That'll be a laugh, Birmingham and Villa both at home{wtf}, with 5000 fans pouring in from East Anglia and London.
It seems odd, but if you think about it about 8 teams play at home every weekend in London.
London is much bigger and the main railway stations are much more scattered though, whereas the away fans today will all be travelling up to New Street or Moor Street.
It helps that it's Charlton and Ipswich, so no rivalry. If Villa had been playing Leeds or West Ham, and Birmingham had been playing Millwall, there's no way both games would be on the same day.
That'll be a laugh, Birmingham and Villa both at home{wtf}, with 5000 fans pouring in from East Anglia and London.
It seems odd, but if you think about it about 8 teams play at home every weekend in London.
London is much bigger and the main railway stations are much more scattered though, whereas the away fans today will all be travelling up to New Street or Moor Street.
It helps that it's Charlton and Ipswich, so no rivalry. If Villa had been playing Leeds or West Ham, and Birmingham had been playing Millwall, there's no way both games would be on the same day.
Must say, we are more than accommodating to away supporters in the JS Stand, 3500, so Birmingham are just giving us the bare minimum of c2000, or 1977 to be precise, maybe we are just too nice...🤦♂️
When you start to sell out all the home areas like our opponents this afternoon, then that discussion can be had.
In the meantime it makes no business sense whatsoever by restricting the away support allocation. You would have to be thick as mince if you were running a business like that
Well if my memory serves me right, for the games at the old Den it was always pay on the day & the infamous away section was in the corner behind the floodlight pylon. It was the New Den when we were allocated the top tier & requested the lower tier for more tickets.
I expect the remainder of this seasons away allocations to sell out bar Mansfield possibly & if we are get to the play-offs we will not receive anymore more tickets than normal from the clubs presently in the play-off positions.
We did persuade that nice Mr Hortop to give us the whole of the Ilderton Road end at the old Den.
Reading all the stories of fans desperate to get tickets to the point of paying over the odds, makes me wonder why we are not kicking up a fuss about the allocation. “We” being
- the club - the local media - CAST - all other organised supporter clubs/groups - all of us on here.
Have the years of dross made us so passive?
the club asked for an extra allocation but were declined
so what would kicking up a fuss look like in this instance?
Oh well, the same sort of fuss as we kicked up back in the day when we finally got the Spanners to give us 4,000 at the Old Toolbox. Did my bit for that.
@clive they may have sold all but 400 tickets but does that include selling out in sections that they have chosen to give to away fans in other matches this season? As an example of what I mean, we sold out our Doncaster play-off home game by the previous Wednesday but the attendance was 25,000 something, not 27,000.
As discussed on page 2 of this thread Wrexham/ Stockport were given approximately 200 more tickets than us, where these spaces were, i don't know. A map of the end where Charlton fans will be located is on the link below, the away section is GM1-4, maybe part or all of GM 4 will be left empty for segregation purposes. The Millwall example is completely different as the lower tier would have been empty & not used by Millwall fans.
It was the old Den. I can't recall exactly but I'm pretty sure the issue wasn't about tiers but sections. The point was that we pushed for it. I think two years previously we tried and failed then finally we succeeded (although it was a horrible night, of course). My point was, we pushed. Club and fans together, and spearheaded by Voice of the Valley and the Mercury.
But on the other hand having looked I can see that they really are pretty full this season (although their claimed capacity is 29,000 so at least 1,000 places seem to permanently missing from sale). And even 4 weeks ago we probably didn't expect to sell more than 1.5k max.
This issue might come up again if we reach the playoffs. OK probably not with this lot, but since we are always generous with our allocation, we are entitled to expect some transparency from the other clubs.
I remember that. Previously, we were always packed in, stuck behind that bastard pylon, unable to see much.
I was chuffed that pressure gave us the next section. I bought my tickets and found that I was still behind the bastard pylon!
oddly didnt see many ipswich fans, we were meant to be on the 6.47 back which was cancelled so went to all bar one and then got the 7.21 and managed to get a seat also.
oddly didnt see many ipswich fans, we were meant to be on the 6.47 back which was cancelled so went to all bar one and then got the 7.21 and managed to get a seat also.
I was in the London & North Western Wetherspoons in New St station pre game and thought there were a few Charlton, Blues and Villa, it was mainly full of Ipswich having a sing song
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Arsenal and tottenham
Forest and County
Celtic and Rangers
Both Sheffield clubs. etc etc
Barring extreme cases all play on different days.
It helps that it's Charlton and Ipswich, so no rivalry. If Villa had been playing Leeds or West Ham, and Birmingham had been playing Millwall, there's no way both games would be on the same day.
I was chuffed that pressure gave us the next section. I bought my tickets and found that I was still behind the bastard pylon!