[Official Site] EAST STAND UPPER TIER NOW OPEN FOR FRIDAY NIGHT!

I admire your determination to be eternally optimistic.

This is the current seat chart for tickets. The upper tier was hardly 'required' given all the lower tier availability.

 

Stewards and catering staff will be on minimum wage. Even if you used an extra 50 at 40 quid each it's only £2,000. That's 200 extra fans in, which I'm sure they've lost more with this latest PR disaster.

 

And what about taking supporters' preferences into account?

 

They’ve opened the upper tier because sales were so poor after their ridiculous decision to just open the lower.
Damage has now been done unfortunately as a lot of folk have already made their minds up not to go (not me btw).
Another Khaled own goal that has probably resulted in at least 1000 fans not attending. Bonkers….

 

The club still haven't explained why the game is being played on Friday night aswell, all in all a poor do.

 

I chalked **** on it when they settled on playing on the Friday night.

 

me too, was looking forward to the 'Saturday' game that wasn't to be

 

Same here. The A1/M1 is no fun on a Friday night

 

Christ! If they did that, we wouldn't have a club left.

 

Pleased the club's done this. I'm a West Upper season ticket holder, very close (2 seats away) from the Directors Box (Khaled was in the middle of the back row of it last Saturday, for those asking about him). Had bought a ticket last week for East Lower but rang up this morning and changed to East Upper, two reasons: further under roof but, also, prefer to be higher up as it gives a better overall view of the game. When I looked this morning to check position of new ESU seat the map of the ESL showed great majority of seats had gone, so maybe there's been a late burst of purchases. Very pleased for Horsham as, maybe, now we might get 4-5,000 for their big day, sorry night out.
Moved to Wetherby in 2017 and, as it's comfortably the closest (c.40 miles) to Oakwell I've been in more than 50 years, I'm happy to "brave" A1/M1 tomorrow night. C'mon The Reds !

 

got our tickets now - back in our usual ES upper seats, phew.

 

Presumably it's too short notice now to ensure that the Ponte end would be properly staffed up if they were to open it.

 

They have only filled two official coaches. If it had been an afternoon like it should have been, they would have filled many more.

 

You're probably right. Getting extra staff at short motice on a Friday night is difficult at the best of times never mind on a Thursday!

 

The majority of their fans appear to be driving or coming by train and stopping over from what I've been told. I reckon there'll be about 700 of them.

 

Have l got this right? You think they should open all the ground?

 

I’m a massive defender of Patrick, what he did for the club and his family that still do.

But if some things were more important than money, he wouldn’t have sold the club to the only bidder that was offering a deal including giving him back a good proportion of the money he’d put into the club.

I appreciate his circumstances were absolutely dire and that he’d have been desperate to get things sorted, and I do not hold it against his legacy, but that decision was made purely financially for his family, and not for the club, as it was known that the pmg consortium wasn’t particularly rated by the fans of their existing club and that they’d been turned down by other clubs in England when they’d tried to get into them. They were not the type of owner Patrick would have entertained in the previous years as ‘custodian’ that he’d have ever considered selling to.

To be clear I’ve no issue him prioritising his family - but that decision does contradict some things he’d said previously.

And they can sell the naming rights for the stadium if they like. Call it the preparation h arse cream stadium on sky. Whatever. We will only ever call it one thing.

 

Safe travels to them all......that weather looks a right ba$tard down their way.

 

Terrible weather in Horsham.

https://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/new...ajor-road-between-horsham-and-crawley-4395338

 

Grove Street?