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Robin
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Shocking attendance today for what was comfortably our best performance of the season. I wasn't expecting much but would have hoped for closer to 4000 today.
RegencyCheltenhamSpa
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Robin wrote:Shocking attendance today for what was comfortably our best performance of the season. I wasn't expecting much but would have hoped for closer to 4000 today.
Many away for Christmas. About five or six empty ST seats around me for that reason.
Robin
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Boxing day is usually one of the best attended through the season like the opening day. Yet we seem to be the only club in the football league who sees hundreds of fans on holiday...
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Horteng
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The team need to get the fans back.

Hopefully the recent form is the beginning of this but it’s not going to happen over night
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It was disappointing, especially as Boxing Day is traditionally when you expect to get a bumper crowd. I suspect it'll take a long time to tempt back most of the 'floaters' and make attendances respectable again, but performances like today's will certainly help!
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Horteng
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A bit of PR from the club wouldn’t go a miss neither
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Shade
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The PR has started coming now. Much more on facebook lately and the website.
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Malabus
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I’m in Rome, but still have a ST.
Great overall performance and result.
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Ihearye
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In Wistler enjoying the snow. Don't feel too ashamed at all. However, great result for those attending
theidlerich
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Please could all those favouring better climes not post......it's most disconcerting, especially as one had to sit through that!!!! :)
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.especially the Whistler one - i bet its minus 12oC or so?
Jerry St Clair
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RegencyCheltenhamSpa wrote: Many away for Christmas. About five or six empty ST seats around me for that reason.
Are STs included in the attendance whether or not they attend? Or is it actual clicks through the turnstiles?
Jerry St Clair
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Predictions for FGR on Saturday? I’m going 4300 including around 800 from Nailsworth.
RegencyCheltenhamSpa
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Jerry St Clair wrote:
RegencyCheltenhamSpa wrote: Many away for Christmas. About five or six empty ST seats around me for that reason.
Are STs included in the attendance whether or not they attend? Or is it actual clicks through the turnstiles?
Pretty sure it is through the turnstiles at CTFC - although in the CF as half the turnstiles are closed to cut costs, a steward is always recruited to let people in the fire escape/disabled access door so no turnstile clicks but stubs to count.
Robin
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Jerry St Clair wrote:Predictions for FGR on Saturday? I’m going 4300 including around 800 from Nailsworth.
3900 600 away.
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Shade
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Surely they just add the stubs that the steward on the door takes?
Jerry St Clair
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Robin wrote:
Jerry St Clair wrote:Predictions for FGR on Saturday? I’m going 4300 including around 800 from Nailsworth.
3900 600 away.
You’re probably closer to the mark.

I’m, perhaps optimistically, hoping that local derby + great Boxing Day result might = an extra 700 home fans on the gate.
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Lord Elpuz
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For whatever reason, those that couldn’t make the game today missed an absolute corker. Some of the best created and taken goals I have seen at CTFC for many a year. I do believe we have turned a corner and that the fans (and glory hunters) will begin to return in good time.

One envisages a probable reason the numbers were down today, is perhaps that some who buy tickets on the day may not have been able to afford both MK Dons & FGR tickets so close together, due to Christmas spending, so have most likely held back for the FGR game; I expect that game to attract 4000+ fans.
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I am going big. 4,500 vs FGR. Of which in the away end, 900.
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RegencyCheltenhamSpa wrote:I am going big. 4,500 vs FGR. Of which in the away end, 900.
Agree with 4500, but with a few less from FGR
everyman
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Probably many still sulking over the sacking of the former manager,they wouldn`t understand how much the whole club has moved on since then,maybe they ought to do the same ?
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theidlerich wrote:Please could all those favouring better climes not post......it's most disconcerting, especially as one had to sit through that!!!! :)
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.especially the Whistler one - i bet its minus 12oC or so?
Not too bad at all in the village, but plenty of snow up mountains. -19 with wind chill up there
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