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Yeovil Town can fuck right off. They want to ban all our fans from the boxing day game at Huish Park due to police costs. Bet they don’t ban Millwall or Leeds? Bloody ridiculous. I would encourage all Swindon fans to say fuck you to Yeovil town and maybe boycott the game if not to atleast buy nothing in the ground. Wankers. Its against Football league rules not to allow away fans into games, atleast 10 % of the ground should be given to away fans. In principle I wont go. They don’t want us there therefore they can fuck off and lose the money even if they allow us in. CUNTS.

Match tickets against the 'bigger clubs' us, Leeds, Millwall etc rise by £4 anyway - robbing bastards

http://www.ytfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10673~1121934,00.html

Fucking wankers - that's my birthday!!!!!!!!

And here is the link to the story

http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=145787&command=displayContent&sourceNode=145780&contentPK=18517452&folderPk=100269&pNodeId=145803

What a load of shit - I always go on my birthday, the total cunts are ruining my Christmas ... I'm hopping mad about this.

My calculation based on an away sale, out they would get about £33,102 in revenue from us

For a more measured response, you might want to take a look at MOS.

http://boards.rivals.net/default.asp?sid=1019&p=16&style=1&forumId=3486&action=1&replytoid=528041975

This is not Yeovil's fault.  The police are demanding £40,000 for a game that does not require that level of police presence - which would make account for maybe as much as 40% of the entire gate receipts for the game.  In their position, I am sure we would consider making the game home fans only as well.

The troublemakers will go anayway...

Play the game behind closed doors then. that makes more sense.

http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=145787&command=displayContent&sourceNode=145780&contentPK=18517452&folderPk=100269&pNodeId=145803

as somebody on MOS said - play the match and stop complaining about the cost you moaning non league club

Perhaps the police are charging more because its a bank holiday??

Way to stick up for your own fans, Martyn:



Could have at least said something more constructive like "Yes I understand, but our own fans want to see the game".

:wanker:

And in the home end if they don't give us any tickets. The article in the WD says there will be no police in that eventuality.. sounds like a recipe for disaster

Pathetic short minded decision if taken. We should ban their fans from our ground next year?... saying that we will be in the Championship.   :wink:

for sure, people will go anyway not in the numbers but still

Fuck staying at home with family, this is not good 2 days with them, oh for fuck sake.

Come to the pub and buy me all them pints you owe me.

Yeovil are a well organised football club behind the scenes, but they need a reality check - they're not playing little teams anymore - "bigger" teams will have a higher chance of having the odd fan that likes to throw bricks (sad but true) - well moreso than their days of playing Non-League football anyway.

Judging by Starnes' quotes, I can see this being moved to a midweek in Jan/Feb - No football for us on Boxing Day would be lame.

But would = more  :beers:

all of this just to pay for old bill's xmas bonuses and overtime....

Or they're just pricing themselves out so they can spend boxing day with their families.

Perhaps Starnes could organise some big screen to beam the game back to the County Ground they could also sell Turkey sandwiches for the festive season and we could all drink in the stands as well, I would still go to that but doubt our board would think of that.  Instead we will be left with the joys of 80's tunes then 90 mins of football then more 80's tunes that Brunel FM will provide.

And might also give us an advantage that we won't be playing as many as the other teams during the festive period...

Course I'll be away anyway, but if I wasn't I'd be pretty damn gutted if I wasn't going to footy on Boxing Day.

Isn't there more the Football League can do to help out with policing issues, they must be able to negotiate with the police force as a whole to make sure costs aren't artificially high?

I will be there whether they ban us or not, poxy little fuck ass club.

This is not Yeovil Town's decision, this is a porcine decision, so all the pigs can feast on mincemeat doughnuts and glug port and brandy whilst they're catching all the innocent christmas drunk drivers.  :beers:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

What??  How are you going to boycott a game that you cant get a ticket for?

And if they do give us tickets then you're not going to go anyway despite the fact you want to - which is the whole reason you're pissed off in the 1st place :shrug:

What??

Just a rough calculation then?

 :)

At £40k for Policing they would need over 2000 fans paying £20 each on average to come from Swindon and we all know that won't happen.  It's been classified as a Category A game by the Police and Yeovil cannot do anything to change that.

If it was us being saddled with such a bill then I'd expect us to take the same route as Yeovil are.

Apparently the police costs for the YT vs ST game on boxing day is only £3k less than the policing costs for the Manchester derby! something not quite right there methinks.

Apparently the policing has been heightened because one Swindon idiot threw a brick through a Yeovil coach after the match a couple of weeks ago.

I can understand YT not being willing to pay for extra policing but I think its still not on and I will still be there for the game.

Look at the policing for our away game at Hereford last season, hoards of coppers, the chopper, CCTV wagon. Did they charge us extra to pay for the extremely large police, presence, No. That must have cost them tonnes of money.

But we have no idea how much the police charged Hereford.  We did pay more to go to Rovers.  Cat A is the same as Millwall vs Chelsea would get.

Good point, but by the sheer volume, it cannot have come cheap

What a fucking joke.

they could always make it all ticket and official coaches only, that should reduce the Policing Bill.I'm not arsed Im working.

Every club in the league has to pay stupid costs for police, would this start a trend? Teams who have big followings etc and bigger police prescence do they start banning opposing teams fans?

Not only that but Yeovils economy suffers as well (even most dont care) but pubs etc suffer not only the F.C

don't give them that idea, I live in Bristol. sod going to Swindon and getting a coach

Swansea vs Bristol City games have to be by arranged Coach transport only with restricted capacity.  So there are already some games impacted by Policing requirements.

£40k is a massive bill for one game, it's more than clubs ion the Prem pay for most of their games with 10 times the number of people in attendance.  It'll be because the Police can charge stupid overtime rates for Boxing Day.

Yep, ditto. Me and Dachauer are already half way there, why double the length of the journey by making us drive to Swindon to get a coach back and then to Yeovil????

It'll be a bit of a bastard if they ban us from going.

That said, I'll just pop down to Huish and pick up a home ticket.

Can't see how the Police can justify making it a category A game just for one brick.

I think we should ban Gillingham, Leeds, Rovers and any other fans who have had an arrest at their grounds from coming to the CG.

It's an absolute fucking joke...........................

Just been reading through the Yeovil Town forum and they're as pissed of as we are about it.

They also said some complimentary things about Swindon fans being amongst the best and loudest they've had at Huish Park.

Wish I hadn't thrown that brick now.......................................... :wink:

im making a point of going to this one now

I'm actually quite tempted to just go and sit in the home end if I am able to go. I know it's not Yeovil's fault - £40,000 is a stupid amount of money and I think the Football League should be doing something about it. There are games much more worthy of being "Class A" than Yeovil vs Swindon  :|

I think that if away fans are banned from yeovil we should be given 6 points for a win, 3 points for a draw and 1 point if we lose.

Obviously this should only work swindons way to compensate for the disadvantage of not having any fans there.

Then all we have to do is win  :D  :)  8)  :P  :wink:

Genius.

Agreed Spence

Im still trying to figure out how you can boycott a game when you cant go anyway!!!

Is Gaz going to do a petition?  :wink:

i,m going to boycott all yeovils fixtures this season fuck it.

must say after the initial "being pissed off phase" I have decided to wait and see, Still fucks me off the fact they would even consider banning all away fans.

i like the way they come up with after weve played them at home .. I say we ban them FOREVER if they stop us going to this .. Im going to Yeovil whatever happens now .. even if i cant get in!