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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.
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.I am looking at buying my first season ticket since the 90’s moved to London in 97 so attendance dropped. Now live in lincoln but have attended more last year than the previous 8 years! Loving football again, loving the feel good factor also. Will take my step daughter with me - just may have to wait until early bird finishes as a lot going out financially this and next month!! MR and the players deserve my support 3 hour round trip is nothing compared to the feel good factor we had last season. County away in play offs was an unbelievably good feeling both for me and throughout the fans atmosphere. I want more, so my commitment is my way of saying give it us!!
But you buy players and agree contracts during the close season. Season ticket money is what clubs use to budget on. You couldn't agree to pay £100k for a player hoping you get x walk up during the season.
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.Fact is only a percentage of our away fans (Which is amazing support at even championship level) are season ticket holders.
I know dozens that rather do away games than home at the Ricoh. Which is a huge Shane cos all we are doing is filling oppos coffers instead of ours!
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.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.
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.
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.
true datYou just come off the M6 straight to the Ricoh, no need to go in to Cov at all.
You just come off the M6 straight to the Ricoh, no need to go in to Cov at all.
I'm down Jubilee Crescent most days, and in the Pilot too for the occasional lunchtime pint.
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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.
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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.
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 '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.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.
We're almost neighbours then.[/QUOTE][QUOTE="Otis, post: 1552735,
It's like my missus. 'I'm not walking all the way to Jubilee Crescent! It's a long walk.'
She's right, it's 8 minutes.
A set of Carlos Fandango wheels and you will be well awayIt'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.
I know, i was just messing. Looking a cheaper bet than the train for this season assuming i can park reasonably cheaply
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.
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.Sounds ideal! See you there! I’ll be the bloke crawling out of an old red Fiesta, spine broken, muttering “never again”
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.
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.Yes I did wonder that as thought you preferred something a bit more british
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.Logical to me also, so Otis isn't alone.
Can't give you a like cos that gives you bookie credit.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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I have been going since 1962 and without doubt city fans are the most fickle fans there are.Makes it even more frustrating when you see all these posts on FB claiming we have the best fans in the world
Park in Blackburn Road for free. Ten minute walk to the RicohI know, i was just messing. Looking a cheaper bet than the train for this season assuming i can park reasonably cheaply
I just don't get it then.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!!!
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!
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