swindon attendance???

[Deleted]

You are not allowed to count complementry tickets against you attendance figures........so you must have given a lot away or are you saying that the club is on a TAX fiddle???

[JSmith]

As far as I know there were no complementary tickets given out for this game what has happened is simple.

I don't know if anyone has picked up on this but I reckon the reason they said only 1,500 went was because the club has to share 1/2 of the ticket takings. Therefore saying only 1,500 went means that Histon don't have to give Swindon that much, and get to keep the rest.

And as far as I know, I don't think that is breaking the rules? I mean there was easily over 2,500 fans there, easily. They brought close to the 800 mark and with both mainstands completely jammed, with behind the goals full as well, there is no chance it was only 1,500.

Good move by Histon though! Very clever!

[Deleted]

But illegal and will get you docked points and it is also fraud so I dont think your directors are that stupid

[bobby]

I have the feeling that that is NOT allowed.

I'm guessing that somewhere the counting has gone all wrong, I think it's a innocent as that.
And no, the directors are not that stupid, or crooked, so I really think it has been a c0c£ up somwehere along the lines

[Deleted]

Me dont think so as they have put the attendance on the Histon Official web site

www.histonfc.co.uk/fixtures.php?team=1

[Deleted]

I did not say they didnt just that a lot of complementary tickets must have been giving out as these tickets do not count towards attendance figures

[Deleted]

mmmmmm stewards inquirey then unless it is true and they used all six fingers in the count.

Or quite simply Histon are trying to rip Swindon Off

[bobby]

I think at the turnstlye I was standing near, at least 1K people came through it. And that was AFTER I turned up.

The club have to publicly announce a figure, so they have gone with the very bad guess

[Deleted]

Well you might be right there. I just looked at the Swindon OS and they got the attendance as zero...............?

[bobby]

I'm not sure but I think there was slightly more than that there

[Deleted]

I dont know where you lot are coming from??? There was around 3k for last years game against CUFC and the place was jammed - around six deep around the ground - theres no way it was more than half of that yesterday so 15 hundred seems about right to me

[Deleted]

Nov 9, 2008 20:25:41 GMT @mikecheck said:

why were people going through the gates then, if they were given tickets they dont have to.
My dad works on the doors where the complimentary people go through and he said they were only given 3 tickets per player, which is about 90 tickets maximum.

Not sure who your Dad is but there was only one place where people with complimentary tickets were supposed to go through yesterday and I don't think your Dad was that turnstile operator so I think it's best that this discussion is closed.
Some of it verges on libellous!!

[Deleted]

Indeed it does Jo, I thought it was bad enough when the CUFC fans are always accusing us of massaging the gate figures - but to have our own fans doing it beggars belief!!!!

[marke]

Nov 10, 2008 0:44:27 GMT @dc007 said:

I dont know where you lot are coming from??? There was around 3k for last years game against CUFC and the place was jammed - around six deep around the ground - theres no way it was more than half of that yesterday so 15 hundred seems about right to me

Yes, there were quite a few empty seats on the far side and the terraces were not crammed full. 1571 seems a bit on the low side, but is probably correct. A bit disappointing really, I would have expected a larger gate.