It definitely wasn't above 6,000, photos I took of the match show the east stand (with supposedly a limited amount of tickets) before kick-off was barely past 50% capacity and as it holds 3,000 you're looking at a generous estimate of 1,300 empty seats. Scattered sections of empty seats in the sold out South stand and a visible amount empty seats in the also sold out main West stand.
Looks to me Rovers were hyping up a 7k plus and potential sell out in the day before the game to drive up last minute ticket sales and they had to validate that strategy by claiming the 7,011 near sell out attendance number. We all know some clubs in the LOI over the years have inflated their attendances numbers by including all season ticket holders as attending even if they are absent or by outright fabricating the attendance, everyone including sponsors cop onto that eventually Rovers don't need to do it when they are already generating brilliant numbers
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