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Red Exile

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  1. All sorted 2x members. Paid a booking fee - which as everyone else suggests is almost incomprehensible for a print at home online ticket. Surely more transparent to simply up the price. But hey. Better than expected experience done in seconds. EDIT: But that was just my experience. And I did get online just before 10.00.
  2. In Venice - which I confess sounds better than Stoke - but still...hoping the VPN defeats the BBC geo-blocking!
  3. I normally sit - fairly quietly - in the Dolman. Sat there for years. Yesterday I was up in the gods at one of the safe standing/standing rail seats - I stood the whole match. It was fine, I enjoyed it. But to @Davefevs point I'd propose that a 'good business' wouldn't start from where we are. Indeed wouldn't have found itself where we are. It would be assessing the demand for standing rails like we experienced yesterday, and if it was believed that there was sufficient demand for these to be an attractive offer to enough fans it would then deciding where to place them. It would have a strategy that could be explained. Let's say that that there was believed to be demand, and that the best place to place these facilities was in Block Z (I'll make one up) - it wouldn't be deflected from implementing the strategy by the fact that people already sitting there might not like it. It would be offering them seats somewhere else in the belief that in the long run this was a better bet for the 'business'. What we have had down the years of the AG development is a mess - where groups of fans get shuffled around with no obvious long term plan. In my view it's hard to believe that any football club would have developed a strategy in which what was for generations the standing room only club 'end' is full of people who only want to sit and the people who want to stand and sing are tucked in a corner out of the way! What's needed is a bit of leadership. Paint a picture and sell it to people.
  4. Just picked my reprinted ticket up. Head for the ticket office near the club store. Window 20 is last on the right. All very simple. Stewards helpful if you get lost. They have lots of tickets waiting!
  5. Now THAT is the spirit! COYR Made it myself. Lots of City here in the Westfield. All very calm!
  6. Train stopped at Slough. Now with some nice City and West Ham on an Elizabeth Line train.
  7. On a 4 car train that the train manager assured me is running through to Paddington. Boarded at Didcot. Just left Reading. Despite the GWR advice being that nothing is running on this line. Not many other trains around though! Years of commuting on this route have left me sceptical about announcements. Good luck to those stuck elsewhere.
  8. Will be travelling from Didcot Parkway - and leaving earlier than planned! Good luck everybody!
  9. The postie has now visited today - but not bearing football tickets...so I've done the same thing myself, called supporter services and had the same - very professional - response. Looks like I'll be joining you in the queue at Window 20!
  10. Still waiting for today's postal delivery. I bought mine on 15th December.
  11. It's not just you. No sign of them out here in Oxfordshire.
  12. My take - having liked the amusingly OTT OP. I make TV programmes for a living. Shows with big audiences. Have done for the best part of 40 years. I work with large teams of people who know exactly how TV programmes are made, all the technical detail, all the creative jargon. A handful of people who watch these programmes understand how they are made - or give two hoots. The overwhelming majority watch them to be entertained. It's all about entertainment. Back in the day I worked on Football Focus. The highlights of the previous week's matches were all about what the then editor called 'busters' - cracking goal of the month candidates - not walking the ball into the net. I don't know a lot about how footballers are coached, or organised, never really played the game. I have Jonathan Wilson on my shelf - interesting read. I appreciate the insights offered by obviously well informed folk on here. But the pleasure I have got from watching football relates to its capacity to get me out of my seat. Yesterday was a bore fest.
  13. Up there with Gerry Gow as one of my all time favourites. Did the club a great service not once but twice...an ever present in the 83-84 promotion side.
  14. I study broadcasting history - a really useful source is the Radio Times archive which you can browse here: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk @Never to the dark side The earliest record I can find of a City match being broadcast is here: https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/page/ea8daa29fa954c9aa17d8c34468d57fc 13th January 1934 - City v Derby in the Cup. The BBC was the only broadcaster in Britain at the time and the FA were much happier to have matches broadcast than the Football League - hence the FA Cup being such a big deal in the 30s.
  15. Really very predictable ending - and very poor. A City performance that says 'don't get your hopes up folks. Mid table at best'. As ever under the current ownership.
  16. Fair play to Millwall. They are well organised. But we have created nothing.
  17. Comfortably - which is a surprise. This is such a classic City performance - played well for a few games, fringes of the play-off - suddenly lose all form. Still time though.
  18. This is chaotic - very poor. More or less inviting them to score. Same old, same old.
  19. It's obviously asking too much for us to be consistently good...which is a great shame!
  20. This really isn't very exciting! Changes needed...and seemingly coming.
  21. Yep. Next Pep or something wasn't he? Anyway - thank goodness that's in the past. The Landsown failure wasn't so much appointing him, it was stubbornly digging in behind him when it was obvious it wasn't working. Bet the house on the chap...turned out LJ was a dud. If he's a decent coach, as many have suggested, he should take a coaching job.
  22. Frenetic. Busy bees doesn't do us justice. Fascinating to watch. We look the more likely but there's no time to sit back and reflect.
  23. Same here - once ran marathons. The younger family members run Parkruns every week. I'm starting back again. Will give it a go. Signed up to this for a bit of motivation.
  24. Absolute quality away performance - they looked awful - or rather we made them look awful. Manning winning me over!
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