by Forbury Lion »
12 Mar 2018 11:55
tmesis Forbury Lion tmesis the crowds have gone down, so how would that work?
It's reasonable to assume that the car park season ticket holders are also football season ticket holders, So if a person who owns both season tickets misses a game then chances are they will not park their car on the site for the duration of the match, therefore by including them in the attendance figures and not the car parking figures you are distorting the facts.
An extreme and unrealistic example:
If capacity was 1,000 and there were 1,000 parking spaces held by 1,000 ST Holders
900 decide not to attend the match
Attendance reported as 1,000 instead of 100 of which only 100 used the car park, Therefore the car parking requirements are shown as 100/1000 = 10% of stadium sales instead of 100/100 = 100%.... so they can argue that they only need 100 parking spots in future and/or free bus alternatives and can build on the rest of the land.
If we are assuming the intention is to pretend car park demand is lower than it really is then than makes no sense.
Let's assume if 8000 people actually turn up, 800 will park in the car park. Let's also assume the tickets sold figure for that same game is 12,000.
Which figure implies a lower demand, 800 cars in a crowd of 8000 or 800 cars in a crowd of 12000?
Also, hasn't R.E.P. already been approved? The club doesn't have to convince the council of anything.
It's a conspiracy theory thread, your supposed to add new conspiracy theories (even ones you don't believe in) not attempt to debunk theories.
I personally think it's common practice because
1. Clubs don't want to admit their offerings are so bad that even paying customers don't want to turn up / they want to talk up their attendance figures to make their offering sound popular
2. Nobody can be arsed to count the number of people who attend a game - sure, most people get in by scanning their tickets so the computer will have some figures but why waste time checking on the computer when you have a number provided to you before the game to read out?
3. When selling advertising space or putting catering out to tender, having a higher number of potential hungry customers in the ground / in the stands looking at the ads is going to push prices up, so why quote lower numbers that will have a negative impact on profits?
