Yes, our figures are very similar, in fact only one out, as I had us at 7,306 at just before midnight.
Net sales of about 230 for the day, but just under 50 VIP seats were released earlier in the day, some of which have subsequently sold, meaning gross sales between 250/300. It's a strange thing that the club does with these seats, which are directly behind the Directors and Patrons in Block 12. They are "allocated" to the commercial team and initially show up as sold by the ticket system. But at some point before a Saturday game, occasionally Wednesday, but usually Thursday, those that they haven't sold appear on general sale. They do usually sell, although for the first three games of this season there were between 30/50 left. I don't know why they aren't available all of the time, as surely this would remove the risk of these prime seats remaining empty due to only being available for a couple of days before the game? These are the sort of things where I feel the club are still inefficient, and "doing what they've always done."
Now for a forecast. We're currently 800 ahead of the Port Vale game (which finished at 8,144 home fans) and only 300 behind Exeter (9,113). By that metric we would end up with between 8,800 and 8,950 home fans. Looking at the buying patterns for this game I'd say we can expect 250/300 sales today, 400/600 tomorrow, and 650/750 on the day. This gives us a worse case (unlikely) of 8,600 home fans and a best case of 8,950 which is in line with the 8,800 to 8,950 mentioned above. I'll suggest we'll be at the higher end of this and therefore will need just over 1,000 Blackpool fans to make the 10,000. Not impossible, but I suspect we'll end up at about 9,750.