Official Match Thread Bradford City v Southend United

[southendkid]

Just noticed the crowd was nearly 20k today. That is massive for a L1 game where neither side has a lot to play for. Obviously Bradford have a big fan base but none the less, impressive.

They have about 17000 season ticket holders because they were only £149, and since an adult ticket is £20 on the day people buy them even if they don't go to every match. Season tickets count towards attendance even if you don't show up so their attendance is always high. (Before people ask why we don't do that it's because we could only get a few extra thousand in before reaching capacity but if we slash a season ticket price by more than half we'd end up with less overall revenue from ticket sales, which we can't afford to do.)

 

[shrimpstew]

418 Shrimpers in attendance this afternoon.

Well done Ladies & Gent's :happy::thumbsup:

Great following as we've nothing to play for, gutted I couldn't be there. COYB.

 

[E for B and Billy Best]

Official site has given the first goal to Kightly. Have I missed something or did I offer to have John white's babies for no good reason?

Well it was definitely JW's goal. I wish you all the best in the future with your new lifestyle choice.

 

[RHB]

Well it was definitely JW's goal. I wish you all the best in the future with your new lifestyle choice.

Yeah, that offer may just have been a bit hasty.

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

Just noticed the crowd was nearly 20k today. That is massive for a L1 game where neither side has a lot to play for. Obviously Bradford have a big fan base but none the less, impressive.

Not necessarily as they count season ticket sales regardless and Bradford's are very cheap so sold in excess of 15,000 I think.

They have about 17000 season ticket holders because they were only £149, and since an adult ticket is £20 on the day people buy them even if they don't go to every match. Season tickets count towards attendance even if you don't show up so their attendance is always high. (Before people ask why we don't do that it's because we could only get a few extra thousand in before reaching capacity but if we slash a season ticket price by more than half we'd end up with less overall revenue from ticket sales, which we can't afford to do.)

Yep they count tickets sold for the official attendance (so do we as proved by the Walsall crowd this season). I think Bradford v Shrewsbury the other week the crowd was probably about 8,500 but the official attendance was 19,000+.
Mind you I see Bradford have 'only' sold about 12 to 14,000 cheap season tickets for next season. The last time they didn't have the cheap offer which was over 10 years ago their average crowd was about 8,500.

 

[rayleigh dan]

So does the OS. :facepalm:

Crazy! Having seen the goal I've got no idea how they gave it to Kightly?! I assumed earlier it was a contentious decision, looking at the replay Kights was nowhere near the ball?! Poor old White let's give him credit where it's due.

 

[Crowstone Crevette]

Definitely number 48 on the back of the guy that scored. So that's a White goal unless he's swapped shirts with Kightly!

 

[mattitouk]

If you watch the highlights on i-Follow, you can use the "Slow Motion" button, and you will see how good of a header that 1st goal was from White, timed the jump well and finished to perfection... well worthy of any decent forward imo.

 

[Jonesheshrimp]

Crazy! Having seen the goal I've got no idea how they gave it to Kightly?! I assumed earlier it was a contentious decision, looking at the replay Kights was nowhere near the ball?! Poor old White let's give him credit where it's due.

Ask OBL, she seems to credit White with everything? Am I missing something,are they an item?

 

[mattitouk]

Ask OBL, she seems to credit White with everything? Am I missing something,are they an item?

Perhaps they are??... But i'm sure her current hubby wouldn't be too happy about it, in fact John White's Mrs and kids wouldn't be overly pleased also!.. not even John would be happy with her frozen spuds & Yorkshire Puds at Xmas :smile: add to that John White might have a secret side business being a rival taxi driver to her "bit on the side".

I can see AndyT stepping in here, and creating an "OBL Diary" on the back of that post. :hilarious: