Originally Posted by
Lawnmower
I don’t have any insider information on this, but this is how I’d work it out.
Crowd was 30750.
Taking away what 7-800 Huddersfield fans then that’s about 30000 home fans.
That’s what I claimed and I wasn’t far out.
I actually expected a lot more away fans ( they were given 2250 tickets- although I was aware they had sent some back- I still thought they’d bring 1200-1500) and a few hundred more home fans. My prediction ( which is elsewhere- not on here) was about 1000 out
After segregation our capacity yesterday maybe 32500, possibly more as the amount of segregation has varied .
So 1750 empty spaces, 6-800 in the away end, with a few hundred more in level 4, 300 ish in 119 which was the block we had back off and several hundred in the block of the Family Stand which was put on sale, plus potentially other empty seats in the Family Stand.
Level 4 and the Family Stand don’t get put on eticketing.
I don’t think there were many more tickets which could have gone up on eticketing, although there may be a few dozen in each stand kept for match day.
The rest of the ground seemed full ( allowing for the usual non attendance of season ticket holders)
The very thought of having 30000 home fans for a game against Huddersfield would have been laughed at a few years ago