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Anybody got a spare adult ticket for Saturdays game. Willing to pay above face value and will collect on Saturday. Reply or telephone 07812109352 or 01253 402332, will ring you straight back. Thank you. 

You can have mine for £50

You should know we carry machetes and gonad mousetraps in the away end.

Its ridiculous that so many tickets have been given to us on "Police advice" Should have been made all ticket to Swindon Fans and we should have been given 500 or so tickets in a corner of main stand.Its depressing that so many home fans should have to miss out on a promotion party so Swindon fans can clap off a few losers and get their last fix of meaningless football for a few months..

I agree.

I quite honestly do not care one little bit about Saturday's game, and the last thing I want to do with my Saturday is watch another team celebrate promotion.

I am very tempted to buy a job lot of away tickets and travel up to flog them to home fans.

I'll watch my team whatever and whenever I can.

It is a bit sad for them...But if they'd given us 500, they'd have had to give us more when we sold them. Them's the rules. Not sure what the exact figure is but you have to give a certain percentage of your capacity to away fans if the away club demands them, and we could easily have taken loads had we needed something.

Shut up you tout.

Saturday is our last game of the season, and I'm looking forward to it.

Oh, la de dar, look at me.

Give it a rest, it's a meaningless game.

How did we get on with the Wiltshire Shield Final or whatever it's called now?

Good question. I went to a couple of games in it last year, chippenham away and someone (salisbury?) at home, but not seen anything about this year.

I hope we lost, it's nice to make the little clubs feel good.

yes you do,as do around 500 others.If the situation was reversed we'd be mightily pissed off,I just think it fucking stinks.

(im aware that all my recent posts are a bit like this, by the way and im not the post non relegation Bart im just saying what i think :))

I dunno, all those who turn up regularly would have a ticket anyway.

It was about this time last year, at Salisbury funnily enough, that I decided Kanyuka was awful.

In fact I think he is still pulling his pants up now from the roasting their winger gave him.

That's funny, I'm still pulling my pants up now from where I ginger waved him.

I dont agree,tickets get snapped up by casuals and friends of regulars for these sort of occasions,leave it a bit late and your fucked.

So don't leave it late, if it's important to you, you won't.

Not everyone just has Football to think about Axs,you remind me a bit of the bloke from Fever Pitch or a  "returnee" after a few years of not bothering.

True, but then I only have football to think of.

And i still think if you are bothered about the game you will make the effort to make sure you get a ticket.

Their ground holds 15,000. their average last season was under 6,000, even if we have 2K spare on the terrace there's plenty of room for those who make even a small amount of effort to get a ticket.

whats their average gate this season?

no idea.

night x

I just looked  at their site and its probably 8k,so yes you have a point,I still think there is no need to give Swindon such a big terrace.When we came up I brought my Brothers (2) and my Nephew.Neither have come since or had been more than once before during the season,As I remeber it we had "proper " fans on her moaning that they couldnt get tickets,one was Phil i think?(who i sold a spare to..I may be wrong) I just think its a shame...

Excuse me for probably sounding somewhat silly however what's all this about police advice? Am I just not up to speed or has there been previous rilvalry between us and posh? If not it all seems a lot of fuss over nothing and I couldn't see an issue with dividing the terrace up so posh fans can see their team go up officially. I can't for one minute think why there would be any trouble?

But you're forgetting we're football fans and there's always one idiot who will try and start something. Mob mentality would kick in and you'd have a full scale riot on your hands.

I see your point, however the separation between Aldershot and Barnet away was minimal and apart from a bit of goading, there wasnt much else to write home about.

im not going, cant be arsed, fucking pointless game to waste money on unless cox scores a couple:)

Definitely a post-season friendly this one. No thanks.

Just been down the ticket office to sort my ST and we have sold 800 tickets so far for boro, and still some left.

But until as recently as Saturday there was still a possibility that it would be a high tension match with potentially both sides needing a positive result to achieve their objectives. It's expecting a bit much for the Police to be able to react and downgrade the level within a couple of days. Easy to imagine a flashpoint under those circumstances.

Good point Nev, I didn't actually think of that.....  I dont mind a few Posh fans in with us, providing they don't act like morons :D

Is it wrong that my first thought was 'is Fred going' when I read that?...

The thing i dont understand about segregation is that at places like Stamford Bridge, the Lane, Old Trafford, the Hawthorns there is just a single line of stewards/ police... no whole sections of ground fenced off... surely they could do that for some of the bigger games to maximise attendances?

Dont forget we are quiet high on the police  hoolies list, even though the knuckle draggers wont be out for this.

i'll buy one for £25

A few? I can see our end being mainly blue.

Didn't the same happen with us a few years back with Sunderland fans invading the County Ground?

If these Posh "fans" wanted a ticket they would have got one! I don't have a season ticket, but haven't missed any of the big games for years because with a little bit of effort you can get one.

Personally, I'm looking forward to Saturday and hope we have as few home fans in the Away end as possible. Why would you want to restrict our fans to 500, i want to see us take as many as possible, enjoy a decent ground, make a good atmosphere and generally have a good day. We've got the right to certain % of tickets and I hope we sell as many as possible, fuck the grumpy bastards who don't want to go cos it doesn't mean enough and the lazy twats who couldn't be arsed to get a ticket a week ago.

Lets just go and have a laugh and a few beers with some mates, enjoy the sun and make a bit of noise, which is the real reason most of us go, no?

No.

The only excuse any Posh fans without tickets can have is that they live far away from Peterborough, or they have been serving in the Armed Forces. Other than that, no sympathy.

Im looking forward to saturday, knowing that weve booked ourselves a place in a much improved League 1 next season. Cant wait.

What if they've been in hospital? Or working away? Or locked in a cellar? Or suffer from short term memory loss? Eh eh? You haven't thought it through!

The problem was that the decision about how many tickets had to be made before the Rovers game.

had we have needed a point (or more) from the Peterborough game we would probably have sold the 2,000 tickets.

Which stand are you in Posh Red?  ;)

I should have got a ticket for the London Road end :D

But I'm in the Moyes Road end.   Wife & Sprog are in the seats.

I told sprog he ought to arrange with his mates from football to meet them on the half way line after the game :D

 ;D I had a look on the posh forum and a few of them are concerned that they may get a points deduction if their supporters invade the pitch. Could that happen?

Not for a pitch invasion. Even if they kicked off I can't see it happening, I don't recall there ever being a points deduction for something like that. A fine and a suspended ground closure would be the worst that could happen.

Though I think Southampton are bricking it a bit after their fans kicked off against Burnley, invading the pitch and throwing a flare in to the Burnley end. Really bizarre as Southampton fans are normally as good as gold.

fuck me are they really worried about losing points for coming on the pitch to celebrate promotion?

new supporters,new football....

There was also a mention on their forum that they were on a "final warning" from the FA. I have no idea if that is true or not.  :shrug:

I think there was a bit of trouble when Plymouth played Posh in the FA Cup last season. Plymouth won with a dodgy penalty and muff wound up the Posh fans by celebrating in front of them. I think there was a bottle thrown at the muff players.

I wish i could argue but i cannot....you are right.

No he's not. Why get depressed about people you don't care about not getting tickets?

Odd.

I'd have been more pissed off if we only got 500 tickets and needed a point to stay up.

And they had to plan on that basis.

The club probably didn't expect to have the level of demand from the home fans that they are getting, so it's a rather silly move on their part. It's a Peterborough issue, not ours. We can't help it if we've been allocated a particular amount of tickets and we don't sell them all.

When we had Walsall last game a couple of years back the following happened to me:

I have my daughter every three weeks and when i do i dont go to football (i love Swindon Town but i do love my daughter more!).

At the last minute she became ill and couldnt come.....it was Thursday before the game and i couldnt get a ticket.....so i did what the posh fans did and begged for one on the forums and luckily i got one at face value...

That does not make me a Cunt!!

(Other posts i have placed do...but not this!).

Fair play to you Flash and i appreciate their will be the odd Posh fan in a similar situation to the one you faced that game. They will however be few and far between.

They will have about 6,000 fans who don't normally go there on saturday (based on their average attendance) anyway without reducing our allocation. On this basis why shouldn't we get more than 500 if we want em?

PS. You're right it doesn't make you a cunt. Apologies if you misinturpreted my post.

Not saying we shouldnt,im saying the we should have been given 500 and moved from that terrace as soon as they knew it was meaningless for us.Not sure where you get your 6000 figure from,many people are regular without going to every single match.

6,000 was made up but depends on your definition of "regular" i suppose. You can't get away from the fact that their grounds been too big for em most of the last 20 years and now all of a sudden its too small.

My point is most regulars will have a ticket with very very few exceptions (like those in Flash's case).

It would be a logistical nightmare to move 500 with a weeks notice anyway. I think we had sold approx this amount by last week anyway plus where would they move us to at such short notice. All the home seats have been sold it would appear.

Anyone know how many we've sold?

It really wouldnt be that hard,I dont really care enough to be having this arguement..so shut up please

Hahahaha

Ok. Long as we're agreed.

I win!!! :-)

Leave it maldini

Actually Spencer_White I live in Blackpool, PUFC being my second team scince 1960/61 promotion year and get to see them when playing up North and a couple of times at home each season when Blackpool are playing away. Got the weekend off work but too late to get a ticket. Enjoy the party and I'll wear my shirt with pride on Saturday and all summer long!  8) :)

pah.fucking glory hunter ;)

There was the incident with Plymuff last year, but also on the last day of last season some of their "fans" punched & kicked the opposition players as they left the pitch.

After that they got a warning from the FA. Don't know if they got any kind of suspended sentence, but I would guess it's unlikely that they would get a points deduction.

I don't have a second team, I find this principle all a bit odd.....am I alone in this?

Perhaps I can have a few suggestions about who I should start supporting in a secondary role?

Oxford?  :tumbleweed:

Ive supported Swindon all my life..but i was born in Southampton my dad played for them so there my second team...its not an odd principle,i dont get the same buzzz as watching the Town but alot of people have second teams....they are not odd...but you arnt if you dont have a secondry team...my cousin is the treasurer of Brockenhurst Badgers so support them secondry if you want Arch!

Hmmm..... not aware of them, I don't seem to recall them playing in any of the proper leagues this season.... ;D

Perhaps the Brockenhurst Badgers are for me, what colours do they play in Leefer?

Blue and White...in the Sydenhams sponsored Wessex League.

I've just been on their website, its all very Bristol Rovers...

I can now announce that Brockenhurst Badgers are my second team.

Could they play Oxford in a league game in the near future?  :naughty:

Hilarious, lets hope so!  :D

After lengthy discussions in the pub tonight I can confirm that I also don't get the second team thing.

If they played each other in the FA Cup final who would you want to win?

second team? oh do fuck off, i hope you dont get a ticket.

Thank god for that, there was me thinking I was the only one...

you wrote that like fred!

My second team is England.

I used to have a vague interest in a second team, but while I did I always cared about Swindon much much more. Now I only follow Town.

Peterborough = gay fans