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1 minute ago, MattWSM said:

Thank you.

Do we know why the ticket office is closing at 2pm today, usually open until kick off.

I cant get there until about 2pm.

I imagine it's not closing but they only want to deal with tickets for today in the hour ahead of kick off rather than being overwhelmed with WH ticket collections in that peak period.

Just now, CyderInACan said:

Weird. I’d always assumed they were owned by the council. 

They're listed as a council asset in the Bristol City Council Land and Building Assets (going back to the 2014 register) at https://www.data.gov.uk/dataset/a98345ad-7f4c-4f6e-882b-e631dc1cc046/bristol-city-council-land-and-building-assets

UPRN: 342083
Property ID: 8019
Property Type: Public Conveniences
Property Name: Ashton Road - Former Public Conveniences
Post Code: BS3     
Ward: Southville
Tenure Type: Freehold
Vacant: Vacant
Asset Type: Land and Building(s)
Building Size - GIA (M2): 66.8
Site Area (Hectares): 0.0083
Purpose / Asset Category: Surplus / Non-operational / Under Review

Presume anyone who needs to know will have received the email but the club have put out a reminder of details on collection/postage/home end tickets etc...

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City fans should please take notice of the following collection arrangements for West Ham tickets.

TICKET COLLECTIONS

There will be no ticket collections at the London Stadium.

All tickets must be collected from Ashton Gate Stadium prior to matchday at any of the following times:

Monday, January 1st: 10:30am to 2pm, before the Millwall game, from the Ticket Office. Please use the left-hand West Ham ticket only queue. 5pm to 6pm from the Ticket Office.

Tuesday, January 2nd: 10am to 7pm from the Ticket Office. Please note the Bristol Sport Store will be closed.

Wednesday, January 3rd: 10am to 4pm from the Bristol Sport Store and 4pm-7pm from the Ticket Office

Thursday, January 4th: 10am to 4pm from the Bristol Sport Store and 4pm-7pm from the Ticket Office

Friday, January 5th: 10am to 4pm from the Bristol Sport Store and 4pm-7pm from the Ticket Office

Saturday, January 6th 2024: 10am to 4pm from the Ticket Office

Due to the volume of tickets sold, there will be NO SEAT TRANSFERS.

POSTAGE TICKETS

Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult at the London Stadium.

All West Ham v Bristol City tickets that were purchased with the postage option have been posted out.

Any supporter who has not received their tickets by Friday, January 5^th 2024 should contact Supporter Services.

TICKET AVAILABILITY

Tickets for our Emirates FA Cup trip to West Ham United have sold out. We have taken the maximum allocation of tickets offered and will not be receiving any further tickets.

West Ham United are reviewing all purchases that have been made within Home Areas of London Stadium.

Both clubs will be working together to identify tickets purchased by Bristol City fans in home areas.

Tickets purchased by City supporters in home areas of the stadium will be cancelled without refund.

58 minutes ago, Shuffle said:

I’ve just collected tickets directly from Jerry at AG via a communication on X to SLO.  Jerry did say they were over 500 tickets that needed collection & was hoping that the ticket office would open tomorrow as it would be carnage taking that many up there.  
 

Thanks to Jerry for his support today as top man & went over and beyond to help. 

Update from Jerry...

43 minutes ago, BCFC101 said:

Would you know about collecting tickets at the ground if not travelling on the club coaches? Bought our tickets yesterday but will be travelling up ourselves, wondering if we collect at the ticket office there or need to meet someone 

They'll almost certainly be taken up on the coaches though exactly where you pick them up will vary by stadium. If you have Twitter, X - Jerry will likely know the exact arrangement for Brum.

18 minutes ago, bengalcub said:

Bought tickets and coach tickets anyone have any idea how I could collect them ? Club shop not open until 16:00 on Friday ….

You'll be able to pick them up from Jerry (most likely or if not the steward on your chosen coach) when boarding the coaches.

13 minutes ago, Maltshoveller said:

Take it as you wish

I was just asking how many other reports of racist comments were reported today

What's the relevance? 

If there are zero other reported incidents, do we ignore this report? 

If there are 736 other reported incidents, do we ignore this report? 

5 minutes ago, Maltshoveller said:

Im just asking questions

It looked a lot like insinuating impropriety to my mind. 

16 minutes ago, Maltshoveller said:

His 1st game in charge and he reports a racist comment !!!

How many other games were played today?

How many other racist comments were reported?

 

Reports I've seen say that it was initially reported by a player.

Would you prefer that the officials/relevant authorities ignore the report? 

Lovely finish from Weimann.

4 minutes ago, Sir Geoff said:

If you compound it.

Otherwise 1%of 20 billion is the 20 million he puts In each season. It really is just pocket money to him.

Where's the £20bn number coming from?

2 hours ago, The Constant Rabbit said:

 

Honestly - SL is so bloody rich that the 200 mil or so he has spent is NOTHING to him or his family.

 

Consistently in the top 1000 of the worlds richest individuals, SL has spent roughly 1% of his entire wealth over the last 20+ years.

 

1%

You sure about that?

If 1% = £200,000,000 (two hundred million pounds) then 100% = £20,000,000,000 (twenty billion pounds)

1 hour ago, Red Army 75 said:

Back of the south stand a couple of my mates have been parking in the scouts parking. Raynes road. Not to expensive 

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/bristol/229th-bristol-hq/ashton-gate-stadium-match-day-car-parking/e-ebgvje for anyone interested

FWIW, I have no connection to it and haven't used it myself.

22 minutes ago, East End Old Boy said:

I thought Pula Sports were sole owners of the stadium, which is just Steve and Maggie?

Ashton Gate is owned by Ashton Gate Ltd, part of the Bristol City Holdings Ltd group. 

This much believed thing that SL owns Ashton Gate in some wholly separate entity is becoming a bit of a myth. Yes, he effectively owns it via his controlling stake in the Holdings company but it remains part of the group (which is also the relevant FFP entity) as it has been for a considerable period now. 

3 minutes ago, Harry said:

Do we know what the playing staff costs were? 
Would be very interested to see how much this was cut by??? 

The accounts for Bristol City Football Club Ltd will give an idea of this when they're filed at Companies House. 

These group accounts make it somewhat difficult - an increase in wage bill but also an additional 200 employees. 

On the Sky Sports site, they say:

"We can only show rescheduled, displaced midweek games or games taking place away from Saturday at 3pm that are not part of a regular midweek round on the Red Button where respective clubs stream them on their iFollow app."

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12105601/championship-football-live-how-to-watch-games-live-on-sky-sports-and-free-match-highlights

19 minutes ago, Shauntaylor85 said:

Hoping Hull is on red button Friday night. I really cannot wait for the day of match choice so you can watch all games when you want.  

It's on Robins TV in the UK (as per https://bristolcitypayments.streamamg.com/account/register/step1) so that usually means the red button coverage is available too.

This popped up as a recommended video...

6 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Presumably he is.

US season has finished, contract expired. Is a short-term deal so seems strange if not.

Thought I'd check it out... the EFL regulations on signing an "Out of Registration Player" player outside during a "Closed Period" are based on the following definition.

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‘Out of Registration Player’ shall mean any Player who has not at any time been registered with a Member Club (or club), or if he has been so registered his registration (including as a Contract Player or Non-Contract Player, or equivalent registration in any other league) expired or was cancelled at any time prior to the end of a Transfer Window (and in the case of the Summer Transfer Window, the applicable end date is that applied to Clubs in Leagues One and Two in accordance with Regulation 43.2) and he has not since been registered with any Club (or club).

I'm reading that as he wouldn't be eligible to be signed until the transfer window opens.

Will he be eligible? He was under contract and registered elsewhere when the (English) transfer window closed. 

5 minutes ago, Winterstoke toad said:

I can’t be the only one who thought Hinds was gonna go on to be a championship regular after his performances in the cup ? 

Now working in recruitment and playing for Royston Town.

49 minutes ago, phantom said:

Odd to set up something new for information 

Not related to a group or Bristol Sport 

Just to add this was featured via Robins TV so it is almost certainly something connected to Ashton Gate/Bristol Sport etc.

2 minutes ago, Robbored said:

1) which season was that? 2) where did City actually finish in that season?

1) 2018-19.

2) 8th.

16 minutes ago, Robbored said:

Of course not but he never threatened to reach the top 6 as his father actually had before blowing it the play off final.

The propensity to talk utter crap is strong with this one.

"Never threatened" - I'd suggest being in a play-off place on April 19th is a complete and utter dismissal of this latest dump of ignorance.