number of saints fans at wembley last year for trophy final

[wokingsaints]

Ladies/gents, roughly how many fans did we take to the JPT final last year?

 

thanks

 

matt

[LGTL]

Roughly 44,000.

[Matthew Le God]

Official attendance was 73,476

 

- Carlisle failed to sell out their allocation of 24,506 and I doubt there where many neutrals at the game like with the FA Cup or League Cup final.

- Saints probably had over 50,000 of the 73,476 (even though it was officially 44,000 Saints fans).

 

There would have been many more Saints fans there if Wembley had listened to Saints' ticketing plan and allowed Saints to bring their own stewards.

Edited 24 May, 2011 by Matthew Le God

[wokingsaints]

is that correct, i was thinking around 55,000 due to corporate etc

[Smirking_Saint]

Heard it was around the 50k mark, probably a little under though

[Micky]

I was there, there was a few others around as well as I recall....

[Hatch]

54,000 i thought

[kwsaint]

I seem to remember a thread on this at the time. Around 51,000 according to a source at Wembley. There were Saints fans in the club wembley seats, and some in the Carlisle end.

[sfc4prem]

I heard 52,500

[Pilchards]

I counted 53,456 but I'm not sure above the guy in block 51 seat 346 as he had a Chelsea shirt on.

[stockbridge_saint]

I like to think of being as the most fans of any club that will ever get to be in Wembly at one time

i don't think i'm wrong either

[John Boy Saint]

Wembley personnel said that there were 55,000 Saints fans. I had tapped up a mate with Club Wembley membership and thought that we would be sat on our own as our seats were not in a general release section, amazingly we were surrounded by Saints fans who had no doubt used the same initiative.

 

If the FL had accepted Nicola's proposal to supply and fund additional stewards in return for selling as many tickets as possible to fill the gaps it would have been fascinating to know just how many fans we would have taken!

Edited 24 May, 2011 by John Boy Saint

[stockbridge_saint]

Yeah I did exactly the same, got tickets off a mate who has Club Wembly membership. Apart from a few neutrals dragged along by their saints supporting friends it was all Southampton

[The9]

I counted 53,456 but I'm not sure above the guy in block 51 seat 346 as he had a Chelsea shirt on.

 

That was Pride of the South, it's ok, he's a Saints fan.

 

No reason to disbelieve the 55k figure, we had most of the Club Wembley seats in addition to selling out the allocation.