JPT Final

[georgeweahscousin]

Anyone know what the exact official attendance by Saints fans is....

 

Skates telling me Millwall took more to L1 Playoff final, but i'm sure we got the official record?

[Turkish]

The skates are right.

[georgeweahscousin]

Hmmm....

 

Millwall took 44,159. I thought we took more than that.

[Jonnyboy]

We had loads in the Carlisle areas.

[SaintBobby]

Our official attendance was 44,000 and chump change.

 

God knows how you account for virtually all corporate areas being bought up by Saints fans. Prob more like 50,000, but tricky to verify.

[Saint_clark]

At the time someone from Wembley said that it was closer to 60,000 Saints fans, but there's no way of proving it.

Although I think it may have been tongue in cheek, there was certainly more than 44,000 Saints fans there. Easy to work out when you look at the ticket sales.

 

73,476 tickets sold in total (Saints, Carlisle and Club Wembley).

Carlisle only sold around 22,000 tickets, leaving 51,000.

It's fair enough to say that some of those club Wembley tickets might have been Carlisle fans as well...if it weren't for the fact that they didn't even sell their full allocation and actually returned over 2000 of them.

 

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/5050349.Carlisle_give_back_Wembley_tickets___but_it_won_t_help_Saints_fans/

 

That means that there were "officially" 7000 neutral fans watching the game. Seems a tad unlikely to me.

We had over 50,000 fans there - the skates can deny it all they like, but it's the truth.

Edited 14 July, 2013 by Saint_clark

[Faz]

It doesn't matter. The truth is out there.

[Deano6]

Maybe Millwall bought all the corporates at their game too?

[Tokyo-Saint]

Club Wembley was absolutely full of saints as well.

[Gambol2K9]

Irrelevant really, why would a skate be giving you banter about attendance figures, it's hardly their strong suit.

[RobM]

They'll be debating the merits of prudent financial management and looking after local businesses next!

[ottery st mary]

Just gone back through all my video and phots to recount all Saints supporters at Wembley that day..

 

Still comes out to 52,000......Give or take a few hundred.

 

and

 

22,000 Carlisle suppoerters.

 

 

COYS

Edited 14 July, 2013 by ottery st mary
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[Smirking_Saint]

Have been told and looked as though it was around the 50,000 mark

[Right sider]

Officially we had 44000 and Millwall 49000. We completely sold our allocation, and as stated over 10000 bought club Wembley seats. Millwall didn't quite sell out. According to journalists at Wembley on the day Saints had about 55000 at Wembley which is an unofficial record for one side at a final

[mcjwills]

But dont forget when the Skate Massive attend the JPT final being the largest club in league 1 and 2 they will take all 250,000 fans that were on Southsea common. That will certainly show us, and we know they all fill the rafters at Krap Nottarf.

[Saints Warrior]

The photos tell the truth more red and white.

[Saint Garrett]

55k I thought?

[FloridaMarlin]

But dont forget when the Skate Massive attend the JPT final being the largest club in league 1 and 2 they will take all 250,000 fans that were on Southsea common. That will certainly show us, and we know they all fill the rafters at Krap Nottarf.

 

I didn't think they were going to bother with the JPT, it being a two bob trophy and al that.

[Golden Balls]

Hard to prove unofficial figures but it was clear that we had over 50k there.

[dubai_phil]

A significant number of Saints fans based in the North of England were able to buy their tickets from Carlisle. A number of threads appeared on here at the time and people needed only to provide their Post Codes when they went on general sale.

 

Meanwhile skates @Wembley. How did the ticket sales for their last fraudulent appearance pan out?

[Dan Johnson]

Club Wembley was absolutely full of saints as well.

 

I was club wembley and it was 90% saints fans easy

[Turkish]

A significant number of Saints fans based in the North of England were able to buy their tickets from Carlisle. A number of threads appeared on here at the time and people needed only to provide their Post Codes when they went on general sale.

 

Meanwhile skates @Wembley. How did the ticket sales for their last fraudulent appearance pan out?

 

Their ticket offce were ringing people up off their database trying to sell them a few days before the cup final. The bestest fans in the world struggled to shift 25,000 tickets for an FA Cuo final.

 

 

http://www.portsmouth.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=197612

[Turkish]

Officially we had 44000 and Millwall 49000. We completely sold our allocation, and as stated over 10000 bought club Wembley seats. Millwall didn't quite sell out. According to journalists at Wembley on the day Saints had about 55000 at Wembley which is an unofficial record for one side at a final

 

Yep, that's the figures I remember, for some reason Millwall got 5,000 more than we did, can't remember why, although they claim they also had more than that there and about 55k too.

[Prince Jazzbo]

I think we should be careful about claiming that all the 000’s of saints fans that were at the JPT were actually saints fans. I know many that went up there, who happen to be from the Southampton area, who went purely for the day out, who actively support other teams like Chelsea, Spurs, Leeds etc. Some had never been to a football game in there life let a alone a saints game. Many of those have never been since. I’m sure everyone knows of similar people, so if you multiply that, it probably adds up to quite a number.

 

Having said that without doubt the same can definitely be said about Millwall, I’d say that 75% of those that went to the semi final hadn’t been to a Millwall game for years if at all.

[Prince Jazzbo]

I think we should be careful about claiming that all the 000’s of saints fans that were at the JPT were actually saints fans. I know many that went up there, who happen to be from the Southampton area, who went purely for the day out, who actively support other teams like Chelsea, Spurs, Leeds etc. Some had never been to a football game in there life let a alone a saints game. Many of those have never been since. I’m sure everyone knows of similar people, so if you multiply that, it probably adds up to quite a number.

 

Having said that without doubt the same can definitely be said about Millwall, I’d say that 75% of those that went to the semi final hadn’t been to a Millwall game for years if at all.

[JackanorySFC]

I was in the News International Corporate box and it was 80% SFC. Only my Man U supporting colleague and the Doris he picked up in his local and took as his +1 lowered the %.

[Junction 9]

If, at the time, we were told we couldn't be given more than 44k for segregation reasons. How dd a club like Millwall get given 49k for the same stadium?