Yojoe36 Posted 18 January 2013 Share Posted 18 January 2013 Most of them are Forest fans, 'understanding' anything that has happened since Thatcher left No. 10 is definitely a weakness of theirs. Most of them are unemployable don't work, so they don't need to worry about being stuck in traffic for 6 hours getting home, then 4 hours to get into Leicester. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicfox Posted 18 January 2013 Share Posted 18 January 2013 8,585 http://www.bbc.co.uk...otball/20982132 Getting fed up of the retards on Twitter/Facebook, not understanding the reason behind it. Don't all clubs include all season ticket holders in the attendance too, whether they attend or not? I thought we had more than 8k season ticket holders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackneyfox Posted 18 January 2013 Share Posted 18 January 2013 When did they stop counting season tickets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilo Posted 18 January 2013 Share Posted 18 January 2013 Tonight was a complete anomoly. We didn't sell 8k tickets, if conditions had been normal or improved then I reckon we'd have trebled the attendance tonight. There were far too many factors to take into consideration for this game, I'm not embarrassed because I know the situation. It'll be interesting to see the next Friday night attendance against Millwall. Good Friday, surely better weather, hopefully still challenging for promotion. We'll get at least 25,000 if all of these are in place, possibly closer to 30k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deucalion Posted 18 January 2013 Share Posted 18 January 2013 When did they stop counting season tickets? Probably tonight when they realised it would be ridiculous to claim that attendance was 18k. I didn't go tonight. I feel a bit guilty but I am so pleased I'm not going to be crawling down the M-6 until the early hours. We will be back for Wolves...weather permitting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilo Posted 18 January 2013 Share Posted 18 January 2013 When did they stop counting season tickets? I wondered that, I thought we had 13-14k season ticket holders. That said, claiming that attendance was anything like 15-16k tonight would have made North Korea blush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super_horns Posted 18 January 2013 Share Posted 18 January 2013 It would be interesting to see how much revenue Sky pay for these games? Maybe more than another 10k or so buying programmes/food etc.... Hope all you guys who did go get back ok. Looking at the coverage it was still snowing during the game whereas it stopped sometime ago around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Libertine Dream Posted 18 January 2013 Share Posted 18 January 2013 Conditions weren't that bad in Leicester, far worse where I live but 8k is understandable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syston_fox Posted 18 January 2013 Share Posted 18 January 2013 Real struggle to get there tonight and it was a bit of a farce that it went ahead but I've no complaints with Leicester and boro wanting to play. They've spent all week preparing for it, the pitch was playable and it means less fixture congestion at a crucial point of the season. Ed Mowe and his team are superb! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonthefox Posted 18 January 2013 Share Posted 18 January 2013 Despite the attendance i thought the atmosphere was quite good tonight. I think the whole ground realised they needed to do their bit . Another plus was for the last ten minutes or so the family stand all stood, and the stewards (even with a smaller crowd) , could do nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corky Posted 18 January 2013 Share Posted 18 January 2013 You have to take into account that we have a lot of regulars who live out in the county, where roads probably aren't gritted, buses aren't running and you are struggling to get back from work to then head to the match. Anyone from outside Leicestershire is pretty much stuck at home unless they left around lunchtime/ early afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
promised land Posted 18 January 2013 Share Posted 18 January 2013 Hats off to everyone that made it tonight including the Boro fans who must've had a tough journey, and back as well. 8,000ish wasn't it but it was a fairly good noise for that size crowd in the cold! Time to warm up now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilo Posted 18 January 2013 Share Posted 18 January 2013 Despite the attendance i thought the atmosphere was quite good tonight. I think the whole ground realised they needed to do their bit . Another plus was for the last ten minutes or so the family stand all stood, and the stewards (even with a smaller crowd) , could do nothing. And people think they'd be able to stop a pitch invasion with 32,000 fans..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonnieTodger Posted 18 January 2013 Share Posted 18 January 2013 When did they stop counting season tickets? I thought that, but maybe it has something to do with the scanners that we've implemented. As they're electronic, maybe they count everyone that is scanned through? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acooling08 Posted 18 January 2013 Share Posted 18 January 2013 Shame, imagine 25k in for that, in such an exciting game the atmosphere would've been electric especially after the penalty save and final whistle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitchandro Posted 19 January 2013 Share Posted 19 January 2013 Even for cup games we usually do better than that. Against Burton we had 14K didn't we? As others have said, obviously a complete freak attendance. I don't think some people are grasping how difficult it was for quite a lot of our fans. It didn't help that we weren't sure if the game was on until an hour before, which was too late to leave for most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broughtonblue Posted 19 January 2013 Share Posted 19 January 2013 Only 8k there but thought the atmosphere was one of the better ones this season. Sit in west stand but as no one behind stood up, had a steward telling us to sit down as the sky cameras were on the stand and it didn't look good that fans were standing!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitchandro Posted 19 January 2013 Share Posted 19 January 2013 Only 8k there but thought the atmosphere was one of the better ones this season. Sit in west stand but as no one behind stood up, had a steward telling us to sit down as the sky cameras were on the stand and it didn't look good that fans were standing!! Typical. Even though it looks great when you can see fans standing on TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HEGGSY Posted 19 January 2013 Share Posted 19 January 2013 Only 8k there but thought the atmosphere was one of the better ones this season. Sit in west stand but as no one behind stood up, had a steward telling us to sit down as the sky cameras were on the stand and it didn't look good that fans were standing!! What a load of shit lol, that's ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayfox Posted 19 January 2013 Share Posted 19 January 2013 Im here and if theres more than 10 in its a lie. 8k woulb be my guess. Correct. Oh and i live 10 miles from the kp and it took 1 1/2 hours to get to narborough rd. That said the roads arent the problem. Its the ***** behind the wheels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huntsman Posted 19 January 2013 Share Posted 19 January 2013 I will just state that ANYONE who made this game tonight has my utmost respect. We left early afternoon to go to LBoro, allowing (we thought) bags of time, and expecting main rds gritted. Not so. Almost 6 hrs there and back (and had we not had to have made the journey we wouldn't). A6 ungritted. Way home toss up between A6 or a46 at Birstall island via Beumaont Leys, A46 was slower than A6. So yeah, A roads gritted...not. I feel VERY sorry for ST holders setting out in plenty of time who could not make the game. I hope the club make redress somehow. I am aware they did their utmost but IMO the game should've been called off well before, esp when supporter club coaches got cancelled. TV money over anything else, I guess? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huntsman Posted 19 January 2013 Share Posted 19 January 2013 Correct. Oh and i live 10 miles from the kp and it took 1 1/2 hours to get to narborough rd. That said the roads arent the problem. Its the ***** behind the wheels. Better driving than I've seen for a while on main rds, much hogging of yellow boxes/going over junctions/blocking others at junctions the closer we got. Main rd driving was sensible, and A plus. Folks impatient closer to the city so 1 car edges into a yellow box, blocks anyone moving at light change, so it spirals. 1 car decides after 3 light changes and no moving that they edge forward and blocks..... junction the other way. Gridlock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommeh Posted 19 January 2013 Share Posted 19 January 2013 Under the circumstances a good turnout, I left work at Derby at 2:30 and arrived 10 minutes late although we did have to cram a quick beer in. Atmosphere was very good, as a fanbase we realised we had to step up. Great that a large percent of SK1 stood throughout from the 5th row as well as extra pockets in the East stand. Proud of our club and fans tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl the Llama Posted 19 January 2013 Share Posted 19 January 2013 In the pub in Brussels centre our in stadium turnout was slightly embarrassing. Thankfully I was well aware of the weather difficulties prior to kick off so wasn't too surprised by the final tally. Equally thankfully nobody else gave a fook about the match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head Honcho Posted 19 January 2013 Share Posted 19 January 2013 Come on then. No excuse about it being Friday night and on TV. Hull's ground was rammed just then (at least it looked it there was apparantley 16k there which is shit) Whilst we won't sell out cos frankly our support is nowhere near as good as people think, what's your guess? I'll go 27k including a fair amount of Boro Possibly more realistic would be 25k ish. Anything less would be an embarassment of our own IMO Close Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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