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Essexyellows said:
Just rang up and got 2 guest tickets to go with my ST for Boxing Day...... dragging the in-laws up from Devon for it.


I`m hoping BinL will let me drive the Aston. ? ? ?
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Coincidentally, I am dragging inlaws from Devon along to the Lincoln game. Father in law is a QPR fan, and as such gets reminded about 1986 every time I see him ?
 
The Lincoln tickets seem to be going pretty well especially as there are nearly 5 weeks left ( and over a week left of the festive deal).
 
Didcotox said:
No, you can choose your specific seats
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I tried doing the two game deal online and it choose random seats for me. I couldn't see a way to choose a particular seat on this option.

I could, however, choose the seats if I bought both games individually... At full price [emoji848]
 
Sales have been quite steady across the Wycombe and Lincoln games over the last week, with Lincoln game slightly ahead at the moment.

They're both approaching the 6,000 mark which may not seem a lot, but is unheard of for games over a month away. We've sold about 1,000 for each game in the last week. I'd expect sales to pick up toward the deadline of the 30th (for the discounted price) and to obviously ramp up as we get closer to the games. I'd be very surprised if we don't easily make the 10,000 target for both.

Be interesting to know exactly how many half season tickets we've sold, but spoke to someone at the club yesterday and they're very pleased with the sales of them. The good thing about them is that they affect the average attendance for the rest of the season, so I think we've already seen our lowest gate of the season by some distance.
 
Colin B said:
Sales have been quite steady across the Wycombe and Lincoln games over the last week, with Lincoln game slightly ahead at the moment.

They're both approaching the 6,000 mark which may not seem a lot, but is unheard of for games over a month away. We've sold about 1,000 for each game in the last week. I'd expect sales to pick up toward the deadline of the 30th (for the discounted price) and to obviously ramp up as we get closer to the games. I'd be very surprised if we don't easily make the 10,000 target for both.

Be interesting to know exactly how many half season tickets we've sold, but spoke to someone at the club yesterday and they're very pleased with the sales of them. The good thing about them is that they affect the average attendance for the rest of the season, so I think we've already seen our lowest gate of the season by some distance.
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dont know about half season ticket sales, however I was informed that 'over 1000 new memberships were sold over a week or so' in the run in to , & during the Citeh tickets being on sale
 
Colin B said:
Sales have been quite steady across the Wycombe and Lincoln games over the last week, with Lincoln game slightly ahead at the moment.

They're both approaching the 6,000 mark which may not seem a lot, but is unheard of for games over a month away. We've sold about 1,000 for each game in the last week. I'd expect sales to pick up toward the deadline of the 30th (for the discounted price) and to obviously ramp up as we get closer to the games. I'd be very surprised if we don't easily make the 10,000 target for both.

Be interesting to know exactly how many half season tickets we've sold, but spoke to someone at the club yesterday and they're very pleased with the sales of them. The good thing about them is that they affect the average attendance for the rest of the season, so I think we've already seen our lowest gate of the season by some distance.
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Colin your post has made me disproportionately joyful.

it’s a strange thing at oxford how much we care about attendances and I sometimes wonder if other clubs are quite so obsessed. At university my friends who had season tickets elsewhere used to find it amusing my keen interest in Sunday paper attendance averages.

i guess it’s the lifeblood of the club in terms of revenue and also a difference of 1000 makes a significant difference to atmosphere
 
Sarge said:
dont know about half season ticket sales, however I was informed that 'over 1000 new memberships were sold over a week or so' in the run in to , & during the Citeh tickets being on sale
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Useful cashflow when we had a period without games.
 
Ricky Otto said:
Colin your post has made me disproportionately joyful.

it’s a strange thing at oxford how much we care about attendances and I sometimes wonder if other clubs are quite so obsessed. At university my friends who had season tickets elsewhere used to find it amusing my keen interest in Sunday paper attendance averages.

i guess it’s the lifeblood of the club in terms of revenue and also a difference of 1000 makes a significant difference to atmosphere
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I guess you're a bit of an attendance geek, like myself then! Like you, I've always been fascinated by them and am old enough to remember many years ago when, for FA Cup games only, the Sunday papers published not only the attendances, but also the gate receipts. Now that really got my juices flowing!!! I also like the fact that there is now information available regarding away attendances too.

I don't think it's exclusively an Oxford thing, but I do think we have a higher level of interest in attendances than many other fanbases. Not sure why, perhaps we just have more stattos among us?
 
Also one for Colin B. I went to the evening game vs West Ham and noticed during a boring bit of play when we weren’t thrashing them and it looked like all the floodlights were working.

I remember a post suggesting it wasn’t economic to replace a few bulbs.

So were we told we had to replace them this season , or did the club enforce this ? Or did Kasstad do this out of the goodness of their cold, loveless heart ?
 
Colin B said:
The good thing about them is that they affect the average attendance for the rest of the season, so I think we've already seen our lowest gate of the season by some distance.
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When did attendance figures stop being oeoe on the ground for a game? Seems to be a modern thing to me, or have season ticket holders always been counted irrespective of attendance?
 
SteMerritt said:
When did attendance figures stop being oeoe on the ground for a game? Seems to be a modern thing to me, or have season ticket holders always been counted irrespective of attendance?
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I think this article might answer your question.

"Most teams in the Premier League choose to publicise the number of tickets sold for a game rather than the number of people actually in the stadium. That means they include season ticket holders who don't attend, and complimentary tickets that are not used".

I should imagine it happens in the EFL as well

www.bbc.co.uk

Are clubs giving the full picture on attendances?

Arsenal's official attendance figures have often been questioned, but Manchester City and West Ham are among other clubs whose published figures differ from police and council numbers.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
Ricky Otto said:
Colin your post has made me disproportionately joyful.

it’s a strange thing at oxford how much we care about attendances and I sometimes wonder if other clubs are quite so obsessed. At university my friends who had season tickets elsewhere used to find it amusing my keen interest in Sunday paper attendance averages.

i guess it’s the lifeblood of the club in terms of revenue and also a difference of 1000 makes a significant difference to atmosphere
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I thought that I was on my own, but average attendances... love it.
I am not sure that this is an oxford thing though?
 
gerrysummers said:
I think this article might answer your question.

"Most teams in the Premier League choose to publicise the number of tickets sold for a game rather than the number of people actually in the stadium. That means they include season ticket holders who don't attend, and complimentary tickets that are not used".

I should imagine it happens in the EFL as well

www.bbc.co.uk

Are clubs giving the full picture on attendances?

Arsenal's official attendance figures have often been questioned, but Manchester City and West Ham are among other clubs whose published figures differ from police and council numbers.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Arsenal appear to have tens of thousands of empty seats and show 60000 attendance
 
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