The ends of the East Stand have looked empty for this seasons home games.
It was a mistake making the whole thing reserved, although I can understand why they thought it was necessary. But that's not necessarily the full reason East Stand sometimes looks as patchy. The "family" area in West Stand looks to have had a decent take up, making it busier over there. Some also shifted into South stand from East as well. Our crowd is more spread out than it was.
11856 isn't that bad considering the performances. Although Cas brought a decent crowd to bump it up. Due to the agreement I'll believe the number as it costs FC after all, they'd be more likely to underestimate to overestimate.
I can only go on the Boulevard but most of the time it was spot on, as Karen says sometimes it would be a couple of hundred out but we used to do meter readings before we opened and as the turnstiles closed and the figure we gave was the actual match day attendance, thats paying customers and season passes coming through the turnstiles. As I understood it and I'm far from an expert but the more people in the ground the more you had to pay to the tax man so to "up" your gate figures would cost you more money.
On cup games we always had a representative from the other club shadowing us and checking our figures and both parties had to agree on the amount of money taken and attendance figures. I can honestly say to my knowledge in the 16 years I worked the turnstiles it was all done above board and correctly, the amount of money and tickets taken always tallied to the attendance figures given out, except on the odd occasion when a few hundred might have been added which we put down to typo errors
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