Matesrates
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Went to ticket office 10.15 today to get 2 tickets in the South for Cardiff game only looked like couple of hundred seats left in the south looks like will be a great turn out
Went to ticket office 10.15 today to get 2 tickets in the South for Cardiff game only looked like couple of hundred seats left in the south looks like will be a great turn out
That's seats available to purchase, based on the official capacity figures from the last published safety certificate by the council.So taking off the seats from the North that means around 8,400 sold then
Wasn’t too bad yesterday, in and out in 10 minutes max.Off to collect my season ticket today, we’re there queues yesterday anybody know?
Wrong, 19 nowJust 20 left now
If he is 4 there is every chance he will forget all of it BUT with videos and photos of the day he can be indoctrinated when he’s old enoughBrilliant that Brett the little fella will never forget the day when he hears the North (and the rest of the ground) in full voice and he will be Pool forever
Yes true but in the old days kids could go on their own and pay pennies to get in, the excitement was raw and scary and electric, the...a dangerous cheap thrill.....it’s very sanitised now in comparisonImagine being a kid these days and coming to the club compared to what it was when I was a kid at that age, an absolute rust bucket of a place really, a certain nostalgia but still, its night and day now and a place kids want to be. The way the club is run and the direction its heading. Even compared to when we had the 2 stands, tin pot feel.
So much better now so you feel like your at somewhere more special.
True, but the football was pretty dire during most my youth. The product wasn't there, nor the appeal to people wanting a better experience.Yes true but in the old days kids could go on their own and pay pennies to get in, the excitement was raw and scary and electric, the...a dangerous cheap thrill.....it’s very sanitised now in comparison
Yes but your point was that “kids” nowadays would enjoy it a lot more because it’s shinier........I loved it back in the 70s/early 80s because it was raw, raggedy, falling to bits and with an edgy atmosphere with a constant hint of dangerTrue, but the football was pretty dire during most my youth. The product wasn't there, nor the appeal to people wanting a better experience.
Now we have that and a top atmosphere. You look around and you don't see bits hanging off or think that looks crap.
It helps attract families etc as well as still appealing to the hardcore.
Yeah there's a nostalgia to the crapness and I'm sure some would enjoy that, but I think to have a more mass market appeal these days parents wouldn't take their kids to football like it was as much. Falling down stadiums lost their appeal to many. Things moved on.Yes but your point was that “kids” nowadays would enjoy it a lot more because it’s shinier........I loved it back in the 70s/early 80s because it was raw, raggedy, falling to bits and with an edgy atmosphere with a constant hint of danger
A bit like skate boarding parks.Yeah there's a nostalgia to the crapness and I'm sure some would enjoy that, but I think to have a more mass market appeal these days parents wouldn't take their kids to football like it was as much. Falling down stadiums lost their appeal to many. Things moved on.
The standard is better, everything is better the pitches are smooth, the football much better, its just far more a professional feel.
I chuckled about the nobbers only apparently selling about 6k ST'S in some previous seasons and the rest being given away to young kids, but tbh we could try and get more youngsters involved ourselves.A bit like skate boarding parks.
Football is losing kids
Hopefully tangerine finger nails crossed HollyI chuckled about the nobbers only apparently selling about 6k ST'S in some previous seasons and the rest being given away to young kids, but tbh we could try and get more youngsters involved ourselves.
However if we play well and get results the buzz will draw more in.
The constant hint of danger was the chance of the stand collapsing or getting tetanus from a cut from some rusty metalwork.Yes but your point was that “kids” nowadays would enjoy it a lot more because it’s shinier........I loved it back in the 70s/early 80s because it was raw, raggedy, falling to bits and with an edgy atmosphere with a constant hint of danger
Happy old Days mateThe constant hint of danger was the chance of the stand collapsing or getting tetanus from a cut from some rusty metalwork.
Did you indeed, bet he doesn't remember that but the buzz was probably subconsciously embedded in his soul, am sure he will have turned out a great lad, probably sits in the north stand now helping make the atmosphere for all we know......I took my young son when he was about 3 as the missus said, if you're going to the football take him with you I think it was his first game & we played Chesterfield around 1989, we sat in the South stand & won 3-1. I spent more time watching him or taking him for a pee, I only actually saw 1 goal go in undeterred I continued to take him & it paid off.
Sooty, very soon he will be watching you and taking you for a pee!I took my young son when he was about 3 as the missus said, if you're going to the football take him with you I think it was his first game & we played Chesterfield around 1989, we sat in the South stand & won 3-1. I spent more time watching him or taking him for a pee, I only actually saw 1 goal go in undeterred I continued to take him & it paid off.
Hopefully not for at least another 20 yearsSooty, very soon he will be watching you and taking you for a pee!
Oh the joys.Sooty, very soon he will be watching you and taking you for a pee!
They had portaloos in the NE corner for the Oxford game.Me too Koudo for the play off, but with fan segregation in the east they would have to put toilets and a kiosk in the NE end but l read or heard that the club were not planning for this due to a lack of space in that part of the ground.
Fuck it JJ, just buy the bloody tickets!Oh the joys.
I'm not that generousFuck it JJ, just buy the bloody tickets!
A, hem.....I've got these friends, desperate to go to the match....
I went as a kid in the 50’s, on my own or with mates, travelling from Layton and it was awesome. Especially when the illuminations were on there were gates of 30,000 plus when Wolves, Manu, Arsenal were the visiting team. Still good in the 60’s too although we weren’t quite as good as the 50’s team. Used to sit on a tiny stool on the cinder track in front of the KopTrue, but the football was pretty dire during most my youth. The product wasn't there, nor the appeal to people wanting a better experience.
Now we have that and a top atmosphere. You look around and you don't see bits hanging off or think that looks crap.
It helps attract families etc as well as still appealing to the hardcore.
Well I was born in the mid 80s, so all around my youth pool were generally not the best, some nostalgia yes for the ground etc and the era, but not exactly compelling the youth of the day to flock to Bloomfield Road.I went as a kid in the 50’s, on my own or with mates, travelling from Layton and it was awesome. Especially when the illuminations were on there were gates of 30,000 plus when Wolves, Manu, Arsenal were the visiting team. Still good in the 60’s too although we weren’t quite as good as the 50’s team. Used to sit on a tiny stool on the cinder track in front of the Kop
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