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Shamelessly taken from facebook group: Ticket update from the STFC Box Office. 6,800 home tickets have been sold for Friday night and 1,800 from Town's 3,200 allocation for the return leg have been sold.

Is it me, or does 6,800 seem pretty poor for 3 days on sale?

I suspose a load more will shift when they go on general sale tomorrow?

Not at all, have you seen the bloody queues outside the ground??? We have 5,000 or so season ticket holders so a bloody good show if you ask me.

tickets aren't on general sale for the home leg yet though, so that number is just season ticket holders, no?

I think you are right on both points, but would be a tad embarassing if we didn't sell out.

Phew, the way everyone was going on i thought we'd be sold out by tomorrow. I still have a day on the phone to look forward to and two different numbers to ring, whinge, whinge, whinge.

Was the home leg against Brighton in the play-off sold out? Just out of interest

Yep

Then we have nothing to worry about then!

I just ordered mine from Ticket zone.  Got three tickets 2 as a S/T holder & one with a stub from the Brentford game. As we wanted to sit together we had to move so asked what else was available in the Don Rogers. Answer just a few at the front ! So we've opted for the Town End for a change. They are reserving tickets for colection now rather than posting out. He did say that quite a few seats will become available in the DR tomorrow as ST seats will be released. (Quite a few have moved)

Both home and away legs will sell out, that you can be sure of.

Hope they've considered the prospect of about 2,000 Charlton fans phoning up to try and get tickets in the home end tomorrow. They don't seem very happy about the way they allocated their away tickets.

Won't they check booking history and/or post codes?

I hope so. Don't want some cockney oik sat near me.

(unless they're one of our London reds of course)

Doubt anyone will be able to do a phone booking without having previous history on the ticket database will they?

Anyone know why Charlton have only been given 2000 tickets for Fridays game ?

I thought our away end held nearly double that ?

Are we keeping the whole of the Arkells for ourselves ?

Yep, Arkells is going to Town fans. Same as the Brighton Playoff game a few years back.

Phil, do you know from what time we can pick up ticketzone tickets on Thursday? And when ticket office closes on Thursday?
Ideally I would pick up tickets Friday night but i suspect several thousand will have the same idea.
And as per gazza, I wouldn't worry to much about these interim figures. Both these will sell out no probs. The interest shown to date confirms this surely?
Also it does seem the charlton have the bank only. Excellent!

The bank holds 2,000 and thats what they've been given.

The Arkells is all for Town fans and rightly so.

Have to agree with Ralphy on this one.

As a percentage of ground capacity (The Valley holds 27,000) we are still giving them more tickets than they are giving us.

yeah feck em, in terms of away support they're hardly a Leeds, wendies or Norwich are they. How many did they bring to us before, 1500?

I think we are giving them bare minium of the percentage they are entitled to but they are giving us a bigger allocation as they thought they may play someone like Leeds that have 1,0000,00000,00000,0000 fans that want to go to games

Not even that. It was just over 1000.

I wonder if the club have considered screwing the seats back into the area between the Home and Away fans of the Arkells (the ones removed after the brissol rovers seat thowing incident) as there are no away fans there?   

Must be at least 100 seats. I would have thought it would be cost effective if they can sell them for £22

                                                                                                                                                        I believe ticket office open 08:00 til 19:00 mon - thurs this week - hope that helps           

By not giving Charlton the Arkell's their fans will make much less noise with no roof and we need any small advantage we can get, plus I agree that we should get as many town fans in the ground as possible. Tickets are only on general sale to people on the stfc database or with a swindon postcode, so that should stop too many Charlton fans buying tickets in our stands.

6,800 sold so far does seem a bit on the low side to me, especially as tickets have been on sale to people with Brentford stubs today - we had 9,500 home fans for that game and I would have expected every single one of them to buy a play-off ticket at the earliest possible opportunity. Maybe there will be a late rush this evening.

just rung up for my tickets. Next to no availablity for 2 tickets together.

how can anyone think our sales are low?
there are massive queues and the phones are jammed.
 :suicide:

Think someone said earlier that ST holders that had not taken up their seats may be released tomorrow? You may find that some ST holders are sitting elsewhere so that they can sit with their mates who are not ST holders.

Is that just in the DRS or the Arkell's aswell?

Yeah, fuck em. Lets hope it pisses down too.

Finally had an email from the club who said that there are 1300 away tickets left.

it's cunts like you asking stupid questions delaying every other bugger getting their tickets. ;)

I'll get my coat........ :(

I hope not. Would be a good days drinking if it's nice and sunny.

I'll be in Swindon about 2.30pm Friday, pub,food,pub,game,bus home, pub (in that order) :)

Library, pub with Sky, bed

I prefer yours.

my thoughts exactly, fucking put the old mulit-coloured ones back in :)

Another update from facebook group, apologies if posted elsewhere: Home ticket update: 11,056 tickets sold for Friday night's play-off semi-final first leg, including Charlton's away allocation of 2,090 which has sold-out.

Has anyone seen this thing going round Facebook about wearing old shirts to prove your not a glory hunter??

soapy tit wank Sounds like a good shout really!

Surely the ingrained expression of misery, dashed hopes and disappointment will do that?

I might wear my green away castrol GTX magnatec shirt with 'Thorne' on the back to work on Friday and then the pub in the evening. My Rangers mate has the current away one on-loan until the end of the play-offs!

i'll wear my '93 playoff scarf or my '86 playoff cap

That Magnatec shirt is ace, I've got one of them!

Yep!  :nod:
it's all in the deep sadness in the eyes! My boyfriend has only been coming a few years so he has yet to gain this! It shows in the way he's SO excited where as me and my dad are just quitley pooing our pants!

Oooooh and on the kit thing seeing as my mum gave my premiership Summerbee 2 shirt to the Oxfam shop when I moved out might role with the gold and black stripped away kit with Parkin 9?? I know everyone else hates that kit but I loves it!

Meh who am I kidding I've already sorted my outfit for Friday night right down to the nail varnish!!

There are some deluded souls on here, if they think 15 year old shirts will still fit.

Mine are too big!

Anyone able to tell me how many tickets can be purchased per supporter today for Charlton away and whether I would be able to get my friends ticket - he is an under 21 will I be put to task about the fact he aint with me? Cheers

Many true fans don't buy shirts. Also, wouldn't all the fairweathers have the old prem shirts etc....

Given that 15 years ago I was 8 years old; then no, I don't think mine would fit.

(Plus I didn't have one then anyway because I was a glory-hunting Man Utd supporter  :-[)

Was the only time I got names printed that season. Horlock on the home one, Allison on the blue and black halved away one and as mentioned before, Thorne on the Green 'special edition' third one.

I was eyeing up a white Burmah third kit on eBay a while back but some bastard from here *cough* IBIMR *cough* beat me to it.

i dont own any football shirts.

Think I have 9 in total, the oldest is a GWR FM one from 89, that may fit round my arm nowadays.

i had that one, but aint got a scooby what i did with it.as i was 15 when i had that, it probably got passed to my younger brothers then thrown out eventually

The oldest I've got is the green 'potato print' Burmah one from '93. (Think it was '93).

Still fits, but the felt sponsor logo has gone and it's looking a bit tatty.

I've also got a 'Swindon Town On Tour' tee-shirt from '89 somewhere.

I wore mine to Italia 90, If i ever put it on ebay, i certainly couldn't describe it as "mint" condition. A tramp with 10p might buy it at a push.

I must say that ibelieveinmrreeves looks dashing in that white Burmah third kit too, he is one for the ladies.

I wore the 1992/1993 away green potato print to Wycombe a couple of weeks ago and received a number of very positive comments whilst in The White Horse, perhaps I should have charged £1 in a pint glass too.

I would be delighted to see a vast array of past Town shirts on show on Friday night.

Oooh, i have that too...

Wearing football shirts to games is fucking gay.

I have the red shirt we wore to win promotion to the Premiership in, signed by the squad. I believe my dad won it in a golf competition at Cirencester. It has pride of place in my bedroom!

Wearing one to the supermarket/ garden centre  on a saturday when Chelsea are playing is gay. Well it is round here.

I think I've got every single shirt we ever had from 92 to 99.

The 99 blue and black away one just about fits, the others not so much.

I've grown a bit from age 7 to age 24...

In answer to your earlier question I would assume that as they are now on general sale that you can purchase as many as you wish.

I thought I'd try on my oldest shirt...yellow GWR one with Div 4 champs on the badge...hmmmm...it fits where it touches I suppose...not sure how recent I'll need to go for a decent fit.  Might just wear my NY Jets Revis shirt to confuse everyone.

Wearing any sort of shirt to games is gay.

ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRR John.

What about a black shirt?

What about a hair shirt ?

What about a denim shirt?

I wore the white Burmah shirt to Wycombe the other week. My first kit at the age of 10, still fit too.

Oh, 13,000 tix sold now.

Cowgirl chic is really in - just look at the catwalk at D&G this season?!

Ordinary, or reverse ?

That has to be your best pun in years.

 :girlgiggle:

I have never owned an away shirt, don't know why, just never bothered.

Earliest one I have I think is pin-stripe, still fits me but then I still wear stuff for kids now.