Betty Swallocks

It wouldn’t have made any difference last night, my point is that the area was clearly more populated than it should have been which shows there’s a clear appetite for a bigger safe standing area within the ground.

Lends weight to the idea that the safe standing area should be expanded. It’s about time we had a proper ‘end’ again.

Yes, son

AFCON is a month of beautiful chaos. Remember a game at the last AFCON where the ref blew up for full time about 8 minutes early. Protests and anger ensued, about 40 minutes later they come back out to play the rest of the game but not before at one point the winning team refusing to come out. I think they only played about another 6 minutes before the ref come to the conclusion that he couldn’t be arsed with the last couple of minutes nor added on time. They must have had decent post match food on offer or something Fingers crossed for more farcical scenes along with some decent football despite the dodgy surfaces.

What a honking line up.

They were good times. Little did we know of the complete mess we’d make of things in the coming 2/3 years.

I absolutely respect you for being able to hold a grudge for so long.

Talk about using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. There may be a few playing the system, which will always be the case but how do we know that every unoccupied seat is owned by someone who isn’t attendinng. I know for sure the area from section 82 attracts kids from other parts of the South Stand. Then as always with juvenile tickets you will have some non-attended, kids who only see the parent who takes them to games seeing them every other weekend, kids parties, illness. If someone is taking the piss by buying an under-12’s season ticket purely for reserving a seat next to them then something should be looked into so it could be made easier to police but having a blanket ban on cheap under 12’s tickets on every part of the ground bar the Upper Lansdown seems ridiculous when one of the great successes of the past few years has been increasing season ticket & membership numbers.

I’m not sure it would. If I was restricted to only being able to buy a season ticket in Lansdown Upper when my lad was a nipper then I wouldn’t have bothered getting a season ticket. He now in the under 18 bracket and is completely hooked on going because he loved being around the atmosphere by S82 as much as he enjoyed watching the game.

Putting it like that, it would seem plausible. 7000 members on top of 15000 season ticket holders is great numbers.

Cheap under 12 tickets is the reason why our fanbase has been increasing year on year. A cheap under 12’s ticket is an adults season ticket in the future.

26,000 capacity, minus 15,000 season ticket holders, 4000 in the Atyeo, 1500/2000 sponsors/hospitality. Someone on the way to West Ham on Sunday was saying we have 7000 members but this seems a little high.

There’s no season ticket holder seats at the cinema.

What time did you start checking?

Membership has been increasing all the time though, the more members there are, the quicker the tickets will go. The bigger point should be, members who have been to 3/4 games this season should have had a higher priority than those who haven’t.

There wouldn’t have been 10,000 seats available at 10am. Given there will be a couple of thousand taken out for sponsors/hospitality, plus the Atyeo not being available, that would leave about 5/6000 at most to go on sale to members.

We do have a lot of members these days. Given we have 15,000 sth now as well, it’s entirely possible that we could be down to single seats in no time as soon as it was open to members.

Unsold season ticket holder seats became available on the ticket site a couple of minutes after 10.

Top tip: start refreshing the ticket page about 9:57/58.

Sensible pricing definitely helped to make it feel like a proper cup tie. Result helped but was a really enjoyable day.

Tickets for West Ham fans on Sunday were more expensive than for us. Definitely recall seeing prices of £25/30 for home sections.

From the official site

No. We’re still looking at other attacking midfielders to bring in this month. Murphy was always going to get done regardless of what happened this month.

They don’t make them like they used to

You do realise you’ve admitted to all that on a public forum.