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Now it's been confirmed we've got the terrace, this has got the potential to be one of the great away days. Imagine Stoke away, but on a terrace!

Is anyone training it from or through London and fancies meeting up train?

How many tickets will we get?

If we need to get something i might be tempted to have the day off and go.Hoping we'll be safe by then though!Last time i went there Barry Fry was in charge of them and a couple of Swindon fans decided to have a fight.Ace.

Re Stoke,assume you mean the 4-0?Great before kick off no doubt,but losing 4-0 did take the sheen off it some what.Oh well,thank fuck for Wycombe  :D

The 4-0 was irrelevant though, it's still one of my favourite away days! If we get the whole terrace, which I presume we will, it holds nearly 4000. The OS is advertising terrace tickets.

I'll be going on the train from London I should think

I'm gonna train this from reading I think... should be a cracker.

Do you think it would be feasible to get everyone who's going from/through London on the same service from Kings Cross? Could be a right old laugh!

Was Stoke not 4-1? O'Halloran Penalty meant we won the second half 1-0

Glad you said that, thought my memory was fading...(alternatively both our memories are :-[)

I've got a ticket for the terrace already.

Ooooo get you

  There's a big O'neills about 3 minutes walk from kings cross, i'll probably head there for opening to get a few snifters in.

It was more to confirm that tickets are available, but yes, get me.

Not a bad shout at all

sounds a plan, o niels about midday?

Isn't Peterborough where you and Whits went to a JPT (or LDV as it was then) game on a freezing Tuesday night, Mex? I seem to recall a picture of the "Whits on tour" flag being the only thing on the terrace.

last time went to Peterborough the coach broke down at the ground and we waited for about an hour for it to be fixed!

i think there were 30 fans there, including kinky tom and kinky tom sr. whits is a plastic now so wont be going.

Can anyone remember if the cherry tree shows the footy?

i'll be there mex, you plastic, i've never been so fucking cold at a football match!!

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 8)

that picture rocks

i might bring it for the last game

i will bring my mexican one then and we can hang them together like flag bummers.

That's the picture I was on about. Good stuff.

Plastic pub for plastic fans.

Why don't you go to this pub. Closer to kings cross and nicer. Does nicer largers, real ale and even has a real firer place!http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/71/7170/Skinners_Arms/Kings_Cross

if your going to quote me quote the right fucking quote you mong.

cunt :)

Game now all ticket

  Further to walk than O'neills, and sounds like O'neills has the added bonus of you not being there :)

4-1 Reeves was fouled for the pen i think...

RIP Adrian Bakali

Popped into the ticket office today to get my Rovers ticket and had a chat with the old boy about Pboro. He thinks we're only getting part of the terrace, but having been there before I cant see anyway they could split it, especially when it comes to entering the end. Will be a great atmosphere if they do, it will condense all of our fans and we'll be on a great terrace with the home fans.

Got to go to Peterborough now. Anyone know how many tickets we have sold?

Probably not many yet, it's still 2 weeks away and nobody knew what the situation might be until last night. I expect most be buying this week or waiting until they know the result of the Rovers game. I'll get mine sometime this week

Buying on Friday as have no money till then!!!!

How can you split an open terrace? A line of stewards who will be told to stand on the spot?  :hmmm:

Nice blokes in the ticket office and do a decent job, but they don't half talk some bollocks most of the time.

yeah, he must have just made it up

Like they did at Gillingham in the play-offs, that worked a treat didn't it :D

 :D

Maybe they will draw a chalkline down the terrace and ask fans not to cross it.

I'm sure we can be trusted!

Joking aside, there is potential for one (or both) set(s) of fans to be upset that day! I'm sure that will have been taken into consideration.

I still have the feeling that a point on the day is going to be enough for both teams, and then after a thrilling 0-0 draw both sets of fans can go home happy.

If not then I hope we win 5-0 & then I can at least go to work all summer :)

Dumb question - is this a droll take on his awful 45 mins, or is he dead? 

droll take. I don't think he moved outside the centre circle in the 45mins he played. It's difficult to claim he was that awful in comparison to the rest of the clearly hungover team.

Presumably anyway. If he is really dead then it's a coincidental remembrance.

I'll do a minutes silence later just in case.

I'll do a minutes applause.

Hey Guys, Posh fan here in much peace.
As you all know the game is all ticket and i was far too slow getting one.
I rang your ticket office to sse if i could get a ticket to stand with you chaps. They were having none of it. Need a swindon postcode or proof of attendance or something.

Anyway, i was wondering if any of you fine fellows might want to get me a couple of tickets.
In return i'd pay a bit over the price, find you a nice parking space near the ground, take you to a nice pub that serves real ale and has a no knob-head policy and i will be able to be mocked if we slip up.

Realise i might get some abuse for this, but you never know, someone might take pity on me.
If anyone would like to help me, send me a PM pleeeease.

Classic

Know anywhere we can park a minibus?

Yep, and for free. 5 minutes to pub and then 5 mins to ground.  :)

How many tickets we sold for this?

Surely if we are safe we won't need their massive terrace as we are unlikely to take 4,000 for a meaningless game are we?

Theres a lot of ifs and buts at the moment. Swindon do have 800 seats and the 3500 terrace reserved at this time. Hopefully you will turn Brizzle over and the ticket demand will decrease and the Posh will get the terrace tickets back. But i thought i would put my plea in now, rather than rely on fate (we are relying enough on fate already soapy tit wank).

Anyway, if my hopes come true and i get a ticket from this end, i'd still be happy to help out with parking and pub advice.

I work with a Posh fan in Luxembourg and he is driving back for the game , he has 8 tickets and I was talking about this issue with him this morning.

Seemingly Cheltenham and Stockport took the 800 seats option but Swindon refused. If we need to get something at London road we'll definately need the terrace as 800 won't be nearly enough.

I just got my ticket, bloke in the ticket office alluded to P'boro fans trying to get our tickets :D It does seem strange that we were given such a large allocation though. Good luck getting a ticket, sorry I couldn't help.

Can't we just share the terrace? I mean if we stay up (fingers crossed) and Peterborough go up (at the expense of the Dons so I'm in favour of that) then we'll all be celebrating anyway..

I just need your sort code, account number and PIN I am willing to pay for tickets in Ugandan Dollars

http://media.photobucket.com/image/uganda%20fonejacker/steh21_08/fonejacker.jpg

and if we go down and they go up...it would be a very different atomsphere i guess?

I would love to see us all in celebrating together. If somehow you went down, that would probably mean the cobblers staying up which leave a tinge of sadness to most Poshies celebrations.

Somebody help this posh fan out!

Really? Sorted. oh :doh:

:nod:

I have been informed that we have sold 389 tickets for the Posh game.

Well I've not got my ticket yet.

Me neither, I'm buying Saturday morning to avoid the booking fee. those £1s add up over the course of a season!

I am waiting to see if (gulp) we lose on Saturday.....if so im going...im not going if we do win as its not a new ground for me and im not celebrating a shit season...

Anyone going up by train from London that I can tag along with?

Im not going to the game,you can order them to my postcode address and I'll post them up to you if need be but time wise it would be a bit risky Id have a thought.

yes me. However if we win on saturday I will be dressed as a banna!

What the hell is a banna?  Is that a large sheet with writing on?  Or is he thinking of the energy food, a banana!! :doh:

I think the vague plan was that some of us would meet near Kings Cross and go from there. There's a few of us going either from or through London.

I've got 4 seating tickets, and when i ordered them the bloke told me over the phone that we only had 6 rows of seats. So i can't imagine we have 800! Probably 2 or 3 hundred if that.

Surely if they're going to reduce any bit they'd reduce the seats, because as stated above we only get a couple of hundred. If we need something should take 1000 plus surely?

"The Moyes End Terrace will be used by Swindon Town supporters at the request of the Police" Doesn't look like Posh fans will get the terrace if the police have anything to do with it.

Like others I'll go if we fail to win tomorrow....

I have 2 x terrace tickets...

Sharing a terrace? How naive.

Basically the cops decided there might be trouble. This was based on there being minor trouble on the last day of last season. They haven't taken into account that all the chavs now hang around the new matalan superstore on a saturday now.  ::)

Is that an offer?  :)

So when they open the terrace to two sets of fans and the little chavs get wind of it, where do you think they will go? Pretty sure 'our lot' would turn up for some 'fun' too.

I'd be there. fuck the posh little cunts right up. reet nawty furm

Our chavs need overwhelming superiority of numbers to be effective. I once saw 15 of them being chased by one Bristol rovers fan armed with a shovel.

Odd that because today all the Rovers fans seemed to be chavs themselves - they even managed a chant of we hate swindon - since when?

GuttedPosh,

Time to change your name to PleasedPosh. Well done. Party time all round next Saturday. :yay:

Can't  believe it. We only went and done it. Fuck.

Party time all round next week. Your stayin up, were going up. Relax and parrrrty!

See you on the terrace  :D

Are you sorted then?

Cant wait for this game, got my ticket before kick off today.

this will be a party of a match with a Swindon win hopefully!

Congrats to Gutted Posh, hope you do well in the Championship next year!!!

I know a Cambridge fan and he's an absolute cunt and he never stops moaning about your continued success, which pleases me, 'cos if I didnt mention it before, he's a cunt.

I'm actually gonna go to Peterborough, not been to many away matches this year but this should be a right laugh.... double celebrations all round....

I dont think Swindon have really got anything to celebrate about,but hey ho each to their own.

Stop pissing on our fireworks.

its a celebration of Cox time here.

with greer not playing i hope he gets the arm band!

Same as!

Hey, im glad we stayed up and all that but celebrating not getting relegated is pretty tin pot dont you think?

No. Doesn't any club celebrate not getting relgated if they are in serious danger of it? Its not the same level of celebration as a promotion obviously but not going down a division is clearly a good thing and we can rightly feel both relieved and happy.

Reading the comments on here youd think we'd achieved something,talk of party atmospheres and congratulations are wide of the mark.We suck,excuse me if I expect more than beating relegation every year, what can i say Im an optomistic kind of guy...

Thanks for your best wishes Arch!
re: the scumbridge lot, haha, why doesn't that surprise. I spent 5 years living in Cambridge and they all pretty much match your description. Pass on my best wishes.

If you or anyone else need advice for parking and decent pubs give me a shout. PARTY!

yeah well you're also the one who suggested we should all stop going because swindon aren't very good at the moment the other day.  ::)

you're entitled to your view and dont want to cyber fall out ( :soapy tit wank:) but I think its not too much to ask that you allow people their happiness we aren't going down a league.

Nope im here to moderate against any signs of happiness,thats my job.

Ah mate. If i had a choice between staying up now and scrapping for promotion next season against the likes Bury and Darlo etc. I know what i'd choose.

Well yes obviously,theres a difference from being happy we stayed up and cracking one out like its 1999 though,im just trying to get a bit of perspective..

"CAN YOU HEAR YEOVIL BLUE SING?? NO, HES A GRUMPY BASTARD!"  :D

I have to admit to finding the jubilant chants of "staying up" a bit embarrassing. If the positions were the other way round and Rovers were singing it I'd be cracking up with laughter about their shitness.

The fact is that we are shit, but have already shown signs of improvement. Staying up was a must though in order to progress and we've done it. Malpas really did make us weaker on the pitch and weaker on the terraces. A bit of perspective suggests we're far better off now and I am happy to celebrate it. Do take the party atmosphere comments to be a bit OTT though.

I'd rather have a proper chant, even if it is just 'staying up, staying up staying up' compared to having no noise at all, or just some rubbish fast clapping, which is what we've had most of the season. It would have been far more embarrassing if the Rovers fans showed us up over the 90 minutes.

Yeah, but it's not an option of that or nothing is it. or that or hand clapping. There are plenty of other good songs. Just that one is shit.

Well other songs were sung too, in fact I heard quite a bit of variety for a change. I also think that particular song was partly a response to the Wovers fans singing 'that's why you're going down' earlier in the game.

Most of our songs are pretty shit if you think about it. It's just good to have some atmosphere and energy behind the team. Let's face it, we need all the atmposphere we can get compared to the silence that's been found throoughout the duration of the season. Even if that's just rubbish clapping then it's a start.

IT was still shit.

I wouldn't have minded if this season had felt like a real effort to stay up, it just seemed more like it was a lucky default because there were teams which happened to be more shit than us, if that makes sense.

Nothing at all like the awesomeness of Peterborough back whenever.

Yes it was not as dramatic as Peterborough by any means but left me just as happy, I went mental when we bagged the winner. 

Not a great season by any means but we may be about to see the start of something bigger now, we finally have a manager that the majority are confident in and whos eye for a player looks good. 

Mex got it spot on when he posted that yesterday was what football was all about big crowd, local derby, tension and the result we needed. 

I am not for dampening celebrations why should we not be happy, we are not going to be in the lowest league in the professional game, we have some decent away days next season and we should be saying goodbye to a lot of the wasters in our squad.  For me that means big celebrations.

Don't agree, we have now got 52 points with one game left and I can't remember the last time that a team with that points tally got relegated.

If we had stayed up with less than 50 then I would agree it was because the rest were shit.


As for celebrating yesterday's result.

If we had got relegated & promoted next season would we have celebrated promotion, of course we would.   

Well we start next season in the same position as if that had happened, and that in itself is reason to be happy.


So in those immortal words   "Don't Worry,  Be happy"  :D

I'm not saying that we shouldn't have celebrated. Just that song. Didn't like it.

Its all very well people criticising the songs that are sung but thats our fan base, like it or not and if people have such an issue with what is sung, then perhaps they should get off their butts and try and do something about it.

I personally will join in with pretty much anything if it means theres some type of atmosphere and I couldn't care less who likes it or not!

Since when was football fandom so over-evaluated!

Should we just sit/stand there and mutter disappointingly week in/week out?

People travel up and down the country paying to watch football and many would much rather travel to Charlton than to Accrington, is that a crime?

Heaven forbid many are happy that we've avoided relegation.

:D

Well that's you then and you're part of the problem of rubbish songs. You should be ashamed.

Bring back the good old days when virtually every player had a song of their own, and we used to sing them all before kick-off.

"He's here, he's there, he's every fucking where, Alan Mayes,  Alan Mayes"
"Andy, Andy, Rowland.    Andy, Andy Rowland".
"Chris Kamara, Chris Kamara, la la la la la la".


I blame all you young 'uns, who aren't educated enough to come up with classic songs like that :D

Anyway, Fuck it, I'm going off to get all nostalgic now.


Any ideas how many tickets we've sold for next week, and what (if any) the likelihood is that we now let Peterborough have the Away Terrace?

 Ace...an argument about whether it's right or not to be happy and sing songs about avoiding relegation  :)

Bunch of fucking scopes the lot of you.

There is no argument. It is right. Yeovil and Ben are wrong.

I am indeed benji! Write some new material and teach me and I'll try something a little more nostalgic :D

I cant believe in what is probably, almost definitely his last home game. He scores twice, wins us the game which keeps us up, breaks the 30 goal barrier for the season and gets the Swindon post war most league goals in a season record


......and we still couldnt chant his name!!

Did you try starting it?

Errrmm, people were singing Simon Cox at the final whistle?

Yes....

....I also tried 'sign him up' when Greer came over towards the DRS at the end.

I sit with mainly retards though so it was never going to work

And in the DR especially. I heard a little bit near the townend singing once and i can see people clappping, I would guess it's hard to hear the DR from the TE, but I always used to be able to hear chav corner last season.

Yes, never really got going though as people were clapping everyone..

clearly not loud enough.

we'll have to make up for it next week

Bet he plays shit next week ;)

How many times has my Super Kevin blah de blah Amankwaah docious song been sang this year eh? Rubbish the lot of you.

How many times have you been this year?

I have an uber ace jamie vincent song, but seeing how how the mcnamee effort dwindled off without a trace im not sure whether to share ot again for fear of embarresment

5.

If I'd been more often I might have had a chance to start it myself. That's why it's you cunts fault.

Back in the day I used have an ok record at starting songs, not that I was often very adventurous.

Joining in at full volume for a new verse as everybody stopped was more my thing, of course the best thing to do is just carry on until someone else has pity on you and joins in.

Come on Dave, what are you waiting for? Share you lyrical genius with us! If it's good I promise to help you start it next week.

Yeah Dave you pussy.

Actually one step further. Sing it into a microphone and upload it to tindeck.com

I saw a man, the other day
Said he'd seen the white pele
I asked the man who could it be
He told me he wears number three
number three
number three
Jamie Vincent, number three

and so on and so forth

nah. that's shit.

What's it to? Que Sera Sera?

I thought as much. Still think such a fine servant to the game deserves a ditty of his own.

Sung to the tommy mooney/kick his head in beat

my jamie vincent song rocked.

it was to the tune of octopus garden

i'd like to be
at number 3
instead of jamie vincent, stupid cunt.

how does that go?

I don't often share my compositions with the public, but here is one I wrote a while back, it is to the chorus of 'Whole Again'.

It goes something like this:

Roll it out to Jamie Vincent
Up the line to Macca
Who will beat the full back
Cross it in the box
Into Simon Cox
He's gonna score a goal again

And remember, poetry is just another way to rap.

Thats fucking brilliant!!!!!

I had to put the music on to match the words to the beat, and I agree with Dave! I'd happily sing that and/or the Vincent ditty.

haha. I had to do the same. and I 100% agree.

Also Dave's wasn't really shit. I was just being a cunt.

Let me know where and when if anyone is meeting up so I can book the right train, thanks.

How many we sold for this? Will be pretty poor if we take less than 1,000 bearing in mind the terrace is massive!

The flaw in the song im afraid is that Vincent cant hit a ball up the fucking line to macca.

Good song though have a star

I brought my terrace ticket on Saturday before the game on its numbered 233, any advance on that?
Most of the fans who are going sitting in my section of the DRS have stand tickets.

Posh fans are begging to be given the terrace so we could all potentially be moved!

Which would be so shit! we need to make sure we sell enough to keep the terrace. Give them all of the seats, no one wants them anyway

Interesting read on BBC about Posh's chairman and how he's financed them moving up the leagues

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/p/peterborough_united/8015421.stm

Liked the bit about Aaron Mclean - not too dissimilar to what we are going to face with Coxy quite soon.

'Wolverhampton Wanderers succeeded in encouraging Mclean to hand in a transfer request. But Macanthony made his intentions clear by slapping a £5m price tag on the former Grays man.

"Aaron Mclean will score a lot of goals next season and taking a couple of million pounds from a Championship club would be the worst bit of business I have ever done," said Macanthony. "Thirty-goals-per-season strikers do not grow on trees.



"I will not be bullied by other clubs and the games they play through agents or the media into selling my best players when it does not suit the football club."

Whereas many clubs would have folded and let the player have his way, Macanthony put his foot down and Mclean stayed'

according to the ticket office, we've been given 2,000 more tickets by Peterborough so we must be selling them!

Vincent knocks it into touch, opposition break and score from the resulting throw dosnt have the same ring does it?

PM'd

Got two terrace tickets about noon and was told we had sold about 600 so far.

Are none of the loan players eligible to play against Peterboro?

For some reason I thought OTJ was cleared to play. Soz if this has been clarified a million times already.

Are people aware this is all ticket as well?

Ticket office line is busy, just took me 15 mins to get through for peterborough, but only 637 sold so far, so i'm guessing the bulk is season ticket renewals now everyone knows which league we are in.

I believe OTJ can play yes.

3 month loan deals are for a maximum of 90 days with GG and HRKs running out, seen as we signed OTJ weeks later he'll be fine.

Dunno who he will play at CB though. Morrison is injured (??) Kanyuka is injured, Greer cant play!!

Probably Vincent, and manky and smith as fullbacks, although isn't morrison nearly ready?

i have a spare terrace ticket. my mate could not make the game. £15. Pm me if u are interested.

Good point, Morrison could be back. If not I expect it would be the four you suggested.

would I have to stand next to you ?

I would play kennedy and thompson saturday

I'd like a look at Thompson, also wouldn't mind seeing Marshall and Macklin given a half each.

nah.

I want Cox to play and score two more than Lambert, and the same as Fryatt and Beckford. Therefore, I hope Posh give their youth team defence a try-out.

Last day of last season we got beat by Darlo 2-0. This was after we were already promoted. Can see the same thing happening saturday. None of the players are going to want to hurt themselves and all they will be thinking of is going on their well deserved hols (unless they're going to mexico).

Anyway, i can cheer your goals as i will be standing with you. Many thanks for all your offers. As i said previously, i wasn't expecting much of a response but was chuffed with all the replies. Respect Guys 8)
Also big thanks to the main fella who got me sorted. You know who you are.

See you on sat, anyone wants to know who i am, i will be wearing a pink carnation.

Now that is Posh!!! :)

I dont know about both - you dont want to try too many at once and then have them getting torn apart because in the long run it will do their confidence in.

I'd certainly like to see Macklin and Thompson given a go.

Maybe Kurt Hammonds to, was surprised he had been given a contract. I havent see him in the reserves all year and thought he was 18+ already

He's been injured all year, seen him once he looked pretty useful.

Hello everyone

This is my first ever post on here so here goes...

I was just wondering how many tickets we have sold for saturday and i have also heard that Peterbourgh fans are buying tickets in our end?

It should be a great game on saturday and hopefully we will have a great following!

Sold about 800 and yes, I'm sure there will be some Posh fans in our end.

Where are people thinking or drinking pre match? Last time we went we parked and drunk in the Cherry Tree Pub, quite near the ground.

About 100 according to another forum. Their ground is similar to ours where there seems to be an "overweighted" amount of space for away fans.

See, their forum says there'll be 100 in our end, but how would anybody know? Total bollocks

Have a great time lads.....and be nice to Gutted Posh! :D

So are the people on the train still heading for O'neills @ Kings X?

How long will it take to get there?

3 hours in the minibus

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Here is a very rough map of where to park and where to drink.
The roads in the yellow areas are good places to park. No more than a 10 minute walk and good for a clean get away after the match.
The pubs labeled are knob-head free:
Cherry tree is nearly all away fans. 
Charters is a boat on the river and is having a beer festival and bbq apparently.
Coalheavers is having a beer festival as well.
Swiss cottage is a nice little pub. Haven't been in for years but i thinks its still ok.

Cheers posh. Do you have a large area where ethnics live i would like to visit and embrace them.

I would like to embrace you in your sleep

Fucking faggot

With ramps for Ironside...

Have two tickets in away seating?
Anyone intrested

Half Price

Says in the Evening Telegraph tonight that the Moyes End is also available for Home fans on Saturday.  Fuck knows how that's going to work if that's true.

Mind you, it also says that our likely line-up is going to include Greer, Kanyuka & Robson-Kanu


Anyone know how many tickets we've sold?

800 was the last count. Maybe a few more since then but I doubt it'll be much more

Looks like we have sold 1200. The OS states that there were 800 tickets left from a 2000 allocation.

Anyone got a spare for tomorrow?  Can meet in City centre from 12:30.

Aren't you a Posh fan St Ives? I seem to recognise your name from the Posh Forum. Didn't one of your guys say he had a spare ticket for the top of the new stand?

He's sold it now.

Get a season ticket. You wouldn't miss games then.

Nope it's a miscommunication apparently.

I have a season ticket. The ticket is for a mate but thanks for your post it's been very helpful.

You are more than welcome.