Will Spurs get 61,000 crowds?


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Don't you feel ashamed of profiteering from fellow Spurs supporters ......... please be truthful.

I did at first but I got the over that feeling after a while, hence I never charged anywhere near to asking for well over £1000 per ticket as many Spurs fans were doing for big games
 
I did at first but I got the over that feeling after a while, hence I never charged anywhere near to asking for well over £1000 per ticket as many Spurs fans were doing for big games

You see, this is why you'll never understand what people on here are talking about.

I've never seen anyone, on here, ask for a penny over face value.

I got 2 tickets for the Man City League Cup Final, from a stranger called Mark, who met us at the Bobby Moore statue on the day.

He wouldn't even take a tenner for a drink .......... and that's why people like you totally miss the point but don't believe you do.
 
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You see, this is why you'll never understand what people on here are talking about.

I've never seen anyone, on here, ask for a penny over face value.

I got 2 tickets for the Man City League Cup Final, from a stranger called Mark, who met us at the Bobby Moore statue on the day.

He wouldn't even take a tenner for a drink .......... and that's why people like you totally miss the point but don't believe you do.
my ' mate ' (spurs fan) got me and the boy ours for the final , but could get more if he sold them elsewhere .gave him an extra £100. Maybe that's why he's a millionaire :rolleyes:
 
Just reading an interview with Redknapp on the BBC there, reckons Spurs will win the title in 3-4 years and the new stadium will play a big part of it (which means they'll only have 2 years to win it by the time the ground is finished by his reckoning).

The only way I can see it is if at least 5-10 thousand are day trippers every match.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/39009491

EDIT; not sure about that tunnel bar either mind

80,000 there tonight against Gent says they will...
 
You see, this is why you'll never understand what people on here are talking about.

I've never seen anyone, on here, ask for a penny over face value.

I got 2 tickets for the Man City League Cup Final, from a stranger called Mark, who met us at the Bobby Moore statue on the day.

He wouldn't even take a tenner for a drink .......... and that's why people like you totally miss the point but don't believe you do.

Couldn't agree more mate - I bought tickets from third party seller for me and my lad as live away so no chance of getting tickets so was pretty pricey.

In the meantime a lad I vaguely knew got me a ticket for face value and I gave him a tenner for his trouble, sold it to my old neighbours son who was desperate to go for face value so ended up losing ten quid but the look on his face when I handed over the ticket was worth more than that. Im sure I could have got a bloody fortune for it like
 
I guess @EssexYid is too busy working his way round the boards of Arsenal, Liverpool, West Ham, Chelsea, Man Utd etc. Don't worry lads, he will get to us.

I'm predicting

"Better to concentrate on the league anyway"
"Come back to me when Sunderland are in Europe rather than sacking their staff"
"Levy is a genius"
 
Spurs will be moving/expanding at just the right time. The past 10 years they have gone from strength to strength and apart from a blip in 2008 and 09, they have been top 4 contenders or better. Quite different to West Ham who got carried away last season with their first decent season since 2002, so they will struggle to maintain the crowds at the Olympic Stadium.

Spurs have always had potential for big support when their Stadium has allowed it and post war have only dropped as low as 20,000 once, when other big clubs, most notably Chelsea, have had quite a few sub 15,000 crowds in the early 80's. Amazingly their 2nd highest ever average attendance was around 54,000 in the 2nd division, and they averaged over 50,000 for 3 years running.

I do think Spurs have a good support, but being a London club, they have completely different circumstances in being able to attract supporters to their matches that other clubs outside of London don't have the luxury of. They are also lucky that they are flying high just at the right time. They haven't always sold out WHL and unless I am missing something with the Capacity, then they quite often only had high 20k there throughout the 90's. I think if they were the club they were pre 2006, then like most, they would be able to attract huge crowds for the big games, but would struggle when playing the likes of Bournemouth and Hull at home if finishing midtable.
We also had sub 15000 attendances in the 80s. The low number is explained by us been shite and football in general been unpopular. To put it into context Everton finished 7th in the 1st division and averaged 19,000.
 
Northern clubs were the powerhouses when the big industrial towns and cities were the backbone of the country.

London under achieved for years. Now they are realising it and as the Capital has continued to grow and gain strength so have the clubs.

Spurs ground will be full every game at full price tickets and will have shed loads of corporate wannabes paying top dollar for entertainment. There revenue will be even further ahead of the pack and finally give them financial strength to compete.
 
We also had sub 15000 attendances in the 80s. The low number is explained by us been shite and football in general been unpopular. To put it into context Everton finished 7th in the 1st division and averaged 19,000.

My point was that post-war Spurs' support has never sunk that low, and has only been as low as 20,000 once in that time. Spurs also averaged 54,000 in the second division which is 6,000 higher than Chelsea's best ever average attendance. I have acknowledged that the 80's was a tough period for the country so agree with you there, and that is one of the main reasons for Everton's 19,000 average in 1984. In a previous post I mentioned that the city of Liverpool, along with Glasgow was worst affected by unemployment around that time, more so than London.

Like Spurs, post-war we have rarely sunk very low with our attendances, and obviously being a top flight club for almost all of it will be a helping factor. Our crowds never dipped as low as Chelsea, and as you mentioned, yourselves too. But your crowds and Chelsea's were not just limited to the 80's. Post war Spurs have never averaged under 20,000. We have only done it once, in 1984. Chelsea had sub 20k crowds 9 times (including 3 in the early 90's). Sunderland had sub 20k crowds in 16 seasons post-war, including 6 seasons in the 90's. Obviously both yourselves and Chelsea endured some awful football in that time so it's not too surprising but Spurs' support held up in the 70's in the season they went down, still averaging 33k+.

I keep mentioning Post War because crowds of 10,000 etc were common at the beginning of football so pretty much every club had those kind of attendances which were the norm in that era. Spurs and Chelsea joined the league quite a bit later so their crowds didn't start off at sub 10k like Everton and Sunderland's, which isn't really a fair comparison to make as Football was well established when they both joined and enjoyed bigger initial crowds post 1900.
 
My point was that post-war Spurs' support has never sunk that low, and has only been as low as 20,000 once in that time. Spurs also averaged 54,000 in the second division which is 6,000 higher than Chelsea's best ever average attendance. I have acknowledged that the 80's was a tough period for the country so agree with you there, and that is one of the main reasons for Everton's 19,000 average in 1984. In a previous post I mentioned that the city of Liverpool, along with Glasgow was worst affected by unemployment around that time, more so than London.

Like Spurs, post-war we have rarely sunk very low with our attendances, and obviously being a top flight club for almost all of it will be a helping factor. Our crowds never dipped as low as Chelsea, and as you mentioned, yourselves too. But your crowds and Chelsea's were not just limited to the 80's. Post war Spurs have never averaged under 20,000. We have only done it once, in 1984. Chelsea had sub 20k crowds 9 times (including 3 in the early 90's). Sunderland had sub 20k crowds in 16 seasons post-war, including 6 seasons in the 90's. Obviously both yourselves and Chelsea endured some awful football in that time so it's not too surprising but Spurs' support held up in the 70's in the season they went down, still averaging 33k+.

I keep mentioning Post War because crowds of 10,000 etc were common at the beginning of football so pretty much every club had those kind of attendances which were the norm in that era. Spurs and Chelsea joined the league quite a bit later so their crowds didn't start off at sub 10k like Everton and Sunderland's, which isn't really a fair comparison to make as Football was well established when they both joined and enjoyed bigger initial crowds post 1900.
But if you or Spurs were mid table 2nd division in the 80s your attendances would have been as low as ours or Chrlseas. The 70s were different as crowds were still healthy coutrywide.
While unemployment was rife in the North then, I know lots of people who went while unemployed. Theses days I wouldn't expect the unemployed to afford it.
 
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But if you or Spurs were mid table 2nd division in the 80s your attendances would have been as low as ours or Chrlseas. The 70s were different as crowds were still healthy coutrywide.
While unemployment was rife in the North then, I know lots of people who went while unemployed. Theses days I wouldn't expect the unemployed to afford it.

I'm not sure about that. The unemployed or people on benefits these days seems better off than people that work.

Well they all seem to have better telly's anyway..
 
I guess @EssexYid is too busy working his way round the boards of Arsenal, Liverpool, West Ham, Chelsea, Man Utd etc. Don't worry lads, he will get to us.

I'm predicting

"Better to concentrate on the league anyway"
"Come back to me when Sunderland are in Europe rather than sacking their staff"
"Levy is a genius"

Can't get my head around someone who is old enough to 'have been to literally thousands of Spurs games home and away' would come on a Sunderland board just to tell people they're liars and argue. Mental.
 
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