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Saturday 9th November 2024 - kick-off 5.30pm

Scottish Premiership - Aberdeen v Dundee

Quarter Final crowd prediction ?


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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.

 

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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.........

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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

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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.

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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.

 

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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

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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

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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.

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