I’d also add that I feel sorry for the staff handling the ticket sales - they did their best with crappy systems and tools at their disposal…
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Yep that was minimum requirement set by the EFL, but I think 8k home fans for both clubs would have seen all regulars get a home ticket.
Shame so few will experience the away fixtures.
Kavanagh was a right “see you next Tuesday”, shushing the crowd when he scored at the Bescot! So glad that we did them that night, only for them to stuff us 20-odd years later!!
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Pope Thanatos ! Just seen white smoke drifting over the bezla ? Or it could be a gypo encampment.
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Nah, I think they are burning the board minutes of the last 4 months before the inquest 
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Perhaps time to shift the thread to the football?
Most likely, we will lose to Chesterfield over two legs, but if we do make the final, I think I’d rather play Wimbledon than County. We have been lucky twice this season to beat County - it will not happen again.
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Get your frustrations, especially when kids are involved. I’ve been to 10 aways but wouldn’t have minded if I lost out. If we’d have scraped into the play offs after a good second half run, then I think I’d be more gutted.
I’m away that game anyway so I’m probably s handful who qualified but wasn’t gonna go. I’ll be at the home leg however.
All I would say is while there’s still a chance of us getting promoted let’s give them one more push and then the inquest can start.
In terms of the locker. I get they need to know numbers to open up, but I think given the money they’ll make from the play offs they should’ve took the risk and had it free entry and £3 raffle to win a shirt.
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I get what your saying, but there’s over 120 of our normal match day Regulars booked onto the coaches we are running from the club ,
Myself and jane are also going. and. with wfc in a promotion play off semi final I’m never going to be anywhere else other than the game
Mind you if we win mate. There’s no way I’d be capable. Of serving beer anyway. Lol
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I think any season ticket holder with 3 aways is “worthy”. Just a shame that some who have spent more/travelled further miss out.
I don’t think the place reeks of mal intent as it did under previous regimes.
Whether it be the football players, the CEO or the owners it reeks of inexperience. Lots of well meaning inexperience, but inexperience nevertheless.
It all begs questions of those with a bit more grey hair around the place. On the football side - O’Kelly and Waddock and on the board folk like Pomlett who I think is still meant to be mentoring the new lot.
I’m trying to be positive and thinking “well you can only learn how to cock up a huge lead in the league by getting a huge lead in the league in the first place” and “you can only learn how to deal with high ticket demand by driving high ticket demand through either growth in the support base and/or on field success”.
The problem the club have in terms of its relationship with us lot (SLO seems to disappear at moments like this) is that we all have very very long memories. We’ve got the scars of post January collapses (none quite as hefty as this though), we’ve got the scars of ticket office issues. There might be people in high places at the club who are learning on the hoof but for us lot collectively it is far far from our first rodeo and we get collectively annoyed when it appears that we make the same mistakes over and over again.
For me, we miss genuine liaison. We all kind of know that the vast vast majority who went to Crewe, Vale and Notts for bog standard league games would be up for a Sunday in Chesterfield for a play off game. As a long standing fan, Graham should know that and liaise and advise accordingly.
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Very likely, as you’re clearly someone banned previously who’s signed up as a new user.
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It must have been said 100 times or more before the tickets were released that the criteria to get one should be higher.
They seem to have an instant knowledge of what is said on here, any other time, were they all on an end of season pee up?
Possibly Ben Sadler never encountered anything similar at Morcambe, but it is kind of his job to find out at least. As you say, there are people in the building who must have saw this coming.
Edit,
I’m not being rude, because he has always been polite enough to me, but I’d imagine Graham’s ticket was guaranteed.
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I do a 180 mile round trip to every home game with my season ticket. I manage to get to most of the southern away games but there’s no way I could do a 10 hour return trip (526miles) to Barrow.
I managed to get 2 tickets for me and my daughter. Do you think I’m less entitled that some of the fans who can go to Barrow and other places right up North?
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Who said that?
“Sixty seconds from…” about Saturday is below.
(or here https://x.com/hullsaddler/status/1920372063975416248 )
Sixty seconds from…
I check my phone.
87 minutes.
Eighty miles away.
Still nil nil.
Refresh!
How long left?
The scoreboard is an unhelpful black screen.
We are sitting back too much.
Defending our 59th minute euphoric moment.
92 minutes
Eighty miles away.
Still nil nil.
Refresh!
A long throw. Our player spins. Volley.
Almost within touching distance
the ball is in the back of the net.
93 minutes.
Eighty miles away.
Still nil nil.
Refresh!
I and 2318 other away fans erupt.
Pent-up anxiety released.
94 minutes.
Eighty miles away.
Still nil nil.
Refresh!
We are going up!
Said, we are going up!
Some are singing.
I worry…
Said we are tempting fate.
95 minutes.
Eighty miles away.
Still nil nil.
Refresh!
96 minutes.
Bradford 1 Fleetwood 0
The person next to me says it’s been disallowed.
Refresh!
Fake news!
Bradford 1 Fleetwood 0
The atmosphere switched off.
In an instant.
A knife with sharp cutting, gutting edge.
Final whistle.
The players rush over for news.
We have won, but lost.
They, me, the rest of us slump.
Stunned.
It’s the hope that kills you they always say.
Platform Six. Crewe Station.
Most around me are Birmingham New Street bound.
They depart.
I head north.
4.15am.
Those sixty seconds from promotion
are on repeat in my head.
Those sixty seconds from promotion
are on repeat in my head.
Irrational hope slowly seeps in with the dawn.
Whose fault is it, my other half asks?
You seemed so happy in January.
She understands vaguely something’s gone wrong.
She understands vaguely about the play-offs.
The final’s at Wembley if we make it, I say.
Oh my lads, you should have seen their faces,
Going down the Wednesbury Road,
To see the Walsall aces!
Or perhaps on May the 26th,
Going down Wembley Way,
To see the Walsall aces?
(Just need to beat Chesterfield first.)
And then?
A double dose of despair?
Lose in a penalty shoot out?
But then you never know.
I am trying to be optimistic.
All the lads and lasses,
All the smiling faces,
Going down the Wednesbury Road
To see the Walsall aces!
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I’ve got no complaints with Chesterfields conduct in this, they’ve offered us the tickets as per the rules of the competition in order to maximise tickets they sell to their own fans. We would offer them 2k I’m sure if they did the same but that’s because it’s unlikely we will sell out the home audience areas.
I never believed for one second Bradford wouldn’t score. Even in injury time, the only time I gave in was about 5 seconds before our George said “Bradford have scored”
Still gutted.
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Chesterfield’s average attendance is 8,440 and all season they have given only 1,000 maximum to away fans. They sell the vast majority of home seats for every game, so why should they reduce their own fans availability for a play-off game.
Our average attendance is 6,315 and pending the result of the first leg, we probably won’t sell out the home areas. We’re the ones being petty here, which will only really be justified if we come close to selling out.
A similar thing happened a couple of years ago with Stockport and Salford in the play-offs. Salford only gave Stockport about 600 tickets as per the 10% rule and obviously the extra space was not taken up by home fans.
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I’m glad we’re being ‘petty’ fu ck ‘em
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I’d rather have 1000 of them taunting us and reminding us of our lost 12 point lead than 2000.
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And also the way that gate receipts for the play offs are carved up would mean we would see only about £2500 of the £20,000 or so an extra 1000 Chesterfield fans would bring. Keep em out I say.
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