4 successive sell outs @ Goodison

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Its a small glimpse of what a little bit of success/form does for a team. Now let's just say we do finish top 4, we can probably add another couple of thousand on top as well.
 
ilikecheese said:
Is the correct answer to the OP never?
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I would be inclined to think so.

It used to be the only all ticket game was either the derby or a really big cup tie.

Nowadays you can't pay at the gate so tickets have to be sold in advance.

But there was never a time when a game was declared "sold out" except on a very rare occasion.

What you used to get, however were "lock outs"......where thousands of people turned up but when all the people they were allowed to let in, they locked the turnstiles and people were turned away.

Two good examples of that were a big cup replay against Saints on a Tuesday night circa 1980 when Eamon O'Keefe scored the winner down the Street in extra time......and of course, Wimbledon Day.....which wasn't an all ticket game and people were queued up from early morning.
 

the esk said:
Having sold out Arsenal, Crystal Palace, and the two Manchester games, when was the last time we sold out 4 successive games?
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I pity the dude in the back of the Main Stand who has the seat I had in the Derby 2 years back. Looking through a letter box would be the only way to describe that view.
 
toffee matt said:
Am I right in thinking the threat of crowd disorder stopped a lot of people from attending football in the 80's?
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It was a factor.

But there was a far more pertinent reason.

The mid 80s was when Thatcherism was at its height and the buggers tried to bring this city to its knees.

Unemployment was high and going the game became very hard for many people.
 
Some of those occupied seats are going to have awful vantage points, which is a negative from a customer experience perspective, but it shows the demand is certainly there when things are going well.

We had to stop selling season tickets in order to cater for match day ticket provision the season after Rooney came on the scene (2003/04).

It's not like the seats are being sold to a load of school kids for £5 each either, which is what happens at clubs like Sunderland, and others.
 

Dymak said:
Some of those occupied seats are going to have awful vantage points, which is a negative from a customer experience perspective, but it shows the demand is certainly there when things are going well.

We had to stop selling season tickets in order to cater for match day ticket provision the season after Rooney came on the scene (2003/04).

It's not like the seats are being sold to a load of school kids for £5 each either, which is what happens at clubs like Sunderland, and others.
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The Rooney effect seemed to have a massive effect on our attendances for a while , I'm sure we averaged more that season than any other under moyes even though we just avoided the drop
 

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