Pete_Zatoppin wrote:Well if a lot of the tickets were given away FREE then the ground hardly SOLD OUT did it?

I don't blame the club though, its important to try and get a good crowd in for the first game and hopefully get them back again

Pete_Zatoppin wrote:10,500 or whatever the official attendance was supposed to be.

Brian Noble said “There were 10,500 people and probably 9,500 of those are new fans to the game.”

According to other forums Leeds supporters numbered only between 700-1000 of those 10,500 so I guess they were the 'old' fans he refers to.

Not that likely many old Celtic Crusaders supporters went up to Wrexham after the way they have been messed about.

So it seems there must have been many many thousands of 'new' people there on freebie tickets? I do know Wrexham FC season ticket holders were given some but surely not that many? Who was getting all the others?

Celtic Crusaders also tried this 'freebie ticket' idea for the last fixture against Leeds in Newport if comments on this board in the past are to be believed.