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biffer wrote:What do we reckon? Looking at the website I think there's coming up for 17,000 tickets sold. Hopefully get over 30k this year.
Weegie wrote:biffer wrote:What do we reckon? Looking at the website I think there's coming up for 17,000 tickets sold. Hopefully get over 30k this year.
That seems ambitious with only a few days left. I had been going to comment there seemed fewer sections open than I remembered from last year. However, I assume this fixture has the biggest walk up attendance of the year since everyone knows capacity is effectively unlimited.
Crichton Gunner wrote:I think they are missing a trick by having the game just before Christmas rather than on Boxing Day. People have still got lots to do and places to go before the big day, which is bound to affect the attendance. On Boxing Day lot of people are looking for something to get them out the house, and I'm sure we'd see a significantly higher turnout.
biffer wrote:Crichton Gunner wrote:I think they are missing a trick by having the game just before Christmas rather than on Boxing Day. People have still got lots to do and places to go before the big day, which is bound to affect the attendance. On Boxing Day lot of people are looking for something to get them out the house, and I'm sure we'd see a significantly higher turnout.
Swings and roundabouts. Very little public transport on Boxing Day.
Tichtheid wrote:biffer wrote:Crichton Gunner wrote:I think they are missing a trick by having the game just before Christmas rather than on Boxing Day. People have still got lots to do and places to go before the big day, which is bound to affect the attendance. On Boxing Day lot of people are looking for something to get them out the house, and I'm sure we'd see a significantly higher turnout.
Swings and roundabouts. Very little public transport on Boxing Day.
Would the league sanction a game on a Wednesday if others weren't playing then?
joe soap wrote:
not the issue.
What would be the knock on for the next 1872, scheduled for the the following Sat? 3 day turn-round? So push back that, and it knocks on into the following fixture etc.
Mid week is a daft time to play fixtures
Tichtheid wrote:joe soap wrote:
not the issue.
What would be the knock on for the next 1872, scheduled for the the following Sat? 3 day turn-round? So push back that, and it knocks on into the following fixture etc.
Mid week is a daft time to play fixtures
That's not necessarily the case here, the Old Firm derby used to be held on the 1st of January for years, if they followed suit that would make it the Tuesday for the second 1872 game this year, then you'd get the knock on effect on the next game against the Kings on the 5th, for which Cockers has already said he's going to rest players before going into the European games
Tichtheid wrote:joe soap wrote:
not the issue.
What would be the knock on for the next 1872, scheduled for the the following Sat? 3 day turn-round? So push back that, and it knocks on into the following fixture etc.
Mid week is a daft time to play fixtures
That's not necessarily the case here, the Old Firm derby used to be held on the 1st of January for years, if they followed suit that would make it the Tuesday for the second 1872 game this year, then you'd get the knock on effect on the next game against the Kings on the 5th, for which Cockers has already said he's going to rest players before going into the European games
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