16,925 - hearts 'official' attendance from Saturday

[LithgaeHibby]

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To be fair, the Hearts support responded well to their near demise and have put their money in to save their club via tickets and direct debit scheme.

That is only because even they managed to realise that, if they didn't do so, they would have no club left.

We on the other hand don't have the same urgency with our debt situation, hence the HSL take-up has been slower, but we've shown time and time again that the support is there.

[Hibernia&Alba]

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That is only because even they managed to realise that, if they didn't do so, they would have no club left.

We on the other hand don't have the same urgency with our debt situation, hence the HSL take-up has been slower, but we've shown time and time again that the support is there.

Totally agree. If Hibs were in the same situation Hearts found themselves in, I have no doubt the response would be huge, as it was 25 years ago during the takeover issue.

[stanton_4]

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We are getting more like that shower of **** every day with some poster's obsession with the gimps.

Personally i couldn't give a flying **** about their attendances or Brokeback or anything to do with them.

F&&K the Hearts.

Couldn't agree more
I am getting severely miffed reading anything about them on here.

[Frazerbob]

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Couldn't agree more
I am getting severely miffed reading anything about them on here.

Yet you open a thread, read it and add your own comment when it's clearly about Hearts.

[Pete]

I think they must be counting seats sold instead of actual attendance. Maybe a few of them have purchased the cheap season tickets to help the club out or guarantee their seat even though they can't make it. It's similar to our FF, there are practically no seats for sale at the top of the lower but there are always spaces.

[Keith_M]

Slagging Hearts about attendances? Really?

[stanton_4]

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Yet you open a thread, read it and add your own comment when it's clearly about Hearts.

Indeed and it would have been difficult to make my point if I hadn't.

[greenginger]

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Indeed and it would have been difficult to make my point if I hadn't.

15 minutes after posting you are still on this thread.

[jgl07]

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Do they have season ticket holders not turning up who are still counted in the figures?

Yes they always have done.

Most clubs in England also base attendances on tickets sold not on 'attendance'.

[green&left]

And some say Hearts are obsessed with us? Who gives a flying f..... what their crowd was.

[stanton_4]

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15 minutes after posting you are still on this thread.

Simple really.
I make a point... someone questions my reasons for it... I get an e-mail telling me they have made a comment using my quote... I respond... I get another mail saying you have commented using another of my quotes... I respond again.
That's how message boards work.

[Ringothedog]

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Yes they always have done.

Most clubs in England also base attendances on tickets sold not on 'attendance'.

and if we did the same most of our crowds would be over the 10k mark

[21.05.2016]

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What do they gain by lying?

A pathetic delusion they they are some big super mighty club.

[Mcpakeisgod]

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Simple really.
I make a point... someone questions my reasons for it... I get an e-mail telling me they have made a comment using my quote... I respond... I get another mail saying you have commented using another of my quotes... I respond again.
That's how message boards work.

Well said

[son of haggart]

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Yes they always have done.

Most clubs in England also base attendances on tickets sold not on 'attendance'.

I don't think we do. May have done in the past but that doesn't square up with the attendances at games where all tickets have been sold and 100 or so resold by 1.30 - 2pm on a Saturday. Allowing for some seats being empty between away and home fans, attendances declared would have been much bigger than those announced if we were counting tickets sold (including season tickets).


An example was the Aberdeen game back in september. I attended that and there were no tickets available several hours before kick off. Aberdeen sold all their 700. The crowd was 16,702 against a capacity of around 17,200. There were a smattering of seats around the ground not occupied (ST holders not attending)but this would have been around 200 max, plus a round 250 for the segregation. Clearly the only way the crowd could be as low as 16,702 is if it was based on the turnstiles not tickets 'sold'

[since90plustwo]

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Here's the difference: we sell out the derby replay and then tell the truth about the attendance on the night. All 20,500 tickets were sold and then a few people must have been unable to come for whatever reason, so the official attendance was given as 19k or whatever it was.

Only seats left in the place were in the hospitality

[greenginger]

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Only seats left in the place were in the hospitality

No, there were people like myself and two others in our group who had Cup top-ups and could not go.

If Hibs included those people in the Attendance , they would have to give Hearts a share of the ticket price.

Best count only those attending when its a shared gate. The Yams sell-outs never occur on matches where gates are shared, unless of course its us they are playing.

[jgl07]

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No, there were people like myself and two others in our group who had Cup top-ups and could not go.

If Hibs included those people in the Attendance , they would have to give Hearts a share of the ticket price.

Best count only those attending when its a shared gate. The Yams sell-outs never occur on matches where gates are shared, unless of course its us they are playing.

The cup matches will have the tickets sold. People who go out of their way to buy a ticket will generally attend. League match attendances include those who buy a season ticket for reasons of solidarity but rarely go to matches.