season tickets

[jules_darby]

I started going to the match mid-eighties and I've had a Season Ticket ever since 89, apart from a couple of years when I had a last go at playing a decent standard on Saturdays after a couple of bad injuries.

 

I'm 28, so I was too young to really appreciate the good/bad old days the way that some of the others did on here - getting lashed in transit vans to sh??teholes etc as I was there with my old man as a youngster...but it didn't stop me soaking up the spirit - which describes it better than atmosphere, because again that wasn't always what it was cracked up to be - in fact it often wasn't. I was proud as fook to be a white.

 

But I have to admit that the whole day no longer has the same excitement; I used to wake up buzzing the morning of a game and I never do anymore - the most excited I feel is the general day out to an away game and the crack we'll have. The 90 mins in the middle usually does it's best to spoil it.

 

All that is strange really as you can't argue that the football etc's no better now, 'cos it is FACT etc.

 

One of the reasons I still go is that I feel I'll miss out if I don't - a sad point of view maybe, but I remember missing THAT Leicester away game for a New Mills (the team I played for) match and I was gutted when I found out we'd won 5-0.

 

The thing is, it's easy too look back through rose-tinted glasses at the olden days - but back then I think you felt special as a Bolton supporter - there wasn't many of us about (especially in Stockport), but it really did feel like our team, our ground and our club. To be a Bolton fan now means nowt - I certainly don't get the same feeling that I used to.

 

But, I've renewed and no doubt I will again, even though if the last couple of seasons (when we've done our best ever) are enough to go on, I'll sit bored in my seat or on the way home wondering why I bothered...my god we're a miserable lot - lets call it Bolton syndrome.

[Big E]

People blame the atmosphere for not getting a season ticket. I am in agreement that the atmosphere at the bok is pretty poor most of the time.

 

However I can't think of many grounds in the premiership where the atmosphere created from the home fans is good. For example at the Chelsea match last season, when we went 3, 4 and 5 1 down we were still outsinging them. They were the champions, in the best years of there clubs history, watching world class players week in week out and were still being outsung by around 1000 fans watching their team get walked all over.

 

The fact is that a home match is now a family experience for a lot of people and also a day out for some people.

 

With the supporters who want to sing all spread out over the stadium the atmosphere will never be too good and that is why away matches have such a good atmosphere most of the time, because you have all the hardcore fans who want to sing all the way through the match all together.

 

I also think the fact that we have a new stadium doesn't help the atmosphere. I have a friend who is a shitty fan and he said that the atmosphere at the new stadium is pathetic compared to that at maine road, they even played songs through the loud speakers against us  :D/, and they are supposed to have some of the best fans in England.

 

the chelsea game was one of the best atmospheres of the season.

[ROSSENDALEWHITE]

great post jules but just one thing do you still get excited about christmas? i don't but did as a kid maybe it's a growing up thing thats making us all miserable coonts?

[bolty58]

I agree that the game has become sanitised,but when you look back to the old days of Burnden and crowds of 5000 etc, YES they were good days at the time - but only because we were younger and dafter.  

 

Younger yes, but dafter? I think not me owd mucker

[jules_darby]

great post jules but just one thing do you still get excited about christmas? i don't but did as a kid maybe it's a growing up thing thats making us all miserable coonts?

 

You see I thought it could have been a getting older thing, yet I know a number of folk from early twenties to fifties who all felt in a similar way over the past few years, so maybe it's attributed to something else also?

[Guest as]

It's the same everywhere, all-seaters and stewards have taken the soul of football & pissed on it. Blame those scousers and South Yorkshire police for spoiling the fun.

 

Arsenal last season was a cracking atmosphere, it can be done in the Reebok, just not often. I'll prob go to Spurs, and hopefully my fears about another 'silent' season from the home fans will have gone (Man Utd last season was shockingly bad - even at 1-0 up).

 

Jules - thanks for mentioning Leicester again, that was the best late night phone call I ever had 'we've got a spare ticket for tomorrow - be round yours at 9am'. The rest is history.

[Eddie]

People blame the atmosphere for not getting a season ticket. I am in agreement that the atmosphere at the bok is pretty poor most of the time.

 

However I can't think of many grounds in the premiership where the atmosphere created from the home fans is good. For example at the Chelsea match last season, when we went 3, 4 and 5 1 down we were still outsinging them. They were the champions, in the best years of there clubs history, watching world class players week in week out and were still being outsung by around 1000 fans watching their team get walked all over.

 

The fact is that a home match is now a family experience for a lot of people and also a day out for some people.

 

With the supporters who want to sing all spread out over the stadium the atmosphere will never be too good and that is why away matches have such a good atmosphere most of the time, because you have all the hardcore fans who want to sing all the way through the match all together.

 

I also think the fact that we have a new stadium doesn't help the atmosphere. I have a friend who is a shitty fan and he said that the atmosphere at the new stadium is pathetic compared to that at maine road, they even played songs through the loud speakers against us  :D/, and they are supposed to have some of the best fans in England.

 

the chelsea game was one of the best atmospheres of the season.

 

Agreed, a great day out and well worth the money. Even though we got tore apart in 5 minutes #-o

[andyacky]

iv said all along that i wasn't renewing me season ticket because of all sorts of reasons. IE long ball, the price, stewards, but i couldn't do it.

its in my blood I'm a wanderer till i die and the thought of missing what could be another fantastic season in the worlds top division plus the fact that i would have to spend more time with the Mrs was just to much to handle.

iv watched the whites all me life through the dark days and the good. i seen em when they were bad and i mean bad, watched em get relegated by fcuking aldershot,seen em get beat by the likes of bury,stockport,blackpool and rochdale. so it made me realise how far we have come by looking at these clubs and seeing were they are and were we are. i want to be there when WE beat the likes of liverpool,man u, arsenal and chelsea. we only dreamed of playing top teams in the 80s and 90s now we are living that dream and i have to be part of it.

COME ON YOU WHITES

[Mounts Kipper]

iv said all along that i wasn't renewing me season ticket because of all sorts of reasons. IE long ball, the price, stewards, but i couldn't do it.

its in my blood I'm a wanderer till i die and the thought of missing what could be another fantastic season in the worlds top division plus the fact that i would have to spend more time with the Mrs was just to much to handle.

iv watched the whites all me life through the dark days and the good. i seen em when they were bad and i mean bad, watched em get relegated by fcuking aldershot,seen em get beat by the likes of bury,stockport,blackpool and rochdale. so it made me realise how far we have come by looking at these clubs and seeing were they are and were we are. i want to be there when WE beat the likes of liverpool,man u, arsenal and chelsea. we only dreamed of playing top teams in the 80s and 90s now we are living that dream and i have to be part of it.

COME ON YOU WHITES

 

could not put it better myself.

[snackum]

Besides.... life's never boring as a Bolton Supporter. Everybody has a comment (good or bad). We are great for arguing the toss in the pub after the game having beaten Arsenal one week and lost to M'boro kids the next.

 

Most of us on here support them for our own reasons.... not because we are winners (but we will be one day!) and not because we are trendy buying any player who we fancy using a single individual's money.

 

You don't support Bolton to be a glory hunter... you support Bolton because you have to. It's in you.

COME ON YOU WHITE MEN !!!

[Smiley]

Agree with the age thing though. If offered a seat in the back of someone's company Merc, or the back of a trannie van, sorry to say, I'd opt for the Merc.

However, a certain poster on here has muted the idea of taking his work van to a few aways this season - and I quite fancy it. A crate for a seat (or an old duvet), a bottle of Strongbow (glass bottle if they still do them), 4 cans of Stones, a porno mag, the Sport and a chicken and mushroom slice stolen from a service station.

Ooooh, I'm getting all in a tizz thinking about it!

[Traf]

Agree with the age thing though. If offered a seat in the back of someone's company Merc, or the back of a trannie van, sorry to say, I'd opt for the Merc.

However, a certain poster on here has muted the idea of taking his work van to a few aways this season - and I quite fancy it. A crate for a seat (or an old duvet), a bottle of Strongbow (glass bottle if they still do them), 4 cans of Stones, a porno mag, the Sport and a chicken and mushroom slice stolen from a service station.

Ooooh, I'm getting all in a tizz thinking about it!

 

It's a good idea, too. Count me in.

[Mounts Kipper]

Agree with the age thing though. If offered a seat in the back of someone's company Merc, or the back of a trannie van, sorry to say, I'd opt for the Merc.

However, a certain poster on here has muted the idea of taking his work van to a few aways this season - and I quite fancy it. A crate for a seat (or an old duvet), a bottle of Strongbow (glass bottle if they still do them), 4 cans of Stones, a porno mag, the Sport and a chicken and mushroom slice stolen from a service station.

Ooooh, I'm getting all in a tizz thinking about it!

 

bet you only do it once, it was good fun in the 80s when you were 20 something, not such good fun when you are approaching 40, travel in style with wanderersways, you know it makes sense.

[HAPPY SHOP PIG]

Agree with the age thing though. If offered a seat in the back of someone's company Merc, or the back of a trannie van, sorry to say, I'd opt for the Merc.

However, a certain poster on here has muted the idea of taking his work van to a few aways this season - and I quite fancy it. A crate for a seat (or an old duvet), a bottle of Strongbow (glass bottle if they still do them), 4 cans of Stones, a porno mag, the Sport and a chicken and mushroom slice stolen from a service station.

Ooooh, I'm getting all in a tizz thinking about it!

 

 

 

don`t forget the rust hole in the floor for peeing through

[Sweep]

don`t forget the rust hole in the floor for peeing through

 

That's just a needless luxury!

 

What you want is an empty bottle, that is guaranteed to hold less p??ss than your bladder actually has in it, so you only realise half way through your whizz that there will be spillage.

 

There also needs to be a window that only partially opens aswell, so you can empty the contents out onto the motorway (although I would expect half of them to also come back into the van all over your fellow travellers)