Yesterday's Gate

[filham]

The attendance for yesterday's game is given as 23,717 but the advice on Friday was that all seats had been sold.
I thought the ground capacity was about 25,500 so does this mean that some fans were shut out who could have been given a seat.

[alfie]

The attendance for yesterday's game is given as 23,717 but the advice on Friday was that all seats had been sold.
I thought the ground capacity was about 25,500 so does this mean that some fans were shut out who could have been given a seat.

i know 2 that didn't get there due car breakdown.
I also think they have to keep a certain amount of seats empty for emergency reason (not definite on that though)

[fulhamben]

And as stated on another thread, hundreds were taken up for segregation netting

[Roberty]

The attendance for yesterday's game is given as 23,717 but the advice on Friday was that all seats had been sold.
I thought the ground capacity was about 25,500 so does this mean that some fans were shut out who could have been given a seat.

The announcement was that all the seats for the second leg - next Tuesday - had been sold

On Saturday the ticket office was open for people with a booking history to buy tickets - mainly at the Putney End - my son had four tickets in P4 and one in the Riverside - he was able to swap for five together in P4

There were no tickets on General Sale

[Neil D]

The segregated, no-access area in the Putney End wouldn't account for 2000 seats - maybe 300 at the most.  So, was it really a sell-out?

[Roberty]

The segregated, no-access area in the Putney End wouldn't account for 2000 seats - maybe 300 at the most.  So, was it really a sell-out?

The figures say no, BUT who said it was a sell out???

[HillingdonFFC]

Official capacity 25,700 odd, no way was there 2000 empty sears there yesterday. I couldn't get a seat in the Hammersmith end, it was completely sold out inc restricted view.
.As Neil D said the segregation gap couldn't account for anymore than a few hundred & there was a very small section of empty seats near the back of P4, apart from that tbe ground looked completely packed

[Scrumpy]

I was surprised as well. Thought it looked 25k+. But consider this.....
I sit in H5 and it has 54 rows of seats (1-4, then A-Z, then AA-XX), so lets assume that Putney is similar. A width of netting 20 seats wide (it looked about that) = over a thousand empty seats. Plus a few hundred unsold in P4, and QED.

[Chesh]

The cordoned off bit would be about 800,as p5-p7 holds 2760. Add to that the 2-300 that were not sold by ko in P4, and there were 1200 empty seats tops. Crowd was approx. 24500 imo

[filham]

When we were in the Premiership we were hitting the 25K + figure regularly, we seem to have lost the ability now and fans and the club's purse must be suffering.

[Southcoastffc]

As above, the estimate of 300 for the netted area is woefully understated.

[Neil D]

As above, the estimate of 300 for the netted area is woefully understated.

Having failed Maths O level three times, I humbly defer...

[Funky Fulham Dave]

The official attendance is calculated on the number of tickets sold not the actual number who attend on match-day.

Apparently the average non-shows on match-days this season have been a staggering 3,000.