Very happy...my uni kid has a day off that Wednesday so will be sble to go if we are lucky enough to get tickets
Woohoo! A local derby seems a decent way to open the new stadium. A part of me is a little disappointed it’s not Brighton. Would have been fitting to host Chrissy Hughton as our first opponents but hey ho.
On the other hand playing Palace means we go up against old boy Andros Townsend, the habitually transfer-linked Wilfried Zaha, players we passed on such as Max Meyer and Christian Benteke, some tosser who decided his career would be better spent on the Chavs' bench Michy Batshuayi, and a player HITC can't go a week without saying we should sign him in Aaron Wan-Bissaka
This might have been raised before, but is anyone else a little concerned about those steep looking edges to our pitch, and the especially short looking run offs by the corner flags? Surely the club has plans to deal with these.
On the plus side, it guarantees we won't fall victim to Rory Delap's long throws Typical that we finally address this issue six years after he left Stoke and one year after Stoke left the Premier League...
I’m looking at them and it’s bloody steep. The sado DIYer in me is thinking they need some temporary raised corner sections with AstroTurf covering to compensate.
As a side note, it seems that the club are in a consultation with TfL to rename White Hart Lane station as Tottenham Hotspur https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...on-to-be-renamed-after-tottenham-hotspur-club For me this comes across as a bit of a dick move, partly because of the cost it will incur in having to redo countless maps across the TfL network and other knock-on effects, but mainly because it feels like a branding exercise which means we have to scrub out as many references to WHL as we can get away with
Seems a bit of a joke TBH...I thought there were 40,000 season ticket holders so was hoping there'd be around 20,000 for members. Imho it should be based on points, at least those members who have been going to wembley get some kind of reward for putting up with that **** hole!
If it's the normal ratio for members then everyone will have to be a bronze member rather than a lillywhite as that will be the only chance of getting one. Does seem weird that we've added 26,000 to the new ground yet less seats are available for members...memory is that we used to have 26,000 season ticket holders (including the corporate stuff) and the rest went to members. My fears were that people who weren't season ticket holders would be either priced out or given very little access to tickets so I hope this is not going to happen. The constant empty seats at ARSENAL, week in week out (apart from against the top 4 or 5 teams) should be a warning against taking us for granted.
Hopefully this is just a temporary measure until the test events are out of the way and the club release more tickets I said "Hopefully"...
I can’t do links, but I got this figure from the latest minutes from the THST. It implies it’s for all games.
Thankfully I’m a ST holder but if the club do a ballot instead of LP system for members it’ll be an absolute piss take because those like yourself who have persisted with Wembley won’t have your loyalty rewarded if it goes to a ballot. One of my cousins was still a member in the final season at The Lane, he had been going WHL for 4 years solid and once the ballot came in, he missed about 7 games because of it, one of those being West Ham. Don’t know what sort of ****head at the club believes a ballot is a fair system, it doesn’t reward loyalty and gives day trippers just as much of a chance as those who’ve been regularly. The figures are correct though unfortunately: 42k STs. 9k given to corporate. 3k away fans. Leaves about 7k-8k for members.
The corporate/premium seats have not been given to anyone. They have been sold at very high prices. The income from those is the only reason we can afford to build a new stadium.
I'd have thought that TV deals and various sponsorships brought in far more money than all of our ticket sales, to be honest.
