Lets SCRAP online ticket sales

[perseus]

1-1. And yes, Boyle was sent off for kicking Wally Gould

Tiger Tawse had a good goal disallowed.

 

[el punal]

Me too!

I think it was v Rochdale 30,000 odd?

My memory is shot!

Let's just say your memory suffered a minor flesh wound! I think we're talking Jan/Feb 1967 when tickets went on sale at the Notts County reserve game for the FACup 4th round tie against Chelsea. The attendance for that reserve match was 22,000+, and for Chelsea, 35,000.

The Rochdale game was the final match of 1971/72 season when we were promoted. The crowd was 34,700ish and was pay on the gate! I got to the Goldstone at about 5.30 that night so got a good spot. Happy days!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Still caused CARNAGE though. For the life of me I can't REMEMBER who started that rumour though

I can.

 

[Buzzer]

Was it only a few years ago when we were popping envelopes with our bank details on through the door of the club shop in Queen's Road? Or even worse...the West Ham cup game where priority went to those who had kept their ticket stub from the JPT game against Millwall.

 

[Gazwag]

Was it only a few years ago when we were popping envelopes with our bank details on through the door of the club shop in Queen's Road? Or even worse...the West Ham cup game where priority went to those who had kept their ticket stub from the JPT game against Millwall.

Shhhhhh you will wake up Beach Hut

 

[sir albion]

Even better....Why not scrap tickets altogether and everyone queue up at the stadium on match days like they used too.
Happy days

 

[Gwylan]

Even better....Why not scrap tickets altogether and everyone queue up at the stadium on match days like they used too.
Happy days

Those were the days. You always ran the risk of not getting in if you left it too late (as I did for the Tottenham home game in 1978) but imagine the drinking that people would do through getting to the ground early

 

[sir albion]

Those were the days. You always ran the risk of not getting in if you left it too late (as I did for the Tottenham home game in 1978) but imagine the drinking that people would do through getting to the ground early

Games rarely sell out so why not?
Guess crowd trouble is why things have changed these days

 

[swindonseagull]

I like the modern way. I managed to buy my Boro ticket when I was having my morning poo.

I got mine while attending a speed awareness course!!

 

[clippedgull]

Let's just say your memory suffered a minor flesh wound! I think we're talking Jan/Feb 1967 when tickets went on sale at the Notts County reserve game for the FACup 4th round tie against Chelsea. The attendance for that reserve match was 22,000+, and for Chelsea, 35,000.

The Rochdale game was the final match of 1971/72 season when we were promoted. The crowd was 34,700ish and was pay on the gate! I got to the Goldstone at about 5.30 that night so got a good spot. Happy days!

No! My memory is on life support!

I didn't start following the Albion until '74. I distinctly remember being at a reserve game where there was a huge crowd and your attendance guaranteed a ticket for an important game. League or Cup? No idea! Opponents? No idea! The only thing I remember (and even this might be wrong!) were that our reserve opponents were Rochdale.

 

[el punal]

No! My memory is on life support!

I didn't start following the Albion until '74. I distinctly remember being at a reserve game where there was a huge crowd and your attendance guaranteed a ticket for an important game. League or Cup? No idea! Opponents? No idea! The only thing I remember (and even this might be wrong!) were that our reserve opponents were Rochdale.

You've got me going now! Off the top of my head, for matches around the mid 1970s that were all ticket, Palace in Feb.76 and Derby (League Cup) in Oct.76, are the ones that spring to mind. After that my memory has gone into sleep mode.

 

[studio150]

Seriously. Why not ?

After surveying the latest BINFEST outbreak on the Boro ticket thread - doesn't all this faff just make you YEARN for the days before the internet, when you would actually have to physically go and queue for tickets ? I miss those days. Queues were fun. There was excitement, camaraderie, anticipation as you inch forward, towards the hallowed window of the ticket office. Chat and "bants" with your fellow fans in the queue, and then that prized moment when you turn away from the window, physically clutching those tickets in your hairy MIT, before you mince off down the pub and start properly planning your BDO. There was a real sense that you'd properly EARNED those tickets. You'd done the time. You'd stood there and queued outside, maybe for hours, and the process had ended in rightful triumph.

Now what. That whole experience has been replaced with sitting there in your pants in front of a screen, with the curtains drawn, hammering away at the F5 key, frantically clicking on all these little boxes, praying that the text in a little window will stop being greyed out. Then you'll either miss out, and go onto NSC to spend half the day complaining bitterly about loyalty points, web servers, internet speed, the time they went on sale, and arguing the toss with smug scrotes who say "neerrr, should've tried sooner, serves you right". That, or you get your ticket, pop onto Pornhub for a quick celebrationary hand shandy, before slumping on the sofa with a tube of Pringles and Sky Sports News.

I know what I prefer. Sure its more "convenient" to sit on your arse and click a mouse a few times. But I reckon we should scrap all that and go Old School again. Bollocks to online queues, we're british - we should go back to queues for REAL. Its what we do.

Who's with me ?

If you hark back for the old days thete is a simple solution. Dont buy any tickets on line, instead wait for the ticket office to open for iver the counter sales and get down to the Amex to buy a ticket. For added fun you can get there at least 5 hours early so you can stand outside in the wind and rain enjoying yourself.

The rest of us will carry on with the hassle free process if getting tickets on line.

 

[clippedgull]

You've got me going now! Off the top of my head, for matches around the mid 1970s that were all ticket, Palace in Feb.76 and Derby (League Cup) in Oct.76, are the ones that spring to mind. After that my memory has gone into sleep mode.

Thanks anyway!



If I can reboot my memory at any time I shall be sure to report back

 

[Gwylan]

You've got me going now! Off the top of my head, for matches around the mid 1970s that were all ticket, Palace in Feb.76 and Derby (League Cup) in Oct.76, are the ones that spring to mind. After that my memory has gone into sleep mode.

Don't think this is true. I've never been to an Albion reserve game in my life but I was definitely at the Palace and Derby games in '76 (there may well have been tickets, though I don't think there were, but if so, they weren't sold at reserve games).

There weren't many all-ticket games then. As mentioned above, Spurs in 78 was a massive game but POTG, and I don't think many Palace games were all-ticket either

 

[el punal]

Don't think this is true. I've never been to an Albion reserve game in my life but I was definitely at the Palace and Derby games in '76 (there may well have been tickets, though I don't think there were, but if so, they weren't sold at reserve games).

There weren't many all-ticket games then. As mentioned above, Spurs in 78 was a massive game but POTG, and I don't think many Palace games were all-ticket either

It was all such a long time ago. But the important thing is we got to see the games. A case of 'I woz there' moments!

 

[Gwylan]

It was all such a long time ago. But the important thing is we got to see the games. A case of 'I woz there' moments!

Indeed. And that Palace match was a cracker . Between 76 and 78 there were some great nights at the Goldstone and I'm pretty sure every one was POTG

 

[nwgull]

I got mine while attending a speed awareness course!!

I was sitting/standing next to a bloke from Swindon at that snowy 1-0 win in Blackburn - the turning point of this season - and the piss was generally taken by me, and others in the vicinity, about his optimism that we might score a goal from a corner. It wasn't you was it?

 

[kjgood]

Thats Fine

Yes that's fine with me, I'll drive 420 miles round trip and use up seven hours to queue and buy a ticket to drive another 420 miles and seven hours in the car to watch the game. Yes that really makes sense that because I have dared to move away from near the stadium. Lets talk commitment shall we?

 

[Bodian]

I remember queuing for the cup final replay - and being late for school. Not that they were bothered. I have a strange feeling that one of the early first division games was also all-ticket, maybe Forest? Or maybe it was just that I had a ticket for some reason?

For Hereford, I simply rang them up a month or so beforehand and asked for a ticket. They said something like 'you'll be an away fan then?' - seemingly because home fans weren't over bothered that early on. I remember saying something like 'but it might be your last game in the league' (rather facetiously I admit), and she just laughed.......

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I know. This isn't a thread of complaint as such - I didn't even bother trying to get a ticket for Boro, because I'm a Bad Fan who couldn't be arsed to go all the way up there for a game that might be a dead rubber.

Its more a wistful look back at how we USED to do things before the days of just sitting there on your arse and clicking. We all coped, and on reflection, peering through my rose-tinted specs, I honestly think it was a better way of doing it. Less convenient maybe, but still better.

Seriously it would be a real pain for me, living 80 miles away, with no reliable relatives local. I'd end up begging and owing a mountain of pints to . . . actually, to be fair, there are probably 50 odd friends and acquaintances, sths, who would do the deed for me. So I'm IN