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Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Jul 5, 2003
61,673
Location Location
Seriously. Why not ?

After surveying the latest BINFEST outbreak on the Boro ticket thread - doesn't all this faff just make you YEARN for the days before the internet, when you would actually have to physically go and queue for tickets ? I miss those days. Queues were fun. There was excitement, camaraderie, anticipation as you inch forward, towards the hallowed window of the ticket office. Chat and "bants" with your fellow fans in the queue, and then that prized moment when you turn away from the window, physically clutching those tickets in your hairy MIT, before you mince off down the pub and start properly planning your BDO. There was a real sense that you'd properly EARNED those tickets. You'd done the time. You'd stood there and queued outside, maybe for hours, and the process had ended in rightful triumph.

Now what. That whole experience has been replaced with sitting there in your pants in front of a screen, with the curtains drawn, hammering away at the F5 key, frantically clicking on all these little boxes, praying that the text in a little window will stop being greyed out. Then you'll either miss out, and go onto NSC to spend half the day complaining bitterly about loyalty points, web servers, internet speed, the time they went on sale, and arguing the toss with smug scrotes who say "neerrr, should've tried sooner, serves you right". That, or you get your ticket, pop onto Pornhub for a quick celebrationary hand shandy, before slumping on the sofa with a tube of Pringles and Sky Sports News.

I know what I prefer. Sure its more "convenient" to sit on your arse and click a mouse a few times. But I reckon we should scrap all that and go Old School again. Bollocks to online queues, we're british - we should go back to queues for REAL. Its what we do.

Who's with me ?
 


Seriously. Why not ?


I know what I prefer. Sure its more "convenient" to sit on your arse and click a mouse a few times. But I reckon we should scrap all that and go Old School again. Bollocks to online queues, we're british - we should go back to queues for REAL. Its what we do.

Who's with me ?

Everyone who lives in walking/driving distance from the Stadium I should think, everyone else less so.
 


grawhite

Well-known member
Jul 6, 2011
1,432
Brighton
I'm with you easy, I miss them days too.
 


Taybha

Whalewhine
Oct 8, 2008
27,135
Uwantsumorwat
Brilliant idea , we can all come on here afterwards and moan about how long we queued for , i'm in .
 


Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Jul 5, 2003
61,673
Location Location
Everyone who lives in walking/driving distance from the Stadium I should think, everyone else less so.

Then you send a cousin, or your mum, or a mate who's getting a ticket anyway. And tell them you'll be FOREVER in their debt if they could just do this one thing.

I have an abiding memory of a couple of mates of mine who, on Cup Final day 2004, queued all morning at Withdean for our Playoff Final tickets (they got about a dozen for our group). They arrived back in time for kickoff brandishing those magic pieces of paper, and were treated like returning HEROES. Then we all got drunk and giddy, softly caressing the lovely silvery shiny bits on our treasured Millennium Stadium tickets.

Simpler, happier times.
 




I remember going to a reserve game at the Goldstone when attending that game guaranteed you a ticket for a big cup game (can't remember which one).

It must have been arecord crown for a reserves game, thousands of people paid to get in the vast majority of whom walked straight out again without watching the game.
 


arfer guinness

Well-known member
Feb 15, 2007
347
I remember going to a reserve game at the Goldstone when attending that game guaranteed you a ticket for a big cup game (can't remember which one).

It must have been arecord crown for a reserves game, thousands of people paid to get in the vast majority of whom walked straight out again without watching the game.

1967 I think against Notts County they were selling tickets for the Chelsea cup game. I think the crowd was something like 25,000. As I was only 12 at the time I went to the reserve game and got my Chelsea ticket rather then be old enough to travel to the first team away game.
 


surrey jim

Not in Surrey
Aug 2, 2005
18,085
Bevendean
Then you send a cousin, or your mum, or a mate who's getting a ticket anyway. And tell them you'll be FOREVER in their debt if they could just do this one thing.

I have an abiding memory of a couple of mates of mine who, on Cup Final day 2004, queued all morning at Withdean for our Playoff Final tickets (they got about a dozen for our group). They arrived back in time for kickoff brandishing those magic pieces of paper, and were treated like returning HEROES. Then we all got drunk and giddy, softly caressing the lovely silvery shiny bits on our treasured Millennium Stadium tickets.

Simpler, happier times.

Remember that day and queuing at the Citi Center store well. the benefit of queuing with mates, I popped down to William hill and stuck a tenner on a Man United 3-0 with whoever it was to score first; paid for my day out at Cardiff.
 




clippedgull

Hotdogs, extra onions
Aug 11, 2003
20,789
Near Ducks, Geese, and Seagulls
I remember going to a reserve game at the Goldstone when attending that game guaranteed you a ticket for a big cup game (can't remember which one).

It must have been arecord crown for a reserves game, thousands of people paid to get in the vast majority of whom walked straight out again without watching the game.

Me too!

I think it was v Rochdale 30,000 odd?

My memory is shot! :D
 


Gwylan

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
31,323
Uffern
There was a real sense that you'd properly EARNED those tickets. You'd done the time. You'd stood there and queued outside, maybe for hours, and the process had ended in rightful triumph.

I remember taking the day off work (I lived and worked in London then) just to queue for tickets for the Doncaster game at the Goldstone. I almost finished a book in the time I was waiting my turn ... that was a long day out.

Be happy to go back to those days, I'm about 15 minutes from the Amex :thumbsup:
 


Seasidesage

New member
May 19, 2009
4,467
Brighton, United Kingdom
1967 I think against Notts County they were selling tickets for the Chelsea cup game. I think the crowd was something like 25,000. As I was only 12 at the time I went to the reserve game and got my Chelsea ticket rather then be old enough to travel to the first team away game.

It must've happened more than once then. I remember doing the same thing before a game and seeing as I was only 3 in 67 it wasn't that game. Seem to remember it was in the mid 70's and Fred Binney was playing for the ressies other than that I can't remember when or who it was for...
 




Paul Reids Sock

Well-known member
Nov 3, 2004
4,458
Paul Reids boot
I remember taking the day off work (I lived and worked in London then) just to queue for tickets for the Doncaster game at the Goldstone. I almost finished a book in the time I was waiting my turn ... that was a long day out.

Be happy to go back to those days, I'm about 15 minutes from the Amex :thumbsup:

I remember even more recently when the playoff final tickets were only being sold at Withdean and you had to queue up to get them and the coach travel.

Came down form London straight after my Spanish GCSE just to get a couple. I think that we need to be more clever about tickets but with modern travel it just isn't reasonable to make people travel to get tickets. I would never get to a game
 




nwgull

Well-known member
Jul 25, 2003
13,653
Manchester
I like the modern way. I managed to buy my Boro ticket when I was having my morning poo.
 




Gazwag

5 millionth post poster
Mar 4, 2004
30,093
Bexhill-on-Sea
I don't see the issue myself, anybody who has a season ticket and bought tickets through the club for a handful of away matches this season would have had no trouble getting a ticket.
 




Gwylan

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
31,323
Uffern
I like the modern way. I managed to buy my Boro ticket when I was having my morning poo.

Having seen someone take a dump on Lewes Road before, I'm sure you could do that queuing for tickets
 


1967 I think against Notts County they were selling tickets for the Chelsea cup game. I think the crowd was something like 25,000. As I was only 12 at the time I went to the reserve game and got my Chelsea ticket rather then be old enough to travel to the first team away game.

My memory's not as bad as I thought it was, as I was posting I was thinking it was a game against Notts County but I didn't say so in case I was wrong. I'm pretty sure it was Notts County now you've mentioned it. And it would make sense that the cup game was Chelsea, that was a big game in those days, our biggest for some years.

I seem to remember we we drew at the Goldstone and lost the replay? 4 - 0 is ringing a bell?

What I definitely do remember was taking a girlfriend to Stamford Bridge and she was wearing a bright orange trouser suit!
 




Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Jul 5, 2003
61,673
Location Location
I don't see the issue myself, anybody who has a season ticket and bought tickets through the club for a handful of away matches this season would have had no trouble getting a ticket.

I know. This isn't a thread of complaint as such - I didn't even bother trying to get a ticket for Boro, because I'm a Bad Fan who couldn't be arsed to go all the way up there for a game that might be a dead rubber.

Its more a wistful look back at how we USED to do things before the days of just sitting there on your arse and clicking. We all coped, and on reflection, peering through my rose-tinted specs, I honestly think it was a better way of doing it. Less convenient maybe, but still better.
 


I don't see the issue myself, anybody who has a season ticket and bought tickets through the club for a handful of away matches this season would have had no trouble getting a ticket.

I think this is fair comment. I haven't been to that many away games but always buying tickets through the club got me enough loyalty points to get my ticket easily enough.

There are loads of people who go to many more away games than I do but I suspect quite a few of them POTD. This means the Albion don't get any of the ticket price and the fan doesn't get any loyalty points.
 



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