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Confirmed: Northam Stand to go home fans only, plus ST details for 2024/25

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  1. Ian Thumwood

    Ian Thumwood Well-Known Member

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    How will the Portsmouth fans be accommodated? Seem to recall them.being guven the whole of one end in the past ? Not sure I would be comfortable with the current arrangements for away fans when it comes to Portsmouth.
     
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  2. Saints Fan4Life

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    Think they only ever had the whole end in cup games didn't they? League games are always the standard allocation.
     
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  3. TheRealSaints

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    I think the rules are 10% for league games and up to 15% for cup games.
     
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  4. Libby

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    They weren't given the whole end for the two fa cup ties, had a larger allocation but we still had fans in the Northam. I always used it as an example in recent years when we started giving the whole end unnecessarily.

    Skates will get less than 3k I imagine due to extra segregation. Rumours of a mutual agreement between clubs of 2.7k each.
     
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  5. Libby

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    15% is FA Cup only.

    Championship (and L1/2) is whichever is lowest out of 10% and 2k.
     
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  6. Libby

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    Don't forget they'll all be bussed in so won't be mingling around outside the ground.
     
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  7. garysfc

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    With police agreement. The way it’s set now, even if we got them in the cup, I don’t think they’ll agree to any extension.
     
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  8. tomw24

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    Stoke have only received 2,400 tickets for the game at St Mary's.
     
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  9. Libby

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    Doubt they'd sell more than that. Be surprised if they sold all of those tbh.
     
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  10. Libby

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    I really hope the club are open to rethinking this, though I suspect not due to the fanzones.

    Undoubtedly a failed experiment at this point.

    It's all well and good saying you can have a single end to lead the singing but if they can't be heard at the other end of the ground then it's never going to work.
     
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  11. Saints Fan4Life

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    **** the fanzones (they only get in the way and cause a bottleneck for those who want to get out) and put the stadium back to how it was.
     
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  12. Libby

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    They're a money spinner though so they won't bin it.

    The bottleneck did improve for quite a while but was awful again today.

    Probably just because fans couldn't go round the kingsland though.
     
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  13. Saints Fan4Life

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    Yeah, I sadly suspect they won't bin them off entirely, but they do need rethinking so that they're not there right in the main pathway.

    I got caught up in bottlenecks at both Wrexham and Stoke so I've yet to see an improvement there <laugh>
     
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  14. Libby

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    Took me about 10-15 minutes to get from kingsland/northam corner to outside the chapel pre game.
     
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