ERCC Bosses Fear half Empty Stadium

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Stolen from another sight:

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/apr/20/european-champions-cup-empty-twickenham-final


Not good at all if there are only 40,000 fans. Especially if only 8,000 are fans of those clubs.

"Organisers fear there may be 40,000 empty seats when Clermont Auvergne and Toulon contest the European Champions Cup final at Twickenham on Saturday week. The 82,000-capacity stadium is set to be half empty for the first final since the old Heineken Cup was mothballed last year.

Despite the presence of two French clubs, it is understood no more than 8,000 supporters are planning to travel to London for the final. The defending champions, Toulon, have already returned 40% of their ticket allocation and Clermont have been allocated only 5,000 tickets. To date barely 30,000 tickets have been sold for the showpiece fixture."

SecretFly wrote:I think I'll start a Fake Fan Mannequin company.  

I'd have moveable ones (battery pack)..... but I'd have levels of 'animation' and the more animation (mad, wildly enthusiastic fans) you want, the bigger the price per batch.

So if you were chasing a big Broadcasting deal and needed to show the companies the kinds of well-up-for-it-die-hard fans that you had in your league, you could hire batches of 50,000 Mad Fake Fans that would wave their hands wildly and jump up and down for 80.   They'd come at £10 each.  So £500,000 per game isn't that expensive when you know you'll pick up a multi-million BT deal.
Of course if BT then needed top paying sponsors, the 50,000 extra Mad fake Fans would cost them a lot more.......

Don't knock it - it's professionalism.

Just a hint but try emailing www.saracens.co.uk