Dot Counting Wycombe 10k - Oct 28th

[Colin B]

First count for this one at midnight last night is showing very good sales of 6,825.

That's our highest midnight on Sunday figure of the season, even higher than the Exeter game at this stage. However about 1,000 tickets were "sold" on the Tuesday of the Exeter game, so I suspect it will (temporarily) drop a little behind that game, but may then overtake it later in the week, particularly if results go our way tomorrow night.

We are 200 ahead of Blackpool, 550 ahead of Bristol Rovers, and 900 ahead of all other games at this stage. If the plucky non league team from High Wycombe bring a decent following, on their big day out, we should comfortably exceed 10,000.

I've gone a little early with my midnight count tonight, as even us dot counters get knackered sometimes, and I need my bed.

Very good sales today of just under 300, leaving us at 7,100 home sales. That's only 134 below the Exeter figure for this stage, and that game had 1,000 "sales" added on the Monday (not the Tuesday as I said above). It finished at 9,113 home sales, so I'd say we're well on course for over 9,000 home sales. We're currently over 1,000 ahead of the Port Vale game at this stage.

We'll definitely do 10,000 and maybe 10,500.

To finish I love the way that I say in my previous post how we'll comfortably exceed 10,000 and then people go on to say how crap we'll be if we DON'T sell 10,000! Have a little positivity guys, it feels nice.............

 

[Steve Gilbert]

I've gone a little early with my midnight count tonight, as even us dot counters get knackered sometimes, and I need my bed.

Very good sales today of just under 300, leaving us at 7,100 home sales. That's only 134 below the Exeter figure for this stage, and that game had 1,000 "sales" added on the Monday (not the Tuesday as I said above). It finished at 9,113 home sales, so I'd say we're well on course for over 9,000 home sales. We're currently over 1,000 ahead of the Port Vale game at this stage.

We'll definitely do 10,000 and maybe 10,500.

To finish I love the way that I say in my previous post how we'll comfortably exceed 10,000 and then people go on to say how crap we'll be if we DON'T sell 10,000! Have a little positivity guys, it feels nice.............

Very good sales, out of interest Colin, is it realistic to think we might actually sell out the home ends?

 

[Thecurraghofkildare]

Unlikely to be a home sell out Steve (leaving aside boxes) - there are still 2400+ home seats available and another 190 that could be put on sale (front rows of blocks in East Stand and South Stand) which are only offered for sale by the club for a small number of ‘capacity matches’.

That said we are about 220 home seat sales ahead of the Blackpool match which ended up with 1,054 seats still available at kick off, and we are also selling at a slightly faster rate than for that match (300 vs 250 approx on equivalent Monday) so as Colin has already forecast we are going well and 9,000 home sales looks achievable - a good result tomorrow night would certainly help!

Will start doing afternoon counts from tomorrow to go alongside Colin’s evening tallies.

 

[Carpy]

It was a little amateur perhaps and not exactly cutting edge journalism

You can say that again!

I didn't bother with iFollow this year, has the rest of the content improved at all? Has someone gone and purchased some microphones for interviews

 

[Colin B]

I've gone a little early with my midnight count tonight, as even us dot counters get knackered sometimes, and I need my bed.

Very good sales today of just under 300, leaving us at 7,100 home sales. That's only 134 below the Exeter figure for this stage, and that game had 1,000 "sales" added on the Monday (not the Tuesday as I said above). It finished at 9,113 home sales, so I'd say we're well on course for over 9,000 home sales. We're currently over 1,000 ahead of the Port Vale game at this stage.

We'll definitely do 10,000 and maybe 10,500.

To finish I love the way that I say in my previous post how we'll comfortably exceed 10,000 and then people go on to say how crap we'll be if we DON'T sell 10,000! Have a little positivity guys, it feels nice.............

Normal Tuesday sales of about 200 yesterday leaving us at 7,300 at midnight.

Still on course for 9,000 home sales, still 1,000 above the Port Vale game, and still just over 100 below the Exeter game.

I was hoping for a rush of ticket sales after winning last night, let's see what happens now.............

 

[Thecurraghofkildare]

1.00pm update on Wednesday and I have total home seat sales at 7,330.

I did a count around 9.30am today and had us at 7,274 then (so slightly below Colin's 7,300 figure from last night) which means approx. 50 sales so far today so last night's result definitely seems to have taken away a bit of momentum after very strong early sales. Add in an estimate for the boxes of 170 (the figure we appeared to achieve vs Blackpool) and we are at 7,500 home sales overall.

Wycombe were given 1,467 tickets but I can't see any indication of how their sales are going as yet

The 2,224 remaining home seats available are split:

South Stand Lower 677 (185/214/14/16/0/12/92/144)
South Stand Upper 466 (205/20/9/0/7/16/209)
East Stand 527 (77/103/49/73/94/131)
North Stand 554 (153/38/173/190)

As a comparison, vs Blackpool home seat sales by midnight on Wednesday were at 7,307 so we are already ahead of that figure on the equivalent day (and will hopefully be around 7,500 by midnight today). We ended up with 8,636 home fans vs Blackpool so if we stay about 200 ahead we should get to 8,850+ home fans (this would compare favourably with 8,621 total home sales for the Wycombe fixture last year when they brought 1,386 and the overall crowd was 10,007).

Which all means a prediction of 10,200 at this stage (assuming Wycombe travel in broadly similar numbers to last year) and hoping that the last two results don't mean a drop off in closer to the day sales compared to last week.

 

[West Oxon U’s]

Wycombe midfielder Josh Scowen misses the Oxford Utd match as he picked up his fifth booking of the season last night in the home 2-4 loss to Bolton.

 

[NottsYellow]

There is nothing on Wycombe website to indicate they have sold their allocation yet.
On the away ticket section there are still details of Oxford away with box "Buy now" to click on, but you you click on it you need log in details, so can't go any further.

 

[Thecurraghofkildare]

7,425 home seat sales as of midnight on Wednesday so the defeat against Wigan definitely appears to have impacted negatively upon the rate of sales today - we are now about 120 ahead of the equivalent day/time for the Blackpool match whereas we were tracking 200+ahead before today. Hopefully sales will pick up again tomorrow.

The remaining 2,129 seats are split 656 SSL, 451 SSU, 511 ES and 511 also NS (which continues to sell well).

 

[Colin B]

As @Thecurraghofkildare says above sales definitely slowed yesterday. I had us at 7,429 so we have the same numbers.

We sold about 150 yesterday, which is our lowest Wednesday sales of the season, with the exception of the Charlton game, where we inexplicably only sold about 100 on the Wednesday. Wednesday sales are usually fairly consistent at about 200, and this game had been selling well, so I'd have expected about 250, so we're certainly down.

It could be that those who didn't buy will buy today or tomorrow, as they were maybe not in the mood after a defeat yesterday? It could be that sales will now tail off, which would be a very poor inditement on our fanbase, if that proved to be the case. I'd hope that we're better than that!

We normally sell 200/300 on a Thursday and between 1,400/1,600 from this point on. The only time we didn't was the Bristol Rovers early kick off, where we only sold 1,000 with much lower match day sales than usual. In summary I'd still expect between 8,800/9,000 home fans to attend. With the away following we should still be above 10,000 (just!).

 

[holdsteady]

Can see Wycombe not selling out, they only had 4,900 against Bolton yesterday despite Bolton bringing 750, I know it’s a Tuesday night but these are Wycombe’s glory years, they don’t seem to have had an increase in crowd numbers at all from that though. I know it’s a small commuter town but they never really seem to have got much of a rise in crowds from being in the Football League.

Be disappointing for us if we don’t get 10k though, that should be achievable on a Saturday 3pm when the opposition bring about a thousand and we are second in the league.

 

[Scrongo]

Can see Wycombe not selling out, they only had 4,900 against Bolton yesterday despite Bolton bringing 750, I know it’s a Tuesday night but these are Wycombe’s glory years, they don’t seem to have had an increase in crowd numbers at all from that though. I know it’s a small commuter town but they never really seem to have got much of a rise in crowds from being in the Football League.

Be disappointing for us if we don’t get 10k though, that should be achievable on a Saturday 3pm when the opposition bring about a thousand and we are second in the league.

You should see Wycombe's train station at weekends there all going to London to watch football. Not to different to Oxford really..sad really....

 

[holdsteady]

You should see Wycombe's train station at weekends there all going to London to watch football. Not to different to Oxford really..sad really....

You should see Reading, although that’s a changeover station so understandable.

I suppose on home games how many people are really going to use any of those 3 stations though, nowhere the grounds.

 

[Scrongo]

Banbury seeing as it's in Oxfordshire, they'res Banbury reds, all the London teams, plus they're on the way West Brom, Wolves, Coventry, Villa, by rights they should be coming to Oxford. Alas a lot of Banbury don't like Oxford fullstop..

 

[Blox21]

Banbury seeing as it's in Oxfordshire, they'res Banbury reds, all the London teams, plus they're on the way West Brom, Wolves, Coventry, Villa, by rights they should be coming to Oxford. Alas a lot of Banbury don't like Oxford fullstop..

yes a lot of Banbury follow West Midlands teams but a sizeable amount are Oxford . Don’t agree with your last sentence at all

 

[Scrongo]

yes a lot of Banbury follow West Midlands teams but a sizeable amount are Oxford . Don’t agree with your last sentence at all

I've seen a lot of previous, Oxford / Banbury over the years, Banbury reds.Also Oxford fans stopping off ,in Banbury on the way home, from matches up north, & Midlands. It also seemed to permanently kick off, when a team from Oxford & Banbury met in one of the local Saturday & Sunday League, cup games & that was just the players... Maybe not now , but definitely previously....

 

[windmill]

Can see Wycombe not selling out, they only had 4,900 against Bolton yesterday despite Bolton bringing 750, I know it’s a Tuesday night but these are Wycombe’s glory years, they don’t seem to have had an increase in crowd numbers at all from that though. I know it’s a small commuter town but they never really seem to have got much of a rise in crowds from being in the Football League.

Be disappointing for us if we don’t get 10k though, that should be achievable on a Saturday 3pm when the opposition bring about a thousand and we are second in the league.

Let's get things into perspective. Averaging around 9000 was unheard of 5 years ago. Attendances have improved significantly year on year. Remember the first league match at the Kassam....9000. Seemed terrific at the time. The return of Jim Smith...7000. We all thought that was great because average attendances were 5,500 to 6,500. You cannot conjure up "committed" supporters from thin air. It takes time coupled with success. Attendance figures at the present moment are very healthy.

 

[OX14]

I've seen a lot of previous, Oxford / Banbury over the years, Banbury reds.Also Oxford fans stopping off ,in Banbury on the way home, from matches up north, & Midlands. It also seemed to permanently kick off, when a team from Oxford & Banbury met in one of the local Saturday & Sunday League, cup games & that was just the players... Maybe not now , but definitely previously....

Banbury reds? Do they support Manchester United? Sorry never heard of Banbury reds.

 

[Scrongo]

Banbury reds? Do they support Manchester United? Sorry never heard of Banbury reds.

Yes

 

[Thecurraghofkildare]

2.30pm update on Thursday and sales remain sluggish.

75 seats sold so far today but set against that 32 seats have become available in central block 12 of SSU (released due to non take up on commercial packages presumably) which were previously shown as gone on the ticket map. So that means net sales of just 43 so far today.

Overall home seat sales stand at 7,468 now with 2,086 seats still available.

North Stand continues to sell fastest by some way (40 of the 75 sales). Add in the box estimate of 170 and we have an overall home figure of 7,638 currently.

Hard to know whether Wycombe will bring as many as last year (when their attendance was 1,386) but it looks like we will need a similar level of turn out from them to hit the 10,000 figure now. Could really do with a strong marketing push from the club today/tomorrow as well because it has felt quiet enough to date.