Barnsley THIS Saturday (1 Viewer)

[Earlsdon_Skyblue1]

They’ve been on sale to ST holders since Friday last week, so almost a week now.

In 2019, Bolton Away tickets didn’t go on sale until the day before the game because of their issues at the time and we took 1800-2000, to a similar distance ground, so not sure it’s down to that either.

Has anyone used the NOPM line yet?

People haven't been used to going to games for a year and a half. At the end of the day it is a product and people get out of the habit. I have no doubts there are some wet excuses, but the club needs to do their bit to get people interested and at the same time make the process painless. So far this season it has been laboured to say the least.

 

[PurpleBin]

Fuck the premier league we’re talking about championship teams. Mark my words everyone on here will watch the match Saturday but they’ll not all travel to Oakwell.

You're going the right way for a dry slap on Saturday if you carry on with this attitude young man.

 

[Earlsdon-Loyal-Blue]

People haven't been used to going to games for a year and a half. At the end of the day it is a product and people get out of the habit. I have no doubts there are some wet excuses, but the club needs to do their bit to get people interested and at the same time make the process painless. So far this season it has been laboured to say the least.

@Earlsdon_Skyblue1, we meet again.

The excuses are coming in thick and fast, so far we’re up to:
- the new away kit hasn’t been released
- fans are at breaking point over season cards. (Ridiculous)
- the club shop was shut
- people want to use their garden BBQs
- the tickets are too expensive
- it’s too far a journey
- you’re only allowed one ticket per account number
- wary of Covid
- the Stone Island brigade are still in Magaluf
- out of habit
- School summer holidays

Surely some of them are getting a bit far fetched by now!? Either way, looking forward to Saturday and hope we can sell a couple more hundred tomorrow.

 

[Earlsdon_Skyblue1]

@Earlsdon_Skyblue1, we meet again.

The excuses are coming in thick and fast, so far we’re up to:
- the new away kit hasn’t been released
- fans are at breaking point over season cards. (Ridiculous)
- the club shop was shut
- people want to use their garden BBQs
- the tickets are too expensive
- it’s too far a journey
- you’re only allowed one ticket per account number
- wary of Covid
- the Stone Island brigade are still in Magaluf
- out of habit
- School summer holidays

Surely some of them are getting a bit far fetched by now!? Either way, looking forward to Saturday and hope we can sell a couple more hundred tomorrow.

I think we are overlooking the biggest reason of them all my old mucker.

The granny (sorry, elderly lady) at Nottingham Forest home game who got pushed down the hill. It's left the fans feeling scared about what might be waiting for them up at Barnsley. The average age of the Grandmother up there is significantly lower than many other places in the country. Who knows what they might be capable of.

 

[pusbccfc]

@Earlsdon_Skyblue1, we meet again.

The excuses are coming in thick and fast, so far we’re up to:
- the new away kit hasn’t been released
- fans are at breaking point over season cards. (Ridiculous)
- the club shop was shut
- people want to use their garden BBQs
- the tickets are too expensive
- it’s too far a journey
- you’re only allowed one ticket per account number
- wary of Covid
- the Stone Island brigade are still in Magaluf
- out of habit
- School summer holidays

Surely some of them are getting a bit far fetched by now!? Either way, looking forward to Saturday and hope we can sell a couple more hundred tomorrow.

Love it haha

 

[CV22SBA]

We’ll still take 2K on Sat which is great support.
Blimey back in the premier league days we rarely took big numbers. I remember going to West Ham late 90s on a sunny Saturday afternoon and had less than 800 travel.

Our away followings have increased massively over the years.

 

[Dog]

@Earlsdon_Skyblue1, we meet again.

The excuses are coming in thick and fast, so far we’re up to:
- the new away kit hasn’t been released
- fans are at breaking point over season cards. (Ridiculous)
- the club shop was shut
- people want to use their garden BBQs
- the tickets are too expensive
- it’s too far a journey
- you’re only allowed one ticket per account number
- wary of Covid
- the Stone Island brigade are still in Magaluf
- out of habit
- School summer holidays

Surely some of them are getting a bit far fetched by now!? Either way, looking forward to Saturday and hope we can sell a couple more hundred tomorrow.

So is there only supposed to be a single reason?

 

[Tommo72]

We’ll still take 2K on Sat which is great support.
Blimey back in the premier league days we rarely took big numbers. I remember going to West Ham late 90s on a sunny Saturday afternoon and had less than 800 travel.

Our away followings have increased massively over the years.

I think that is possible if they do pay on the day. If not we are on for 1800 I’d say. Not bad at all, twice as many as Barnsley took to Cardiff last Saturday for example.

I did expect 2500 minimum though.

 

[clint van damme]

I think that is possible if they do pay on the day. If not we are on for 1800 I’d say. Not bad at all, twice as many as Barnsley took to Cardiff last Saturday for example.

I did expect 2500 minimum though.

It's also half the distance

 

[Tommo1993]

My excuse is I’m rather poor this month, so prioritising QPR game. As I’ve been to Oakwell for what feels like half a million times to see City. Never been Loftus Road.

 

[Marty]

It's also half the distance

Bet it's an absolute ball ache of a journey too. M1, M42, M5, that's just to get the otherside of brum.

 

[Barnsley]

I think that is possible if they do pay on the day. If not we are on for 1800 I’d say. Not bad at all, twice as many as Barnsley took to Cardiff last Saturday for example.

I did expect 2500 minimum though.

It’s an all ticket game.

 

[SBT]

In League 1 pre Covid we could comfortably take 2000-3000 fans most places depending on allocation. Here we have a nice 4000 odd capacity stand at Barnsley and we’ve sold 1500?! Excuses about prices, summer holidays, the new away kit not being out(!) or post-Covid worries would take a few hundred off the following, not several thousand. Come on lads, get buying!

Our average in our last League One season was below 2000, and I'm guessing it was even smaller in the years before that. First away game or otherwise, 1500 for Barnsley seems a reasonable turnout to me. There are plenty of away days I'm looking forward to this year, but Barnsley isn't one of them.

 

[Evo1883]

All ticket match now ffs

No pay on the day

Off sale midday tomorrow

 

[pusbccfc]

Our average in our last League One season was below 2000, and I'm guessing it was even smaller in the years before that. First away game or otherwise, 1500 for Barnsley seems a reasonable turnout to me. There are plenty of away days I'm looking forward to this year, but Barnsley isn't one of them.

Will be the lowest we've take there on a Saturday for a long time.

 

[CV22SBA]

My excuse is I’m rather poor this month, so prioritising QPR game. As I’ve been to Oakwell for what feels like half a million times to see City. Never been Loftus Road.

Looking forward to QPR great ground and always reminds me of how Highfield road could have looked. Last time I went there it was some sort of legion reunion and they had to open up the bottom tier as so many turned up to pay on the day.

 

[COV]

Will be the lowest we've take there on a Saturday for a long time.

We took 1,853 there in 2019 on a Saturday when we were pushing for the L1 playoffs.

 

[Grendel]

Will be the lowest we've take there on a Saturday for a long time.

does the fact a fair few Fans claimed they would only go to away games before have any impact as now they can go to home games?

 

[COV]

does the fact a fair few Fans claimed they would only go to away games before have any impact as now they can go to home games?

that’s actually a good point.

 

[theferret]

Game was very nearly called off. Police didn't want it to go ahead. Serious safety concerns apparently. This is some sort of compromise. I'm sure people will call bullshit, but this came from somebody senior at Barnsley. They hadn't even told CCFC the game was in doubt.

 

[COV]

Game was very nearly called off. Police didn't want it to go ahead. Serious safety concerns apparently. This is some sort of compromise. I'm sure people will call bullshit, but this came from somebody senior at Barnsley. They hadn't even told CCFC the game was in doubt.

really? What were the concerns about?

 

[Covkid1968#]

They’re not avoiding it, their watching it the way they’ve got used to watching it. And saving a fair few quid doing so.

Spoken like a true Yorkshire gent

 

[shmmeee]

Game was very nearly called off. Police didn't want it to go ahead. Serious safety concerns apparently. This is some sort of compromise. I'm sure people will call bullshit, but this came from somebody senior at Barnsley. They hadn't even told CCFC the game was in doubt.

Grannies on the rampage?

 

[pusbccfc]

does the fact a fair few Fans claimed they would only go to away games before have any impact as now they can go to home games?

Don't think so. There weren't that many who were doing just away games. At Sixfields that was the case, but at St Andrews most went at least once.

 

[pusbccfc]

We took 1,853 there in 2019 on a Saturday when we were pushing for the L1 playoffs.

Doesn't look like we'll match that and we certainly weren't pushing. We had a very minor chance of making it at that point.

 

[fernandopartridge]

We’ll still take 2K on Sat which is great support.
Blimey back in the premier league days we rarely took big numbers. I remember going to West Ham late 90s on a sunny Saturday afternoon and had less than 800 travel.

Our away followings have increased massively over the years.

Spot on

 

[COV]

Doesn't look like we'll match that and we certainly weren't pushing. We had a very minor chance of making it at that point.

I don’t see why it matters so much?

 

[Hobo]

Game was very nearly called off. Police didn't want it to go ahead. Serious safety concerns apparently. This is some sort of compromise. I'm sure people will call bullshit, but this came from somebody senior at Barnsley. They hadn't even told CCFC the game was in doubt.

They can cope with City's 1,500 travelling fans, but worried about Brights travelling entourage

 

[theferret]

really? What were the concerns about?

Serious structural issues in one of the stands I was told.

 

[Tommo1993]

I don’t see why it matters so much?

Me neither. There are no obligations.

 

[COV]

Serious structural issues in one of the stands I was told.

would assume it’s their old main stand

 

[tskezz]

It’s an all ticket game.

We do what we want

 

[pusbccfc]

[Official Site] ALL-TICKET CLASH THIS SATURDAY AGAINST COVENTRY CITY

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Seems to be something going on.

 

[clint van damme]

[Official Site] ALL-TICKET CLASH THIS SATURDAY AGAINST COVENTRY CITY

ALL-TICKET CLASH THIS SATURDAY AGAINST COVENTRY CITY Fixture News The Reds’ first home game of the 21/22 Sky Bet Championship campaign has now been...

barnsleyfc.org.uk

Seems to be something going on.

Ticket office open Saturday but not to sell tickets for the game taking place!

 

[COV]

[Official Site] ALL-TICKET CLASH THIS SATURDAY AGAINST COVENTRY CITY

ALL-TICKET CLASH THIS SATURDAY AGAINST COVENTRY CITY Fixture News The Reds’ first home game of the 21/22 Sky Bet Championship campaign has now been...

barnsleyfc.org.uk

Seems to be something going on.

one of their stands has been deemed too dangerous