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 :D :D :D :D
just wanted to share my excitement with true town fans. everywhere i go people seem to be talking about us, quite annoyingly i must add - everyones jumped on the bandwagon as expected  :zzz:

Anyways, YOUUUUU REDDDSSSSSSSSSSSSSS :D

Well, I'd rather that than only have 8,000 at Wembley!

I see your point. i just wander if all these people will make a game next season?

Course they wont the ground only holds 14k :) Seriously though it can only help the general attendances whatever league we are in.

yeah hopefully bring back a few or attract first timers. what ever the outcome

i think we'll do this. close game but we will win. can't fucking wait

And I thought 4 hours till kick-off at Charlton was an eternity...  :headhurts:

I won't be too excited until nearer the time, I'm still recovering from Monday and can't get my head round the fact we won.

This will be my fourth play off final, i think i'm more excited by this one than the previous 3, as it's more unexpected than the others. Going to be a long wait though.

this'll be my first play off final and i cant wait!

a lot of these so-called bandwagon jumpers are probably town fans who are exiled fans, people who can't justify the cost of football, people whose circumstances prevent them from watching the town as often as they'd like et cetera. they shouldn't miss out on the biggest day for the club in the last decade just because they haven't been to carlisle away.

nah they're mainly bandwagon jumpers.

ive got people coming who do one game every 4 years and one whos never been to the Town.Id rather have people jump on the bandwagon than a half empty stadium.

a bit of both I would wager...

Would be fucking ace if we sell out our allocation, doesn't matter if it's people that haven't been for ages or have never been before.

I think it's frustrating for people who go to home and away games, not all, but a fair few, but don't have season tickets, and have no way of getting tickets before they go on general sale.

The problem with outsourcing like this is, there is no way of saying people with 'x stubs' can get priority before general sale. Galling, particularly as season ticket holders are able to get them for four aunties and uncles who fancy a day out but never follow the town normally, before season ticketless town fans.

That said I've got mine through a friend, and hopefully there should be enough that everyone who wants one gets one

Totally agree sy, "plastics" actually make me happy, because it shows the heart is there and therefore the potential to grow again.

the ticket allocation is the only real fuck up the club have made this year.but a fuck up nonetheless.
no regard has been shown for a large chunk of fans, which is disapointing.

7-8,000 at home when we're doing well, 36,000 at wembley?

thats 28,000 bandwagon jumpers in anyones language - but who's complaining!!

i think it's partly due to the logistics of it - if the club are going to shift 37,500 tickets without massive queues then they will need to outsource the sales which has made it a lot quicker and a lot easier for season ticket holders.

unfortunately, the whole ticket stub thing is impossible to implement if the sales are outsourced. i don't think it's fair to blame the club, i imagine they weighed up the situation in advance and felt that this was the best solution.

there is no way the club could handle online sales themselves. i suppose a compromise would have been to let non season ticket holders with x amount of stubs to buy from the county ground in person or over the phone but this would lead to the allocation being split, people not being able to sit together, etc etc

But that assumes that it's always the same 7-8000 every home game, which it's not.

Still, there are quite a few people coming out of the woodwork and asking about tickets.

 

I would imagine most people who go to "a fair few" games know a season ticket holder.

I can't go to Wembley  :( :( I went in 93 when we beat Leicester and have been to quite a few games this season and never seen us lose but i'm up north and i can't afford to travel down or pay for my ticket, I've got kids and i am a lone parent who is not working, My own parents wouldn't help me out despite the fact they are going so i'm really gutted that i can't make it this time, After waiting 17 years to go back to Wembley i obviously really wanted to go back and hopefully see us win again but i'll have to hope that we might get to Wembley again one day.

Last season I came across to 8 games, we lost 7 and drew 1.

This season in an infinately better season I have been to less games (mainly as I was due to got to Leeds and Southampton got moved from the weekend) including the debacle at home to Wovers and the feeble 1-1 draw at home to Wycombe and the 2 draws with Charlton so thought that my luck was continuing! However the last game I went to was 3-0 at home to Tranmere.

Repeat of my last game will do me just fine!!

fuck it.i'd gladly chip in a couple of quid so you can go.any others wanna help this town fan out?

Do you write to lottery winners ?

Oh come on. We've got an initial allocation of 37000, and from what Nick Watkins said, can apply for more if needed. No-one's going to miss out. I'll bare my arse in Woolworths window etc etc

i aint liked the way they've dealt with tickets recently.whether we sell out or not is irrelivant.
some fans get treated like royalty,others disregarded completely.

not moaning as i'll get a ticket.just how i see it

 ;D I'm not looking for sympathy just generally gutted about missing out on the experience as it's a one-off and a great day out.

I don't know, I'd say they vast majority at home are regulars, its not like we've got 4000 season ticket holders and no one else goes every other week. hard to quantify.

give a fuck either way! plenty tickets to go around, I feel for the people who are struggling to get tickets because of postcode etc, doesn't seem fair but hard to know how to overcome that. I guess the best chance is to get someone with local postcode to sort you out?

as for the bandwagon jumpers, its inevitable! everyone has to make some level of sacrifice to get to the football, some people don't make that sacrifice until we get to wembley, some people go home and away every week, they aint all rich thats for sure just differing priorities


that reminds me, I pulled into the cg on the way home yesterday about 730pm, didn't know how they were sorting the tickets at this point. theres a swindon fan lying down outside the ticket office entrance ready for when they open the next morning!!

only dawned on me this morning that he would have stayed out overnight then been told to go back home and get online for his tickets poor bastad!! he didnt have a sleeping bag or anything just some danish pastries

he deserves a ticket!!

Cheers, You're very kind  :) I'd never expect anyone to help me out though especially not people i don't know.

don't think he was begging for money mate, but nice gesture  :beers:

hope you all get tickets and totally drown out the millwall fans. you will have thousands of leeds fans wanting you to beat them,total support from yorkshire :nod:.In my opinion and from the games i watched against leeds this year(both yourselves and millwall) you will be joining leeds in the championship next year.Your team will out football them.Best of luck. LUFC67

i know that, but i reckon we could help him-her? get the day out we are all gonna have.

I'm a guy mate  :D I met a couple of people off here at Elland Road last month after managing to buy a couple of tickets off them, I live in Yorkshire not too far from Leeds' so it hardly cost me anything.

Not necessarily if they are an out of towner.

here is hoping for a millwall win you :cunt:

Totally agree with you arriba. But what other way could they do it?

cheerio

yeah but surely out of towners will be on the database?

I'd assume most people who support swindon have some connection with swindon and therefore either are on the database or know someone who is on the database?



If people are genuinely stuck and have no other option because of this postcode thing, and aren't on the database for some reason, I don't mind getting tickets when they go on general sale as long as the funds are transferred upfront obviously!

I still don't get what you're moaning about, who's getting treated like royalty? supporters of the club! how is that wrong.

what you're suggesting is the club should have visibility of someone who isn't on their database and doesn't live in the locality. how would they??

come on man this is a fantastic occasion and you're turning it sour. we'll all get tickets I'm sure, and there's no conspiracy against you I'm sure either

E I E I E I O!!!!

If you don't like it, buy a fucking season ticket.

Woolworths does not exist anymore though so your just trying to get out of it aren't you  :no:

I am on the data base, I was an ST holder as recently as last year, but that wasn't the point I was making. It was that there is no differentiating between regular non ST holders and people who never go but just fancy a day out, in the allocation.

I understand why it's happened this way, I just think it's a shame that's all.

Helpful contribution btw Jayo.

  between those who go to games regularly, and those who just want a day at Wembley with

Ssshhhh! :)

The differentiation is that someone who never goes won't be on the database surely?

Am I missing the point wouldn't be the first time?

Yes but if they have a local post code they can get them at the same time as people on the data base.

Basically if you don't want to buy a season ticket for whatever reason get yourself on the database because it helps you get tickets in certain situations.

It does online, although this sounds like the sort of material that would have the site shut down in an instant.

It'd give 'pick 'n mix' a hole new meaning .

i'm not moaning you thick cunt.try reading the post you quoted

Fuck off you moaning cunt.

fuck you.

how does it? I get in home games for free so dont have a season ticket. Im on the database., go every week at home and about half the away games but have to fight every tom dick and harry on friday morning!

acutally piss off instead.you might want to take me up on the fucking

Well it meant you could get a ticket for Millwall away.

And if you lived outside of Swindon you could get a Wembley ticket.

:D

I get it now.

So the club could have done a three step ticket issue

1) Season ticket holders
2) Database names
3) General sale to local postcodes

so arriba et al are moaning about 2 & 3 being let loose all at once on friday?

Am I right?

Guess they could have waited until monday for option 3.

RE the whole bandwagon debate. Whilst it's sometimes frustrating to here people talking about it who've never been before it happens to every club. If we take 35,000 a week Saturday then great. As others have said it's at least a full allocation (or near enough) but what if even 1 or 2k of them come back more often next season as a result? It's certainly a way of getting people interested again. The board are probably chuffed to bits at the chance for us at claw in some of the really old stayaway who'll no doubt want to come as well.

My brother is taking his girlfriend who is an arsenal fan, my bet is that he'll go to more next year, and she'll end up going along with him, win,win.

I'd say I'm observing that would be a 'fairer' option rather than actually moaning.