Town have amended a policy aimed at preventing Norwich supporters from buying tickets in home areas online for the derby on Saturday 23rd August.

Initially only fans who had purchased tickets, season tickets or memberships from the club in their own name or with their customer number within the last three years were permitted to buy tickets as Town sought to prevent visiting supporters from attempting to buy seats in home stands for the derby, which kicks-off at 12.15pm and is live on Sky.

However, after a flood of calls to the ticket office, the Blues have extended that limit to 10 years. Supporters outside the 10-year restriction should either call the ticket office on 03330 050503 or purchase their seats in person from Planet Blue.

Restrictions are in place in order to prevent Norwich fans from purchasing tickets in home areas and away supporters could face being escorted out of the ground if found seated amongst the Town support.

Tickets went on general sale this morning and are selling well, according to Town’s director of retail and ticket operations Lee Hyde.

“The demand for tickets as you would expect is high,” he told the club site. “You have to have a restriction on online sales otherwise we could have away fans purchasing online, so we put the three year ceiling in place. We also felt that was fair to our supporters but we’ve now had to extend that to 10 years.

“We’re getting so many calls from fans who have not purchased a ticket in the last three years and want to go to the game so we’ve opened up the criteria which allows more supporters to purchase online.”

Tickets are available online from ITFC Direct.

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Basuco added 14:24 - Jul 21 Away fans in the home area MUST be escorted from the ground and this must be communicated to NCFC. Town must take a hard line on this issue.
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trncbluearmy added 14:37 - Jul 21 scum in home areas has rarely been an issue in my 45 years of following the Pride of East Anglia, perhaps a couple of incidents in the Churchmens quickly sorted by Town Fans
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whosroundisitanyway added 14:40 - Jul 21 If they go in the SBR Lower they will need escorting on a stretcher!
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essextractorboy93 added 14:46 - Jul 21 If the Naaaarwich fans think they'll be able to stay in the home end, they got another thing coming. Would create a dangerous situation for themselves, incidents would break out. It does sound like it will sell out though. What an atmosphere that will be! COYB!!
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brianblueboy added 14:54 - Jul 21 Brianblueboy What has our society become? Cannot sit with the oppostion football fans, fellow human beings? Where's your brain? I have set in the Den with Millwall fans & had a graet time but I guess todays fans are not able to do that. I have to add when I see parents encouraging their children to abuse the opposition, I wonder where those children will finish up in life. Let's tharash those canaries!!!

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ArnieM added 14:56 - Jul 21 Shock amazement all the armchair fans coming out if the woodwork now. Where have they been for last decade then? As for scum fans in the Town areas, yer avin a laugh. They dont have the bottle.
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warwickblue added 15:00 - Jul 21 There was quite a lot of unpleasantness when Colchester fans infiltrated pretty much all home areas a couple of seasons ago, during their (brief) venture into football at a higher level. It shouldn't make a difference brianblueboy but it does. Stewards on that occasion seemed pretty reluctant to move anybody much....
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Daz added 15:18 - Jul 21 ArnieM they prob have been watching Norwich in the prem rather than us
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whosroundisitanyway added 15:29 - Jul 21 brianblueboy What has our society become??? Were you sitting with the Millwall fans at the Den or anywhere in the Den at the 1978 FA Cup game? Dont think you would have had a great time!!! Would have been lucky to escape with you brain intact! You can go there now in relative safety walking to the ground through a cage & being totally segregated but please dont try & paint a picture of it being a welcoming place. No one likes them & they dont care. You go sit with the Norwich fans in a Town shirt & see how well you are received. Now that would require the the question "Wheres your brain?"

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BillBlue added 16:34 - Jul 21 What a load of -rap! For years I and my young sons used to sit among the Norwich supporters while away and I used to buy tickets for my Norwich friends to sit among us and it led to quite a bit of good natured repartee. The Norwich fans are no different from us or the Chelsea or Arsenal fans we are all football fans just supporting different teams. Methinks some of you people should try a bit of growing up. whosroundisityanyway. Yes I was at that match and I was sitting with my wife and two young sons in their Directors Box (freebies from an Ipswich friend) when that rabble assaulted their own Directors. We were escorted from the ground by a twenty stone docker who had tears of shame in his eyes for the behaviour of his fellow supporters. But what has that got to do with a Norwich/Ipswich game? I cannot get to matches now but Town supporters, worldwide, were respected for their good behaviour in my day, so what has happened?

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ArnieM added 17:01 - Jul 21 Maybe you should ask those "wonderful" norwich if they got a kick out of wrecking the Cobbold stand and toilets, smashing up wash basins toilets and ripping out the seats in the stand and throwing them on the pitch. Very grown up of them. They did it on two consequtive seasons. Not that it was reported on about norwich, naturally!
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Paulc added 17:01 - Jul 21 I think segregation is important, it only takes a couple of morons to kick it all off before you end up with a riot on your hands, and then everyone points their 'hindsight benefitting fingers' at the club/police etc as says they didn't do enough to prevent it. The amount of people who think the world should be a lovely harmonious place are right to hope for it, but completely unrealistic. The switch to 10 years is sensible. The simple policy for ALL clubs though should be, if you sit in the wrong end of the stadium you risk being ejected from the ground. Now come on you Blues, lets give them budgies the damn good thrashing they deserve, yellow & green is such a dsigusting combination that should be punnished severely!

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MonterreyBlue added 17:22 - Jul 21 Altho it shouldnt be the case, reality is that this is a very good idea for everyones health and safety. Ive been at derbies before and its all kicked off, like i say, shouldnt have to be the case in this day and age, but it is. Boot on the other foot, i sat in the "snakepit" in my Town shirt some years ago and spent a very pleasant 90 minutes watching us win 2-0 without the slightest interference lol. COYB

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whosroundisitanyway added 17:40 - Jul 21 Bill Blue You were lucky! Being a 20 year old Town fan in that era was not the most pleasurable experience off the field & I could narrate on many instances of violence following my beloved team from the mid sixties to this day. Common sense needs to prevail & some games need segregation, the local derby being one. IF you think you're Norfolk freinds would be safe & happy sitting in home sections of Portman Rd you need a reality check.

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Seasider added 17:44 - Jul 21 This particular game seems to bring the worst out of both sets of supporters,me included and I am 72 !!!Dont really know why but the Ipswich crowd normally so docile really get up for this game which of course adds to the atmosphere. The club seem anxious to segregate most fans but not it seems in the Sir Alf Ramsey lower,where the corporate fans,a lot from Norwich last time; in The Sir Bobby Robson suite sit right behind all the ITFC fans and amongst the Ipswich fans who are also in the corporate seats.

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Nthsuffolkblue added 19:56 - Jul 21 Segregation is right but there are several issues here. If an opposition fan goes with friends or family and is not arrogant, vocal and provocative in that area it is very different from some antagonistic away fan in a home area looking for a fight. As someone who works with many Norwich fans, there can be good-natured banter. As for Millwall (since it has been brought up) the majority of their fans nowadays are very decent folk and go out of their way to make up for their history. The nasty element are still attached to the club and come out of the woodwork for a match against West Ham or something similar and I really feel for the genuine fans then.

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JesusStockwell added 20:22 - Jul 21 Makes me sick just thinking about those filthy pigs let alone sitting next to one of them!!!! LET'S AVE IT!!!!!!!
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Stourbridgeblue added 20:25 - Jul 21 Just count the fingers on the way in.
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oldbarrackdan added 21:38 - Jul 21 Lots of fans who haven't been for three years coming out of woodwork because of a local derby? Just because we have been crap for so long isn't an excuse for not going to Portman road for over 3 years!
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warwickblue added 21:40 - Jul 21 Watford's another place I've often sat at the "wrong end", without a moment's bother.
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Letchworth_Blue added 22:35 - Jul 21 Been following town all over the country for 32 years. Throughout this time have never encountered much in the way of trouble. I now take my 10 year old son and i am enjoying taking him on the same journey's. However i am not a naive imbecile and think that to have NCFC and ITFC fans sitting next to one another would be a pleasant experience. I would not want to put my boy in any danger or a non pleasant situation. Therefore keep segregation in place and let us enjoy beating them and letting off steam with our own fans! COYB!!!!!

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Mach_foreignBlue added 14:08 - Jul 23 BillBlue you can't go to Town matches ? Good ! After all that your venom directed at Mick McCarthy that's the good thing. Surprised you still dare to comment here as your 'Bright New Future' blog has been the most cretinous this board has ever seen. Yes stay home and carry on cherishing Paul Jewell ! Cos he was such a 'nice bloke' wasn't he?
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