Also, UP1 is nearly full and wasn't yesterday, East Stand is full, West Lower and Upper both have few seats dotted around and then there's South which may have some empty. Leeds will bring more which will reduce segregation hopefully and then there will only be around 500 empty for those purposes I would say.
I went early to pick my tickets for Leicester & Leeds up & then wandered into town for a coffee. When I got back I saw a huge que & thought it was to get into the ground. Then I saw people walking through the que & going in. I couldn't believe that people would leave it so late to collect tickets. Bizarre. Do people do this every game?
We gpt 25,030 for our Final PL game against Liverpool in May 2010. The amount of lost space nowadays in that northern stand thanks to the segregation muppets @ the KC/SMC beggars belief. We should give TWS the entire end IF they can sell them. Maybe the Liverpool segregation stewards need to come over and show ours how its done. Talk about lost revenue ? Thats why a top tier needs adding pronto for the away fans IF we get back to the PL in May.
AGREED. Yes there were empty seats but nowhere near 5000. Looks like the slush funds had a healthy boost boxing day ? His only failing at the moment is his lack of goals. He should have shot high into the net after rounding Schmeichel jnr and not given De Laet anychance of clearing it. But his alround game is more than ok,, imo. In saying that, Assuming that Meyler is still here i would bring him in for Simpson and push Koren up with Aluko. I expect a few changes at Blackpool New Years Day. Freshen things up. For sure he and many others will get a start against the Orient.
You make it sound like your club has an army of Carshalton and Northants Whites, ageing hangers-on who thought the good times and silverware would never end. Football in general would be so much more healthy if all these losers supported their local team instead of trying to capture their golden youth and the days of Rod Belfitt and Mick Bates.
Any HULL whites in the east stand should be thrown out and put in the stocks we need to erect outside the east stand...
Presumably, they will be thrown out if they are in the wrong section. I for one will grass any of them up. It's twats like them that kept us in the lower leagues all those years by not supporting their local team.
There was no more than four yards between Leeds and Boro fans last Saturday, for one of the highest risk fixtures of the season, and nothing kicked off aside from a couple of 13-year-olds limply tossing a smattering of coins into the Leeds end and one Boro fan having a spaz attack on the floor after he invaded the pitch and got taken down by a giddy throng of stewards. Plenty of hostility and banter between the fans without a single punch being thrown or a single person hurt. Segregation is overdone just like most elements of football security, to the detriment of fans who could be allocated extra seats in the most atmospheric parts of the ground. Ah well, we can still do ironic pawing gestures at each other on Saturday from 30 yards away. Tigers, tigers, raaraaraa. For crowd-counters, our 3,100 allocation is sold out. Surely if you have such an aversion to these 'twats', you should be glad they don't support your side. I'm certainly glad that the Red Rose traitors who live in Leeds don't turn up at Elland Road when their heart isn't in supporting their local club, just as I'm glad that our fans from Manchester, Blackpool and Preston follow their preference for God's Own Club.
I do. So do plenty of others from Leeds. But for every fan that might not be from Leeds, there are plenty of losers who still walk around in Liverpool, Man Yoo, Chelsea and now even Man City all of a sudden in Leeds. It's probably the same down your end. The plastics will always be around unfortunately. This thread is about our visit though, and you're about to have your biggest crowd of the season of about 23000, compared to your usual 16000 or so. And it's because it's Leeds and its your local derby.
Your local derby is Hudders. Sheff Wed will bring just as many as you lot if more, and nearly all of them with Sheffield postcodes,
The only out-of-towners I mind are those smelly tramps from Batley and Dewsbury who should be joining their townspeople in incest, spurious disability benefit claims and lower league egg-chasing.
Yeah until something happens again. I don't agree with segregation at all but it only takes 1 idiot who has to be a hard man & want to cause trouble & then it's all over the news & everyone on these boards is criticising the authorities for letting it happen. I went to a basketball game a few years ago & the people in front of me were supporting Miami & all the rest in the area were Orlando fans. Guess what nothing happened. Not the same passion as football fans maybe can be said but mostly better atmosphere & drinking aloud in your seat too.
I book my tickets online and often pick them up and normally you can pretty much walk straight in or there might be a queue of about half a dozen. The biggest queue I've seen was a few weeks back and consisted of around 20 people. We arrived at 2.45 and I saw the queue for the ticket office and said to my wife that I was pleased I wasn't in that, then we saw the collection line and couldn't believe it, it just kept on going, we finally got to our seats at 3.12. I certainly won't make that mistake again but I'm assuming a lot of fans must have booked really last minute and had no option but to collect. Although, I ordered them last Friday, they were supposed to be posted but didn't arrive, so I rang up to be told they hadn't been sent out and would have to collect them.
Yeah I guess that the lack of postage may have had quite a bit to do with it, but I was still shocked by the amount of people who would leave it so late knowing this.
Our usual 16,000? It's usually around 18,000 but obviously crowds have fallen everywhere this Season. Your only big crowd of this year will have been the Chelsea game, I'm pretty sure the 23/24,000 expected at the match between Hull and Leeds will be a higher attendance than the majority of your home matches this Season? You can say about everybody boycotting because of Bates etc etc, but really, they should have been back in when the T/O rumours gained some momentum in realisation that Bates is selling up. If they're staying away because Bates is part of the Club, then you're in some trouble for attendances because he's staying on as president is he not?
The ticket office are now selling the last remaining seats in the NW and SW sections and there are only 32 seats available in the NW corner. SW corner already full up. Surely if they sell those last few we need some of the North stand seats allocating to home fans as well and cut the segregation.
Does anyone know how many Lesta brought - however many it was it was disappointing - I expected more. As for Leeds, I suppose some are still attracted by the fact that they were once one of the most successful sides in English football even though that was nigh on 40 years ago now. For me the game is not a proper local derby - we probably don't have one at this level anymore - maybe the two Sheffield clubs but even this may be less so for them.
