In an attendance of 72,315, which I assume is our second highest ever.
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Doubt we would get near 29k this time. Last time was our first time which added a few.
Plus with this year falling on a Bank Holiday I imagine lots of occasionals will be away or choose to be away on holidays etc.
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About 1k tickets left for Friday now.
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Be a shame if it’s not a sell out - wonder if they could ask Poundland to buy a job lot 200 say and give them to staff - at least that way they are payed for…
They may not all come but if some do it’s better than empty seats I guess…
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Or give Chesterfield an extra 750, I’d rather have a big away following than not sell all the seats.
I don’t think Walsall think that at all.
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They’ll say anything to boost the players before the game,as will Sadler.
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Agree - they’re making up anything and everything to try to give their players and fans the bit of extra motivation they think they can use….
We need to deploy reverse psychology in the dressing room and use it to our advantage
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It’s quite an ask.
As I posted further up, by my reckoning if 9,500 Walsall fans turn up, that’ll represent the biggest amount of Walsall fans for a home game since Watford in the cup in 1987. I think our highest is about 9,100 for that Rotherham game that set the ground record. The Bristol City play offs had 5,000 Bristol City and we gave Barnsley and Preston the whole away end.
So this allocation is slightly uncharted waters for us in terms of how many of the town will come out for a big game. I’m not surprised given the post January form that it’s around 8,500 and not pushing 10,000.
Think we’ll get close but there will still be room for some last minute larries to rock up.
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Only 700 tickets left as far as I can tell. Not that it matters much because they will be gone by Friday morning.
Those blocks in the far corners are some of the worse places to sit in football, it’s like your in a different stadium.
How I wish we could implement the stanchion removal as per the photoshopped away end view someone posted a few months back. Be a really impressive stadium just with those simple adjustments.
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It will sell out now, or pretty close to it anyway. Not sure what the capicity is for this game but reckon around 10k.
On that basis, must be close to 8k home fans already.
Tickets seem to be moving again in the last half hour, particularly behind the (usual) away end.
Whatever, I suspect that this will prove to be a record in respect of receipts at Bescot - unless you include Elton John.
It’s a pity we have to share them with the EFL given that we have earned the right* to stage the match. (*I’m not sure if ‘earned the right’ is the correct form of words -given how we’ve ended up here).
I think the only team (and supporters) who’ve shown complacency is Chesterfield. A lot of them thought they’d walk over of us in that first-leg, as did many of us to be fair!
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Yep, won’t happen though, the cost with no additional capacity added makes it a non starter unfortunately, and I’d question the expense of it if we were not adding seats.
Medium term they should rebuild the away stand, a bigger one tier with a built in divide.
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Logistically almost impossible now I should imagine as the segregation areas are now fixed based around the fact that we’ve fans that have purchased tickets in all areas of the ground except the corner allocated to them…
I reckon we’ll sell out looking at how many have sold in the last hour or so…
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My grandad went to the game at Villa ( he was a Baggie but lived local to Aston & played for Aston boys in 1906)
Wished I had actually asked him about the game!
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What’s the point in giving Chesterfield more tickets? We want to make the Bezzla as hostile as possible- we should deny them every advantage. Also, due to the way the gate receipts are split, we would only net less than £2k of the £15k 750 extra fans would generate. As it stands we’re gonna outnumber them 8:1- that should be enough of an atmosphere
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Personally I don’t think them having more fans would affect the outcome. In fact I wonder if it would help in some way.
I’m with Sid on this. Take their money.
Hopefully we will sell out anyway.
Yes. This is also a point that the Not the Top 20 podcast made in their play-off pod. We maybe over-achieved in the first 25 games, but we sure under-performed in the last 21. Looking forward to your analysis (alongside more, hopefully, from @kamcavanagh on X).
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