Attendance Prediction - Birmingham City (h) - Sat 17th Aug '24 - Match 2 in 24/25

railwaysteve · August 14

I don't think the fixture list has been particuarly kind to us - away to a sell out home crowd at Wrexham followed by home to Birmingham with a very likely sell out away end - although I haven't checked. They had nigh on 28,000 for their home fixture against Reading on Saturday.

They needed a late Alfie May penalty for a draw.

I go 6944 with 1844 away fans in the away end. Should be a good atmosphere.

James · August 14

7469

railwaysteve · August 14

Welcome @James -

Do you want to make a shot at predicting the away crowd, either now or later.

SmiroludyBlue · August 14

6,321 with 1789 away please

a40 · August 14

6404 with 1860 Bluenoses

93Chairboy · August 14

6, 768 with 1,780 away for me

micra · August 14

I love that “nigh on” @railwaysteve. My dad used to use it. Another favourite was “as near as damn it” - the unspoken bit, as I discovered later in life, was “… is to swearing”. Coincidentally, both expressions referring to nearness.

Although I’ve not heard anything, I’ve been wondering if the club are considering opening up the first block in the Frank Adams upper tier as has happened in the past when massive clubs have visited.

After my absurdly early, overexcited (?!) prediction last Saturday I shall dwell on it a little longer.

MindlessDrugHoover · August 14

6,789 with 1,789 wrong sort of Blues.

Shev · August 14

7,124 with 1,898, thanks!

Alexo · August 14

6850 with 1888 please

mwite · August 14

6500 with 1800 away

Manboobs · August 14

6488 with 1784 from the birthplace of Heavy Metal 🤘

williwycombe · August 14

I went early for the Wrexham game and ended up with egg on my face. Usually the club will put out a few ‘car park sold out’, ‘limited places on the terrace and family stand’ teasers a few days before to give a flavour.

But to heck with it, I’ll go for an upwardly mobile 7,233 with 1,789 marauding Bluenoses.

Now we’re in the money I don’t think we’ll be giving away any ‘sporting advantage’ and extra seats to big time clubs?

Alexo · August 14

https://gasroom.org/discussion/comment/354384#Comment_354384

To be fair we are not going to find out late on that we have added 1000 to a temporary stand.... I also went too early for Wrexham...😒

Erroll_Sims · August 14

I will go with 6890 with 1850 Brummies

railwaysteve · August 15

@Alexo, @williwycombe - Ok - this is a competition and I like the idea of competition. However I also like the concept of accuracy and the idea of increasing the sum of human knowledge. I have always thought that information about the likely attendance at a football match becomes more knowable as kick off approaches which is my reason for having a deadline of one hour beforehand for counting predictions.

So this from Birmingham City's website - an extract from an article now well buried but findable with a search for 'Tickets' -

If you don’t ask, you don’t get’ - we are reaching out to every League 1 team to request as many away tickets as possible. To encourage a positive response, we are offering them more than the minimum required when they visit our Stadium. We anticipate several clubs will choose to give us a larger allocation because it will make financial sense for them. Others may decide not to, avoiding making it like a ‘home game’ for Blues.

The first response we have received has been positive with Wycombe Wanderers, agreeing an increased allocation of 1,848 for our first away game of the season. We will keep supporters informed on the number of tickets we are allocated for all upcoming away games.

Our ticketing website is showing no tickets available in Blocks H and G of the Origen Stand (close but not closest to the away end) however there are seats in Block V of the Origen stand (nearest the corner flag / next to the scoreboard) and lots of seats available in Blocks A, B and C at the other end of the Origen stand (nearest the terrace. This suggests to me that Blocks H and G will have visitors from Birmingham in them.

The Frank Adams has seats available in all Blocks.

We are not selling 'home tickets' to new registrations except to telephone callers and people who come to the ground, our standard practice according to the club when there is a risk of away supporters obtaining tickets in the home end.

Make what you will of this information. I like debate to be informed and also want there to be as many Wycombe supporters at any game as possible.

I think there will be quite an atmosphere. I hope we do top 5000 home supporters, which historically will be quite an achievement in August.