Grimsby Fans in Home Ends

[ThaiPie]

100% agree, I said a week ago I really hope we only give them 2000. If they filled the Sirrel I would say they virtually have home advantage crowd wise as let’s face it they would just come down for the day, beered up and it would be deafening. I wasn’t sure if Notts would do it or not as they always try and do everything ethically correct but some times in football u have to be a bit cute with stuff.

I see the points being made. Unfortunately, I can't attend due to my location, but in the past have relished the atmosphere in previous games when there were 4,000+ away fans.

Fortune favours the brave!

[Chicken Balti Pie]

I heard the Grimsby allocation capped at 2,000 and no extra. Surely the Jimmy Sirrel holds a lot more than this? Some safety reason? Seems crazy that with a ground built for 20,000, the club is losing revenue and creating crowd safety issues??

The club isn't losing revenue. The profits are split evenly between all 6 playoff teams. If we gave Grimsby an extra 2,000 tickets say. On average they sell at £15 (taking into account some will be concession prices), that is £30,000. Take away the extra stewarding costs, the cost it takes to close County road as it has to close with over 2,500 in that stand, you're probably looking at £15,000 at most. Divide that by 6 and we get a sum total of £2,500 and we loosen our home advantage. It's just not worth it

[upthemaggies]

The club isn't losing revenue. The profits are split evenly between all 6 playoff teams. If we gave Grimsby an extra 2,000 tickets say. On average they sell at £15 (taking into account some will be concession prices), that is £30,000. Take away the extra stewarding costs, the cost it takes to close County road as it has to close with over 2,500 in that stand, you're probably looking at £15,000 at most. Divide that by 6 and we get a sum total of £2,500 and we loosen our home advantage. It's just not worth it

Not sure about the NL, but in the EFL if you need extra police/stewarding for a play off match you claim that rather than pay it yourself and it comes out of the money distributed throughout the league.

[Chicken Balti Pie]

Not sure about the NL, but in the EFL if you need extra police/stewarding for a play off match you claim that rather than pay it yourself and it comes out of the money distributed throughout the league.

Even so, you're losing your home advantage for £5,000. It's just not worth it

[1955pie]

Even so, you're losing your home advantage for £5,000. It's just not worth it

I agree.

[upthemaggies]

Ignore wrong thread.