How many will Barnsley bring down tomorrow?

[Lady Whistledown]

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For the total attendance I think ticket sales will be 23,000 with 19,000 actually going in through the turnstiles

Given that the Albion always count all season ticket holders, and that we have around 23,000 of those, your estimate would seem to suggest that not a single additional ticket will be sold over and above STHs?

 

[Insel affe]

More than 69 but less than 71

 

[Munkfish]

I wasn't trying to have a dig. I would not be doing the trip the other way.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Just went to Barnsley's main messageboard to have a nose. My God, what a clunky old thing that is, incredibly annoying interface.

I gave up after reading a couple of posts. We are indeed lucky on here.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Hope this doesn't descend into a piss taking thread.

Barnsley has never been a fashionable place or football team, and they've plenty of competition up that way from other clubs. They're bottom of the league, on a miserable run, it's a Tuesday night game a couple of hundred miles away from home, only three weeks before Christmas.

Won't catch me having a dig at them- they're a proper football club with proper fans, so fair play to the ones who come for making the effort

Agree with that.

Like all Northrrn clubs, they'll have some Southern exiles.

Add in one supporters coach and a few cars and I'm going for 162. Fair play to them all.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Agree with that.

Like all Northrrn clubs, they'll have some Southern exiles

Wait- you mean we've opened the borders with Yorkshire?

 

[Se20]

Fair play to the Barnsley fans making the trip tomorrow night.
A small but loyal band of fans, whose efforts shouldn't to belittled.
( hence my little dig earlier )

 

[HastingsSeagull]

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[Horsham Gull]

Fair play to all of them that do make the trip down on what is bound to be a cold Tuesday night on the south coast, let's make them feel welcome by scoring 5

 

[WhiteyBFC]

Just went to Barnsley's main messageboard to have a nose. My God, what a clunky old thing that is, incredibly annoying interface.

I gave up after reading a couple of posts. We are indeed lucky on here.

Our main forum? This one - http://v2.barnsleyfc.org.uk/forumdisplay.php?130-Bulletin-Board

I could have swore it was pretty much the same setup as NSC.



Anyway, you can add me onto your list of BFC fans not making the trip. And I wouldn't be coming if we were top of the league, either. It's just not a fixture that enthuses me. I actually forget you are in this division. That's not a dig. I just prefer the local games - of which we have many - and with Burnley and Leeds trips coming up, as well as Xmas, well, it's an easy decision.


Were the game set for a weekend in August/May, then I suppose I could find some enthusiasm, make a weekend of it etc. I hope that happens in the future as I am yet to tick the Amex off my list of stadia visited. I did visit the Withdean, though. Unfortunately, (and amazingly, given where both clubs have been in the last 20 odd years) it seems we are both heading in different directions, and are not in the same division already, in terms of finances and attendance figures etc.


Fair play to you all. And good luck, also. I saw a bit of your game on TV Saturday, and I think you'll be picking up a very easy victory tomorrow night.


We're in the sh1t. Deep. In my time supporting BFC (26 years) it's been spent mainly in the second tier, a year in the Prem, and four in the third tier. With FA Cup semi's and quarter's thrown in. So I'm not looking forward to tasting the third tier again, and wondering if we'll ever get back out. My father tells me it was horrific in the 70's, the fourth tier and all that entailed. But I'll still be there at Oakwell. But I doubt I'll be travelling to Dagenham or Portsmouth on a Tuesday night..

 

[TheJasperCo]

Two dozen WAGs.

 

[TheMajor]

The 5 lowest away supported league opponents at the Amex are as follows-

Bolton 570 - Saturday September 2013 - 26,319 crowd
Blackburn 548 - Tuesday February 2013 - 24,759
Bristol City 395 - Tuesday November 2012 - 23,649
Barnsley 297 - Saturday August 2012 - 24,594
Peterborough 247 - Tuesday November 2012 - 23,703


I predict a sub 200 from Barnsley tonight.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Barnsley has never been a fashionable place or football team, and they've plenty of competition up that way from other clubs. They're bottom of the league, on a miserable run, it's a Tuesday night game a couple of hundred miles away from home, only three weeks before Christmas.

Won't catch me having a dig at them- they're a proper football club with proper fans, so fair play to the ones who come for making the effort

Quite.

 

[TheMajor]

Given that the Albion always count all season ticket holders, and that we have around 23,000 of those, your estimate would seem to suggest that not a single additional ticket will be sold over and above STHs?

Fairly decent turnout tonight despite Barnsley meagre offering- over 25k as special price promotion - I've managed to entice an extra two to come.

 

[Hillian1]

Fairly decent turnout tonight despite Barnsley meagre offering- over 25k as special price promotion - I've managed to entice an extra two to come.

So have I using the refer a friend thingy.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

Fairly decent turnout tonight despite Barnsley meagre offering- over 25k as special price promotion - I've managed to entice an extra two to come.

Dougie and SE20 ?

 

[Seagull over Canaryland]

Dougie and SE20 ?

But surely they won't want to miss the high point of their season - and I don't mean the home debut of Pulis. The unveiling of the new cladding will be one of very few special unmissable moments for those desperate Palace fans.

Come to think of it will the cladding stand up to balls being hoofed into it by Pulis's new tactics?

 

[Smirko]

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[Gilliver's Travels]

Some rather unpleasant sneering going on in this thread. As Edna has said, Barnsley are a proper football club and, in their circumstances, I doubt we'd be taking too many up to Oakwell.

So I for one will be applauding their fans tonight. Even if only 25 of them turn up.

 

[martin tyler]

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