Is that not because they knew the home sections would be full?
I’d have no problem at all giving away fans only 500 tickets if we could sell 10,500.
My point is simply that we should have given Wrexham a larger allocation and we shouldn’t have restricted home fans until that larger allocation was sold. And/or as I say above used the back to back Christmas games to create a nice Christmas bundle for Walsall fans.
Not a biggy. It’ll still be a good occasion. Just hope we’ve won another couple of games by then which is a far better way of creating demand.
It appears they have sold out all their 2,600 allocation for this one, and have a film crew in attendance so i’m hoping the camera stays on Reynolds and not the football (unless we win). I’m hoping a decent result tomorrow and against crewe may get a few more in for us, and obviously send the sheep back with their tails between their legs!
Saw a few comments on twitter that because most the prem have distanced themselves from the super league some Wrexham fans are saying theyre going to be approached to add to the Holywood story … i kid you not
In a complete about turn, the club have just put the tickets on general sale (provided you can prove you have a midlands address).
As I said when these tickets went on sale, I honestly think people at the club thought this would be a lock out. They went on sale ridiculously early and with ridiculous qualification. It’s like they thought that the good people of Walsall would be so star struck by a Netflix documentary and some Hollywood stardust that they’d want to flock to see Wrexham in their tens of thousands.
It’s another sign of being completely out of touch with the mentality of the town and the mentality of the fans. We’re massively unimpressed with home fans with drums or anything pertaining to attempts to cosmetically brush up the sense of lower league football. To Walsall fans Wrexham is still that crappy little town just over the border whose lower league football club has forever bustled between the lower leagues. That is to say, nothing to get excited about at all.
Hopefully yesterdays result together with the relaxation of the criteria for buying tickets adds a few hundred but there will still be thousands of empty seats.
Spot on. I know there’s a documentary about them but never seen it and not remotely
Interested. They’ll be bringing 2000 more than I’ve ever seen them bring before fair play to them, that’s about it.
Folk talking donkey twaddle about 9K gates, its gonna be a cold, wet,windy, miserable Friday night game that we will probably lose because Sadler ‘rates’ how good they are and will play with 9 defenders, DJT up front and Evans back in goal to make it easier for them to score more goals.
However they are NOT a team of American style super heroes, it’s still 11 v 11, they even struggled to beat Swindon! If we can play like we did against Crewe, notwithstanding Sadler’s strange trait of hyping up our opposition, we could beat 'em, draw at Grimsby on Monday and hey presto the play off’s could be within reach in the new year…even without Draper & DJ…though that may become difficult if we take up our usual offers of freebie Championship reserves to replace 'em!
I think you can pay on the day provided you’ve got proof of a “midlands address”. Whatever that means.
I’m over my grumpiness on the ticket arrangements and following the win on Tuesday, looking forward to what should be a fine occasion. Could and should have been full but an 8,000 plus gate in the fourth division is an exciting prospect.
The name Walsall is derived from “Walh halh”, meaning “valley of the Welsh”, referring to the British who first lived in the area.
Oh my god it’s a all Welsh local Derby
