Yes, but they still have better support than us, obviously. Aye, obviously if their shite ground could hold the same as Deepdale they’d have sold it out in minutes of course.
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They are just a bigger club apparently, yet the average attendances are nearly the same with multiple cheap tickets offers for them so far, yes they still have big derby games to play so would have been ahead slightly but nothing really worth shouting about.
Yet us with the limitations we have with the stadium and no ticket deals are virtually the same average attendance so far.
If true seems they may have been playing silly buggers again.
It'll be funny next season if so, as I think the club would be pissed off with the way they've acted. We offered them the full normal away end, a bigger % capacity of our stadium than they offer us, but police didn't want away fans any closer to the north stand for this high profile game given the issues and we had extra demand for it too. It's so simple yet apparently we're thick, yet they can't understand that. Which led to their reaction, misunderstanding our stadium and the ott security concerns.
We did it out of police advice, them out of pure pettiness and I hope we properly retaliate for it.
It'd be funny if we screwed them over for real next season, as we know they cried like babies last time, kicked up one hell of a fuss that Risdale took advantage of to raise his own ratings. They are praising him now for the way he's apparently handled this
but they can't win a ticket war, no one really wins but we always get more.
Cant wait to see the reaction if we give them just 10% of usable capacity next season 1500-1600 and watch them argue about making sure oap ambassadors get involved in chanting.
We don't have that problem, our young ST holder/regular away fans will get tickets, so again another clear advantage.
Be even funnier if we played them at their place first too, the balls then in their court for the first decision.
Having said all that the sensible thing to do would be to sort this out for the future, but what can we realistically sort?
They have enough capacity to sell the game months in advance on a special day and could still give us the whole stand.
We will always have more demand than capacity of the 3 sides for this game and so would use the NE for home fans. So they won't get anymore tickets.
So unless they suddenly agree to give us more with them getting no more, which makes them look daft for their reaction if they are willing to accept it next season as a legitimate argument, then I can't see how it changes.
Unless instead of a massive segregation area they can give home fans and away a little more, but police advice seems unlikely for that given the ott way they set things out last time.