That's not what the OP is arguing. Look at the thread title.
That's not what the OP is arguing. Look at the thread title.
Which would be fine if people were saying: well I think Ollie is wrong with the way he interprets but at the same time there isn't anything really wrong with it. They aren't though.Originally Posted by Power_n_Glory
my point was that the media have been all over us this week knocking every fucking thing about this club, esp with teh attendance for the CC. did they mention munich and istantbul chanting from leeds and united did they fuck. they just bashed us cos they wanted to. my point was the website sticking up for the club and actually showing the media their facts were wrong.
What if people feel there is something wrong with what the site is doing?
I’ve got a problem with the site presenting misleading information, especially when it’s used as a response to tabloid junk printed but at the same time using the same sort of tabloid tactics we often see week in week out. It’s spin and hypocritical.
Thanking the fans for turning up is okay but printing misleading stats is another. If it’s a response to stories about the attendance drop, there is no need to respond to it.
Well if that's the case then others are entitled to consider it a 'thank you' and nothing else, regardless of what the OP might have said. They're only misleading stats if you interpret them as misleading. Someone could just as feasibly say we drew 40,000 thousand+ despite playing a League Two side.
Or more precisely one could say ' we achieved our lowest ever attendance by a mile at our new home, despite offering long in advance our cheapest ever tickets, despite our fans fully knowing we are going through one of our most challenging periods in a generation, despite playing a league two side which i believe we've done several times before'. But doing it like this would make it sound like......um..... news.
Part of growing up is realising you have to take the good with the bad- for years the media has praised up on two things, the way our club is run financially and our attendance, especially for cup games. If they feel they got it wrong about the former, and now the latter is beginning to diminish, do they not have the right to change their mind or at least report the news?
Last edited by 21_GOONER_SALUTE; 23-09-2011 at 03:55 PM.
This is absolute fucking bollocks i'm afraid. Capacity percentage is only worth noting if THE GAME HAS SOLD OUT. Amazingly, NONE of those games sold out, therefore the stadium capacity is limiting NO-ONE... yet we still have more fans attending our game, agasint nobodies, then most others. I mean, what excuse do man city have for barely selling half their capacity? Fucking dreadful supportThis is typical propaganda from the official website. You can't use official figures to make this sort of comparison, you must look at the stadium capacity as well and look at what percentage of the seats have been filled. Here's a revised analysis:
As you can see, when done this way we're only 11th out of 26th out of the matches selected, which doesn't look so good now does it?
I hate it when people use statistics without putting them in their proper context. This is without considering the fact that we're a London club and our supporters tend to come from the Home Counties, where incomes are generally higher relative to the rest of the country, and even then so many people stayed away from the match, despite the cheap tickets.
Joker
Yeah, all those times we've faced League Two opposition. Which was when, exactly?
Oh no, have your beloved Plymouth gone to the conference already?? ok, though you are making this thread f@cking pedantic i will try again. Shrewsbury is the smallest team we have played in the emirates, ok. Definitely three of the other smallest teams we have played at home are orient, plymouth and huddersfield. Average attendance for those games was 59000, and two of those games only occured about a year ago. I believeleasenotethewordbelieve: our worst ever attendance before this debacle was the spud game where people didn't show up cause we knew their was a huge chance our kids would be embarrassed and we'd lose- yet 53000 braved it and took the humiliation. We have a long proud track record of fans who come out for what some others would term the 'small people', yes we may be quiet but at least we are f@cking there..... Until now. IMO the only responsible thing for our club to have done in this situation should have been to shut it and finally f@cking listen.nd two of those games only occured about a year ago. I believe
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