Let’s not get too carried away with the support. We’ve still not sold out our allocation and with friends wanting a day out to watch some football at the national stadium and on the piss why not come along to swell the ranks. This is so much different than turning up valley every other week.
True of any big game, though. I don’t think everyone was a card-carrying member of the supporters’ club when we had 30,000 crowds in the 1970s. Or in the 56,435 who turned out for a Second Division game at The Valley in 1958.
We’ve sold 40,000 tickets, near as damn it. Plenty of people didn’t think that was possible a fortnight ago.
Its pretty remarkable and will guarantee it will blood in a new crop of supporters for the future rather then the fkin Palace (yes Palace) and Millwall tops which frequent, Welling, bexley, Eltham nowadays
My other half works in a school in Bexleyheath and she's said it's all the kids and staff are talking about at the moment. This is a big opportunity to re-build the support. But it's up to Duchatelet whether we take advantage, or not.
At the start is was Sunderland have got X amount and we have got X amount where are the other 15000 tickets going. Well these are some of those.
And a chunk of the rest were bought by Charlton fans as hospitality packages directly from Wembley. It just remains to see how many of the others will have been taken by Charlton fans receiving corporate entertainment from firms, particularly City based ones, that have Club Wembley tickets. That middle tier may not be a sea of red football shirts but could be one of red or white polo shirts on Sunday and contributing to the noise for the the team in red
Yep - got an email from our marketing dept yesterday forwarding on opportunity to buy club Wembley tickets for the game - about £50 each - more likely that these will be scooped up by charlton fans than Sunderland - every bit of extra help to get us over the line and promoted is all good - bought a red top yesterday - realised the last red charlton kit I bought was 92 back to the valley - don’t fit now!!! Perfect prep tomorrow though - vets match at valley - just hope there’s some pitch left after last friday COYR!!!!!!
Let’s not get too carried away with the support. We’ve still not sold out our allocation and with friends wanting a day out to watch some football at the national stadium and on the piss why not come along to swell the ranks. This is so much different than turning up valley every other week.
Should we sing “Where were we, when we were shit?”
Yep - got an email from our marketing dept yesterday forwarding on opportunity to buy club Wembley tickets for the game - about £50 each - more likely that these will be scooped up by charlton fans than Sunderland - every bit of extra help to get us over the line and promoted is all good - bought a red top yesterday - realised the last red charlton kit I bought was 92 back to the valley - don’t fit now!!! Perfect prep tomorrow though - vets match at valley - just hope there’s some pitch left after last friday COYR!!!!!!
Sunderland fans can’t buy those seats because they will be segregated. Incidentally, they are seats only and not for the hospitality package. And why would they buy them anyway.....they haven’t sold out their own allocation?
Yep - got an email from our marketing dept yesterday forwarding on opportunity to buy club Wembley tickets for the game - about £50 each - more likely that these will be scooped up by charlton fans than Sunderland - every bit of extra help to get us over the line and promoted is all good - bought a red top yesterday - realised the last red charlton kit I bought was 92 back to the valley - don’t fit now!!! Perfect prep tomorrow though - vets match at valley - just hope there’s some pitch left after last friday COYR!!!!!!
Sunderland fans can’t buy those seats because they will be segregated. Incidentally, they are seats only and not for the hospitality package. And why would they buy them anyway.....they haven’t sold out their own allocation?
And if they had then there are club wembley seats at their end of the ground that no doubt would then go on sale to them.
It merely confirms the potential there is in this club of ours!
And yet, instead of having an owner entertaining a box of interested suitors, we have a nutter appearing on TalkShite telling the world how he's scared of his own shadow .
Maybe the young, sane Duchatelet might have seen this as the unexpected but welcome and massive opportunity it could be. He must have been right a lot in his younger years. Sadly, he is crazy now and those years have long gone.
If he invited any one of us into his office, I think we could explain how he could still turn this round and potentially make himself a lot of money, and even change the perception fans have of him. Through good fortune, not good judgement, the door is ajar for that. He tries to portray us as making him our enemy, but the truth is, HE has made us his enemy.
It probably all comes down to him being unable to accept he was wrong. He would say, I have accepted I was wrong. But his acceptance only goes to show that really he hasn't as he blames others for not communicating the plan well enough, rather than the plan that we all knew wouldn't work, because we have a better understanding of football in this country.
He won't change. And the route he is taking won't mean he sells the club at the profit he still could make, if he actually grasped what is happening.
Yep - got an email from our marketing dept yesterday forwarding on opportunity to buy club Wembley tickets for the game - about £50 each - more likely that these will be scooped up by charlton fans than Sunderland - every bit of extra help to get us over the line and promoted is all good - bought a red top yesterday - realised the last red charlton kit I bought was 92 back to the valley - don’t fit now!!! Perfect prep tomorrow though - vets match at valley - just hope there’s some pitch left after last friday COYR!!!!!!
I had a Charlton shirt when I was a lad (Ronnie Moore era). Played for the school 3rd XI and found we only had 9 outfield shirts, so had to wear it in a game. Needless to say, I had one chance from 6 yards out, with the keeper prone on the floor and I scooped it WELL over the bar. No one even took the piss.....the just looked at me with sympathy! I haven't gone down the replica shirt wearing route again since.
I wonder what the total sales revenue will be for the game?
I know a previous poster explained that 50% of the money went to EFL and then 25% will each go to Charlton and Sunderland. And the total would include match ticket sales, corporate box sales and I think perimeter advertising. Does each club get a slice of TV money too?
Anyone care to educated-guess the total that each club would get?
just imagine we win on Sunday all these come back fans get the bug back. The Rat sells in the summer and we have new owners who back Bowyer sensibly. Just imagine the feel good factor it could really take hold and galvanise the whole club.
I work in a primary school and keep hearing que sera sera and the kids asking me to sing the songs along with them
Shame it’s not September at the start of the school year instead of end of May and near the end of it. That’s a great opportunity to get the kids totally engaged in whatever you say from now on.
For reasons even more complicated to explain than last time, I have two adult tickets available in block 544, Row 21 Just asking £60 face value. DM if interested.
These tickets arrived in the post today. Still available, although my other three have gone.
You going to game?
Of course he is.
He's still got nearly 200 tickets to flog on Wembley Way.
just imagine we win on Sunday all these come back fans get the bug back. The Rat sells in the summer and we have new owners who back Bowyer sensibly. Just imagine the feel good factor it could really take hold and galvanise the whole club.
As shop windows go this is a bloody big one, not just in terms of the players on the pitch and what sporting success this club could have with the right senior management.
We've sold close to 40,000 tickets for a Division Three match (and we're not a one-club town like Sunderland) - if that doesn't entice a few potential buyers then nothing will.
just imagine we win on Sunday all these come back fans get the bug back. The Rat sells in the summer and we have new owners who back Bowyer sensibly. Just imagine the feel good factor it could really take hold and galvanise the whole club.
Rosie how many times do I have to tell you the Belgians going nowhere.
just imagine we win on Sunday all these come back fans get the bug back. The Rat sells in the summer and we have new owners who back Bowyer sensibly. Just imagine the feel good factor it could really take hold and galvanise the whole club.
I estimate our share of the revenue to be about 2 mill.
That sounds too much, given the revenue split. There are also costs for the use of Wembley and staging the semi-finals (and quite possibly player bonuses to pay). I understand that when Millwall were promoted they made a lot less than that.
I estimate our share of the revenue to be about 2 mill.
That sounds too much, given the revenue split. There are also costs for the use of Wembley and staging the semi-finals (and quite possibly player bonuses to pay). I understand that when Millwall were promoted they made a lot less than that.
I reckon the crowd will be in excess of 80,000. Phenomenal achievement by Charlton fans, IMO
The play-offs moved to a one-off final at Wembley in 1990 and since then there have been 87 finals across all divisions: - the 2001-2006 finals were played in Cardiff, and the 2011 Div Three and Four played at Old Trafford because of Champions' League Final at Wembley.
There have been only eight matches with an 80,000+ attendance, all of them in the Championship.
No
Year
Att
Div
1
2014
Derby
v
QPR
87,348
Div Two
2
2008
Bristol City
v
Hull
86,703
Div Two
3
2011
Reading
v
Swansea
86,581
Div Two
4
2015
Boro
v
Norwich
85,656
Div Two
5
2018
Fulham
v
Villa
85,243
Div Two
6
2010
Blackpool
v
Cardiff
82,244
Div Two
7
2013
Palace
v
Watford
82,025
Div Two
8
2009
Burnley
v
Sheff Utd
80,518
Div Two
9
2012
Blackpool
v
West Ham
78,523
Div Two
10
1998
Charlton
v
Sunderland
77,739
Div Two
11
1999
Gills
v
Man City
76,935
Div Three
12
2017
Huddersfield
v
Reading
76,682
Div Two
13
2008
Donny
v
Leeds
75,132
Div Three
14
2007
Derby
v
WBA
74,993
Div Two
15
1993
Leicester
v
Swindon
73,802
Div Two
16
1994
Derby
v
Leicester
73,671
Div Two
17
1996
Palace
v
Leicester
73,573
Div Two
18
2000
Barnsley
v
Ipswich
73,427
Div Two
19
2010
Millwall
v
Swindon
73,108
Div Three
20
1990
Sunderland
v
Swindon
72,873
Div Two
At the moment we can stake a claim to the tenth-highest play-off final attendance.
On Sunday we should be claiming the highest Third Division crowd and getting a higher spot in the top ten.
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Incidentally, they are seats only and not for the hospitality package.
And why would they buy them anyway.....they haven’t sold out their own allocation?
And whatever it is we will out number Sunderland which i can't imagine many on here would've predicted.
If he invited any one of us into his office, I think we could explain how he could still turn this round and potentially make himself a lot of money, and even change the perception fans have of him. Through good fortune, not good judgement, the door is ajar for that. He tries to portray us as making him our enemy, but the truth is, HE has made us his enemy.
It probably all comes down to him being unable to accept he was wrong. He would say, I have accepted I was wrong. But his acceptance only goes to show that really he hasn't as he blames others for not communicating the plan well enough, rather than the plan that we all knew wouldn't work, because we have a better understanding of football in this country.
He won't change. And the route he is taking won't mean he sells the club at the profit he still could make, if he actually grasped what is happening.
I had a Charlton shirt when I was a lad (Ronnie Moore era). Played for the school 3rd XI and found we only had 9 outfield shirts, so had to wear it in a game. Needless to say, I had one chance from 6 yards out, with the keeper prone on the floor and I scooped it WELL over the bar. No one even took the piss.....the just looked at me with sympathy! I haven't gone down the replica shirt wearing route again since.
I wonder what the total sales revenue will be for the game?
I know a previous poster explained that 50% of the money went to EFL and then 25% will each go to Charlton and Sunderland. And the total would include match ticket sales, corporate box sales and I think perimeter advertising. Does each club get a slice of TV money too?
Anyone care to educated-guess the total that each club would get?
He's still got nearly 200 tickets to flog on Wembley Way.
We've sold close to 40,000 tickets for a Division Three match (and we're not a one-club town like Sunderland) - if that doesn't entice a few potential buyers then nothing will.
“NEVER TRUST A MAN WITH YELLOW TEETH”
There have been only eight matches with an 80,000+ attendance, all of them in the Championship.
At the moment we can stake a claim to the tenth-highest play-off final attendance.
On Sunday we should be claiming the highest Third Division crowd and getting a higher spot in the top ten.
Fantastic effort.