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[Albion] Club cancelling ST due to non-attendance







SittingbourneSeagull

Well-known member
Dec 27, 2007
1,158
Sittingbourne
This. Club's increasingly over-stepping the mark. As the saying goes, you should be careful how you treat people on your way up, as you will encounter the same people on your way down
100% it needs to remember who the hardcore of fans are. When we get relegated (we will one day) it wont be the tourist fans still turning up to watch us play Barnsley (other unattractive northern sides are available) in the middle of the winter.
 










PascalGroß Tips

Well-known member
Jan 29, 2024
1,171
He's closer to Man Utd than many. We've got fans who are more than 25 miles from the Amex!
Exactly ... and the article only says he lives in Northwich, not that he was born there. Possibly born closer to OT. But irrelevant really when someone has supported a team for that long including being in the same seat for 45 years. Hardly a 'glory hunting twat'.
 


drew

Drew
NSC Patron
Oct 3, 2006
24,320
Burgess Hill
Exactly ... and the article only says he lives in Northwich, not that he was born there. Possibly born closer to OT. But irrelevant really when someone has supported a team for that long including being in the same seat for 45 years. Hardly a 'glory hunting twat'.
I may be doing him a disservice but I'm wondering if Chappers misread that as Norwich!!
 








Wardy's twin

Well-known member
Oct 21, 2014
9,171
Machines make mistakes, as proven earlier in this thread when someone got an email from the club for not attending an away game, for which he'd bought a ticket.
He did attend the game but had to prove it to the club.

Nobody minds the club checking attendance, but, as said before, the tone needed to be changed to stop fans feeling like truants from school.
I guess what i was saying is if the machine read his ticket to let him in then surely that is logged somewhere in the machine....
 






Weststander

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Aug 25, 2011
72,406
Withdean area
No, no it wasn't.

Pre-pandemic there was a waiting list each season, of various sizes.

As is the case with many things the post-Covid situation looks a bit different.

These people weren't making it up:


It did exist, many thousand long, those queuing moved up about 1,500 places per close season. I was in it.
 












Justice

Dangerous Idiot
Jun 21, 2012
22,868
Born In Shoreham
Didn’t they effectively say that every A+ member was on the waiting list at one point ? One way of fudging the numbers…….
That was the con well not really a con I suppose you had to be an Albion plus member to be on the list. I still make use of my Albion pen & wash bag so all good.
 






Talby

Meh.
Dec 24, 2023
486
Sussex
I can understand the second half of that statement but surely a STH 'wants' to go to every game?
I want to go to every game but I don’t want to go to ridiculously scheduled matches where the travel arrangements are rubbish and I don’t get home for ages.
 


Talby

Meh.
Dec 24, 2023
486
Sussex
Yes. I know how it works ! But compared to the alternative you're suggesting...
Most of my mates think the club are a bit Barry BigBollocks on this matter. Whilst they might be accommodating to those with illness, if you’re working abroad, travelling etc for a period and it will be a struggle to get to home games in person (but you’ll still pay for your ST) then will they be accommodating?

Most wouldn’t want to run the risk of losing their ST because of this and feel their £s aren’t as valued as others.

I know it’s rules blah blah blah but we’re the ones who have been and will be here come what may with the club and are hacked off with the tone PBOBE and his minions take to supporters.

i love the club but the obsession with money is crass. And it won’t improve the atmosphere.
 


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