[Albion] Tickets Remaining for FA Cup Semi Final ***About 200 LEFT ON SALE***

[Weststander]

Oh I was certainly there.....have been from about 1968/69 onwards ...which does age me a tad

So, you were attending from 6 months old then. Still plenty of life in the young-ish dog.

 

[Questions]

Balmy May evening.....glorious times..got there at 6pm and the queues were massive

My last year at primary school and went straight over in our school uniform and it was incredible. I can’t imagine parents letting 11 year olds going over on their own nowadays. I don’t think we thought it odd though at the time,

 

[Bodian]

My last year at primary school and went straight over in our school uniform and it was incredible. I can’t imagine parents letting 11 year olds going over on their own nowadays. I don’t think we thought it odd though at the time,

When I started going in 1977 I too was eleven. After a few months I was just going with my schoolfriends, and given the stuff about violence and hooliganism that drove football news at the time, I am still quite amazed that my parents let me go with my mates and no 'adults'. And by 1978, when I was still 12, we had been to all parts of the ground, including sitting on the wall at the bottom of the NE stand in front of the away crowd. We left pretty sharpish and walked into the east when Potts got two late goals against Sunderland.

 

[Weststander]

How many did we take to the Millenium stadium for the debagging of cocky Brizzl Titty? The attendance was 65,000 so I iguess it was below Rochdale.

2004 - 29,000 Albion fans at the Millennium Stadium
1991 - 34,000 Albion fans at Wembley

 

[ROSM]

I missed that as very young (didn’t even know BHAFC existed.... shock, horror), but my older brothers did, and told me all about it. Plus there’s the odd old NSC thread about it.

I assume you were also there for the 32,000 to 33,000 plus home matches from 1976 onwards under Taylor, then Mullery. I went to all those, magical as a nipper. Swaying packed crowds on the Chicken Run and NS, I remember the distinct smell of smoke and also beer/Scotch from all the blokes who been to nearby pubs first.

Thats when I started going. Standing on a schweppes crate in the south east terrace

32 and 33k crowds were the norm for a couple of seasons.

 

[ROSM]

2004 - 29,000 Albion fans at the Millennium Stadium
1991 - 34,000 Albion fans at Wembley

31k in 1991 and 32k in 2004 i believe

 

[el punal]

May 72 - 34,766 versus Rochdale, with next to no away fans. Two or three thousand locked out.

Believe me, there were a few day trippers and glory hunters that night. I used to work in a pub part time and a family of four used to come in on a regular basis. Knowing I was a dyed in the wool, hard core Albion fan they asked me about going to the game. Have you been before I asked. No, never - came the reply. So I told them the horror story of getting there early, 5.30 ish, prepare to be crushed as it will be a huge crowd, and if we score you might end up twenty steps further down the terrace, oh, and don’t bother using the toilets.

I’ve got a funny feeling that they never went in the end.

 

[Weststander]

Thats when I started going. Standing on a schweppes crate in the south east terrace

32 and 33k crowds were the norm for a couple of seasons.

My second game was near there in Feb 76 (an evening league match where we beat CP 2-0, circa 33,500 there, the match “Seagulls” was invented apparently).

 

[Weststander]

31k in 1991 and 32k in 2004 i believe

BBC Sussex reckoned less that 30,000 in 2004.



Still huge numbers, given the small home gates after the Goldstone was stolen!

 

[Return of the Rev]

May 72 - 34,766 versus Rochdale, with next to no away fans. Two or three thousand locked out.

Watched from the bottom of the east stand where the chicken run would have been, had a bit of a knee's up and on the pitch at the end. 40 years before that my uncle stood in the same spot.

 

[nicko31]

So what is the greatest number of Albion fans ever to watch a game?

I guess its hard to quantify how many Fulham fans there were in the 36,747 at the Goldstone in 1958

Was anyone on here there?

 

[CP 0 3 BHA]

Looks like the club have released some nice seats in 125 and 126 that they were presumably holding back for staff and players F&F etc.

 

[raymondo]

So what is the greatest number of Albion fans ever to watch a game?

I guess its hard to quantify how many Fulham fans there were in the 36,747 at the Goldstone in 1958

Was anyone on here there?

No, but I was at the 3-1 victory against Darlington in April 65 that secured the 4th division title - great celebration s

 

[drew]

My second game was near there in Feb 76 (an evening league match where we beat CP 2-0, circa 33,500 there, the match “Seagulls” was invented apparently).

2 goals from Sammy Morgan?

I started just before that with a game against Chesterfield, 0-0 but missed the Palace game.

 

[Return of the Rev]

My second game was near there in Feb 76 (an evening league match where we beat CP 2-0, circa 33,500 there, the match “Seagulls” was invented apparently).

Not sure the chant was invented at this game but it came into its own that night.

 

[pastafarian]

Does anyone know if its possible to cheat the ticketing system when looking for extras tomorrow and try to get on it a few minutes early, then allocate seats at 09.01, or does the system shut for a while prior to the next tier group and everyone gets put in the green man queue.
Wouldnt consider it myself......asking for a friend.

 

[S'hampton Seagull]

Just over 7,000 available now, we must have had some extra released as others have said. Will these all go to ST guests? Not so sure.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Does anyone know if its possible to cheat the ticketing system when looking for extras tomorrow and try to get on it a few minutes early, then allocate seats at 09.01, or does the system shut for a while prior to the next tier group and everyone gets put in the green man queue.
Wouldnt consider it myself......asking for a friend.

It's closed. You sit in a waiting page with everyone else until it's open. Once it's open everyone on that page is allocated a random place in the queue.

 

[Dirty Dave]

Does anyone know if its possible to cheat the ticketing system when looking for extras tomorrow and try to get on it a few minutes early, then allocate seats at 09.01, or does the system shut for a while prior to the next tier group and everyone gets put in the green man queue.
Wouldnt consider it myself......asking for a friend.

Tried that the other day, putting tickets in basket and waiting until on sale time before allocating.
However, tickets can only remain in basket for 20 mins but theres no access to the site for about half hour before, as everyone's put in a hold queue

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[Gull & Chips]

how do you know how many tickets are left ?