Liquid Gold
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If you do the payment plan you can arrange for the first payment to be taken on the last day of next month. Might work out cheaper with the charges than waiting for early bird to end.
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Sky Blue Harry H
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To a certain extent. Really only affects cash flow, though. Club will budget for an average attendance. Money up front from season tickets just gives them more front loaded money and a degree more certainty. We may end up with a bigger average attendance than Barnsley, but they more have more money in the bank (and a bit more certainty) early on in the process. Hopefully MR will have access to a little of the cash generated from our end of season showcases!
GaryMabbuttsLeftKnee
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This is definitely true, I did as many away games as i did home last season (13 of each). I've since bought a season ticket for this season as the players and Robins deserve it more than anything. I might not make any more home games than I did last season but I want to do my bit. I don't buy Otis' argument of crowds will grow with success or it's money, I just think as a city/area we are really shit football supporters. That's not the one's that go, but everyone else. The appeal with the away games will always be decent atmospheres and a day out, for me living in Stratford as well it's easier on a train for me to get to London than it is the Ricoh.
Manchester_sky_blue
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Increases in train fares have killed it somewhat for me. Not so long ago I used to be able to get an advanced ticket from Manchester to Cov for about £20 return. Now its more like £45 return typically. I still go to home games when we are in the vicinity visiting the inlaws but its too expensive to just nip down and back again same day now. That said, we now have a second car again so i might experiment with driving down, even though the thought of driving in Cov gives me a brown alert.
matesx
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Increases in train fares have killed it somewhat for me. Not so long ago I used to be able to get an advanced ticket from Manchester to Cov for about £20 return. Now its more like £45 return typically. I still go to home games when we are in the vicinity visiting the inlaws but its too expensive to just nip down and back again same day now. That said, we now have a second car again so i might experiment with driving down, even though the thought of driving in Cov gives me a brown alert.
Cov ring road is great fun!
Manchester_sky_blue
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This is the other reason i can't afford to go to that many games................ and likely a contributing factor to my impending fiery death on the ring road.
Liquid Gold
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You just come off the M6 straight to the Ricoh, no need to go in to Cov at all.Increases in train fares have killed it somewhat for me. Not so long ago I used to be able to get an advanced ticket from Manchester to Cov for about £20 return. Now its more like £45 return typically. I still go to home games when we are in the vicinity visiting the inlaws but its too expensive to just nip down and back again same day now. That said, we now have a second car again so i might experiment with driving down, even though the thought of driving in Cov gives me a brown alert.
matesx
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true dat
Manchester_sky_blue
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I know, i was just messing. Looking a cheaper bet than the train for this season assuming i can park reasonably cheaply
Grendel
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I thought the Pilot has shut down
Performances when there have been bigger crowds recently will also put people off. Sometimes the football has been dire and then there is either no atmosphere or the moaning at players starts. If you have only been to some of these recently it would not encourage you to get a ST
fernandopartridge
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That's in good nick! What year is it? My mate used to have a little white Fiesta like that, it did a load of away games including Newcastle. I remember going down to Millwall from Cov on a Wednesday night, it overheated on the way back on the A4 coming out of London, we had to sit and wait for an hour while it cooled down.
Nick
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Classic to be fair, get some Xr2i wheels on it and some recaros and you are well away!
Already got the clear front indicators
Manchester_sky_blue
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Classic to be fair, get some Xr2i wheels on it and some recaros and you are well away!
Already got the clear front indicators
It's a mark 3.5 so it came with the clear indicators as standard. Very hard to find an unmessed about with Fez now, especially in poverty spec like mine. I'm not against improving it but has to be done right.
I have a couple of other "proper" classics that it has to vye for money and attention with too.
Manchester_sky_blue
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It's a '94 poverty spec 1.1. Super clean and unmessed with which is the only reason i bought it. Not my usual sort of motor but it was local and the right price.
Otis
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We're almost neighbours then.[/QUOTE]
You might well BE my neighbour.
Is your name Hazel?
Mcbean
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A set of Carlos Fandango wheels and you will be well away
For those younguns
skybluebolland
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Pal the best place for you to park is a pub called The Longford Engine. It's just off the M6, and about 10 minutes walk to the ground. Some other cov fans go there before the game and it's right on the canal. Also a nice fish and chip shop opposite. I live down in Windsor so when I drive up to cov games that's where I go.
Manchester_sky_blue
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Sounds ideal! See you there! I’ll be the bloke crawling out of an old red Fiesta, spine broken, muttering “never again”
skybluebolland
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No problem. I've only just found it myself, so only really used it for the last few trips of the season, but it's a bonus being so close to the M6, plus the parking is free.
fernandopartridge
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Yes I did wonder that as thought you preferred something a bit more british
Manchester_sky_blue
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It was built at Dagenaham and the engine made in Wales so it doesn't do badly on that front. It's a lot newer than any of my previous motors though. My '81 Acclaim was the newest previously. That said, its not that much different, has no power steering, no computer, no electrickery of any kind in fact, not even a fag lighter. It is injection rather than carbs but so utterly basic that its still fixable with a hammer, just like the good 'ol days.
Apologies for the thread drift to anyone who couldn't give a toss about my Fiesta...............
itsabuzzard
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Me too. Also, when I was a nipper and we were still in Div 1/PL, we were always one of the poorer supported clubs. We've lost fans as we've fallen down the leagues and all the stuff in background hasn't helped either. We've just gained promotion from the bottom tier. A good start to the L1 campaign will hopefully see crowds swell. Momentum can be slow to build.
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Otis
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Can't give you a like cos that gives you bookie credit.
So, you will have to make do with one of these instead.
Old Warwickshire lad
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I have been going since 1962 and without doubt city fans are the most fickle fans there are.
Most are also delusional and think we are a big club, well 5500 season ticket sales proves we are far from that.
People seem to forget cold wet Tuesday nights at Highfield rd when we struggled to get 12000, and that was premiership!!!
Irish Sky Blue
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Park in Blackburn Road for free. Ten minute walk to the Ricoh
Harry Krishner
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Was there not a big push to sell season tickets 2-3 years ago followed by a major off-loading of star players after people had bought?
I do remember quite a few people complaining of this in the not too distant past. Just another example of the major destruction in trust that has gone on over recent years. Everybody's delighted about how this season worked out, but still very wary of any pranks that SISU might pull - too wary to splash out on a season ticket. I agree a club our size should be selling more, but karma comes back to bite the owners on the arse once more.
I do remember quite a few people complaining of this in the not too distant past. Just another example of the major destruction in trust that has gone on over recent years. Everybody's delighted about how this season worked out, but still very wary of any pranks that SISU might pull - too wary to splash out on a season ticket. I agree a club our size should be selling more, but karma comes back to bite the owners on the arse once more.
bawtryneal
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In the old days there was always a "marquee signing" after the early bird season tickets had been withdrawn
Would be great to get a marquee signing to put bums on seats. A "Robbie Keane" for a season or somebody similar
Would be great to get a marquee signing to put bums on seats. A "Robbie Keane" for a season or somebody similar
Otis
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I just don't get it then.
People keep saying we are not a big club and fans don't want to come and we are poorly supported, so why the surprise at 5,500?
To be expected surely?
Irish Sky Blue
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At the moment I am having a (pointless but entertaining) on going discussion with a friend at work, who is a Blues season ticket holder, about which of our clubs is the biggest.
I have played the trump card of us being the winners of a major national trophy, something they have yet to do (the League Cup isn’t major).
Their highest attendance is something like 68k as opposed to our 51k so that is a negative.
However, and this is how petty it has got,I have cited that our lowest league average attendance post war (ignoring Sixfields) was 9100 in our recent League One relegation season. Using Wikipedia I can see that BCFC had five years in the late 80s early 90s when their average was 8k or below. In 1989 in a Division Two season (equivalent of the Championship), their average attendance was 6k. Their lowest gate that season a handful of fans over 4K to watch a home defeat to Swindon. This era was a time of poor attendances with hooliganism rife at the time.(although I wouldn’t give that excuse as a way out to my mate at work). However it does show that attendances do go in cycles.
Although I have been disappointed at the rate people are returning continued success will inevitably increase our gates.
If anyone can suggest any other reasons why we are obviously a bigger club than Blues these will be gratefully accepted.
I have texted the Sky average league position table which has us,I think, 22nd and them a few places lower.
I will cite our Johnson’s paint, and Checkatrade record attendances along with us having the record for the largest away following ever in this country (55k in the Charity Sheild). He disputes this saying that they took 58k in one of their Leyland Daf finals. Does anyone have written proof that the CS is indeed the highest away following, possibly a world record?)
I will mention our badge being voted the 11th best in the world (theirs was no where)’ our stadium is bigger than theirs and the fact we have our own song, not a second rate music hall tune pinched and amended.
I will obviously also counter by saying our city of culture status trumps their Commenwealth Games and by asking where Birmingham was when Cofa was planting his tree or even when our City was being mentioned in the Doomsday Book.
You can see being semi-retired can leave you with time on your hands!
I have played the trump card of us being the winners of a major national trophy, something they have yet to do (the League Cup isn’t major).
Their highest attendance is something like 68k as opposed to our 51k so that is a negative.
However, and this is how petty it has got,I have cited that our lowest league average attendance post war (ignoring Sixfields) was 9100 in our recent League One relegation season. Using Wikipedia I can see that BCFC had five years in the late 80s early 90s when their average was 8k or below. In 1989 in a Division Two season (equivalent of the Championship), their average attendance was 6k. Their lowest gate that season a handful of fans over 4K to watch a home defeat to Swindon. This era was a time of poor attendances with hooliganism rife at the time.(although I wouldn’t give that excuse as a way out to my mate at work). However it does show that attendances do go in cycles.
Although I have been disappointed at the rate people are returning continued success will inevitably increase our gates.
If anyone can suggest any other reasons why we are obviously a bigger club than Blues these will be gratefully accepted.
I have texted the Sky average league position table which has us,I think, 22nd and them a few places lower.
I will cite our Johnson’s paint, and Checkatrade record attendances along with us having the record for the largest away following ever in this country (55k in the Charity Sheild). He disputes this saying that they took 58k in one of their Leyland Daf finals. Does anyone have written proof that the CS is indeed the highest away following, possibly a world record?)
I will mention our badge being voted the 11th best in the world (theirs was no where)’ our stadium is bigger than theirs and the fact we have our own song, not a second rate music hall tune pinched and amended.
I will obviously also counter by saying our city of culture status trumps their Commenwealth Games and by asking where Birmingham was when Cofa was planting his tree or even when our City was being mentioned in the Doomsday Book.
You can see being semi-retired can leave you with time on your hands!
Old Warwickshire lad
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I agree Otis, absolutely no surprise to me. I have mates who say they are “city fans” not had a season ticket since we left the prem.
They will turn up for one offs against premier teams and go to Wembley, but that’s it.
And some have admitted they will only go if we are in prem, and winning. Unless of course we are playing one of the big 6.
Cov is a strange place, became a boom town in the 60,s with the car factories paying big bucks. But people moved here from all over the country, and their families had their allegiance elsewhere and still do.
No idea what the answer is.
They will turn up for one offs against premier teams and go to Wembley, but that’s it.
And some have admitted they will only go if we are in prem, and winning. Unless of course we are playing one of the big 6.
Cov is a strange place, became a boom town in the 60,s with the car factories paying big bucks. But people moved here from all over the country, and their families had their allegiance elsewhere and still do.
No idea what the answer is.
Bugsy
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Our 34 years in the top flight is a better record than theirs....PUSB