[Albion] Are you going to the Chelsea Cup game?

spoonie said:

reckon we are looking at a crowd of less than 20,000 - with nearly 5,000 of them Chelsea

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S'hampton Seagull said:

I said from the beginning that with the kick off time (and TV coverage) and that we are playing them in the league the following game, adult tickets IMO are overpriced.

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jrbha said:

I'm going. Driving there and back from Oxfordshire.

Looks like most of the people around me are going. I quite frankly don't care. It'd be great if everyone's there. I won't be losing any sleep if they aren't.

I've read the entire thread. Everyone has their reasons as to why they are or aren't going, which is fine.

However there's another issues which people are ignoring.

The current capacity of The Amex is FAR too big for us.

There's pockets of empty seats at pretty much every game. Even when the big dogs come to town it's the same. And it's just confined to the East Stand. I counted 10 empty seats just in my block in the North Stand on Saturday. There's visibly more in other areas of the stadium.

A mate of mine went to the Athens home game and was able to get a North Stand ticket on the exchange on the day of the match. This is the case for most matches, but it's striking when it was so easy to get one for one of our biggest games in recent history. We didn't sell out Palace ffs. I don't think Brentford sold out (correct me if I'm wrong). It's looking like we won't sell out the cup or league games against Chelsea. I'd imagine the same will be the case for the Bournemouth match as well. The Liverpool cup game had large parts of the West Upper cut off.

We all know the attendance figure read out in the second half is complete bollocks. I reckon we're averaging around 26 - 28k this season.

To me, it's little surprise the place will be half empty on 8th Feb. Our support really isn't as big as what some people try and make it out to be.

*Grabs tin hat

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Right Back said:

With the crowd looking to be smaller than usual the trains and park and ride shouldn’t be a problem.

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Right Back said:

With the crowd looking to be smaller than usual the trains and park and ride shouldn’t be a problem.

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Insel affe said:

Oh, you have done it now......


Anyway, it will soon sell out and Chelsea will be all over the stadium

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Weststander said:

Lots of new Albion members. Racist estate agents and scaffolders from Chertsey.

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Weststander said:

Lots of new Albion members. Racist estate agents and scaffolders from Chertsey.

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spoonie said:

reckon we are looking at a crowd of less than 20,000 - with nearly 5,000 of them Chelsea

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El Turi said:

Looks like they’ve taken most of the tickets in the upper tiers off sale.

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Indy said:

Planned a weekend away taking the chance that we wouldn’t have a home cup draw, otherwise would have gone.

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Right Back said:

With the crowd looking to be smaller than usual the trains and park and ride shouldn’t be a problem.

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Insel affe said:

Yep, I will be there with Mrs Freakout and Teenage Freakout, I got seats across the isle from my season ticket seat.
Can't wait, hopefully it will be a good game, extra time and penalties in front of the north stand, and back home in Elm Grove area by 11:30pm
What is not to like....

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dazzer6666 said:

Now waiting for email saying upper tickets have been moved to one of the lower tiers ......................

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Gazwag said:

I bought two guest tickets in row 2 of ESU this morning almost half way line for a couple of friends and told them they would have an excellent view surely they won't ..............looks like they are leaving the first few rows for sale

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