i really think we should go all out and give ken davy huge support at the warrington game,maybe get a banner saying how we are grateful or something?
watching the town game last night i thought it was all rather pathetic, there was more empty seats scattered around than t-shirts and half the people who wore them looked like they didnt have a clue what they were about, yet amazingly enough the actual crowd was over 14,000!! how on earth do they get that figure beats me

oh and town were very lucky as well to get the 3 points,they were 2nd best to brentford for most of the game and only got back into because of a very dodgy referee

As Down at the Meerkat says
Simple
7,000 fans + 7,500 Lime green dusters = 14,500ish

Couldn't agree more with this sentiment. It's about time Sir Ken saw that many Huddersfield people are right behind him and are grateful for what he's done for our town.

to be fair i think it's mainly the ones from out of town that are stirring all the hatred up, from the posts i've read on certain forums mirfield,batley,cleckheckmondsedge seem to be the choice of location for these antagonists, im sure most people in huddersfield are grateful for what ken has done, i think reading some posts a lot of people have it in for davy cos of the merger thing 12 years ago rather than anything to do with the shares.

on the banner thing then,does anyone know where we could maybe get one done either cheap or free

i thought maybe having the man himself on it would be good?

I agree. I meant that Hudds people should show that we're on Ken's side. I know quite a few Terriers' supporters who are really annoyed at how Davy has been attacked & how it has reflected badly on Town.

I would go more along the lines of "Ken Davy - The saviour of professional sport in Huddersfield".

Perhaps the geezer who did the T shirts would like to redress the balance, or am I being delusional?

A company called aura print do a load of stuff for giants (among others) and sponsor Danny kirmond (still) and Bruno. They have a pricing calculator on their website a 1m high 8 metre long banner would be £128. Am sure if someone spoke nicely to Liam the owner he'd do it a bit cheaper.

You do realise Town's attendance announcement has nothing to do with the actual attendance don't you?

Hilarious little piece in today's Examiner re:the "success" of the demonstration by HTSA.

yes, that was my point nic, the actual "gate" was 14,400 but only 10,000 were in attendance, why dont they just announce their actual attendances? embarrassing for hoyle perhaps?

If 10,000 is embarrassing what does that say about our 4-5000. What we wouldn't do for a measly 10,000

Yes I know Jools Giants fans can't really comment on embarrassing crowds, and 10000 at Leeds Road regularly would've been some achievement for Town fans back then but football will always be the bigger attraction whether we like it or not.

They do eventually announce the actual attendance on their website:

BRENTFORD GATE BREAKDOWN
Posted on: Mon 23 Jan 2012

The 'gate' figure for the npower League 1 game between Huddersfield Town and Brentford was 14,405 - but how was it reached?

That figure represents the number of tickets sold for the fixture, which consists of the following:

Fans in attendance: 10,534

(From Brentford: 111)

Total 'Gate': 14,405

They report attendance figures to include all ST holders because the argument is that they cannot sell tickets for those seats anyway so they may aswell include them as being occupied.
Formula according to Bradford RLFC. Simples!

i wasn't comparing our crowds jools, just saying that to me town expect and probably should get bigger crowds ( as should we) but we dont seem too afraid to announce our true attendance figures whether good or bad.

True attendance figures are so we pay less to the tax man.

Tax is calculated on the p&l figures, if a seat is sold' it's revenue and used in the P&L, not whether the person attended or not



I tell you what the pitch is looking worse than it did when we left it, football is damaging the pitch much more!

Its a pity we're not as massive as the massive Martin

If we sell 4000 season tickets and 500 of those don't turn up and 1000 pay on the gate but our attendance is 4500 not 500 could it could be said that only 500 paid on the gate...

Yes, but the club has already received payment from the other 500.

Tax is paid on the season tickets and then on each additional payment at the turnstiles.

An attendance figure on its own can't be used for tax purposes as the figures would need to be broken down into season ticket prices, prepay ticket prices, gate prices, concessions, discounted tickets/freebies, etc.

You pay corporation tax once a year based on profit (if any).
Attendance figures are just a crude indicator of one of the many sales income streams.