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I was pondering going to Fulham v Swansea with a mate tonight. It was going to be a last minute call so we were going to rock up and go in the away end.
We realised Fulham whack a £5 surcharge on top of the already expensive £25 advance ticket for paying on the gate?
Is that level of additional gouging the norm in D2? We didn't end up going for other reasons but thirty fucking quid.
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Originally posted by Tony C View PostAs it happens the sending off incident he was whining about was a very harsh decision against his player
Originally posted by Ray de Galles View PostI was pondering going to Fulham v Swansea with a mate tonight. It was going to be a last minute call so we were going to rock up and go in the away end.
We realised Fulham whack a £5 surcharge on top of the already expensive £25 advance ticket for paying on the gate?
Is that level of additional gouging the norm in D2? We didn't end up going for other reasons but thirty fucking quid.
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Originally posted by Ray de Galles View PostI was pondering going to Fulham v Swansea with a mate tonight. It was going to be a last minute call so we were going to rock up and go in the away end.
We realised Fulham whack a £5 surcharge on top of the already expensive £25 advance ticket for paying on the gate?
Is that level of additional gouging the norm in D2? We didn't end up going for other reasons but thirty fucking quid.
Still, silver linings and all that. Saved me £35.
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Originally posted by Fussbudget View PostSo harsh in fact that it was overturned
The extra £5 for paying on the door sounds dodgy but £30 doesn't sound particularly high for the Championship, Wednesday were charging £35+ a few years ago already
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No one knows what's going on.
Basically, the new owners bought the club from the Cryne family, but the Cryne family and Barnsley Council still own the ground. The new owners would like to buy the ground too, however the parties involved can't agree on a price. Because of this, the new owners refuse to spend any money on Oakwell (the scoreboard is suddenly 'broken', the cleaning isn't great, the bare minimum being spent on maintenance, etc). In conjunction with this there are rumours that the club are having difficulties employing stewards, which means we can't sell as many tickets in the away end as before.
This led to the new owners declaring that the West Stand (where the TV gantry is situated) was suddenly unsafe and all 1,100 season ticket holders would have to relocate immediately. In the same announcement though, they said that it was still safe for journalists to sit in... So there's two schools of thought now. 1. This is just part of the ongoing effort to devalue Oakwell and lower the price. 2. If the West Stand is shut then the stewards from there can be deployed in the away end meaning we can sell more tickets. It's probably a bit of both really.
As ever with these things, the main people suffering are the fans - specifically the season ticket holders who've been in the oldest part of the ground for decades and decades. On the bright side though, at least as those fans settle into their new seats away from other fans they've sat near to for fifty years plus, they'll be able to look out onto electronic perimeter advertising that the club proudly announced a week earlier.
We're heading for bleak times.
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Well the season ticket holders have all been moved out, or in some cases given refunds after their decades of support (I've read of two fans sat together with a collective 94 years of support who have taken the refund), and guess what? We've doubled Sheff Utds ticket allocation to 4,000. At the same time we've stopped selling tickets to home fans until all the West Stand fans have been relocated.
So right now we're selling tickets to away fans (at £36 a ticket) while not allowing home fans to buy any.
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Just watched Swansea v Tan United, I wouldn't normally bother but I'm in my hotel in Manchester waiting for the second day of the speedway to start.
Christ, Tan U are both absolutely rubbish and absolutely vile, filthy bastards. The 3-0 scoreline flattered them despite the fact that, according to commentary, they started with five centre halves.
McCarthy must be going to get the sack and I'm still pretty sure Mike Flynn will replace him, as I said on the D3 thread when he left Newport.Last edited by Ray de Galles; 17-10-2021, 13:08.
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- Aug 2008
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- The zero meridian
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I really hope Flynn doesn't go there, it's a club in a real mess, again. McCarthy stabilised them and then should have been replaced giving a new manager a chance, now they are again involved in a relegation battle.
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I think I read that Cardiff had six centre-halfs in their defeat to WBA.
Speaking of which, WBA vs Birmingham on Friday was a shocker. I'm glad I haven't got a season-ticket condemning me to watch Ismael's football - or Bowyer's, come to that. Until Karlan Grant came up with the game's only moment of quality, Blues had the better chances, only for Hogan to fall over in front of goal and Sunjic to hit the bar from 8 yards. I did find a video later about a bunch of Blues fans who took a cruise to the game - 2 hours on a canal boat from the city-centre to a mooring spot near the Hawthorns. Way more fun than the 90 minutes that followed.
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Miserable defeats at Huddersfield are a relative norm in the life of Hull City fans, but Saturday doesn't seem to have been made any better by the manager's insistence on returning to the formation that saw us plummet into the bottom 3. It's almost like he's on a wind up or something.
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I don't take loads of interest in events over the river so I've only just realised that Forest scored twice in injury time to win 2-1. Puts our concession of an equaliser and two red cards in the last two minutes into perspective I guess.
BCFC not won at home since January
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