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Post by avfo on Nov 17, 2017 23:33:37 GMT
Usually its standard that non attending STH's are included in the attendance (just look at arsenals cup attendances compared to the actual crowd) but not sure if they are included at Chester, likely that they will be. This is often said, but I think it's a myth. The attendance is the attendance, surely?The attendance, if I'm not mistaken, is recorded by how many times the turnstile turns. Season ticket holders and cash payers both go through the same gate, so how would the turnstile know whether the person going through is a season ticket holder or not? The club would have to count up how many season ticket stubs they collected, take that away from the recorded figure at the turnstiles, then add on the total number of season ticket holders - all to come up with an inaccurate attendance figure! The theory doesn't make sense, I don't think. I suspect that CFC publish actual attendances but not every club does. Arsenal base their 59-60,000 sellouts on tickets (including ST's) sold not the number of punters turning up on the day. These are the actual attendances for all AFC's home matches for season 2015/16 courtesy of our friends at the Met - www.met.police.uk/globalassets/foi-media/disclosure_2016/june_2016/information-rights-unit---attendance-for-each-home-fixture-at-the-emirates-stadium-for-the-whole-of-20152016-seasonIf you scroll down to fixtures and click on 'show' these are the attendances for the same fixtures as supplied by the club - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316_Arsenal_F.C._season |
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Post by Anders on Nov 18, 2017 1:20:03 GMT
Usually its standard that non attending STH's are included in the attendance (just look at arsenals cup attendances compared to the actual crowd) but not sure if they are included at Chester, likely that they will be. This is often said, but I think it's a myth. The attendance is the attendance, surely? The attendance, if I'm not mistaken, is recorded by how many times the turnstile turns. Season ticket holders and cash payers both go through the same gate, so how would the turnstile know whether the person going through is a season ticket holder or not? The club would have to count up how many season ticket stubs they collected, take that away from the recorded figure at the turnstiles, then add on the total number of season ticket holders - all to come up with an inaccurate attendance figure! The theory doesn't make sense, I don't think. Aye, you’re bang on, I’ve seen the attendance monitoring system in action. We give the number actually in the Stadium. |
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