Crowd at Bramall Lane v Wigan

[Grey Beard]

I understand it was 2950. Looked to be quite a few more than that to me. Can we have a recount ?

[jonny]

Maybe they only counted the paying customers and ignored all the wigan free ticketeers. !!??

[Grey Beard]

The John Street Stand has a capacity of just under 7000. It certainly looked more than half full to me so I guess you may be correct about not including Wigan's freeloaders.

[Griff]

They didn't look very tightly packed to me. There were big sections at either end completely empty.

What tends to happen is that people will leave a seat or two between their party and people they don't know. So you get a false impression of how many were there. If the stand holds 7000, probably take off 1000 at either end for the empty bits, 2950 won't be far out.

[wings beneath my feet]

It's at least 1500 more than we would have got at don valley