RLWC Attendance-O-Meter

[RL Tragic]

Just now, RL Tragic said:

Doesn’t matter how you dress that attendance up that’s really poor . 

Just to confirm not saying Archie Gordon was dressing it up . 

[Dave T]

45 minutes ago, Spidey said:

Sorry for being that guy, but there’s a worrying number of empty seats here

It just isn't anything like a sellout is it? 

[gingerjon]

Anyone know what the highest England v France attendance in England is?

[Dave T]

4 minutes ago, gingerjon said:

Anyone know what the highest England v France attendance in England is?

1951 they got 31.8k.

22k in the 2013 WC Quarter Final. 

This should sit between those. 

Against GB there was a 50k and a 37k, but we are talking 60 to 70 years ago. 

[Big Picture]

7 minutes ago, gingerjon said:

Anyone know what the highest England v France attendance in England is?

The highest in the last few decades was 22,276 in the quarter-finals of the 2013 World Cup.  You have to go back the 1950s for a bigger crowd at an England-France match.

Edited October 22, 2022 by Big Picture

[Dave T]

I do sympathise with anyone who got caught in the traffic at Bolton. Absolutely horrible place when anything goes wrong. 

[RL Sutton Coldfield]

23,648 announced 

Edited October 22, 2022 by RL Sutton Coldfield

[gingerjon]

8 minutes ago, Big Picture said:

The highest in the last few decades was 22,276 in the quarter-finals of the 2013 World Cup.  You have to go back the 1950s for a bigger crowd at an England-France match.

Highest England v France game in England in 70 years then.

And to think some people will be disappointed.

[Spidey]

5 minutes ago, RL Sutton Coldfield said:

23,638 announced 

Still 5K left

[Big Picture]

6 minutes ago, RL Sutton Coldfield said:

23,638 announced 

That makes the total now 132,832 and the average 11,069.

[Chrispmartha]

Looked and sounded good in the TV

[bratman]

Good crowd.

[Dave T]

10 minutes ago, gingerjon said:

Highest England v France game in England in 70 years then.

And to think some people will be disappointed.

It's an OK crowd. 

I think it's clear we can ignore any sales updates from official sources. 

[Leonard]

Great crowd and looked good on TV

But makes little sense compared to what they were saying in the press - 3k seats left and restricted seats open?

28,723 is the capacity - unless some seats were taken up for screens etc.

So either a lot of seats were blocked off for some reason or comments in the press were loose with the truth.

[Leonard]

1 minute ago, Dave T said:

It's an OK crowd. 

I think it's clear we can ignore any sales updates from official sources. 

Yes

[Leonard]

12k for Sheffield then.

[Dave T]

Just now, Leonard said:

12k for Sheffield then.

That's the risk now. Fingers crossed for 20k.

[faithfulbyname]

2 minutes ago, Leonard said:

Great crowd and looked good on TV

But makes little sense compared to what they were saying in the press - 3k seats left and restricted seats open?

28,723 is the capacity - unless some seats were taken up for screens etc.

So either a lot of seats were blocked off for some reason or comments in the press were loose with the truth.

Or maybe people bought tickets and didn't show up

[Dave T]

2 minutes ago, Leonard said:

Great crowd and looked good on TV

But makes little sense compared to what they were saying in the press - 3k seats left and restricted seats open?

28,723 is the capacity - unless some seats were taken up for screens etc.

So either a lot of seats were blocked off for some reason or comments in the press were loose with the truth.

I think the media box takes space, although not sure why we are giving up so much capacity at grounds. 

[Dave T]

1 minute ago, faithfulbyname said:

Or maybe people bought tickets and didn't show up

They'd still count in the total, I think. 

[Leonard]

Just now, faithfulbyname said:

Or maybe people bought tickets and didn't show up

I have wondered that. I have a friend with 3 x tickets for Sheffield and can't make it.

I had a spare for Italy v Sco as a friend who came to SJP went home early Sunday etc.

[Leonard]

Just now, Dave T said:

They'd still count in the total, I think. 

Yes they would.

[Chrispmartha]

7 minutes ago, Dave T said:

It's an OK crowd. 

I think it's clear we can ignore any sales updates from official sources. 

Why, didn’t say there was 5k tickets unsold? Which is about right isnt it?

[Dave T]

Just now, Chrispmartha said:

Why, didn’t say there was 5k tickets unsold? Which is about right isnt it?

No. Over a fortnight they told us there were fewer than 5k. 

Then this week they told us there was a huge surge and there were fewer than 3k.

That was around Tuesday. Clearly they were working to a reduced capacity, so they will claim their update was right, but there were a lot of empty seats in expensive Central seats under the camera, so it didn't look like they were unable to be sold. 

We may as well just say its a sellout and claim our capacity was 23.7k.

But it is what it is, I thought England played well and thankfully Bolton always looks good on TV, its a decent stadium layout with steep banking. 

[Chrispmartha]

2 minutes ago, Dave T said:

No. Over a fortnight they told us there were fewer than 5k. 

Then this week they told us there was a huge surge and there were fewer than 3k.

That was around Tuesday. Clearly they were working to a reduced capacity, so they will claim their update was right, but there were a lot of empty seats in expensive Central seats under the camera, so it didn't look like they were unable to be sold. 

We may as well just say its a sellout and claim our capacity was 23.7k.

But it is what it is, I thought England played well and thankfully Bolton always looks good on TV, its a decent stadium layout with steep banking. 

Ok, organisers embellishments aside it was a good crowd which sounded and looked good on TV