Season Tickets - Suggestion for the club

superclive98 said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Plaaayer said:

4 more years of that service is painful 

If the team does have a good season and crowds are around the same as Saturday, or even higher, then I suspect things will get a lot worse, rapidly. Too much needs to happen in that 15 minute window at half time and the concourses aren’t big enough to cope with the movement of fans and the static queues at the same time. 

And just to add to the moans about Saturday, I got a coffee to take to my seat. The lids were too small for the cup so I had to walk around everybody on the packed concourse whilst carrying a scolding hot drink with no lid. I couldn’t have been the only one. That is one fcking nasty accident waiting to happen. 

Old Trafford seemed to cope with 9,000+ Charlton fans. Plastic bottles of lager instead of the ridiculously slow pouring of pints seems an obvious answer.

How many plastic bottles will get thrown on the pitch though?

Covered End said:

superclive98 said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Plaaayer said:

4 more years of that service is painful 

If the team does have a good season and crowds are around the same as Saturday, or even higher, then I suspect things will get a lot worse, rapidly. Too much needs to happen in that 15 minute window at half time and the concourses aren’t big enough to cope with the movement of fans and the static queues at the same time. 

And just to add to the moans about Saturday, I got a coffee to take to my seat. The lids were too small for the cup so I had to walk around everybody on the packed concourse whilst carrying a scolding hot drink with no lid. I couldn’t have been the only one. That is one fcking nasty accident waiting to happen. 

Old Trafford seemed to cope with 9,000+ Charlton fans. Plastic bottles of lager instead of the ridiculously slow pouring of pints seems an obvious answer.

How many plastic bottles will get thrown on the pitch though?

You wouldn't be able to take them away from the concourse. I didn't notice any bottles being thrown at OT.

superclive98 said:

Covered End said:

superclive98 said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Plaaayer said:

4 more years of that service is painful 

If the team does have a good season and crowds are around the same as Saturday, or even higher, then I suspect things will get a lot worse, rapidly. Too much needs to happen in that 15 minute window at half time and the concourses aren’t big enough to cope with the movement of fans and the static queues at the same time. 

And just to add to the moans about Saturday, I got a coffee to take to my seat. The lids were too small for the cup so I had to walk around everybody on the packed concourse whilst carrying a scolding hot drink with no lid. I couldn’t have been the only one. That is one fcking nasty accident waiting to happen. 

Old Trafford seemed to cope with 9,000+ Charlton fans. Plastic bottles of lager instead of the ridiculously slow pouring of pints seems an obvious answer.

How many plastic bottles will get thrown on the pitch though?

You wouldn't be able to take them away from the concourse. I didn't notice any bottles being thrown at OT.

There's been a few things thrown at players and officials at The Valley in the last few seasons.
The most recent being the tomato ketchup squirted over the referee and then the ketchup bottle thrown at him.

A couple of fans in separate incidents have been hit at the front of the Covered End by items thrown from the upper tier.

Also, it's not difficult to hide a bottle inside a jacket/coat.

They clearly read charlton life. @AFKABartram great suggestion mate 👍

More than 6,000 match tickets were sold for the game .
https://www.charltonafc.com/news/convert-your-leyton-orient-ticket-season-ticket

Nice to see the club getting a lot of things right lately. It's been a long, long time.

shine166 said:

clive said:

More than 6,000 match tickets were sold for the game .
https://www.charltonafc.com/news/convert-your-leyton-orient-ticket-season-ticket

No doubt it would have been even more if the either wasn't shite and trains were normal. Great numbers 👏 

Same as the Derby game for the first home game of last season. Time will tell if those will keep going from now on 

@AFKABartram - you should be on 10% lol

Afkas next suggestion will be a height related pricing tariff rather than age.

801912601 said:

We (well the club!) need to be thinking about the future. Why not publicise the under 18 ticket more and get more teenagers in the ground. Be better for the atmosphere and hopefully the fan base moving forward.
Target schools and place ads in the local free press in areas within reasonable travelling distance from the valley. 

Tbh, the best thing for getting youth on board, is success. If we didn't have the Premier league years, our numbers would have been awful the last few years. Its worth a shot, but you're are not going to convert many 17 year olds to be charlton fans. I'm pretty sure schools already get freebies.

charlton4ever said:

@AFKABartram - you should be on 10% lol

AFKA can’t claim the glory for this.

The club were already one step ahead of him and offering what he proposed last week. People who had season tickets last year but haven’t renewed this year we’re sent this before the Orient game last week:

We know Methven etc were using other forums and some posters on here to get their message out.

Didn't realise that @AFKABartram was part of that and is now one the inner circle of trusted fans.

Obviously, asked to put the idea up the flagpole on here to see who saluted it.

When the reaction was good the club announced it.

Explains a lot, especially about stolen promotes.

why not have an app where you order and pay for half time drinks, food then go to a pick up point to save all the processing time 

shine166 said:

barstool said:

why not have an app where you order and pay for half time drinks, food then go to a pick up point to save all the processing time 

Tbh, pre pooring beers and tapping a credit card is just as quick and one less thing to fuck up.

Then you get flat pints though, oh wait this is the north upper bar so no danger of a pint with any life in it anyway