nickpom
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Post by nickpom on Aug 21, 2023 8:34:10 GMT
The old south terrace held around 3,000 in the days when the official capacity was 12,000
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Bedfordmoose
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Post by Bedfordmoose on Aug 21, 2023 8:57:59 GMT
Slightly disappointed with the 6,300 attendance on Saturday,was expecting 7 k to be honest. Especially as the club announced saturday morning everywhere sold out, except for a few hundred in the habin South. Perhaps a lot is season ticket holders or those buying tickets didn't turn up
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Post by El Goodo on Aug 21, 2023 9:01:21 GMT
If it's true we're now including all tickets sold regardless of them actually being scanned at the gates or not, then presumably that means our 3,000-odd season tickets are included in every attendance.
Agree that it felt sparse for a "sold-out" home crowd in the NRE, main stand and Habbin North. Plenty of room around me, which wasn't the case for Oxford or Stevenage.
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Post by nickpom on Aug 21, 2023 9:33:47 GMT
There were only 800 Rovers fans, so that's 650 under capacity in the away end The South Habbin holds about 950 and there were only ~200 in there so that is 750 under Which leaves us around 300 under capacity across the three other stands, which is presumably no-shows... Our capacity per the SAG does leave some substantial spaces in the North Habbin especially, where capacity calculations are not allowed to include the uncovered section of the terrace.
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Post by fatherjhackett on Aug 21, 2023 10:14:48 GMT
Didn't there used to be a train stop close to the Abbey back in the day? Could that be reopened? That'd help reduce local traffic. Barnwell Junction. You can see it from the bridge. In WW2 injured US troops were ferried through there on the way back to the bases which is where that line splintered off to. The old station building looks like the house from Psycho. Thence Mildenhall. But the house as Psycho simulation? No, Sir! That is half-cock & no mistake. The station was bought by the family of the BR NE Region's chief surveyor in the mid-'60s, after the baxtad Satanist Beeching did his filthy work, & they converted it beautifully. Murals of angels above the bed, geraniums aming the polished walnut booking-office counter, etc. The chap's widow, Pamela (RIP: pink candy floss hair, etc), created one of the great private gardens of Cambridgeshire upon its platfoms. It features memorably in Stirbitch: An Imaginary along with footage of the Jez-era Abbey. She also laid a siding to accommodate a Pullman car, which housed her ageing parents through the early '70s. All gone now. No chickens, either.
In other local news, I yesterday spied Kirsten Rausing, the 150th richest individual on earth according to the Forbes 2020 list, shopping in the Newmarket Aldi.
Good morning.
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Post by relay22 on Aug 21, 2023 10:37:23 GMT
The old south terrace held around 3,000 in the days when the official capacity was 12,000 Good call Nick, I remember that First time we played West Ham in the Old (Proper) Second Division. This was before the main stand extension and I was by the Black and Amber Shop and away dug out with my dear Dad. Pretty well 6 deep there and people climbing over the wall from the outside / gardens from Elfleda Road ! Think John Lyle was the manager then and he bought on Frank Lampard senior in the First Half as there was only One Substitute back then !
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Post by mike_CUFC on Aug 21, 2023 11:26:15 GMT
There were only 800 Rovers fans, so that's 650 under capacity in the away end The South Habbin holds about 950 and there were only ~200 in there so that is 750 under Which leaves us around 300 under capacity across the three other stands, which is presumably no-shows... Our capacity per the SAG does leave some substantial spaces in the North Habbin especially, where capacity calculations are not allowed to include the uncovered section of the terrace. What are the stand capacities these days then? The South Stand is just shy of 1,500 and Main Stand is about 3,000 I think. So 4,500 seating and 3,500 standing to the 7,974 capacity. I thought the NRE was about 1,400 so 2,100 for the Habbin with the North side being slightly bigger? Either way I think you could get another 500 standing across the 3 sections and even then it still wouldn't really be cramped. H&S has ruined that for sure.
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nickpom
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Post by nickpom on Aug 21, 2023 11:35:03 GMT
I think the capacities are roughly: - 1,500 South Stand (although a bit less with unenforced seating) - 2,750 Main Stand (including some restricted view) - 1,250 NRE - 2,500 Habbin split about 1,100 South and 1,400 North I might be remembering wrong though...
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Post by mike_CUFC on Aug 21, 2023 11:42:12 GMT
Thanks Nick, didn't realise the Main Stand held as little as that. Just shows why we need more seating as it regularly sells out.
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Post by bushy on Aug 21, 2023 11:57:34 GMT
So while the Habbin is rebuilt our capacity will be 5500. Let’s hope we don’t get promoted!
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Post by pgtips (lurid) on Sept 6, 2023 10:47:20 GMT
If you pretend to buy a ticket you can count the seats in the Mainstand via the ticket website. Not that I can face that personally.
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Post by mike_CUFC on Sept 6, 2023 11:07:29 GMT
sounds a like job for an un-named person on here
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Post by bushy on Sept 6, 2023 11:07:39 GMT
If you pretend to buy a ticket you can count the seats in the Mainstand via the ticket website. Not that I can face that personally. If they allocated places on the website for the NRE and Habbin it would be easy to see exactly how many places were still available. Obviously you don’t have to stand on the exact place you purchase. Currently the terraces are either available or sold out without any indication of how close they are to selling out.
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Post by danielcufc on Sept 6, 2023 11:46:10 GMT
sounds a like job for an un-named person on here does he live in Dublin
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Post by mike_CUFC on Sept 6, 2023 12:44:07 GMT
If you pretend to buy a ticket you can count the seats in the Mainstand via the ticket website. Not that I can face that personally. If they allocated places on the website for the NRE and Habbin it would be easy to see exactly how many places were still available. Obviously you don’t have to stand on the exact place you purchase. Currently the terraces are either available or sold out without any indication of how close they are to selling out. That's a lot of extra coding work and not aware of any club that offers that function so can only assume not cost effective in the slightest. CUFC direct on Twitter post updates on when spaces are filling up so don't think it is needed (except for possibly a more accurate Moosenet prediction).
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