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Matches V Derby (h) **let’s get 10k**

We're currently at just over 7,050 home sales, so we've already beaten my target of 7,000 by end of play Monday.

Sales are ahead of last season's games against Sheff Wed, Portsmouth, Bolton and Ipswich at the end of Monday, so looking really good, as all were 10,000+ and Ipswich was over 11,000. We always sell at least 1,700 from Monday night onwards for the bigger games, so I'm very confident that we'll end up with well over 10,000 for this game. In response to @Foley the last three days before KO are always the busiest.

All things considered, sales so far are bloody brilliant.
 
Remaining seats as of 6.00pm on Monday are 2,485.

Seats left in each stand and block are as follow:

South Stand Lower 489 (110/102/52/5/0/23/81/116)
South Stand Upper 434 (181/10/13/0/9/13/208)
East Stand 741 (111/133/75/99/102/221)
North Stand 821 (207/141/212/261)

That means overall we are at 7,060 home seats sales. Add on Derby (1400+) and boxes (290 max) and we are at an estimated 8,750.
 
Colin B said:
We're currently at just over 7,050 home sales, so we've already beaten my target of 7,000 by end of play Monday.

Sales are ahead of last season's games against Sheff Wed, Portsmouth, Bolton and Ipswich at the end of Monday, so looking really good, as all were 10,000+ and Ipswich was over 11,000. We always sell at least 1,700 from Monday night onwards for the bigger games, so I'm very confident that we'll end up with well over 10,000 for this game. In response to @Foley the last three days before KO are always the busiest.

All things considered, sales so far are bloody brilliant.
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Home sales were 7,163 at midnight, so just over 100 in the last 24 hours, which is about where I thought we'd be when I did my count Sunday night, and still well on track for 10,000+. It's also higher than comparable games last season by a couple of hundred.

We should expect sales of about 200 a day over the next 48 hours and then 300/400 a day for Thursday and Friday. On the day sales are usually between 400 to 600 for these sort of games, but can be as high as 900.

I get the impression that some people may be holding fire until a new manager is announced, so we could see a big spike later in the week once this has been announced.
 
7,300 at midnight last night.

Slightly slower over the last 24 hours but nothing to worry about as we're still about 100 ahead of Sheff Wed and Portsmouth games at this stage, 800 ahead of Bolton and 100 below Ipswich (11,000+ attendance).

10,000+ is still on, but a new manager boost would be a great help!
 
Remaining seats as of 7.30pm on Wednesday are 2,264.

Seats left in each stand and block are as follow:

South Stand Lower 414 (103/89/34/5/0/23/67/93)
South Stand Upper 404 (181/10/13/0/9/13/208)
East Stand 690 (105/121/66/92/98/208)
North Stand 756 (192/121/204/239)

That means my overall figure is lower than Colin's from last night at 7,281 home seats sales. (Colin - are you working off 9,545 as the home seats capacity?)

Add on Derby (1400+) and boxes (290 max) and we are at an estimated 8,971.
 
Well, this is a strange one, and is becoming very hard to call.

Sales at midnight were a handful under 7,400 which means only 100 sold in the past 24 hours. In fact sales this week have been only about 100 a day, which is a little below the usual sales for the bigger games at this stage, after a very bright start. We are now about par with the Sheff Wed and Portsmouth games from last season, but behind the Ipswich game.

We need about 1,200 sales to hit 10,000 total, which I'd normally be confident of, but I'm not so sure now. We need MApp announced as manager today, as I feel any other announcement (or no announcement!) won't have enough impact to boost sales to the level required.

@Thecurraghofkildare I am counting in some of the front rows that are set aside, and then added back in in the days before match day, so as to avoid having to adjust the total mid count. I'll PM you the block by block numbers later or tomorrow, when I've got a bit more time.
 
Colin B said:
Well, this is a strange one, and is becoming very hard to call.

Sales at midnight were a handful under 7,400 which means only 100 sold in the past 24 hours. In fact sales this week have been only about 100 a day, which is a little below the usual sales for the bigger games at this stage, after a very bright start. We are now about par with the Sheff Wed and Portsmouth games from last season, but behind the Ipswich game.

We need about 1,200 sales to hit 10,000 total, which I'd normally be confident of, but I'm not so sure now. We need MApp announced as manager today, as I feel any other announcement (or no announcement!) won't have enough impact to boost sales to the level required.
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I can handle the board taking several months too long to sack Robinson. I can even handle the fact that in doing so they might well get us relegated. But I cannot and will not handle their indecision in appointing someone new messing with the expectations of our dot counters.
 
The final straw indeed Ryan! My dot counting expectations have been cruelly dashed!

Did a count at 3.00pm and remaining seats were 2,161 so only 100 more sold since early evening yesterday.

Suspect we won't make it to 10,000 now unless there is a managerial appointment and a last minute bounce from it.
 
This is the strangest dot count I've done for a long time!

Sales at midnight were between 7,500 and 7,550 which means about 150 sales over the previous 24 hours. This still puts us within 100 of the Sheff Wed, Portsmouth, and Bolton 10,000+ attendances from last season, at this point, despite the sluggish week of sales. It's due to the higher early figures, which I think are due to higher season ticket sales than last season and some good post KR sales early last week.

We normally sell between 400 and 600 on a Friday for these sort of games, and between 400 and 600 on the day (which includes the 290 people in boxes). This would get us to just over 8,500 home sales and just tip us over the 10,000 total. The problem is that there has been nothing "normal" about this one, so anything could happen!

I'll do an early afternoon count, but will then be busy all evening, so will do my normal midnight count and post it on here in the morning.
 
Blox21 said:
I think you should also factor in the weather
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Especially as a possible hard frost is forecast for tonight. I know there is a pitch cover but this didn't prevent the Barnsley game from being called off. I know the club are trying to sell tickets but they should have mentioned on the official site whether or not a precautionary pitch inspection is planned for Saturday morning. Other clubs are more transparent than Oxford are when it comes to discussing the risks of a home game being called off.
 
Maybe I am looking at the wrong weather forecast but it doesn't look that bad in Oxford tomorrow? Well to get a game of football played in, not to sunbathe.

I swear every time it gets a bit nippy someone on here starts saying the game will be off, fairly standard March weather for this country.

Shite drive down for Derby fans but games have never been called off for that before.
 
Lightbulb moment. Give "The Migrants In Boats" tickets, the cost of which we can claim back from our generous Government. Sell out every week.
Simples.
 
holdsteady said:
Maybe I am looking at the wrong weather forecast but it doesn't look that bad in Oxford tomorrow? Well to get a game of football played in, not to sunbathe.

I swear every time it gets a bit nippy someone on here starts saying the game will be off, fairly standard March weather for this country.

Shite drive down for Derby fans but games have never been called off for that before.
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Remember the Baseball Ground. Weston Super Mare mudflats....on a good day.
 
Colin B said:
This is the strangest dot count I've done for a long time!

Sales at midnight were between 7,500 and 7,550 which means about 150 sales over the previous 24 hours. This still puts us within 100 of the Sheff Wed, Portsmouth, and Bolton 10,000+ attendances from last season, at this point, despite the sluggish week of sales. It's due to the higher early figures, which I think are due to higher season ticket sales than last season and some good post KR sales early last week.

We normally sell between 400 and 600 on a Friday for these sort of games, and between 400 and 600 on the day (which includes the 290 people in boxes). This would get us to just over 8,500 home sales and just tip us over the 10,000 total. The problem is that there has been nothing "normal" about this one, so anything could happen!

I'll do an early afternoon count, but will then be busy all evening, so will do my normal midnight count and post it on here in the morning.
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Do your midnight count accompanied with a wee dram of Glenfiddich......and come up with some good numbers.
 
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