All Ticket Bollox

[Dave the OAP]

How many games away do you recon will be all ticket then?

If obergruppenfuhrer Perry has his way I assume all of them.

 

[DTES]

Perry doesn't get the say does he? Surely the home team decides. To be honest though, I'll always buy in advance anyway, I'm one of those sad people that keeps all their ticket stubs, and not many places give them out if you pay on the gate.

 

[Storer68]

i don't recall the oppengruppenfuhrer ever asking for an away game to be made all ticket dtg. usually he comes out spitting with indignation that we supporters have to keep applying for tickets.

Such decisions are solely in the control of the home club's police. If they say all ticket for away fans, the all ticket for away fanms it is. and you'd better not argue with pc plod if you wanna get in.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Yes he does........

Do you not remember all the bollox about the AMS where it was said by Obergrupperfuhrer said that anyone who wanted to watch the Albion play away would have to be a member!!! and then the letter from him saying if we did not sit down in the singing section we would have our season tickets taken off us and be banned from watching the albion away as we would not be members of AMS. In fact I seem to remember him also saying that there was WMD in Iraq, definately, without doubt

Its all his fault and stop trying to defend him.

 

[Giraffe]

Thought I’d bounce this. It was a different time!

 

[BN9 BHA]

Thought I’d bounce this. It was a different time!

Thanks

 

[Guinness Boy]

How many games away do you recon will be all ticket then?

If obergruppenfuhrer Perry has his way I assume all of them.

It’s POTG today so just turn up

 

[Dave the OAP]

Those were the halcion days when you could just turn up to a game with mates and and stand together supporting your team through thick and rhin

When you thought nothing about getting the seagull special to far flung places like West Brom and Liverpool in cup games, evening games at Rotherham, massive and Carlisle day trips to Torquay and Exeter, Sunderland on a cold Tuesday night…. You would think nothing of driving over 10 hours to watch your team ( normally lose) as we were shitehouse in those days

But there was no ticket bunfight. We all just racked up , paid our money and supported our team

That is what the original post was alluding to

I wonder when this bubble bursts and we find ourselves down a couple of divisions how many of our “ new vocal “ fans will abandon us like they did after the goldstone and go ba k to watching their premier sides

 

[Eeyore]

Those were the halcion days when you could just turn up to a game with mates and and stand together supporting your team through thick and rhin

When you thought nothing about getting the seagull special to far flung places like West Brom and Liverpool in cup games, evening games at Rotherham, massive and Carlisle day trips to Torquay and Exeter, Sunderland on a cold Tuesday night…. You would think nothing of driving over 10 hours to watch your team ( normally lose) as we were shitehouse in those days

But there was no ticket bunfight. We all just racked up , paid our money and supported our team

That is what the original post was alluding to

I wonder when this bubble bursts and we find ourselves down a couple of divisions how many of our “ new vocal “ fans will abandon us like they did after the goldstone and go ba k to watching their premier sides

I've hardly watched Albion in the last few years, but I went to Torquay, Exeter and Carlisle. So I'd probably be more likely to go.

When Albion played at Carlisle the coach set off about 6.00. I rang my mate on the Friday and told him Liz had been calling around to say it was 5.00. He turned up with his kid an hour early. I still feel bad about that prank 30 years later.

 

[timbha]

I wonder when this bubble bursts and we find ourselves down a couple of divisions how many of our “ new vocal “ fans will abandon us like they did after the goldstone and go ba k to watching their premier sides

Top (but grumpy) fan.

Chelsea and Spurs will see their fan base grow

 

[drew]

Those were the halcion days when you could just turn up to a game with mates and and stand together supporting your team through thick and rhin

When you thought nothing about getting the seagull special to far flung places like West Brom and Liverpool in cup games, evening games at Rotherham, massive and Carlisle day trips to Torquay and Exeter, Sunderland on a cold Tuesday night…. You would think nothing of driving over 10 hours to watch your team ( normally lose) as we were shitehouse in those days

But there was no ticket bunfight. We all just racked up , paid our money and supported our team

That is what the original post was alluding to

I wonder when this bubble bursts and we find ourselves down a couple of divisions how many of our “ new vocal “ fans will abandon us like they did after the goldstone and go ba k to watching their premier sides

To be fair, the last few years of the Goldstone, we were crap and it was a mission to get through it. If we dropped like that again and struggled near the foot of the league, I'm not sure I could keep going this time around.

 

[Dave the OAP]

I really enjoyed those days

Anyone else remember going to Cheltenham and the burger van caught fire!!!!

Or Norwich “ mr Carrow is in the main stand”

Going to Fulham just to lose every bloody time

I once went to Cardiff before we lived in Brighton to watch Huddersfield and we lost 5-1 and my dad, mum and my brother and I were the only Huddersfield fans there.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

I really enjoyed those days

Anyone else remember going to Cheltenham and the burger van caught fire!!!!

I was at that game, but rather drunk so was completely oblivious to it, didn’t know it happened till I read about it on here the next day.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Those were the halcion days when you could just turn up to a game with mates and and stand together supporting your team through thick and rhin

When you thought nothing about getting the seagull special to far flung places like West Brom and Liverpool in cup games, evening games at Rotherham, massive and Carlisle day trips to Torquay and Exeter, Sunderland on a cold Tuesday night…. You would think nothing of driving over 10 hours to watch your team ( normally lose) as we were shitehouse in those days

But there was no ticket bunfight. We all just racked up , paid our money and supported our team

That is what the original post was alluding to

I wonder when this bubble bursts and we find ourselves down a couple of divisions how many of our “ new vocal “ fans will abandon us like they did after the goldstone and go ba k to watching their premier sides

So, for the record, during the dog days, off the top of my head, I went away to Exeter, Torquay, Carlisle, Sunderland, Blackpool, Colchester, Rotherham, Massive, Northampton, Wigan, Tranmere, York, Hull, Lincoln, Peterbore, Mansfield..... all PotG.

But, historically we are a 12,000 home crowd club. Only recently have we been averaging over 30K

England historical attendance and performance

And the PotG away days, where we often took over 1,000 away, and it was brilliant stress-free fun (apart from the football, late 90s and parts of the noughties) were ironically the dog days and the early revival. People didn't really do away games en masse in the 70s or earlier.

So, yes, if we get relegated the average will drop, and if we fall down to tier 3 the average will drop even more. But we would be a club in a mess by then, and who knows how people may feel about things.

So bluntly I don't agree that the majority of our current 31000 home average are all Chelsea, Man U and Arsenal fans slumming it for convenience. I just don't buy that narrative. Or any suggestion that those innocent days are the best of days.

Given the nostalgia PotG imperative and today's other trope, the needy 'disappointed if we are not top 6 and winning a trophy' contingent, I have a solution. Two relegations to a level where we can go to away grounds and pay PoTG and (probably) win most of our games and yo-yo between tiers 2 and 3. That would tick all the boxes and satisfy the nostalgic and the needy.

Oh, hang on. We did that already. The noughties. Fancy doing all that again? Mmmmmm....yyyy....no.

 

[Bob!]

I really enjoyed those days

Anyone else remember going to Cheltenham and the burger van caught fire!!!!

Or Norwich “ mr Carrow is in the main stand”

Going to Fulham just to lose every bloody time

I once went to Cardiff before we lived in Brighton to watch Huddersfield and we lost 5-1 and my dad, mum and my brother and I were the only Huddersfield fans there.

I'm sure we needed tickets for the Mr Carrow game.

 

[Albion my Albion]

 

[timbha]

I'm sure we needed tickets for the Mr Carrow game.

That was FA Cup when we were in the Championship. Relegated that season

 

[Dave the OAP]

sheff united away one evening wheee I think we may have actually won … got home at 4 in the morning after road closures all the way back

Wolves away where we won and sat in a jam on the way out of the car park Steve bull was in the next car and was roundly abused by my passengers

Another 3 in the morning home!!!

Oldham away where Bobby got sent off. The coldest I have ever been at football.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Peterborough in the snow!!!’

 

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