If they weren't considering giving us extra tickets then why force Orient to sell block by block, or did Orient go beyond the level of sales where that was possible?
I think they must have. If Orient had sold nearer 20k then I think we’d have got a lot more
Possibly but it has been obvious for days how many they would sell, so why not communicate the issue.
CAFC comms has been poor this week. They have not built a rapport with the fans in the way they did before the semi (eg drummer video) and have had multiple opportunities handed to them on a plate and rejected.
I am hearing that Leyton have invested a lot more on their fan zone at wembley and we are re-using what we already have rather than bespoke.
Just seen this on Facebook. Says it’s subject to change but will give everyone an idea of drink prices in the stadium.
To no surprise, that is disgraceful.
Useful reminder for self preparation though. Large breakfast and beers in a London pub a fair distance from the ground
Probably limit to just 1 or 2 pints when at wembley.
I'll only bring disposable cash via max spend.
I was thinking £7.85 is surprisingly decent for a pint in London. Unless your in a Wetherspoons or something like that £7/£7.50 is pretty much the going rate.
Depends where you go. I know pubs in London where it's still typically £4.50 for a pint.
The only high £7-8 rate I've experienced in London is Gatwick/Heathrow
This is a very interesting thread and all that but “typically £4.50” in London - where are these boozers Dave? (Sam Smiths don’t count). Unfortunately over £7 is typical in my vast experience.
Should you suffer from a medical condition which requires you to carry medication and/or equipment with you in the event of an emergency, such as a diabetic who many require to carry insulin and needles, we will of course allow these items into the stadium, however we require the following actions / documentation to support your entry to the venue.
Contact your doctor or health care professional to ensure you are fit to attend the event at Wembley Stadium connected by EE. This is strongly advised, Wembley Stadium connected by EE cannot provide medical advice to guests prior to an event.
Please ensure your doctor or health care professional provides you with written confirmation to confirm your medical condition and the medication and/or equipment you require to bring to the stadium for your welfare in the event of a medical emergency. Please ensure you bring this letter with you as our stewarding teams will require sight of this letter to allow you entry to the stadium.
That is not easy to do. My wife carries two Adrenaline auto injectors (just in case one doesn't work or is not enough) for severe allergic and anaphylactic shock episodes. First prescribed in 2001, after a near death experience, she has never had any documentation, just endless repeat prescriptions since. Getting paperwork and letters from a GP is like trawling through treacle and they charge anything from £15- £50 plus per document. Her condition is largely self managed, the only time a health professional, other than a GP would get involved is during a A&E resuscitation admission. There is no paperwork, or letters confirming her medical condition, the fact that she carries auto adrenaline injectors is the explanation itself.
I'm in the same situation carrying 2 epipens @andipandi . To be completely honest it's ridiculous that Wembley have a higher criteria for this than getting on a plane. Hoping that if I take along the epipen boxes which have the prescription sticker on and includes my name that will be enough. No chance of a letter at this stage.
Hi everyone, this is my first comment on here. Im a lifelong Charlton supporter born just 10 minutes walk from the Valley. (And 9 months after we won the FA Cup:-)) Now living in Norway, (Since 1984) and a Military Vet. (27 years) Lived in Eltham (Mottingham) for many years before joining the Army. Not far from Sparrowslane. Still working in the Adventure industry organising Battlefield tours to Norway. I have also organised tours to the Valley for Scandinavian Supporters in the past and was a member of Valley Gold for many years; even Voted for the Valley party as I was still a registered voter based in West Germany. I try to fly back to the UK every season from Norway to see at least 2/3 games; its very expensive! CAFC isnt just a football team, but an institution and an important part of our Culture. Although the ticket office has been incredibly helpfull in helping the ticket buying process, it has been impossible getting a ticket for this game tomorrow. I am currently visiting the UK (Bexhill) and would obviously and like to go. If anyone has a spare ticket, and is prepared to sell it, message me on here, I would be very grateful, for the opportunity. (Like 10000 others I would think:-) Anyway, whatever happens, COYR,
Hi everyone, this is my first comment on here. Im a lifelong Charlton supporter born just 10 minutes walk from the Valley. (And 9 months after we won the FA Cup:-)) Now living in Norway, (Since 1984) and a Military Vet. (27 years) Lived in Eltham (Mottingham) for many years before joining the Army. Not far from Sparrowslane. Still working in the Adventure industry organising Battlefield tours to Norway. I have also organised tours to the Valley for Scandinavian Supporters in the past and was a member of Valley Gold for many years; even Voted for the Valley party as I was still a registered voter based in West Germany. I try to fly back to the UK every season from Norway to see at least 2/3 games; it’s very expensive! CAFC isnt just a football team, but an institution and an important part of our Culture. Although the ticket office has been incredibly helpfull in helping the ticket buying process, it has been impossible getting a ticket for this game tomorrow. I am currently visiting the UK (Bexhill) and would obviously and like to go. If anyone has a spare ticket, and is prepared to sell it, message me on here, I would be very grateful, for the opportunity. (Like 10000 others I would think:-) Anyway, whatever happens, COYR,
Hi go to spare tickets thread there are some available still from people. Good luck.
Hi everyone, this is my first comment on here. Im a lifelong Charlton supporter born just 10 minutes walk from the Valley. (And 9 months after we won the FA Cup:-)) Now living in Norway, (Since 1984) and a Military Vet. (27 years) Lived in Eltham (Mottingham) for many years before joining the Army. Not far from Sparrowslane. Still working in the Adventure industry organising Battlefield tours to Norway. I have also organised tours to the Valley for Scandinavian Supporters in the past and was a member of Valley Gold for many years; even Voted for the Valley party as I was still a registered voter based in West Germany. I try to fly back to the UK every season from Norway to see at least 2/3 games; it’s very expensive! CAFC isnt just a football team, but an institution and an important part of our Culture. Although the ticket office has been incredibly helpfull in helping the ticket buying process, it has been impossible getting a ticket for this game tomorrow. I am currently visiting the UK (Bexhill) and would obviously and like to go. If anyone has a spare ticket, and is prepared to sell it, message me on here, I would be very grateful, for the opportunity. (Like 10000 others I would think:-) Anyway, whatever happens, COYR,
If you want to put pressure on the clowns at the EFL and Wembley to release more tickets, the best way is to go on Twitter and retweet this one from the Charlton Life Twitter account which has 7k followers. You could add a tag to Matt Slater at The Athletic (@mjshrimper) who is a Southend fan and has followed our recent dark days. Or Henry Winter (@henrywinter)
Have followed this thread over last few days with growing pessimism, needed 3 tickets together but was too far back in the queue both times. Is there any chance of any tickets being released today or do I finally give up checking this site every 10 minutes and start planning a BBQ so all the family can come round and watch it on TV.
If you want to put pressure on the clowns at the EFL and Wembley to release more tickets, the best way is to go on Twitter and retweet this one from the Charlton Life Twitter account which has 7k followers. You could add a tag to Matt Slater at The Athletic (@mjshrimper) who is a Southend fan and has followed our recent dark days. Or Henry Winter (@henrywinter)
Have followed this thread over last few days with growing pessimism, needed 3 tickets together but was too far back in the queue both times. Is there any chance of any tickets being released today or do I finally give up checking this site every 10 minutes and start planning a BBQ so all the family can come round and watch it on TV.
Best chance is to contact those with tickets available on Spare Tickets thread.
Theres been quite a few mentioning they have 3+ tickets to sell.
Just seen this on Facebook. Says it’s subject to change but will give everyone an idea of drink prices in the stadium.
To no surprise, that is disgraceful.
Useful reminder for self preparation though. Large breakfast and beers in a London pub a fair distance from the ground
Probably limit to just 1 or 2 pints when at wembley.
I'll only bring disposable cash via max spend.
I was thinking £7.85 is surprisingly decent for a pint in London. Unless your in a Wetherspoons or something like that £7/£7.50 is pretty much the going rate.
Depends where you go. I know pubs in London where it's still typically £4.50 for a pint.
The only high £7-8 rate I've experienced in London is Gatwick/Heathrow
This is a very interesting thread and all that but “typically £4.50” in London - where are these boozers Dave? (Sam Smiths don’t count). Unfortunately over £7 is typical in my vast experience.
Seeing as Orients general sale window ends at 5pm on Friday, I reckon we will be given a further block by block allocation after then.
Anything before that time then whoever makes that decision is opening themselves up for criticism for ‘moving the goalposts’. Could you imagine if roles were reversed and some of our fans planned to buy on Friday only for the allocation to be reduced and they missed out.
Why would anyone put off buying a ticket ? How does that thought process work? I fancy going to this match but will wait til Friday to purchase my tickets ? I have often wondered why joint Valley Gold / ST got so long to decide if they want to go to a game which is on restricted sale. Sure, prioritise them but don't give them 4 or 5 days and make the process for non joint VG/ST ie all the other genuine fans who want to go panic about buying....
It does not make sense, if sales are slowing then the sooner we get the allocation the less stressful for everyone, particularly as the guy who alluded to the admin required... Madness. But then we are only football fans....
The biggest thing that does not make sense is fans that qualified for certain sales windows could buy for themselves plus 3 other ‘randoms’ that fancy a day out.
Our average gate last season was 15k. That means the Wembley allocation that’s been sold out basically consists of 22k ‘randoms’, some of whom will have got along to a lot of home and/or away games, but not that many.
By ‘randoms’ I meant people without a cafc purchase history. I have a purchase history from being a (lapsed) season ticket holder and was lucky enough to get a ticket when that window opened. Some people I know with similar circumstances weren’t as lucky. I just think being able to get 3 additional tickets for people without history is not fair when others with more Charlton connection miss out.
My frustration is that I have probably been to enough games over the past 2 seasons to have the loyalty points to have bought in the earlier batch, but given the ease of getting tickets previoulsy I have often bought on the gate when making a last minute decision on an evening game, or had tickets bought by who I occasionally go with and not linked the accounts. Therefore I have a lot of "missing" loyalty points because I bought without my fan ID.
If I miss out today and more tickets dont become available I will be very frustrated and may change my view, but I also feel that fans with the huge loyalty point totals and fans with season tickets who go to every home game have earned the right to bring friends/family along for the big day out. I could potentially argue that it should be 2 tickets per fan ID / season ticket etc. (as this would have allowed me to get tickets by now!) but I can see the rationale to get the tickets sold as soon as possible, hopefully filling the stadium
It's a unpopular opinion, but personally I think ST/VG holders should be able to buy 4 tickets as long as everyone has a cafc ID. Nobody should be entitled to bring randoms, just because they've spent money at the club.
Family stands should be for young kids too, not 15/16/17 year olds who are probably having a pint before the match 😆
I don't agree. Plenty of semi regular attenders who don't have an account or fan ID. My wife has never had one but has been to 35 Charlton games since we've been together. Is she not allowed a ticket. Plenty of people who buy for their less computer literate older family and friends who would then miss out.
If you were to do this you'd need to make it really clear and telegraph it 2 years in advance. So that people can set up accounts and build purchase history's for those people. There should also be a reminder with every purchase of multiple tickets to assign them to the right people or risk them not being able to attend big games.
I'm just not sure we are at the point of needing to restict sales like that (yet!).
Canters, I agree somewhat but I would like to extend it to the ability to assign tickets to members regardless of what phase the ‘buyer’ got them. CatJnr dropped his ST a couple of years ago because of shift work but still does up to 20 per year split home and away and normally gets his own tix. For high profile (this year Orient and Wrexham - and playoffs!) I book his tickets as I get priority. Why shouldn’t he get those points too? Same with his gf. She doesn’t even have an account because either him or me book her tickets but she would comfortably qualify for the 150+ point phase
If you book tickets and allocate them to someone they get the points (my lot all do but then we go reguarly and read the instructions). If you don't allocate the tickets to someone how on earth are the club to know?
I can only manage to allocate if the recipients qualify for the phase I buy them in; and it's simple and quick - can you point to me to the instructions on how I can allocate if I buy in a phase they don't qualify for?
As you say, in that particular instance you cannot, because you can't allocate points/credit to someone that is not at that stage entitled to purchase.
However, the first 18 plus aways this season probably didn't have that issue and nor last season, so if you go to most of the games and register the 10 points from home games and 5 points from away games that you are ENTITLED to, then you could comfortably have racked up 600 odd points and I think we only needed 150 to enter. (Plus of course all the cup games and there are usually at least 5 per season).
I think you got the wrong end of the stick. Yes I do have 600+ but it was my son I was talking about who because of shift work can only make about 15 games split home and away and gets points when he can. He could easily have waited for the 150 phase but he wanted to stand with me (and other family members with even more points than me) so I bought in season ticket phase - which seems to be a mortal sin to some. The point I was making was that the few times I do that he’s missing out on 20/30 points
Apologies, I think I did get the wrong end of the stick. I was wrongly assuming that your son had missed out through not having enough points. I didn't realise you are in the same boat as the majority and had bought for him so you can be together. I hope you all have a great day.
NB I reckon the majority including me are missing points for similar & varied reasons.
No problem @Covered End. All I wanted was to get us in the same seats as 2019 (I got same section, same row but about 10 seats out - much better than some have managed). For several years we would match points and it was not an issue and I suppose, for personal reasons, it grates he can’t get assigned the points if I buy early. He’s a fourth generation Addick and can only really remember L1 with the occasional flirtation with Championship. A bit like me growing up with Div2/3 then Lennie.. 😀. I just don’t know why it couldn’t be like the old days when if you had a ticket stub, you could get priority for cup games? Why can I be able to assign points to a CON number regardless of who/when the ticket was bought? We will enjoy and hopefully win. Hope you do too. UTA!
Perhaps if you ask nicely mate people could ,move along a seat to help you out.
Just seen this on Facebook. Says it’s subject to change but will give everyone an idea of drink prices in the stadium.
To no surprise, that is disgraceful.
Useful reminder for self preparation though. Large breakfast and beers in a London pub a fair distance from the ground
Probably limit to just 1 or 2 pints when at wembley.
I'll only bring disposable cash via max spend.
I was thinking £7.85 is surprisingly decent for a pint in London. Unless your in a Wetherspoons or something like that £7/£7.50 is pretty much the going rate.
Depends where you go. I know pubs in London where it's still typically £4.50 for a pint.
The only high £7-8 rate I've experienced in London is Gatwick/Heathrow
This is a very interesting thread and all that but “typically £4.50” in London - where are these boozers Dave? (Sam Smiths don’t count). Unfortunately over £7 is typical in my vast experience.
Red lion, (elephant & Castle) is one example.
Bit of a dumpsite area. Probably why it's not so bad price wise
What an absurd situation, becomes ever clearer the contempt those in authority have for the rest of us. If Wembley is that compromised it would almost make more sense to look at an alternative stadium.
Hi Curbs; I am booking out of my hotel in Bexhill this morning and travelling to London this afternoon; I can meet up anywhere in London Saturday evening from 1900 hrs or Sunday morning to buy the ticket. I am staying at a Forces Club this evening in central London with a Military friend/colleague. I check emails every 15 mins; briandes@frisurf.no You already have my Mob number, Best Rest Regards, Byglandsfjordaddick1
Hi Curbs; I am booking out of my hotel in Bexhill this morning and travelling to London this afternoon; I can meet up anywhere in London Saturday evening from 1900 hrs or Sunday morning to buy the ticket. I am staying at a Forces Club this evening in central London with a Military friend/colleague. I check emails every 15 mins; briandes@frisurf.no You already have my Mob number, Best Rest Regards, Byglandsfjordaddick1
Thanks for responding I will pass your email address on to my friend who has the ticket. Its the first time I have tried to direct message so I am not sure how to find your mobile but I’ll get straight on to the case with the email address.
Just seen this on Facebook. Says it’s subject to change but will give everyone an idea of drink prices in the stadium.
To no surprise, that is disgraceful.
Useful reminder for self preparation though. Large breakfast and beers in a London pub a fair distance from the ground
Probably limit to just 1 or 2 pints when at wembley.
I'll only bring disposable cash via max spend.
I was thinking £7.85 is surprisingly decent for a pint in London. Unless your in a Wetherspoons or something like that £7/£7.50 is pretty much the going rate.
Depends where you go. I know pubs in London where it's still typically £4.50 for a pint.
The only high £7-8 rate I've experienced in London is Gatwick/Heathrow
This is a very interesting thread and all that but “typically £4.50” in London - where are these boozers Dave? (Sam Smiths don’t count). Unfortunately over £7 is typical in my vast experience.
Sam Smith's ain't cheap anymore....prices gone up quite a bit since covid.
Less than 27 hours to kick off and nothing, well done the Wembley wankers Even if they release whatever now it’s a bit late for fans etc who given the option earlier on with proper notification of the situation , taking all the stress out of it would have been nice . complete fuck up
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Will CM indirectly be proved right on his financial projections?
It's worse for the National League Final
The end of the day what do the club /authorities care?
For all the moaning everyone will still go to the games.
By the looks of it Matt Slater is not liking some of the interaction with our supporters, no idea why he thinks the upper tier is closed for us
Red lion, (elephant & Castle) is one example.
Bit of a dumpsite area. Probably why it's not so bad price wise
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Its the first time I have tried to direct message so I am not sure how to find your mobile but I’ll get straight on to the case with the email address.
Seems silly to be not to be transparent on that.
Even if they release whatever now it’s a bit late for fans etc who given the option earlier on with proper notification of the situation , taking all the stress out of it would have been nice .
complete fuck up
Do you genuinely believe comms this week has been well handled ?