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Is there anyone driving up to elland road from london or the south east? Willing to pay petrol as the train is £110!!  Need to be back down south saturday night as I have work........

Hertha, realised my parents were coming down to stay that weekend, told drs to tell you i couldnt make it with you, parents have now said they dont mind me fucking off for the day but if i went with someone from swindon would have to come up friday night plus im working saturday night in brighton.

A quid! No wonder they are losing 10 million a year. Do the coaches have holes in the floor to emulate the flintstones? Can't imagine they can afford to put any petrol in.

Before IIRC Leeds didn't sell their tickets to us in batches, ie we buy and pay for the whole of each allocation irrespective if we sell them or not.  Isn't that why previously we didn't get anymore as there wasn't enough demand to sell them all?

Before IIRC Leeds didn't sell their tickets to us in batches, ie we buy and pay for the whole of each allocation irrespective if we sell them or not.  Isn't that why previously we didn't get anymore as there wasn't enough demand to sell them all?

The tickets are on sale? There's no mention on the official site. How much are they?

Get IN!!!

Got a flight from Gatwick to Leeds/Bradford for £8.79 lands at 11am :-)
First class train back to Brighton for £32 :-)

£40 quid return and first class travel aint a bad one.

Bring on dirty Leeds.

Are Leeds strict on seating? Or can you basically sit anywhere?

Only ask because me and people i'm going with might have to get tickets at different times.

The league cup match when Paul Robinson we stood the whole game with no issues.

I think he was more worried about being split up than whether we have to stand or sit. Last time I went I wasn't in my correct seat and I had no bother. It tends to depend how full the stand is.

am I right in thinking our game is the closest game to the 10th anniversary of that night in Istanbul?

They are having a minutes silence before our game with them.

They are having a minutes silence before our game with them.
Hope people respect it. Fucking embarrassed at the nobends making slashing gestures across their throats at the Leeds fans last time

this game is bigger than life itself!

Are Leeds strict on seating? Or can you basically sit anywhere?

Only ask because me and people i'm going with might have to get tickets at different times.

Yes they are as its liable to be a near full house and our area of seating wont be as big as usual.

According to the OS we only have 1,500 tickets allocated. Why's that then? I though ER could hold loads more..?

Correct, and if the 1500 that Kot mentions is nearly gone, someone will have to make a decision on the next band, thatnks to thet twat bates.

According to the OS we only have 1,500 tickets allocated. Why's that then? I though ER could hold loads more..?

If we want more we will get more...but i think with the home match 48 hours later at home to Tranmere 1500 away fans will be a good turnout...my feeling is we will sell a few more maybe 2000 in all.

According to the OS we only have 1,500 tickets allocated. Why's that then? I though ER could hold loads more..?

Plus the fact we wont take more than 1,500 anyway.

Would it be a little out of place for us to join them and show our disgust too?

what pub are people going to?

Yes.

I hope we score whilst they're not looking.

Still 400 tickets left this morning so it looks like it will be 1500 max

poor shout....thought we would take more..

Still 400 tickets left this morning so it looks like it will be 1500 max

It's a big game right enough, but It's no longer a novelty to go to their ground, It's a Bank Holiday weekend, with a home game on Monday anyway, and it's a fair old trip to boot.

I'm going now \:D/

My 1st game for a while due to work commitments and im fucking buzzing looking forward to it!  Hope we take 2k bit dissapointed if we dont!

I had to comprimise with the wife and promise her some Ugg Boots. I hope the game is worth it.

I had to comprimise with the wife and promise her some Ugg Boots. I hope the game is worth it.

UGG as in £150 or UGG as in £14.99 from Asda ?

She quoted me "about £80".

this just came up on my news feed

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Build-us-a-Team-Not-a-Hotel/105708089460473?ref=nf

 :unsure:

Why do women think UGGS look good?

Why do women think UGGS look good?

Why do women think UGGS look good?

Women's boots should be at least knee length, preferably thigh, and made of leather..

It's now all ticket.

http://www.swindontownfc.co.uk/page/AwayTickets/0,,10341~2001945,00.html

What exactly does that have to do with Leeds away?

Maybe in 1998 Reg when they were actually fashionable ;)

Uggs are fucking horrible, especially when people  who can't walk properly wear them so the sole ends up by the sight of their feet. Yuck

Who is Arthur??

just to let you know there is a link to this thread on waccoe :) they must think we are a right bunch of gays

...she replied, but a few inches below a picture of said fictional character.

Especially if they know you come from Brighton....speaking of which I noticed ColU had a bloke called Bender on the bench on Sat....got to be a summer Poyet target to play alongside Dicker and Cox.

i have a new pair of trimm trabbs, now thats proper old school

Don't Uggs stink after a few weeks wear? Every pair i've seen look well manky.

I have just been out to the hall to sniff both daughters' Uggs and they are seriously rank smelling boots. I reckon JFW washes and deodorises hers every other day.

just to let you know there is a link to this thread on waccoe :) they must think we are a right bunch of gays

there is a section called boyspank :) that you have to post in there first so as to prove youre not a cock, they let me because of the whole lennon thing and the fact that im in awe of the fact they are such a huge club.

Bit fucking freaky if you ask me, sniffing boots???

Someone on another forum said we'd sold the initial 1,500 and had been given an extra 200 restricted view tickets.

I don't get it. Leeds are still in a precarious financial situation,

I thought they made over £4m last year...

It was made nigh on impossible for Millwall fans to buy tickets though to be fair.

I don't get it. Leeds are still in a precarious financial situation, yet they refuse to admit people on the day when there is every chance they could make another £15k-£20k out of us. It's not like it's going to be packed with home fans...

Perhaps, but that was a bit of a one-off because they sold Delph for goodness knows how much. One swallow does not make a summer.

Although having said that, the amount of times they've been on TV this year, Sky have probably made up for that!

Apparently, so far they've only released the expensive seats to the Leeds fans for the Swindon game, with entire blocks of the cheapest seats not released yet. They reckon on Waccoe its Bates just trying to screw them for as much as possible.

On my ticket it says block SEL which is south east lower. I always thought at Leeds we were in the upper and i cant imagine we have sold out both areas.

Anyone else in SEL?

Anyone else in SEL?

On my ticket it says block SEL which is south east lower. I always thought at Leeds we were in the upper and i cant imagine we have sold out both areas.

Anyone else in SEL?

I've got a spare ticket for Leeds now, any takers? May start a separate thread later...

Where are our tickets/seats Rich?

Did we work out if Sheehan could play? This suggests if he can't we'll miss him badly.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/stats/topassists?league=eng.3&year=2009&seasontype=1&cc=5739

He was injured though wasn't he?

I've got a spare ticket for Leeds now, any takers? May start a separate thread later...

Where is everyone heading pre-game? Haven't done Leeds before and any advice to someone driving up would be much appreciated.

Cheers.

Brittania

Brittania

Yeah, DRS found out afterwards that it was actually a home pub.

Leeds United: the fall and rise and fall again

For Leeds United this season has been one of dramatic shifts in definition.

A nonchalant stroll to the top of League One presaged the high water mark of that incredible FA Cup victory at Old Trafford for what looked, for a time, to have been the most satisfying of decorations on the beginnings of a precession towards a meaningful revival.

However, painful reading as it may make for the club’s followers, it is now Swindon Town rather than Manchester United who will define their season.

After the all-conquering start to their third campaign in the third tier, things started to go wrong. Very wrong. But such was the lead they had established that, when form and confidence deserted them, the near certain concession of the league title to resurgent Norwich was to be merely a blemish on their route to automatic promotion.

A less than perfect conclusion to what promised to be a glorious season, then, but the start, nonetheless, of the long overdue rise from a self-inflicted spell in football’s backwater.

Worse, however, was to come. A disastrous defeat to in-form Millwall at Elland Road followed by defeat to Norwich in a game they merited at least a point from and even that more modest of ambitions is now in serious doubt.

The conventional wisdom has it that it was in the fallout from the slaying of Manchester United that the seeds for Leeds’ latest decline were sown.

It is a seductive explanation but incomplete. More specifically it was at the County Ground rather Old Trafford where it all started to unravel.

It was back in January when Leeds, three days after holding Tottenham to a 2-2 draw at White Hart Lane, again in the FA Cup, were routed 3-0 by Swindon. That game followed defeat in the league to Exeter and a draw with Wycombe, two teams that have a better than even money chance of being relegated this season.

What was telling about that defeat compared with those that had gone before, though, was the comprehensive nature of it. The first time Grayson’s side had been truly thumped this term, it marked an end to their already fading veneer of superiority. They lost the fear factor and, seemingly, their own belief.

After the match Grayson publicly criticised his players for the first time, accusing some of believing their own hype. If it was intended to prompt a response it didn’t work.

Since then they have won just three times in the league, completing a run of four victories in their last 19 matches going in to this weekend’s fixture. Victory for Swindon would see them leapfrog over Leeds and if Millwall avoid defeat against Brentford the same day the Yorkshire side will find themselves in fourth and necessarily reappraising their season once again.

That it should come to this. A rollercoaster season within a rollercoaster decade where the ride now is more scruffy fairground waltzer than Oblivion (though it is not long since they stumbled dizzy-headed off that particular white knuckle affair). Could it really be any different?

The reasons for the freefall are many. Leading scorer Jermaine Beckford has been carrying an injury for most of this year as well as carrying the mental burden of his ill-judged transfer request before the United match that was subsequently withdrawn.

Key figures such as Bradley Johnson have seen their form dip and nerves are obviously at play in the business end of the season. Playing in front of 30,000 expectant home fans in a division were the average is a third of that is a bonus when things are going well, an impediment when they are not.

Others in the division also scent blood. The scalp of Leeds United, however far they have fallen, is still a prized one in these parts and with the swashbuckling, high energy game that served them so well in the autumn deserting them others, notably Millwall and Swindon themselves, have steadily closed what was once an aching gap.

Teams now look to hustle and close down Leeds and break their rhythm, to cut off the supply lines from midfield most skilfully exploited by the ever excellent Robert Snodgrass. They have been found out and the ‘Plan B’ of hoofing long balls forward does not come naturally to a progressive coach like Grayson.

Still, despite their troubles, salvation remains in Leeds’ own hands. Victory over Swindon followed by a strong run to the line and an automatic place is theirs for the taking.

The challenge for Grayson now is to convince his charges that a home match against Swindon deserves the same approach, both in endeavour and commitment, as that wonderful afternoon in Manchester did.

It’s a much harder sell but Leeds’ season now depends upon it.

Where is everyone heading pre-game? Haven't done Leeds before and any advice to someone driving up would be much appreciated.Cheers.

The away pub is called the Drysalters, it is mixed with home and away fans and is at most a 10min walk from the ground, you need to walk down Elland road, opposite direction from city centre, from the ground to the roundabout and bear left, pub is just 200 yards on the road. Yon can park for free around this area and you will get away faster as you can take up to 30 mins getting out of the car parks.

It's a trap  ;)

Admiral Ackbar?

The away pub is called the Drysalters, it is mixed with home and away fans and is at most a 10min walk from the ground, you need to walk down Elland road, opposite direction from city centre, from the ground to the roundabout and bear left, pub is just 200 yards on the road. Yon can park for free around this area and you will get away faster as you can take up to 30 mins getting out of the car parks.

Admiral Ackbar?

Cheers TVW.

Serious question, are there any ethnic minorities allowed in there?  :hmmm:

If not, then it's a shame. I will stay in the centre till ko. :(

Do you know any oxford whites?

Of course they are allowed......silly question really and yes are you talking about Macca and the boys??

Can not wait for this one...never been so excited for a match! Is everyone headin to Drysalters then before the game?

HUGE and I mean HUGE game v Swindon on Saturday now.

Going with Herthab,DRS and AXS so not sure what to expect but i have a bottle of Jacobs creek shiraz for the journey...cant drink beer on journeys i have to stop every five mins...cant wait for this and i want the 1500 to make loads of noise....cant wait now..UP THE TOWN and a Happy Easter all.