Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Thoughts and prayers that it doesn't go to extra time and penalties then
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[Albion] Are you going to the Chelsea Cup game?
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Uh_huh_him
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- Sep 28, 2011
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Whichever way you slice it.
Extra-time would make the journey home problematic, for a significant portion of the attendees.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
If we are getting picky about language que is not the same as queue.
And although it won't matter to me as I park nearby with no problem getting away at the final whistle, I wouldn't fancy that personally. It looks horrible if not literally 'carnage'.
Moshe Gariani
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- Mar 10, 2005
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People will only get the points if they make the effort and spend the money to attend the Chelsea cup match...
Surely that is exactly how a loyalty points scheme is meant to reward differentially?
Uh_huh_him
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- Sep 28, 2011
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It isn't as simple as that.
Loyalty points are only valuable to fans who travel/want to travel to away games.
There are only ever 3000 away tickets available.
The 3,000 fans with the most points are guaranteed tickets after that it's a lottery.
After every game the threshold for Tier 1 moves up by the value of the LP from that game.
Offering 15 pts for a home game means that the threshold for Tier1 goes up by 15 pts for everyone.
20,000 fans will move up by 15 pts and relatively very little will have changed.
The only fans who will see 15 loyalty points as a valuable incentive, will be the fans in the top 5% of Tier 2 and bottom 10% of Tier1.
Therefore the 15pts will only be a motivation to attend for 750 people, who would probably have still attended for 5 pts.
TLDR 15 pts isn't going to shift 10,000 tickets.
A 3- or 4-0 drubbing will suit almost everyone.Thoughts and prayers that it doesn't go to extra time and penalties then
Those who want to sneak off early.
Chelsea fans.
And, of course, the smug Albion fans who chose to miss it.
Someone let Fab know, yeah?
WSU Dilettante
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I just spoke to supporter services to move our seats to the West Lower (we had bought our usual ST seats).
The bloke I spoke to said the club do intend to open up (and expect to sell) the rest of the WSU, they just want the lower tiers to be bought and filled out first.
Whether that actually happens or not remains to be seen.
The bloke I spoke to said the club do intend to open up (and expect to sell) the rest of the WSU, they just want the lower tiers to be bought and filled out first.
Whether that actually happens or not remains to be seen.
- Jun 27, 2012
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They're shifting a decent amount per day and its a good 16 days before the match. So you'd imagine it will continue to tick up despite the travel and scheduling concerns and the fact that its on TV. But clearly plenty of season ticket holders are giving it a miss.
HH Brighton
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- Jul 25, 2003
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Yeah this will sell out easy, will be good to get rid of some of the dead wood for this match. The two guys next to me in WSU spend most of their time on their phones.
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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It’s one match ffs, having a few thousand empty seats does not symbolise the fall of Rome
I was in the seats immediately in front of you. Your daughter and my younger lad both stood on their seats to see. Now both well into their twenties
Dave the OAP
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not this game, has anyone’s Chelsea league game ticket been sold yet?
mine is still showing as unsold
mine is still showing as unsold
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Exactly you’ve had plenty of punishment already this season you deserve a day offI hope people slagging off those not going have also attended every home league game this season.
last game I went to was Man City and we haven’t won since at home so have saved a lot of time and money.16 days ? More like 10 days.
Watched the brilliant Stand or Fall tonight - Sheffield Wednesday game got a special mention for its ‘best ever’ atmosphere… that game was on a school night with the threat of extra times and penalties but don’t remember fans worrying about ‘Travel chaos’ on that Monday night. Get yourself a ticket this could be another Amex classic
Watched the brilliant Stand or Fall tonight - Sheffield Wednesday game got a special mention for its ‘best ever’ atmosphere… that game was on a school night with the threat of extra times and penalties but don’t remember fans worrying about ‘Travel chaos’ on that Monday night. Get yourself a ticket this could be another Amex classic
pigmanovich
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Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
That was a second leg playoff game, following the worst game for injuries I have ever known. Four injuries so we ended up with 10 men.
Playing Chelsea in a FA cup game doesn’t come close. Obviously, I hope we trounce them, but we need luck as well.
But that’s exactly the point about a flakey fanbase. What people are actually saying when they mention cost / travel / kick off time etc as a reason for not going is ‘this game isn’t big enough to bother’ as if we are playing Burton Albion in the LDG Vans trophy. But we’re playing Chelsea in the 4th round of the FA Cup, 3 games from Wembley with our last chance of silverware left this season.
When people get frustrated with us being a stepping stone club that players and managers use to move on to the big clubs, this is part of the reason why. Because we just don’t have that large, fanatical fanbase that the big clubs do. Which is why we also don’t have as much money and will never really challenge the Big 6 for any period of time.
I’m OK with that, but people should stop moaning about players wanting to play for the big clubs over us if they can’t be bothered to show up for a game like this.
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el punal
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The magic of the Cup. Back in 1967 the Albion were drawn to play Chelsea at the Goldstone, ironically in the 4th round of the FA Cup. This was BIG! Fleet Street descended en masse to Brighton and Hove before the game reporting on the team training on Hove Lawns and other related stuff. The demand for tickets was unbelievable, the club decided that to buy a Cup ticket you had to attend a reserves match against Notts County in order to purchase the ticket at the turnstiles, as well as entry for the reserves game. 22,000+ attended that gig and most didn’t even bother to watch the match!
Onto the game then, the attendance was 35,000 - I woz there! The Albion, strangely enough, played in red shirts with white sleeves, Chelsea played in white shirts. It ended in a 1-1 draw with the replay at Stamford Bridge in front of 54,000.
So a total of 89,000 watched a fourth round cup tie. Chelsea won 4-0. Back then the FA Cup was THE competition to be in. No buggering about for TV, all games scheduled for a Saturday 3.00 pm kickoff and replays the following week on a Tuesday or Wednesday evening.
Will we get the same response and cup fever this time round? I think not.
Onto the game then, the attendance was 35,000 - I woz there! The Albion, strangely enough, played in red shirts with white sleeves, Chelsea played in white shirts. It ended in a 1-1 draw with the replay at Stamford Bridge in front of 54,000.
So a total of 89,000 watched a fourth round cup tie. Chelsea won 4-0. Back then the FA Cup was THE competition to be in. No buggering about for TV, all games scheduled for a Saturday 3.00 pm kickoff and replays the following week on a Tuesday or Wednesday evening.
Will we get the same response and cup fever this time round? I think not.
Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
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- Oct 4, 2003
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The exchange hasn’t opened for the Chelsea league game yet.