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Do you have a problem with the board for giving Walsall the usual away allocation.

Been on this is and it seems only myself and another seem to think this is fair enough, everyone else wants blood, i just don't understand it.

No one was moaning at the City/Rovers/Forest matches in recent years, or the Brighton match!!

yes I do because they must have known that Swindon fans would want more than usual as well for this game

look after your own first

reason being - I know they are fairweather fans - but they may become more regular - but if they cant get the tickets to go in the first place they arent EVER going to come again

i think that made sense ...just about

Nope mate

The seats they have been given have always been allocated for away fans.

If 11,000 Swindon fans cannot out sing 3500 Walsall fans on such a day then there is something very seriously wrong IMHO

if we could have filled the bank with town fans, which seems very likely.then why give it to away fans?
surely a larger and more intimidating home crowd is only a good thing for us?
but at the time tickets were released,the significance of saturdays game wasn't known.i think?

Id rather see it full of Swindon or the whole of the Arkells as Swindon which I think we could have sold easily.Too many proper fans are missing out because of the glory hunters and Swindon fans should have been put first.City ,Rovers and Forest weren't sell outs in the home end .I think demand has taken many people by suprise to be honest.

Im not up in arms about it and see why it was done but why hand the slightest crumb of an advantage in such an important game?

Well said Fred.

(If you say that really fast it sounds like a famous pop group from the 90's who the lead singer of looks like the guy who used to present crystal maze.)

But what about the Brighton match, people were queuing as far back as Halfords for tickets for that match but we gave Broghton the normal away allocation.

I can't see the logic behind slagging off the board for this.  They weren't to know a month ago, when I assume the decision was made to give Walsall the normal allocation that we'd have just had over 10,000 swindon fans at the mansfield match and that the Walsall gam ewould be a sell out.

We're in danger of slagging the board off for everything which at the end of the day will undermine the real reason we're pissed off with them, they won't sell to BP.

100% agree with that.

I cant remember the Brighton game or getting a ticket for it :?

You keep referring to the Brighton match to back your arguement up - but for the Brighton play-off game we only gave them the bank and we had the whole of the Arkells.

i forgot that.good point

no. to be fair they could win the title. it would be harsh to deprive them of all their allocation for such a big game

i would like to have seen us have all of the Arkells and give Warsaw the Bank. 2100 is more than enough for them considering they average 1k for away matches.

But people complaining about not having a ticket should have sorted it a long time ago and not last minute.
Everyone knows someone who could have got them a ticket if they never had time etc

We'll never outsing them.

For one, none of the stands are able to sing with each other, the only time I've EVER seen that happen was against Mansfield. The chavs in the corner of the Nationwide insist on clapping as fast as they can, and every single song we sing seems to speed up as it goes on.

The Town End and the two sides of the North and South Stands will give it a go, but all the Walsall fans will be packed together. Only thing working in our favour is that it's hard to create an atmosphere in the bank anyway, due it to it being open.

i've always found the bank to be quite loud when it's full and everyone sings.

I would only have given them the Bank and nothing else ... and given the Arkells seats to our extra fairweather fans

I think we should have given them the bare minimum the league allows us. We need every advantage we can get to do the business. I'm not overly bothered about it, i just think it may have been a good idea to do everything possible to boost our chances of victory.

Yeah, but the town end is much louder even if everyone isn't singing.

ok fair enough, point taken, however our average attendance, and indeed top attendances suggest to me that it was a fair thing to do.

For example let's say we go up this year and are involved in a similar promotion "play off" next season at Forest I would like to think that Forest would give us 1,000 tickets and keep the rest for themselves.

I don't care either way- but I was pissed off about how Rovers treated our allocation, then changed it again etc etc and it's not fair to do that to other fans.

Fair play to Walsall for flogging 3300 seats in no time.

I think it is fair enough given that the decision had to be made ages ago.

Whoever suggested only giving them that bit of the Arkells...I would imagine it would be lower than the minimum we are allowed to give them to be honest. If anyting we could have restricted them to the SB

agreed.

if we'd been going to Warsaw and they'd slashed our allocation we'd be furious.

I sincerely doubt we'd have sold out the Bank as well as all the home stands anyway, probably would have been fair enough to just give Warsaw the Bank and have the away section of the Arkells open to home fans, ala Brighton.

You can't blame the board for this, everyone expected us to go up last week and if we had then the demand for tickets would be significantly less.

Regarding away allocations, I did notice Chelsea received only 2,800 tickets for last nights game at Liverpool (Att. 42,500), while we've given Walsall 3,300 out of a capacity of around 14,500.

Different rules in different competitions. Man Utd normaly give teams about 3000 in the Premiership and have to give away teams roughly 7000 in the FA Cup if I'm correct.

The Football League rules are bound to be different to both of these, but I'm with you on the fact that 3300 is a lot

Dunno that demand would have been lower Sonic....people would still have wanted to be there and celebrate regardless.

I must be getting old coz i've been banging on about this all season to whoever is unlucky enough to get the seat next to me. Get the people in... even if you give away tickets. Get a few of these people back and behind the club and it's half the fucking job done. The board are fucking idiots. So many empty seats game after game... give the tickets away and fill the fucking stands. Just think, advertise to the stoners in the town and you'd make the ticket price back anyway just off extra food sales :)

Why not give those tickets away to school-children :?

I remember when they used to do that years ago. Players would come round the schools, give training lessons and you'd get free tickets and programmes and stuff. Fucking brilliant.

Also remember a big group of school kids on the stratton bank one year. It's fucking pissed down all game and we lost, couldnt help but chuckle to myself.

Which tickets are we on about here?! I'm lost?

If you mean for all the game where attendances have been around 6,000 it would make sense but you can't do it every week becuase they simply won't come every week!!!

Ideas such as the SB for a fiver are the best way to do it. It got peopl ein and also created a great atmosphere to which the team responded well

on about general mid season games I think????? The SB offer was a stroke of genius I thought

Im on about the sectioned off bits in the top left arkells / bottom right nationwide, both by the away fans. Its not as if a bunch of seven year olds aer going to start a riot is it, so why not let them in there

They still go into junior schools but have stopped as of this season giving free tickets away once a season.
The stratton bank thing with the school kids... a letter went out in my sons school saying they wanted to fill it with kids so they could buy a roof...!

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