Palace come up with a novel idea

[philsussex]

No, because I am one of the ones organising it and am getting updates from one of the Owners on the amount sold.

Yeah I know you are and as I said earlier, fair play to you for trying to get the fans mobilised. It's just our duty to take the piss

 

[The Ringleader Returns!]

500! WOW!

Brighton - Bournemouth (2 hours 7 minutes) 2500 tickets sold
Croydon - Coventry (2 hours 25 minutes) 500 tickets sold


Well, an extra 18 minutes is a big difference.

 

[philsussex]

It's been removed under new health & safety regulations! I risk assessed it and it failed ..

Undoubtedly an object that could cause offence to many

 

[pauldcpfc]

500! WOW!

Brighton - Bournemouth (2 hours 7 minutes) 2500 tickets sold
Croydon - Coventry (2 hours 25 minutes) 500 tickets sold


Well, an extra 18 minutes is a big difference.

You realise our game isn't for 2 weeks...

Gotta love Brighton fans. Jack all for years and then they get a hardon because they took 2500 to Bournemouth.

We took 4000 to Reading. 2 1/2 hours by train.

Do we get an award....

 

[philsussex]

Well their big day has arrived.

They're expecting extensive media coverage from the world's press for such an extraordinary event

Good luck Coventry

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I'm surprised it's not bring televised live. With a Dimbleby presenting the coverage.

Well done, Palace, you crazy kids. Going to an away game: it's just a MAD idea isn't it? You are the GREATEST. Have fun with those balloons and enjoy your special day

 

[Lady Whistledown]

We took 4000 to Reading. 2 1/2 hours by train.

Do we get an award....

Two and a half hours from Croydon to Reading?? Did you all have the wrong map or something?

 

[Elvis]

Pity the team couldn't be bothered to turn up!

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Well. That worked, didn't it?

 

[HoveHorace]

2,500 Palace fans at Coventry today. I am sorry but that is poor considering it was a special event etc.

 

[Bob!]

2,500 Palace fans at Coventry today. I am sorry but that is poor considering it was a special event etc.

It inspired the players though, .....didn't it?

 

[Joey Deacon's Disco Suit]

500! WOW!

Brighton - Bournemouth (2 hours 7 minutes) 2500 tickets sold
Croydon - Coventry (2 hours 25 minutes) 500 tickets sold


Well, an extra 18 minutes is a big difference.

You realise our game isn't for 2 weeks...

Gotta love Brighton fans. Jack all for years and then they get a hardon because they took 2500 to Bournemouth.

We took 4000 to Reading. 2 1/2 hours by train.

Do we get an award....

Dunno. Was that part of the incentive to get your fans to turn up then?

By the way, National Rail website has East Croydon to Reading as about an hour and a half. Oh, and Coventry is a fraction over 2 hours. I suppose it goes to show that Palace fans are as fickle as every other club when your team is in decline. Ah well, enjoy those trips to Brentford next year.

 

[philsussex]

A great end to this story

 

[26-10-02]

Well. That worked, didn't it?

Depends on what the original idea was.We probably doubled the normal away attendance and most had a good time.The atmosphere was brilliant from beginning to end and the Coventry fans are saying that we are the best fans to visit the Ricoh and that includes the 6000 Leeds that went.
It was about us and not the team.I actually feel sorry for anyone who gets a new ground if the fans turn out to be anything like the Coventry ones.
p.s. A little warning from history to all who think that next years crowds at the apex will be there for ever.Coventry got big gates for their first year or two in the stadium abut if success goes then the crowds will drop and you are left with a shiny new morgue.

 

[Wozza]

the Coventry fans are saying that we are the best fans to visit the Ricoh

Wow, what an accolade. Do they produce a trophy at the end of the season?

 

[Buzzer]

p.s. A little warning from history to all who think that next years crowds at the apex will be there for ever.Coventry got big gates for their first year or two in the stadium abut if success goes then the crowds will drop and you are left with a shiny new morgue.

So the key to keeping a big crowd at your stadium is a successful team? Wow...that's insightful.

 

[philsussex]

Depends on what the original idea was.We probably doubled the normal away attendance and most had a good time.The atmosphere was brilliant from beginning to end and the Coventry fans are saying that we are the best fans to visit the Ricoh and that includes the 6000 Leeds that went.
It was about us and not the team.I actually feel sorry for anyone who gets a new ground if the fans turn out to be anything like the Coventry ones.
p.s. A little warning from history to all who think that next years crowds at the apex will be there for ever.Coventry got big gates for their first year or two in the stadium abut if success goes then the crowds will drop and you are left with a shiny new morgue.

Pretty poor effort really from your fans despite the work that pauldrulez etc put into trying to mobilise the support.

It makes the request to Coventry for a full 6000 allocation look a bit daft.

 

[26-10-02]

So the key to keeping a big crowd at your stadium is a successful team? Wow...that's insightful.

Not at all ponce.Just reading the views on here many seem to imagine that a new stadium is a one way trip to eternal success.With all the glory hunters going to Falmer then your support could drop off a cliff in no time.
As for your comment Wozza I seem to remember you lot going on for days how charlton said how loud you were,wow Charlton.

 

[26-10-02]

Pretty poor effort really from your fans despite the work that pauldrulez etc put into trying to mobilise the support.

It makes the request to Coventry for a full 6000 allocation look a bit daft.

We didn't ask for that they open the blocks one at a time.That is a good attendance considering we have now lost 12 out of 16 away.

 

[Icy Gull]

As for your comment Wozza I seem to remember you lot going on for days how charlton said how loud you were,wow Charlton.

Don't mock too much, there is a good chance you won't be playing a team as big as Charlton next season, just a thought.