Can I change my season ticket in to another name for next season ?

[Albumen]

Years ago I was swearing at the tv in the pub as Sven's England capitulated and the useless tit did nothing.

A bloke said to me "don't call him the C word, there are women here" So I tapped my then girlfriend (who was very posh) on the shoulder and asked "what's your favourite swear word?"......

If there's one place you should be able to swear without recrimination, it's at the football.

You did the right thing by moving to a less sweary area but for me the swearers were within their rights to swear.

Didn't they know you were LLCoolJ?

 

[studio150]

It seems to me that in the last couple of years or so, the club has become far more stringent in applying the terms and conditions.

As an example, back in 2011/2012, our first season at the Amex, after the first few games, l endured quite a bit of personal abuse from some morons sitting near me in the Lower West stand, every other word they used began with an f, or a c, and I became fed up with it.

After a quick phone call to the ticket office, they agreed to move my seat at no charge, from W1C to W1G, (same price bracket), and issued me with a new season ticket card.

I can't imagine the club doing that now, outside the short time window to move seats in March.

I would suspect that now the club would leave you in your seat and ban the ones that you complained about for a number of games with the threat if a total ban if repeated.

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

Favoritism for STHer's FFS

They'll be giving them priority on play-off final tickets next ....
Hey, what about a free pie & pint at an away game .....

Oh !

 

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

They won't let me 'just change' the name on my second ticket even though I do and always have paid the DD it and my ticket. The argument is that the 'name' on the ticket has been the 'benficiary' of discounts and it would not be 'fair' on other season ticket holders to pass on this bounty to an undeserving newcomer. Given that the undeserving newcomer has been going to games with me for the last 3 years, and is no more undeserving than her predecessor since I PAY FOR THE TICKET, seems to be beyond the ken of the club.

I suspect the best way is to leave things as they are with the club and make private arrangements, DDing between parties without troubling the club. I suspect such behaviour is rife. How long, I wonder, before the club clamp down and start checking independent ID at the turnstile? In fact, if the club don't do this how can they possibly police all the bans and exclusions that have been handed out?

Mmmmmm. I'm getting cross now.

How dare your friend who isn't a season ticket holder be told they must go through the same process that ALL other non season ticket holders go through to purchase a season ticket for next season..

On high profile games you will have stewards at the turnstiles with a folder containing all Albion fans on the banned list.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

If there's one place you should be able to swear without recrimination, it's at the football.

Hmmm, yes and no, IMHO.

I don't mind a bit of sweary behaviour, and I freely admit that I'm far from innocent in that realm myself. But that said, some people do take it too far.

I was at an away game a couple of seasons ago, and some guy stood behind me spent the entire first half shouting the C word, continually: every time a tackle went in, every time a free kick was given, every time an Albion player screwed up (which was a lot during the game in question), and just everything really. It was just a constant stream of ****! at the top of his voice. For no reason whatsoever (apart from that he was pissed as a fart, obviously). He was like an angry toddler, shouting the most offensive word he could think of to get attention.

It's not a word I use, in line with many women I imagine, but that said I don't crawl up into a ball every time I hear it. But this guy on this occasion was just vile and unpleasant to be near. I actually asked him to pipe down a bit, as it was getting on my nerves, and one of my travelling companions that day had his daughter, then aged about 11, with him. There were other kids nearby too.

His reply? "**** off, love, it's football innit? If you don't like a bit of swearing, then **** off somewhere else".

Call me old fashioned, but I don't think that level of swearing was acceptable.

 

[Goldstone1976]

I was at an away game a couple of seasons ago, and some guy stood behind me spent the entire first half shouting the C word, continually: every time a tackle went in, every time a free kick was given, every time an Albion player screwed up (which was a lot during the game in question), and just everything really. It was just a constant stream of ****! at the top of his voice. For no reason whatsoever (apart from that he was pissed as a fart, obviously). He was like an angry toddler, shouting the most offensive word he could think of to get attention.

I'm sorry...


On your substantive points: I agree.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

How dare your friend who isn't a season ticket holder be told they must go through the same process that ALL other non season ticket holders go through to purchase a season ticket for next season..

On high profile games you will have stewards at the turnstiles with a folder containing all Albion fans on the banned list.

Number 1, you have missed the context of my post which was a reply to others suggesting that it is commonplace to be able to do what I asked. Indeed, last seaon I was told it was a simple matter to change a name on a ticket in the context of my circumstances as expl;ained - the only problem being that when I asked to do it in April I was told I had left it too late.

Number 2, well, if the club do have stewards with said folders on high profile games (and by this I assume you mean photos - where do they get these photos, exactly?) they have certainly never done it at the 'turnstiles' through which I enter. I am not in the North.

But do feel free to put me right when I get things wrong in the future

 

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

Number 1, you have missed the context of my post which was a reply to others suggesting that it is commonplace to be able to do what I asked. Indeed, last seaon I was told it was a simple matter to change a name on a ticket in the context of my circumstances as expl;ained - the only problem being that when I asked to do it in April I was told I had left it too late.

Number 2, well, if the club do have stewards with said folders on high profile games (and by this I assume you mean photos - where do they get these photos, exactly?) they have certainly never done it at the 'turnstiles' through which I enter. I am not in the North.

But do feel free to put me right when I get things wrong in the future

Reply to 1. My apologies, I skim read the thread and obviously missed the point.

2. I've noticed them at least twice before at the North West entrance and another couple times walking around the concourse.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Reply to 1. My apologies, I skim read the thread and obviously missed the point.

2. I've noticed them at least twice before at the North West entrance and another couple times walking around the concourse.

No worries! Cheers.

All the best

 

[LlcoolJ]

Hmmm, yes and no, IMHO.

I don't mind a bit of sweary behaviour, and I freely admit that I'm far from innocent in that realm myself. But that said, some people do take it too far.

I was at an away game a couple of seasons ago, and some guy stood behind me spent the entire first half shouting the C word, continually: every time a tackle went in, every time a free kick was given, every time an Albion player screwed up (which was a lot during the game in question), and just everything really. It was just a constant stream of ****! at the top of his voice. For no reason whatsoever (apart from that he was pissed as a fart, obviously). He was like an angry toddler, shouting the most offensive word he could think of to get attention.

It's not a word I use, in line with many women I imagine, but that said I don't crawl up into a ball every time I hear it. But this guy on this occasion was just vile and unpleasant to be near. I actually asked him to pipe down a bit, as it was getting on my nerves, and one of my travelling companions that day had his daughter, then aged about 11, with him. There were other kids nearby too.

His reply? "**** off, love, it's football innit? If you don't like a bit of swearing, then **** off somewhere else".

Call me old fashioned, but I don't think that level of swearing was acceptable.

Oh **** off you prissy ****. [emoji6]

Yeah fair enough, that sort of behavior is just sad. Had he not been using the C word he'd probably have found another way to be just as annoying.

I've always been of the opinion that no word is actually offensive. How people use words ("swear" words or not) defines if they are being offensive or not.

And this **** obviously was being a ****.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Years ago I was swearing at the tv in the pub as Sven's England capitulated and the useless tit did nothing.

A bloke said to me "don't call him the C word, there are women here" So I tapped my then girlfriend (who was very posh) on the shoulder and asked "what's your favourite swear word?"......

If there's one place you should be able to swear without recrimination, it's at the football.

You did the right thing by moving to a less sweary area but for me the swearers were within their rights to swear.

Your posh g/f really does sound like a classy lady . . . not. But even though we disagree, that really wasn't the point of my post.

I simply think that the club aren't quite so amenable to individual fans circumstances or requirements now, and are doing things much more by the book so to speak.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Hmmm, yes and no, IMHO.

I don't mind a bit of sweary behaviour, and I freely admit that I'm far from innocent in that realm myself. But that said, some people do take it too far.

I was at an away game a couple of seasons ago, and some guy stood behind me spent the entire first half shouting the C word, continually: every time a tackle went in, every time a free kick was given, every time an Albion player screwed up (which was a lot during the game in question), and just everything really. It was just a constant stream of ****! at the top of his voice. For no reason whatsoever (apart from that he was pissed as a fart, obviously). He was like an angry toddler, shouting the most offensive word he could think of to get attention.

It's not a word I use, in line with many women I imagine, but that said I don't crawl up into a ball every time I hear it. But this guy on this occasion was just vile and unpleasant to be near. I actually asked him to pipe down a bit, as it was getting on my nerves, and one of my travelling companions that day had his daughter, then aged about 11, with him. There were other kids nearby too.

His reply? "**** off, love, it's football innit? If you don't like a bit of swearing, then **** off somewhere else".

Call me old fashioned, but I don't think that level of swearing was acceptable.

Thank you. My feelings to a tee. I realise that rightly or wrongly, hearing people swear is part and parcel of going to football, but there is swearing and there is vile filth. The F word I can tolerate, the C word I certainly can't.