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Just throwing a quick plea out there, I was in hospital for the last week and didn't have time to get a match ticket, queued up today but sold out.  If anyone has a spare or find they can't go could you please spare a thought for me.  More than willing to pay.  Thanks in hope rather than expectation

Heard a rumour today that we've asked for more?

Hope the rumour is true. If anyone has one going spare then I could do with one for a mate too. First dibs to cired45 as he asked first though.

I'm in Belfast Friday night and deliberately booked a flight back to Brum to see the game ... However, you snooze, you lose!

Hope so, really want to go.

Any update on this?

Keeping an eye on this as have been let down the weekend doing something else so find myself free and ticketless

I'm after 2. Apparently we've sold out 1400 and are asking for another 400.

I’m going with a few mates who are cheltenham fans so will be in the home end. Hopefully it’s like Forest Green with enough in the home end that I don’t have to blend in and ‘celebrate’ their inevitable goal.

I was in the club shop today and asked if we would get any more, girly behind the counter was adamant that we would not.  Still really hoping someone will discover they can't go and offer a ticket.  Fingers crossed

Might be a blessing that you miss out. We are always crap there.

Can you not home end it?

I didn't celebrate at Elland Road in 93 when stood with my Leeds supporting mate, that was for all 3 Dean goals  :)
He did jump all over me mind so it could have looked like a celebration  :D

Go in the home end, not like they don't at least have the same accent as us.

Just don't be a twat and celebrate when(if) we score, not like they will sell out as we have sold out our allocation.

Just don't expect a win, bogey team central, we have never won there in a competitive match.

I was there for the last win we had there in 1987 in a friendly when Hockaday scored the winner and my car broke down on the trip home.

I vaguely remember going to either Cheltenham or Gloucester City for a friendly back in the 60's. Having rooted around in memory bank and consulted Richard B's site, I found we won a friendly at Whaddon Road in 68... :)  Sadly I've concluded it wasn't that but the Gloucester City game in 67  :(   meaning I've never seen us win at Whaddon Road.

frustrating that we can't have more tickets for this, after 3 not that there's a lot of chance of that

My dad and uncle were left back and right back for Gloucester City in the early 50s ages 17 and 18, still one of the youngest fullback pairings for the club.

The game in 87 was a pretty dull affair IIRC over a thousand fans there and half were Swindon fans, no kind of segregation at all we could walk all round the ground, which was not much better than Chippenhams at that time, about 4 steps with a shed covering the centre parts and one main stand that held about 500 seats.

Lets hope we break that voodoo they seem to have on us, if we can break that curse then I think we may do well this season despite how we are playing in the main.

A win would be most welcome, but I don't think it necessarily a signifier of how we'll do... not like when Macari's 86/87 won at Priestfield, our only win there since 1930 in 37 attempts before and after. Then you just knew that side would go up.

Similarly whatever strange forces are at work, Cheltenham beating us isn't necessarily a signifier for them of good times ahead... last time they beat us they got relegated to the Conference and we ended up in the Div 3 PO final.

ditto.

heyho,  will go round 'a friends' in <insert random country> and watch it

Breaking a hoodoo at a club for me would certainly raise my enthusiasm levels as for me its a guide that we can indeed overcome any mental blockage at a venue, I understand what you are saying but for me it would be a millstone off our necks.

I was at the Preston game in 85-86 (I am presuming thats the game you mean) we went there and won 3-0 the day after my 20th birthday, it was a 1pm early KO because the ground had no floodlights due to refurbishment.

That season I felt we would beat any side we were up against no matter what division or home or away, certainly don't have that feeling at the moment! but the season is early.

Just go in the home end, it's not all ticket for home fans.

Yep, loads of tickets left on the website (just checked) and doesn't seem to be any restrictions on buying

There are numerous people on the FB group asking for tickets as well, they will be like gold dust and very few will get them imo.

Whilst our record at Deepdale is poor, we haven't played them too much. 1 win in 15 visits. Whereas our 1 win in 37 at Gills, does seem a bit excessive.  I've always put it down to it being  a horrible pikey place on the wrong side of the country. No such excuse with Whaddon Road... a pleasant welcoming place, genteel, with its own bowling green. Up until a  couple of visits back even had an Arkell's pub just down the street.

Odd that they did not offer us anymore tickets

All of which may make for a more or less pleasant day out for fans, but has very little relevance to the players, and hence results. Unless you're suggesting they stop off for a pint and a nice game of bowls on the way to the game? On reflection, maybe they should ...

Some of our ex players get up to strange things in Cheltnumb....  James Collins pissing in his pint pot and then tipping it over punters, Lloyd Jones lamping some lad on a night out.

Maybe the bowls is the way forward.... Don Revie used to keep his Leeds players happy, with a diet of indoor carpet bowls, dominoes and bingo on away trips

You reminded me of this Reg  ;D

http://youtu.be/YBQ47DbK6ZE

  :)

  The very essence of 70's norvern working class culture.  When the Tories say Corbyn will return us to the 70's they mean the banning of Playstation and compulsory bar billiards, darts and shove halfpenny. Away with skinny jeans and a return to baggies and norvern soul.

No wonder they came out on the pitch like snarling beasts.  Dirty Leeds, eh?

You say northern, but the only time I have ever seen a bar billiards table in a pub is in Witney, we used to play a hell of a lot although in the years before the internet never actually knew the rules.

 Do you norverners play cribbage?  There's still a league in Swindon, well its the Stratton League, but takes Swindon sides.

 The traditional mid week menu of crib, darts, skittles perhaps now augmented by a quiz night, still just about hangs on in a few treasured CIU places in Swindon and District.

Not even sure what cribbage is to be honest, we still do darts and pub quizzes, however never seen skittles up here, again only ever seen that down south (we used to play in Stonesfield) and in Wales.

You'll be telling me you don't know what Aunt Sally is next

Una Subbs?

Course I know what Aunt Sally is, its the sport of Oxfordshire

I'm loving the fact that this thread is entitled Cheltenham Tickets' but has done a usual tef and gained a life of its own.🙂 We need more of this sort of thing

There used to be a Bar Billiards table in the working men’s club in Bromham, mainly because it took up a lot less room than pool or snooker I guess.

We also used to play cribbage (and Bastard brag) , not in a league though, just for money :)

Born and raised in the Northwest, first time I ever saw bar billiards was in a pub in Oxford. Since then, seen a few in Oxon and Berks, still not seen a single one up north, either side of the Pennines.

There use to be one at Calne Sports centre

I have subsequently been informed by a friend who still lives up there that the pub we used to frequent in Newcastle, immediately next door to St James Park does now have the benefit of a Bar Billiards table....

Pfft, that's probably just been imported specially for Mike Ashley though

How far back are we talking? Spent half my childhood in the place and don't remember it.

1982 ish?

Nah, its in front of the fireplace.

It is played in other counties, and at times even in Wilts.

The Swindon William Morris gives an interesting account of sports in Swindon, before and just about the time that Brunel lobbed his sarnie.

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/11847390.Barry_Leighton_talks_about__This_very_unsporting_life/

I played fro the Red Horse in Shipton at both Bar Billiards and Aunt Sally (and darts)

Plough up Old Town used to have a table back in the day !

The Red Lion in Moredon used to have a bar billiards table.
Along with a lounge, bar ,snug and jug and bottle.

can someone please start a bar billiards thread FFS, some people are trying to look for tickets :crash:

This forum is 80% bar billiards, what did you expect?

If anyone has a spare ticket then please PM me. Am nearby to Cheltenham visiting family.

You can pay actual cash on the gate for home ends. Plenty are.

Sorry,I've got no Cheltenham tickets.

But I do remember the rotating hexagonal pool table at the check inn in wroughton ;D