Empty Seats last night

[Kopite Pete]

There were quiet a few empty seats last night, cash turnstiles again even with Suarez debut. Is it the Thomas cook tickets that are not selling, I guess if it is the price of the flights and with the current climate its inevitable.

[Nomad]

I know what your saying but i think its diwn to the fact it was a Wednesday night and also people still recovering from Christmas with only just being paid.

[The Special One]

Maybe because it was a midweek game?

[Kopite Pete]

I know what your saying but i think its diwn to the fact it was a Wednesday night and also people still recovering from Christmas with only just being paid.

 

Yep, I could understand it under Woy but under Kenny I am a bit surprised. Maybe the club needs to look at how they issue tickets. Im sure the demand is still there.

[Guest davelfc]

Most people have probably just paid their credit card bill for Christmas, fuel is bloody expensive and it costs £10 to park at most car parks around anfield.

 

If you look around a lof of other clubs in the premiership I think you will find that for the same kind of opposition we actually still attract a lot more fans. I think we had the 4th highest attendance in the premiership either last season or the one before.

 

Football clubs especially in the premiership tend to operate on the assumption that fans shit money on a regular basis and so can easily pay extortionate amounts of cash for everything they churn out. If only we earned even a sliver of the cash that they throw at their players each week then maybe we could.

 

I suppose as the government eagerly redistributes money from the poor to the rich over the next decade our belts might become so tightened that only injured or non selected players will be able to enjoy the luxury of 22 millionaires ruining a lawn.

[George Costanza]

tbh its about time the fucking bubble burst in terms of match going support. The tickets prices nowadays (and have been for a while) is fucking riduculous.

 

We're the mugs who have to fork out £40 every week (more when we play clubs from fucking London) to pay for the riduclous wages that the current footballers are on.

[usernameunknown]

Thought the attendance was pretty damn good considering the prices, not long after xmas and while some wont like me saying this we are basically playing for nothing in the league.

[redsoxs]

What was the official attendance?

[piscinin]

What was the official attendance?

 

40,254

[Antynwa]

Sound for me.

 

Fuck all anyone to steward

[Fugitive]

I had a ticket for last night but fucked my neck up and could not make it at the last minute. I tried to give my ticket away to a few people by ours but nobody wanted it. My old man gave it away outside the ground.

[dirk grout]

Sound for me.

 

Fuck all anyone to steward

 

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[Beno]

I think a lot of people are under the impression that tickets are still hard to come by and don't realise that we are not selling out any more. Also a lot of people can't be arsed after being fucked off by successive owners/directors in favour of glory hunters who come and spend money in the club shops, they would now rather go to the boozer and spend less, have some ale and watch the match in a better atmosphere than going to Anfield.

Also we are in the middle of a bad recession and it's only going to get worse once the public sector cuts come into play this year ,so seeing Anfield full might be a rare sight.

Even Man U are having to advertise tickets on National Radio these days as they are struggling to sell their groung out.

[Guest ShoePiss]

?

 

He's a steward at Anfield and can't string a sentence together.

[VladimirIlyich]

I have been offered a few tickets for games this season but had to turn them down,including the Chelsea game.

 

I cant speak for others but £40 to watch 90 minutes of football is just out of my reach.

Maybe this is the same with others.

[Guest barralad]

Most people have probably just paid their credit card bill for Christmas, fuel is bloody expensive and it costs £10 to park at most car parks around Anfield.

 

If you look around a lot of other clubs in the premiership I think you will find that for the same kind of opposition we actually still attract a lot more fans. I think we had the 4Th highest attendance in the premiership either last season or the one before.

 

Football clubs especially in the premiership tend to operate on the assumption that fans shit money on a regular basis and so can easily pay extortionate amounts of cash for everything they churn out. If only we earned even a sliver of the cash that they throw at their players each week then maybe we could.

 

I suppose as the government eagerly redistributes money from the poor to the rich over the next decade our belts might become so tightened that only injured or non selected players will be able to enjoy the luxury of 22 millionaires ruining a lawn.

 

If you get there early Dave, there are plenty of free parking spots around,within a 10/15 minute walk of the ground.If the attendance is even partly down to the Thomas Cook effect then that needs to be sorted.It doesn't look good though if this continues,midweek or not,if the owners or supporters want a new bigger stadium.

[Guest davelfc]

If you get there early Dave, there are plenty of free parking spots around,within a 10/15 minute walk of the ground.If the attendance is even partly down to the Thomas Cook effect then that needs to be sorted.It doesn't look good though if this continues,midweek or not,if the owners or supporters want a new bigger stadium.

 

We have a pretty decent reserved spot in a good place to make a quick dash. When it went up sharply in price we looked around but it's a maze of residents parking and it's not clearly marked enough, although I know what to look for.

 

Plus when they can be bothered to get out of their warm van the police block off roads and you can get locked in for a while.

 

Makes me wonder why the club bother to pay the police all that overtime when they don't manage the traffic after the game very well, if at all.

[njackets]

The mancs still managed 70k odd, this match would of sold out a couple of seasons ago glory hunters not being arsed no more.

[Funkasy]

Poor seasons are always gonna have less attendance, and it was mid week

[George Costanza]

also so much for needing a 70k stadium. 55-60k is plenty imo

[bobhorse]

It will be those fans that burned their season tickets in protest when the board sacked the best coach in England :whistle:

[Halcyon Days]

Arsenal always have a gate of 59 to 60k even though sometimes you can see hundreds (thousands?) of empty seats. Do all clubs calculate attendance the same way?

[Istvan Kozma]

seen mancs advertising tickets for the villa game in the Metro awful free paper thing. used to be a years waiting list for them and they still have a decent team, so it effects everyone all this belt tightening

[dou9thekopite]

how many actual season ticket holders are there, does anyone know? and is there a system in place for allowing people to use the seats not taken up by season ticket holders?

[Gray Riley]

You think £40 is bad. Have you seen what they're asking for Sparta Prague away??? £145 just for the ticket from the official site and that's just the ticket not a package.