It's only one game.

So what if you can't get a ticket, it will be on match of the day.</p>

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What a load of ****.</p>

Fans of lower league teams (and we are a lower league team) live for these days. We put in the hard work, the wet and windy nights in january. The long trips away to plymouth. Southend away on a friday night. And in the end what makes it all worthwhile is the feeling when you finally get the big game. The top premiership team in the cup. A lucky season in the top flight. The feeling that the hard slog, the cold early starts and not getting home until 2.00am has been worth it.</p>

Well not this time. There will be loads of those fans sat at home, mightily pissed off with the club. And there will be plenty of the feet up at home soccer saturday brigade cheering their team on. Liverpool that is, while sat in the anfield seat that should belong to the people who deserved it.
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First one near me that asks 'does that no.10 always play like that ?' is getting snotted.

 

you wont need to

he wont be playing when he gets booked against the baggies

 

or 'which one's Redfearn?' nt

 

or 'it's not like this at Old Trafford, well not on the telly anyway' nt

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Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately seeing as I probably wouldn't have got a ticket) I am out of the country.
Bit of look I might find a pub showing it live on some dodgy foreign channel.</p>

I have only been to west brom, leicester and weds away this season, and I would have been furious if I didn't get a ticket. God only knows what the nutters who go to every single away game are feeling like.
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Sorry mate

but the season ticket is supposed to give you priority for tickets for big matches, not for the ST holder and his mate who may be a fan or may be someone who hasn't been for some time or may not even support the club.</p>

BTW there should be some better provision for exiled fans but that's a different matter.</p>

 

I'm not having that.

I could understand it if all our 6,000 tickets had been sold to ST holders, but the fact that the ****** at the end of our road has got a ticket, even though the last game he went to was Cardiff really grates.

Its an absolute joke.

 

Of course St holders should have priority.

They pay the club money up front in the summer.

It would have all been avoided if it was 1 tix per ST holder though.

Madness by the club.

My mate got turned away this morning at 5:17am, and there were 50 people waiting for Shep to have words with him.

 

If that's a reponse to me, that's what I'm saying. nt

 

What would have happened then..

if the 3000 left for general sale were;

a) sold more than one per person
b) not sold out if they club made it one person one ticket.

Either the season ticket holders would be pissed off or we would not sell out. Tough decisons all round and the club are between a rock and a hard place on this one I'm afraid

 

RE: Its only an opinion, but

<div align="left">The away fans at one ticket each, then 1 per season ticket would have been ok. Its the people that haven't been home or away that most people are annoyed with. They are going because they know somebody who has a season ticket.
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RE: What would have happened then..

6000 tickets should have been made available - 1 a man to ST holders.

Then opened up to others by Wednesday, if ST holders had not bought their share.

SImple.

 

What?

On a one per person basis? And then we don't sell out? Or allow the general public to have as many as they want?

 

RE: Of course St holders should have priority.

I pay my money to OUR club in the summer, as do about 7000 others. Without this cash, and guarantee of support, there would be problems.

I've also been to a load of away games - both dee-dars, Scunny, Coventry, Wolves, plus Blackpool on a shitty, rainy evening kick off.

I understand that we don't agree on this, and you're entitled to your opinion, but surely we both agree that people who have the time to queue for 6 hours should not get priority for the game?

One of my mates lives in Northampton, and he obviously couldn't get up to pick up his ticket, so he applied by post. Bearing in mind that he has been to EVERY game this season, without fail.

Its a disgrace, somebody wants shafting.

 

How would we not sell out???

If we have 6000 tickets available?

Firstly, our 7000 or so ST holders get first priority.

THEN,

If there are still some left, it is opened up to people with a certain number of ticket stubs/COlchester ticket.

THEN

They are put on general sale.

Please explain how 6000 tickets would not sell on this basis?

 

RE: How would we not sell out???

We will never know but there is a chance....and that is the last the the club wants or fans shoudl want for that matter. If they went on general sale one per person the club would get lambasted for the massive queues that would ensue.

They can't win.