Total 16,361 with 3,870 from Portsmouth home 12,491 home.
Seen various comments on other threads about the attendance , ignoring the Pompey travelling support, which as usual we provided with a great day out. What can be said for 12,500 home.
If you were looking to buy the club would you see that level of support as encouraging or would it put you off, with the view a 25th Anniversary game and that's all that came.
The club in my view cocked it up. As I largely support the boycott I am not a regular any more. When have come I sit in upper west. The seat this season is £17, Saturday to watch us turn in an inept performance and make Pompeys day out I paid £22. Was the club right to add a premium to this fixture ? Should it have been discounted £10, £12 or £15 for my seat. I certainly think the premium price reduced the attendance.
It's a fact that some clubs in our leauge would not get 12,500 if they made a game free. So was 12,500 at the inflated price good or bad.
If I was looking to buy / sell the club I would have thought showing the potential support would be a better option than financial gain from the game. Priced at £10 and £5 we could have pushed past the 20,000 and shown any interested parties that the fan base exists, it just needs a proper owner to manage it and exploit the opportunity.
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As you know Airman is a very good source on all things attendance so I am happy with these numbers.
Fill the home stands.
No extra for away.
Make it a day for us.
The home attendance was poor a heavily flagged high profile fixture. Some weren't there because they are boycotting but imo that number is small and in hundreds, not thousands.
We held on to a large amount of people post prem years but a large chunk of them off the back of what's happened the last few years are now gone I fear
It's clear that there is so little respect for the SMT that they were always going to be criticised for how they handled so this day they might as well make some money doing it.
I'm sure that was the logic and as we will never know what the gate would have been if they'd charged half the price we will never know if they were successful in making more money or not.
Poor for a special game with a big away turn out.
It wasn't well promoted, left far too late to push it and then didn't tell people what was happening in the build up until the last minute (possibly because they hadn't decided what was happening until the last minute).
Just sell the club.
Back to 10,000 for the "Who has the worst owner match up" on the 23rd
I spoke to one regular who decided not to go because they had put the prices up, although that person eventually got a free ticket so did go.
As usual, at least one person on the SMT was predicting a 20k crowd, which was always impossible at full price based on any detailed understanding of the numbers. It's really not difficult to understand how these things work if you have the historic figures.
My short term hope is that the Belgium guy sells, we stay competitive in the top 6, and the Blackburn match in May is still important for both clubs. Hopefully, this can be our first real chance to see how many supports will attend on a big match day.
Hard core boycotters were staying away anyway
Many casual fans would just see it as another 3rd division match, on a cold day in December, Pompey aren't that attractive opposition anyway
The team is playing ok, but not brilliantly at the moment
Those clappy things. Good to see the club coughed up for many thousands more than could possibly have been needed. They looked proper silly sticking in all those unused seats across the west stand.
Certainly plenty of junior football club kids sat around us in the east on Saturday, all obviously on comps.
Barely a queue at the north stand ticket collection as we walked in. Safe to assume many more tickets sold to Portsmouth supporters than to Charlton, which ain't pleasant reading for the chances of a significant upturn in attendances when our arrogant eurotwat bungler finally crystallizes his huge loss on his Charlton experiment. There'll be lots of work to do to retrieve many of the stayed aways.
Maybe my fault for being a stick in the mud about not going until the club changes hands but they aren't aware of how to market anything effectively imho.
Still, I reckon it will be double the gate of the next home game.
https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/publish?attendances?comp=3
https://www.transfermarkt.com/league-one/besucherzahlen/wettbewerb/GB3/saison_id/2017/plus/1