 15 points as they had gone into administration in the summer. In short their fall from grace was actually worse than ours has been so should probably have seen more pissed off fans than we have.

That season their attendance average was 26,040 and in the play offs they got 36,297 so an increase of 39% for the biggest game of the season.
A minor point of order, Leeds never won the Premiership. They were the last team to win the old first division under Sgt Wilko but that was quite a few years before they dropped to this level.
 
Exactly this, we have hardly won a game at home in years before this season and still people went....The weird bit is deciding to stop going in the year we actually won some games at home......Were some of our fans honestly just going to watch the opposition?

It might have helped if we didn’t have a complete knacker for a manager. Should never have been in the play offs in the first place.
 
Other than the obvious holiday times this is a normal week
No excuses to be made

People either want to go or they don’t

OK I will tell my season card holding mate who booked a holiday to visit a mate of ours in the Pjillipines to cancel his return flight and get an earlier one. Cheers you have been a big help.

It might have helped if we didn’t have a complete knacker for a manager. Should never have been in the play offs in the first place.

We don't have a 'knacker' for a manager. Hope this helps as well.

You voted Brexit though so you are used to directing your angst in totally the wrong direction and cutting off your nose to spite your face.;)
 
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Could the OP please remember our exile support. Like all seasons I've spent a fortune on travel from Edinburgh for myself and my two season ticket holding kids. Often not in the house until 9pm after a game. The home playoff's mean train tickets, hotel, food etc which I can't afford plus the added match tickets.
Don't use statistics to criticize fans not going to games in a snyde dig or rallying call way. If those nuggets at the club had done the business on the pitch then this situation would not have occurred.
 
Your constant harping on is getting tedious.

Our attendance tomorrow will probably be around 30k. Slightly down on our season average. Fans had a week to plan for it, on a Saturday night at 7:30. The first Saturday after the season so many likely made other plans. In a month many are booking holidays.

Those who are there will support the team no doubt. I’d say your negativity is actually doing more harm than those who are just doing nothing.

Move on.


Don’t forget live on sky.
Or those work or arrange plans on non Home days.
Or parents who have their children over weekend.
Or the classic - People who don’t want to go.
 
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