Quarter Final crowd prediction ?

[A llad insane]

Aberdeen v Partick Thistle on Sunday, lower prices.

 

14,644  8)

[Nips_and_Tatties]

There will be a few asleep and someone will accidentally piss their scants due to incontinence not alcohol or over excitement.

 

Oh and the blonde girl 5 rows back from BigAl is a fucking darlin'.

 

 

[Elgindon]

Hope we turn out for this one,this'll be a toughie.

 

 

Forecast so so,live on TV - I'll go 13,167,..maybe pushing it.Jags take up 1000?

[donsdaft]

9820

[manc_don]

11,738

 

The team have deserved a bigger crowd but for one reason or another it's not happening (I presume economic reasons rather than anything else).

[rocket_scientist]

Whatever the crowd will be, it will be hugely underreported. It's the SC so a split of the gate always goes to the opposition. It's what Milne does. At the QF v. Celtic a few years ago (they got a late equaliser, Mackie won the replay), they said 10,800 at Pittodrie. It was a Sunday 12.30 ko so it was never going to be full but there was a minimum 13k there that day and probably nearer 14k.

 

9,059.

[Ten Caat]

Be lucky if Thistle bring 300

 

With it being live on telly....10841

[BigAl]

Is there a prize for prediction winner ?

 

10, 431

[CtS]

11111

[Jute]

Be lucky if Thistle bring 300

 

With it being live on telly....10841

 

Thistle are running free buses through 3 of their supporters clubs so would be surprised if they only brought 300.

[Chris Frae Killie]

Thistle are putting on free buses for all that want to travel up. I suspect there will be around 1,000 of them. It is a massive game for them as they don't get to semi finals very often. They have also just won their last 4 matches and kept clean sheets so their fans will be buzzing.

[RicoS321]

I'll be there.

 

11112

[A llad insane]

Is there a

prize for prediction winner ?

 

10, 431

 

 

 

Cyber pint 

[A llad insane]

Sold just under 10,000 as of 4p.m today, pretty poor, hopefully shift quite a few tomorrow 

 

[Elgindon]

Sold just under 10,000 as of 4p.m today, pretty poor, hopefully shift quite a few tomorrow

 

 

Oooof thats just reminded me,ST holder but forgot I need to have a ticket.Take it there wont be a cash gate 

[donsdaft]

I'm nae gaun.

 

I canna afford it and anyway, I've vowed never to pay to watch the Dons while they allow Celtic players to wear red.

 

However........ I'm notoriously short lived with my boycotts of AFC, and I can see the floodlights from my hoose.

 

So........if there was a cash gate.........

[manc_don]

No cash gate from what I can see. What was the game they did that for earlier in the season? Fair price for the tickets imo.

[rocket_scientist]

No cash gate from what I can see. What was the game they did that for earlier in the season? Fair price for the tickets imo.

 

Ross County, between Xmas & NY.

 

Fucking disgrace not having a cash gate option.

[manc_don]

Ross County, between Xmas & NY.

 

Fucking disgrace not having a cash gate option.

 

Seems ridiculous given they even say they want to get as many through the gate as possible.

[CtS]

Ross County, between Xmas & NY.

 

Fucking disgrace not having a cash gate option.

 

Even last Saturday, the queue outside the ticket office at 1455 surely justifies a cash turnstyle?

[A96red]

 

Generally , I'd agree that there should always be a cash turnstile option , but if there was the club would run the risk of punters nae buying tickets in advance

 

E.g. If the weather's shit there'll be plenty fans that would decide to give it a miss , especially if the game's live on tv unless they already have a ticket

 

At least with the "no PATG" policy , the club know they've got the cash fae the ticket sales. They're probably guessing that the number of punters that claim they might make a late decision to go if there was a cash turnstile is less than the number of fans that are genuinely thinking about going to the game but won't commit to buying a ticket until the last minute

[tom_widdows]

Perhaps the removal of cash turnstiles is in preparation for moving to a new stadium out of town?

 

Makes sense to me that being 7 miles away from the centre  will reduce the number of people who whilst in town suddenly think 'ah fuck it lets go to the game'.

 

There is also the Big brother element in that they buying in advance online means they have details of the ticket holders in case of emergency or trouble

 

Personally I still think the club are denying themselves a fairly decent revenue stream (500 walk ups on the day = £10K-ish plus extras such as food/ drink/ merchandise etc) but I'm not the one having to keep the lights on every week.

[A96red]

Whatever the crowd will be, it will be hugely underreported. It's the SC so a split of the gate always goes to the opposition. It's what Milne does. At the QF v. Celtic a few years ago (they got a late equaliser, Mackie won the replay), they said 10,800 at Pittodrie. It was a Sunday 12.30 ko so it was never going to be full but there was a minimum 13k there that day and probably nearer 14k.

 

9,059.

 

Myth.

The electronic turnstiles have put paid to the option of giving false figures for gate receipts to the relevant interested parties .ie the tax authorities and , for Cup-ties , the opponents

The idea that Milne is personally over-seeing some sort of scam like this , where there's nothing to be gained personally by him, is ridiculous

As for the Celtic game you mentioned , where were you sitting that day RS ?  I find that From my usual seat in the SOuth Stand I can't say how full or empty it is , although I can tell how busy the other stands are. But I well remember that day that there seemed to me to be far more empty seats round about me that would normally be the case. It had been a talking point on the message boards before the game about how embarrassingly low the crowd was going to be

 

And that game came straight after a truly dire run of 8 games without a win , two draws (one against Bayern , incredibly !) , 6 defeats including a humiliating 4-1 semi loss to the Jutes , and two 5-1 defeats , one of which was at home to the Tims

 

given also that the cup game was at a Sunday lunchtime and live on tv , the official figures seem right enough to me.

 

AFC Heritage has the total crowd at 10,909 with the away support being 3,472

[Elgindon]

 

Agreed A96,Ive rarely been in a Pittodrie crowd and thought it was way more than reported.There were also times during the McGhee era where folks were suggesting Milne was exaggerating the crowd because they were so small,ie a 5000 crowd reported as 7000...

 

 

 

...not suggesting Milne isnt a knob though

[rocket_scientist]

I have also rarely been at Pittodrie and thought the crowd was underreported. That QF was the first time I went no fucking way when it was reported less than 11k. It doesn't matter which part of the ground I'm in, I can normally guess it to within a thousand. After attending approximately three quarters of a thousand AFC games, the majority being at Pittodrie, you get pretty good at crowd predicting. We've sometimes put bets on who would be the closest and used coins for odds and evens to see who got the last guess.

 

That game was the first and a handful of others following that were definitely underreported too. That's what some of us were convinced of and of course one speculates on why. The club were eight figures in debt at the time.