1901ers can wear colours/replica shirts in their seats, but not the lounges.

Seagull on the wing said:

Nice one....so basically they're saying put your shirt in your pocket or rucksack...put it on AT your seat...take it off to go to the lounge at H.T. put it on back AT your seat...take it off if you want to stay behind for a drink...so a striper has to be a stripper....ooh! Missus.. ha ha!

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Pogue Mahone said:

Yeah, excellent customer service.

But I find it totally bizarre that a football club sees fit to tell people how they may or may not dress.

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Beach Hut said:

Seems like a commercial opportunity missed on more replica shirt sales but such is life.

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Goldstone1976 said:

Oh come on. It's a corporate area - it's perfectly normal. It's no different receiving a party invite with a dress code, or a dinner invite with a "Black tie" request. 90% of the stadium is "wear what you like". No one has to go to 1901 if they don't like the dress code, and 90% of punters choose (for whatever reason) not to!

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Pogue Mahone said:

But corporate or not, it's a football match. I can't get my head around the idea that you can't dress as you choose. A lot of 1901ers aren't there as part of this corporate-business-networking thing. They're there because after years of hurt, these are the best possible seats and facilities, and they can afford it.

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Pogue Mahone said:

I'd happily go in 1901, but choose not to because of the price, not the dress code. The dress code wouldn't affect me, I don't wear colours.

But corporate or not, it's a football match. I can't get my head around the idea that you can't dress as you choose. A lot of 1901ers aren't there as part of this corporate-business-networking thing. They're there because after years of hurt, these are the best possible seats and facilities, and they can afford it.

I'm not remotely bothered about it - it just seems really odd.

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dejavuatbtn said:

If they are paying that much for their seats then there is even more reason for them to wear what they want. The whole thing is a farce, expecting people to change clothes between being outside and in.

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Icy Gull said:

What a load of tinpot modern claptrap. So I'm supposed to go to a match and get involved in costume changes 4 times over the course of a game. Embarrassing from the club IMO, either we can wear colours or we can't. Who on earth dreamt this potential charade up?

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Goldstone1976 said:

Following receipt of an email from the club yesterday asking us all to make the AMEX blue and white for the Donny game, I emailed PB asking if 1901ers could wear replica shirts at the Donny game. He replied, copying in Paul Rogers and Simon Williams, saying that he has no problem with us wearing colours/replica shirts in our seats at ALL games, providing people understood that they could NEVER wear them in the lounges. Paul Rogers concurred in his response to the email thread. Both of them know I'm making this post.

I'm making this post because my understanding was that replica shirts could never been worn anywhere in a 1901 area, including in your seat; and, judging by my friends' attitude and having never seen replica shirts in the 1901 seating, it seems that most 1901ers also think that they can't wear colours. If this is just news to me, apologies for the post....

BTW, this conversation took place between midnight and 01:15 last night. Totally amazing customer response - I've never had replies to emails at that time on a Saturday night from any other organisation in my entire life!

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Icy Gull said:

So I'm supposed to go to a match and get involved in costume changes 4 times over the course of a game.

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Easy 10 said:

Its hardly unique to the Amex. Plenty of football clubs have a no jeans / no football shirts policy in their posh bits.

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Goldstone1976 said:

The change involves putting a replica shirt over your existing clothing and then taking it off again (twice). Doesn't seem too much of a hardship to me. I do understand that many will think it's ridiculous, but it's fine by me.

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