I dont understand at all why people leave early, even if your losing badly you should clap out your team. with the standing argument i believed that it was a safety thing not having standing areas (not sure about this though).
Have to say that it's really refreshing to read through a thread where everyone clearly has the club at heart and I have to say there are some really top posts on here. My take it is that I welcome new fans whoever they are and wherever they come from but I do agree with the points made about people leaving early and people not watching the game. I have seen both happen at the Liberty. Away is slightly different because I haven't seen people leaving early, perhaps because they aren't allowed but I have witnessed the sit down brigade in action. We scored our 1st goal at Norwich so I jumped up to cheer and a woman behind me screamed at me and the other people in our row to sit down. I couldn't believe it. I think there should be an unwritten rule in football that away fans are expected to stand. After all it's football and not ballet. At some grounds the legroom isn't the best and if you're quite tall then you're going to struggle sitting down. The tightest for legroom I've been at are Ipswich and Sheffield United outside the Premier league and Everton and Man Utd in it.
Why can't I get on page two arghhhhh. That's better, I will have my two peneth worth later, the boy's got a 5 side game. Oh the joy of kids!!!
NJ what about those hard-core who can't afford a season ticket - it's not cheap - Getting one offs seems to be difficult - I know if it hadn't been for a bunch of season ticket holders moving about and calling in favours I wouldn't have been able to see a game last year- and it was Wolves !!
Unfortunately that is the nature of the beast we have become. I have been a season ticket holder since 1995, when i moved back from london and i have no doubt i will continue to be one until i am physically unsble to go anymore. I do feel sorry for people who cant afford ST but then struggle to get tickets when they can afford to go to a single game. but what is happening to us is nothing new, it is probably happening at all the top clubs as season tickets are snapped up by the rich and the rest by supporters from all over the world who want to watch their favourite team and PL football. Whilst i do feel for those long term fans, we can not at the moment turn away any income into the club. how do the Swans satisfy everyone, I dont know if there is an answer. Maybe if this increase in capacity does come it will satisfy nearly everyone. hopefully there will be enough tickets to go round.
Only 1,789 tickets made availaible to us for the game at Old Trafford won't go down too well. At least the points scheme kicking in will mean that big time Charlie's won't get in and the tickets will go to stalwarts.
Dreyfus what i find interesting is that you are the biggest plastic of the lot. When we went to the everton v qpr. game u looked at the floor all game. when ever u are at a game u dont look at the field. u clap and cheer 3 secs after everyone else and constantly guess on who the players. stupid plastic.
Dreyfus can't help being a bit simple. At least he was awake at Everton. At Sheffield United and also at the Millenium stadium when we played Carlisle he fell asleep. I'd better not mention the beer episode at Doncaster or the Chips episode at Barnsley either.
I did fall asleep due to a couple of reffers at the play off game at Wembley, can't remember which one think it was the Northampton game. Bloody retaken free kick!!!!
At the Carlisle game he got pissed, fell asleep and when Akinfenwa scored the winner with 10 mins to go he woke up and asked us had the game started. At Barnsley we got him pissed again and he bought chips in the ground. I passed him sugar telling him it was salt and he sprinkled it all over. He proceeded to throw these horrible chips at the police and stewards because we said they were laughing at him. At Doncaster we were in the pub and we got him pissed. As a challenge I got him to lay his hands face down on the table together and put a full pint on top. The challenge was to get the pint off without tipping any. He tried all ways but couldn't do it and said he couldn't do it. I said that neither could I, got up and walked away. All I can say is that the beer ended up all over him At Sheffield United we got him pissed and he fell asleep standing up. I kid you not !! We were in the pub in Blackpol a few years ago for league game back in league 1. He'd had a few to be fair and he's not the best looking bugger you'll ever see and a girl in a wheelchair came up to me and Billy and asked what his disability was. Billy was also asked by another woman if he was a drug dealer, when he asked why she thought that she pointed at Dreyfus and said "you've brought your own dope". I'm sure Billy can confirm all of the above
