Stockport FAC

[Casino]

30 minutes ago, tomski said:

Ah ok. Stupid manc twats

Which is why i suggested they shouldve asked our dad and mum and a kid folk to buy for the side, not sell out behind the goal and rule out any no junior groups from buying

[kent_white]

3 hours ago, stevieb said:

When I went down earlier they had some left in the family stand. But you have to bring a kid or senior, if you don't they won't let you in apparently. 

So I'm watching on tele. 

Sorry - I forgot to say thank you earlier! 🙂👍

[radcliffe white]

Still tickets available according to social media is this Stockports usual procedure with the adult & kid ticket?

Like I said other day this fixture will be mainly lads it’s utter tosh 

[MickyD]

30 minutes ago, radcliffe white said:

Still tickets available according to social media is this Stockports usual procedure with the adult & kid ticket?

Like I said other day this fixture will be mainly lads it’s utter tosh 

As it’s £10 & £5 it hardly prevents an adult buying a dad and lad combo.

[Leyther_Matt]

42 minutes ago, radcliffe white said:

Still tickets available according to social media is this Stockports usual procedure with the adult & kid ticket?

Like I said other day this fixture will be mainly lads it’s utter tosh 

They've got nothing to properly segregate the stand along the side so this is the trade off, I think

10 minutes ago, MickyD said:

As it’s £10 & £5 it hardly prevents an adult buying a dad and lad combo.

As above, I think the theory is that Stockport will have to make sure it's truly a 'family stand' on entrance as part of their safety certificate

[DazBob]

Why should any dad and lad (or daughter) have to sit in a sanitised shared stand, just so a couple of 'lads' can have their tickets in the away end??  What a load of bollocks.

The way I see it is this shared stand option is just a bonus extra allocation of tickets - where Stockport are allowing Bolton fans in as long as as it's with a child or an old duffer.  I think it's decent of Stockport.

As always though, we have fans who just like to moan about stuff.

 

[radcliffe white]

3 minutes ago, DazBob said:

Why should any dad and lad (or daughter) have to sit in a sanitised shared stand, just so a couple of 'lads' can have their tickets in the away end??  What a load of bollocks.

The way I see it is this shared stand option is just a bonus extra allocation of tickets - where Stockport are allowing Bolton fans in as long as as it's with a child or an old duffer.  I think it's decent of Stockport.

As always though, we have fans who just like to moan about stuff.

 

It’s not moaning

but it’s obviously effected our sales & Stockports like I said it was always going to be a game with hardly any juniors 

 

[Casino]

Fwiw, my dad would've taken me to this game from about 8 years old

And he would've taken me in the family bit

 

[DazBob]

4 minutes ago, radcliffe white said:

It’s not moaning

but it’s obviously effected our sales & Stockports like I said it was always going to be a game with hardly any juniors 

 

That's irrelevant.  Nobody should be forced to sit in a shared family stand rather than sit in the allocated away end, just so we can sell more tickets to 'lads'.

For example, if I was going to go with my Dad, should we have to sit in the shared stand so that you and one of your mates can go in the Bolton end?

 

[DazBob]

5 minutes ago, Casino said:

Fwiw, my dad would've taken me to this game from about 8 years old

And he would've taken me in the family bit

 

and FWIW if I was taking yoof I'd be taking him into the family bit (and he'd be fuming), but that should be my choice.

[radcliffe white]

4 minutes ago, DazBob said:

That's irrelevant.  Nobody should be forced to sit in a shared family stand rather than sit in the allocated away end, just so we can sell more tickets to 'lads'.

For example, if I was going to go with my Dad, should we have to sit in the shared stand so that you and one of your mates can go in the Bolton end?

 

That’s irrelevant

the whole allocation should be for any category not peeling x amount for adult & kid maybe it works well for stockport with smaller away crowds

[DazBob]

2 minutes ago, radcliffe white said:

That’s irrelevant

the whole allocation should be for any category not peeling x amount for adult & kid maybe it works well for stockport with smaller away crowds

Is it not a shared family stand?  If so, the clue is in the name.

We have an allocation for the allocated away end and we have an allocation for a family stand.

..Or, genuine question, am I missing something here?

[radcliffe white]

6 minutes ago, DazBob said:

Is it not a shared family stand?  If so, the clue is in the name.

We have an allocation for the allocated away end and we have an allocation for a family stand.

..Or, genuine question, am I missing something here?

I get the family stand bit so please don’t patronise me

however we have been to plenty of grounds in the past with family stand allocations but not restricted on sale of adult & kid/Oap

But that’s Stockports call eh 

[DazBob]

Just now, Mr Grey said:

Irrelevant or not, who wants to sit in a shared family stand, not for me thanks, it's on a par with Fulham's Neutral end.

Probably quite a few who want to take a young 'un or an old 'un.

But it is what it is, a shared/family stand.  Not sure why anyone is struggling with this. 

I always thought the shared stand at Fulham was a bit weird, just couldn't imagine it anywhere else as you'd expect it to kick off in there every week ... but that's a sad indictment of football in itself.  Do you still have it or did they get shut of it a few years back?

[DazBob]

2 minutes ago, radcliffe white said:

I get the family stand bit so please don’t patronise me

however we have been to plenty of grounds in the past with family stand allocations but not restricted on sale of adult & kid/Oap

But that’s Stockports call eh 

Ha, I wasn't patronising you.  It was a genuine question (hence me stating that) in case there was something I was missing about the setup of it.

You're right, it IS Stockport's call.  They obviously want their family stand to be families only.  Most other clubs wouldn't offer that, they'd give us an allocated away end and that's it.  The way I see it they're giving us another option to enable more fans to go, so I see it as a half full rather than half empty glass.

[Leyther_Matt]

It isn’t shared in as much as you’ll be sat next to a Stockport fan, it’s just they’ve got shared entrances and concourses

[L/H White]

I've potentially a spare for tomorrow, would anyone be interested?

its in the proper bit

[DazBob]

1 minute ago, Leyther_Matt said:

It isn’t shared in as much as you’ll be sat next to a Stockport fan, it’s just they’ve got shared entrances and concourses

That's the key for me then.  Open it up to anyone, groups of 'lads', etc and you'd have all the fucking mongos setting off flares under the stands in amongst a load of kids and old folk.

[BOWTUN BAKED]

8 minutes ago, L/H White said:

I've potentially a spare for tomorrow, would anyone be interested?

its in the proper bit

I may need one but won't know til the morning 

[L/H White]

2 minutes ago, BOWTUN BAKED said:

I may need one but won't know til the morning 

No worries

 

[RUREADY2ROLL]

1 minute ago, Mr Grey said:

I think Fulham still have the Neutral end or about 25% of the away stand, aimed at tourists, so isn't a bad idea if you can accommodate, although they may have put it on hold whist they have been having that new stand built.

I don't think anyone is struggling with it, it's just a strange set-up, when tickets went on sale, someone did say off here that 600+ of our allocation are in that shared family stand, anyway I'm behind the goal with the adults.

It's the orphans i feel sorry for 😃

Plus the AHM in attendance with their carers

[bolton va va]

It will be a mess tomorrow if we finish up with women & children taking up the tickets for behind the goal ( with the accompanying " can you sit down, there's kiddies here" or "can you mind your language, there's women here " ) but empty seats in the family stand that Bolton fans without kids in tow can't buy.

[stevieb]

9 minutes ago, bolton va va said:

It will be a mess tomorrow if we finish up with women & children taking up the tickets for behind the goal ( with the accompanying " can you sit down, there's kiddies here" or "can you mind your language, there's women here " ) but empty seats in the family stand that Bolton fans without kids in tow can't buy.

That's where we should have had a visionary in the ticket office so I could have gone leaving it last minute... but we didn't. So I'm not. 

 

BBC2 is where its at. Fuck em 

[MalcolmW]

On 13/11/2021 at 20:38, Johnnyrotten said:

I'm guessing that these two games are the first time in any of our lifetimes that we've played a 1st round game in front of 10,000 or so, home or away?  And as most non league/league 2 grounds don't hold 10k, is this the first time one of our FA Cup 1st or 2nd rounds has sold out?  Happy to be put right.

Quite right to put in the proviso about in our lifetimes.

The current system of byes to the third round proper came in for 1925-26. Until then top tier teams joined at the first round proper. BWFC's last round one appearance in this format was on 10/01/1925, home against league champions Huddersfield Town. The attendance was 50,412 for a 3-0 win. The second round replay (0-1 against Spurs) was the only blot on a home winning streak comprising 17 successive home league games from the start of October to the end of the season plus the Huddersfield tie.

 

 

[Johnnyrotten]

3 minutes ago, MalcolmW said:

Quite right to put in the proviso about in our lifetimes.

The current system of byes to the third round proper came in for 1925-26. Until then top tier teams joined at the first round proper. BWFC's last round one appearance in this format was on 10/01/1925, home against league champions Huddersfield Town. The attendance was 50,412 for a 3-0 win. The second round replay (0-1 against Spurs) was the only blot on a home winning streak comprising 17 successive home league games from the start of October to the end of the season plus the Huddersfield tie.

 

 

Good info, I didn't know that about playing first round upto 1925-26. 

Yes, the our lifetimes bit was based on thinking that 1st round games weren't necessary for us in the 50s and 60s if I'm not mistaken.  Then just a couple of seasons in the early 70s, then about 10 years from 1983-93.  No more 1st round till about 5 years ago.

For interest, and I've already been corrected once or twice,  here's another similar game I hadn't thought about, in 2nd round rather than 1st: Rossendale "away" in 71-72, played at Gigg Lane.  Attendance 12,100, not sure how close that was to being full.