Tickets - how exciting was that?

[Mr Banana]

There I was thinking I'd struggle to find anyone alive at the ticket office at half nine on a Monday. Got a couple of copies of that marvellous tome I once wrote for together and headed down Queens Road towards a gathering queue of people awaiting the opening of the heretofore less hallowed front doors of number six. Ticket office man number one nearly caused everyone seizures by announcing no more seats in the Sarf Stand, which when interpreted through English translated to mean there were only "wing" seats left. Ticket office man number two responded with a sincere "I'm afraid they're not on sale yet" when I said I was after four tickets for the first game of next season – I'm not sure the hilarity of my endless sarkiness always comes through. To the deafening sound of tearing Arguses I managed to clinch a last-minute deal, salvaging tickets for the adjacent Twinkle Toes in the process. Never has that place been more exciting. I could pee adrenaline right now. Good luck to the people working in there this week. At one point I thought I was about to witness a serious assault between anxious middle-aged men wielding emaciated copies of the local rag.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

There I was thinking I'd struggle to find anyone alive at the ticket office at half nine on a Monday. Got a couple of copies of that marvellous tome I once wrote for together and headed down Queens Road towards a gathering queue of people awaiting the opening of the heretofore less hallowed front doors of number six. Ticket office man number one nearly caused everyone seizures by announcing no more seats in the Sarf Stand, which when interpreted through English translated to mean there were only "wing" seats left. Ticket office man number two responded with a sincere "I'm afraid they're not on sale yet" when I said I was after four tickets for the first game of next season – I'm not sure the hilarity of my endless sarkiness always comes through. To the deafening sound of tearing Arguses I managed to clinch a last-minute deal, salvaging tickets for the adjacent Twinkle Toes in the process. Never has that place been more exciting. I could pee adrenaline right now. Good luck to the people working in there this week. At one point I thought I was about to witness a serious assault between anxious middle-aged men wielding emaciated copies of the local rag.

Shame there hasn't been more of same ticket frenzy for the rest of the season.

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Shame there hasn't been more of same ticket frenzy for the rest of the season.

*Note to self: start chanting "Where were you when we were shit?" at every opportunity on Saturday & see who fails to join in*

 

[Twinkle Toes]

ps Mr B: you're a feckin' STAR!

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

I ain't got one but, then again, mrs has already ordered a ton of concrete, bricks & other stuff to do up the garden and they are arriving on Sat. hope to have it all from kerbside to garden in time to listen to match and, should I survive (& Albion too) then i hope to drag my aching limbs down to join the celebrations after the match.

Shades of ipswich a few years back!

 

[Twinkle Toes]

I ain't got one but, then again, mrs has already ordered a ton of concrete, bricks & other stuff to do up the garden and they are arriving on Sat. hope to have it all from kerbside to garden in time to listen to match and, should I survive (& Albion too) then i hope to drag my aching limbs down to join the celebrations after the match.

Shades of ipswich a few years back!

Good on you, Mr G! You will thoroughly deserve to have a blast with ALL Albion followers if the lads do the do on Sat. I salute your excellent attitude.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

So was Mr Banana (and T Toes basking in shared glory) the only NSC success story on the Argus voucher front? Sounds like a 'Last chopper out of Saigon' scenario (obviously without the helicopter, roof top evacuation, Viet Cong, the refugees etc.) at the ticket office this morning.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Good on you, Mr G! You will thoroughly deserve to have a blast with ALL Albion followers if the lads do the do on Sat. I salute your excellent attitude.

I would hope to do the basketmakers/Welly/Star/Albert & nelson circuit, with a few others along the way!

 

[Twinkle Toes]

So was Mr Banana (and T Toes basking in shared glory) the only NSC success story on the Argus voucher front? Sounds like a 'Last chopper out of Saigon' scenario (obviously without the helicopter, roof top evacuation, Viet Cong, the refugees etc.) at the ticket office this morning.

Probably; & yes it was alarmingly similar. Luckily, we had a strange character called 'Camoflage' with us. As remarkable as it sounds, when an Argus Voucher with somebody else's name on it came buzzin through the shop - he just swatted it with his hand (just like it was a fly).

I reckon we had a right 'touch', tbh.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Probably; & yes it was alarmingly similar. Luckily, we had a strange character called 'Camoflage' with us. As remarkable as it sounds, when an Argus Voucher with somebody else's name on it came buzzin through the shop - he just swatted it with his hand (just like it was a fly).

I reckon we had a right 'touch', tbh.