you think were going to sell out last games? how are tickets going?

I don't know the answers to these but a few thoughts:

Does the sterile area change size for some opponents?
Does the turnstile count the crowd or does ticket sales? (e.g: if people buy a ticket but don't show up, does it count on the attendance?) I would suspect ticket sales determine what is a 'sell out crowd' but the turnstiles count how many people actually come along.

For the sake of accurate VAT returns Palace must have to show how many turn up at what price they pay to determine the amount Mr Tax can exact. May explain why gates plummeted so quickly after VAT was introduced!

Only need to know income from ticket sales, not how many were sold, nor who turned up.

I agree, it seemed full on Saturday so I'm a bit confused if other games were officially higher in attendance. I don't sit in the Arthur but that gap between home and away fans looked smaller too, as if they had sold more Palace seats than usual(?). I believe there were some 'restricted view' tickets left, I assume that's at the back of the Arthur now they've put all that extra TV structuring up across the whole width of the stand, but it still looked pretty full from the Holmesdale, I guess the odd empty seat can't be noticed though.