From a neutral point of view, you can’t imagine that the Celtic trip to Pittodrie on Sunday was a particularly appealing spectacle.
For a start, there was only one team who offered anything in the game, from pretty much start to finish. 4-0 flattered Aberdeen on an afternoon when they could conceivably have suffered a similar fate to Southampton on Friday night.
Derek McInnes’ side struggled to play simple passes as we completely dominated what should have been a tricky match. Pittodrie is still apparently one of our toughest away days, despite winning our last seven there, but TV viewers hoping for a lively encounter may have turned off shortly after the ten minute mark.
Celtic should be given a bigger allocation at Pittodrie
They may not even have made it that far in all honesty. When they turned the game on, to see swathes of empty Aberdeen seats, they may have decided that the all-Welsh derby between Swansea and Cardiff looked far more appetizing.
Sunday’s crowd at Pittodrie was given as 15,079 but, in a stadium that holds just under 21,000, that looked pretty optimistic. The overall attendance was more likely to be nearer the 12,000 mark. Just over half full.
In mid-July, the hosts announced that they had reduced the away allocation for clubs like Celtic from 2,000 to 1,660. The decrease of around 25% impacted Celtic’s core following heavily with many unable to secure their usual briefs as a result.
It would then have been incredibly frustrating for those fans to watch the game on television and see thousands of red seats lying empty.
It’s time for Aberdeen to admit that their home support just isn’t up for it and restore Celtic’s allocation to its former glory. We used to receive around 4,000 tickets for games at Pittodrie when the Dons really needed our income. Now they’re struggling again we hope that they’ll call upon the Celtic support to help. And once again, the Celtic support will fill those seats.
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