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Last night of the Leadmill, right? Such a shame that's closed.
Saw Creeping Jean last night supporting Rival Sons. They are excellent and a nice bunch of guys.
Rival Sons were fantastic last night - played for a couple of hours, and managed to wedge in their Sabbath cover from the weekend as well! Crowd were ace too. My first time in the Corn exchange.
Of course they want to encourage shorter highlights - it'll be a cheaper package for them to buy. So regardless of what the masses say in response to the question, when it comes round the BBC will say "it's what people told us they wanted". They'll spend hundreds of thousands on a survey with weighted & out of context questions like "Do you like to hear about your football team's performance?".
Which is how we ended up with "ugly vegetables" being sent to landfill, in a round about sort of way.
That block (Y1) actually went on sale during the Season Ticket Holder window, as there were not that many left in X1 at that point. Seems there are only about half of Y1 has sold. The allocation would seem about right.
BTW I think I remember on the bulletin that there would NOT be any tickets available on the gate.
Well w drive UNDER it on the way to Ipswich.. should see be worried?!
Seems like the video deliberately exaggerated the problem to me. It's probably settled out and will get resurfaced to correct the levels, and maybe it'll need doing again in 10 years time, but bridge collapse? Come on...
"However, if you had gone to half a dozen away games last season, you would have got a ticket to pretty much every away game this season as long as you kept going."
Only Gold Members (or whichever level it was) accumulated points. As season ticket holders (the only true fans after all, lol ) we did not accumulate anything for our away days.
We made it to some small venues such as Burton and Cheltenham without the need for any membership, but therefore those trips were worthless apparently. You've got to pay to be in that club.
As for "..as long as you kept going" - not if we still only wanted to go to a handful of games. You have to go to so many games to keep it rolling. And seeing as we're not local (220 mile round trip to PR) things are expensive enough without extra memberships.
Oh and - not that we would - that also means we couldn't buy tickets for the points and sell them on like many do, as we're not exactly surrounded by fellow fans! Another flaw in the system and illustration of how selfish people are.
Btw unlike the OP - I find it fascinating to hear the argument from both sides. Chats like these might just come up with an alternative solution (although that's clearly not what the point-heavy folks want).
"End of the day if you backed the boys away in L1 and champ you would have no issues getting a ticket in the Prem"
Not true though is it? My family and I "backed the boys" for the last idk how many years, with season tickets and away games. But you forget that not everyone can go to EVERY away game. You pretty much need to have done that to be on high level points to get a ticket.
We've always gone to about half a dozen aways a year. We've never needed to buy membership etc for that due to easy availability.
Come this season we need memberships, but there's no way I'm spending £160 on 4 memberships knowing full well that I will never get a ticket out of it.
It's now virtually a closed loop.
The side effect is that supporters - loyal supporters - who cannot go to every away game now cannot even go to a few. I don't care either about the legions of new supporters who are suddenly out of their armchairs now we're in the Prem.
I am not moaning however, as I know it's an impossible situation for the club, and - as I have for the last 25+ years - I'm lucky enough to go to every home game.
It would be nice though if some more fortunate with tickets would have some empathy with their fellow supporters, instead of propagatiing this holier than thou stance around who is the "better supporter".
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) we did not accumulate anything for our away days.