That's simply not true though. In the Championship I used to go to to ALL the away games up here. Rotherham, Wednesday, Sheff Utd, Leeds, Hudds etc.
Just rocked up (usually with the nipper) and got tickets on the gate. Never had a problem.
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That's simply not true though. In the Championship I used to go to to ALL the away games up here. Rotherham, Wednesday, Sheff Utd, Leeds, Hudds etc.
Just rocked up (usually with the nipper) and got tickets on the gate. Never had a problem.
Cheers. I will be!
Gazwag
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For anything north of london that isn't really true is it, like all the people who say the Goldstone was rocking every week in the 70's with 30k+ crowds, when the truth is there were only about a dozen +30k crowds, ever
Peter Grummit
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Agree, with the odd exception such as Peterborough.
I can't recall us ever selling out in Yorkshire. We took about 400 to Leeds in the early '80s, and only around 1,500-2,000 for our last 2 games there in the Championship. The only time I've been to Bramall Lane, in the mid 80s, we took about 600.
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Gazwag
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I have only been there once as well, it was the FA Cup 3rd round in 80something, in the snow, it was Barry Lloyd's first game, drew 0-0 I think
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studio150
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Well done for posting the wrong game. A big clue was 0-0 try Sheffield United FAC3R 1987.
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portslade seagull
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I was there with a bus load from the PO. Can't imagine the prima donnas these days playing in those conditions
still an FA cup game in the snow , were you there
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DF
When were you last there?
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When we played them in a league game , went up on a coach, the toilet overflowed and the driver emptied it in the car park outside the ground , halcyon days
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TheJasperCo
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I was poised to buy a ticket for this one but the train fares up to Sheffield are mental. £70+ return, no chance. Even the coach is fifty pounds return, and that takes 16 or more hours.
Really wanted to go to another away game this season but think I'll probably settle for seeing a couple of games at the Amex instead.
Really wanted to go to another away game this season but think I'll probably settle for seeing a couple of games at the Amex instead.
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Alba Badger
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Looks like 257 standard seats left after the "rush".
Behind Enemy Lines
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Thanks for that, about 30 years since I'd last seen it.
Gazwag
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Sheffield not Peterborough my quote was regarding, the match was the following year
I was at both, didn't enjoy the Boro game though, got a bit scary at times in the crush
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Respectfully disagree. I looked and was chuffed how many we’d sold - looks like 3,000 If the last few go - am I right? That’s brilliant for up north - we’d usually take 700 off here in the champs in my opinion!
Alba Badger
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Down to about 170 tickets left now to those with a purchase history, with 10 loyalty points on offer (I know it’s bollox and should have been 15 all day long but who am I to know better) worth a trip. Amazing work to sell almost the full 3k tickets for a long haul away game.
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Blooming Marvellous
This was my number one away game pick from this seasons fixtures, looking forward to us getting a result, and the 3-4 change train journey.
Well I got some tickets and my son is MADE up.
Now we just need to beat the Northern MONKEYS so that we can get some bragging rights BACK (especially after the Wednesday
CUP fiasco). 
Looks like a good turnout and, as others have said, the boozers this side of the City are proper.
If you get here early then bus / cab it down from the station to The Broadfield on Abbeydale road. From there it's about 15 mins walk to the Lane and there are LOADS of decent pubs in between (nearby and on Chesterfield Rd). Mostly away friendly (if you're in small groups etc) apart from the old skool shitholes on London Rd. Or go the other way and have a few down Kelham Island before heading back through town. Or there's Ecclesall Road which has a load of decent pubs and bars.........
If there are a load of you then the Howard opposite the station and the Rutland round the corner have always been away friendly. Plus there's a MASSIVE spoons (Sheaf Island) bottom of Eccy Rd, five minutes from the ground.
UTA.
Now we just need to beat the Northern MONKEYS so that we can get some bragging rights BACK (especially after the Wednesday
CUP fiasco). Looks like a good turnout and, as others have said, the boozers this side of the City are proper.
If you get here early then bus / cab it down from the station to The Broadfield on Abbeydale road. From there it's about 15 mins walk to the Lane and there are LOADS of decent pubs in between (nearby and on Chesterfield Rd). Mostly away friendly (if you're in small groups etc) apart from the old skool shitholes on London Rd. Or go the other way and have a few down Kelham Island before heading back through town. Or there's Ecclesall Road which has a load of decent pubs and bars.........
If there are a load of you then the Howard opposite the station and the Rutland round the corner have always been away friendly. Plus there's a MASSIVE spoons (Sheaf Island) bottom of Eccy Rd, five minutes from the ground.
UTA.