This week and maybe going into next, the ticket office will be releasing future information about priority tickets for "Bigger" home matches and away game, great right?... Wrong : What gets me puzzled is the the fact that last season (09/10) and this promotion winning season has seen our average gates been around the 14 or 15 thousand mark. And after the day out on wembley which saw 40 thousand fans make their way on the M4 and that famous wembley way. How many of those 14 or 15 thousand fans will have lost out on the chance next season to watch the Swans? Myself couldnt get a season ticket and was more than happy to que from the early hours the night before to get a season ticket but it wasnt to be. So before these "priority" tickets are released, who relly does get the priority? the fans who found a great day out in london, buy a jersey and call themselves die hard fans and when asked outside wembley who was their fav player they reply "Kuiq, i think him and nouble upfront will be hard to defend ". Really fans? or glory hunters? One queston, (touch wood) should the swansea go down next season in the premier , will these people still be here to watch the likes of Doncaster, Blackpool or Watford on a tuesday night when its raining cats and dogs... Its up for debate! What do you think?
Well I think we all know the answer to that! They will not be seen for dust, they are a mist appearing, then disappearing. but many of us will have learnt lessons here, and will be more business like for sure, in the future....................... please log in to view this image
there been threads put up about this before. most fans buy season tickets early when they go on sale. so to be honest its your own fault as if you have missed your chance to get a season ticket. you are right about glory hunters. but how many of the 40,000 that went to play off final are swansea fans? i can say i now a few people who could only name scott sinclair in our team. just because he makes some head lines. but thats football for you. im not a season ticket holder. as i play football myself on a saturday afternoon.
Yea your right aswel about not being a season ticket holder i cant afford it but i had just enough money to get me through a working month to actually buy one but i had to work at silly o'clock the next morning, i played rugby the majority of this season but i thought long term and i caught every home and away game that became avalible and feesable to myself so when i hear about my mates who are united, liverpool and all the rest of em talking about all this and what have you and i start talking about swansea and they dont want to know... then suddenly wembley appears on a ticket and they all jump on the band wagon and its people like that who will take a seat from the likes of us who have never seen the swans before and dont want to but they will be more than happy to sit and pay £40 to watch the likes of chelsea no problem and dont give a damm about the result. TWO words for these STAY AWAY
how many of you was at wallsall in the early 90's when we got moved to 3 stands during the game because of the weather and the ground falling apart? ps i have'nt a season ticcy either.
Well I think it's your own fault for not getting a season ticket months ago when they were cheap enough and there was no need to queue. There will always be glory hunters with all teams but the real fans would have got their tickets a long time before the glory hunters got their tickets!
if i had the chance it would have been done and i would be laughing but back then cash was short like alot of us know and it wasent possiable, but that wont stop alot of fans going to the ground on the off chance of getting a ticket and coming back dissapointed and having to listen to the games on the radio on tele which is nothing compared to bing in the ground or an away ground!
Just coz ur from llwynhendy u think ur hard.. Wise up mate or I'll be over urs now to show u a thing or two and ull have no windows left
the thing that will annoy me next season is if i see people in opposing teams shirts sitting in our stands. everybody should be allowed to watch their team play. but if you can't get a ticket for the away end, let existing and future swans fans have them. with only about 1500 tickets available for home games, they're going to sell out in no time. i just hope they go to swans fans.
Jeez. I've stayed quiet on this subject, but the negativity showed on these boards towards potential new fans is getting ridiculous. As has been said, existing Season Ticket holders had plenty of time to renew prior to Wembley and if the excitement of us going up and being a Premier League club brings in new fans (call them Glory Hunters if you must) then what the hell is wrong with that?! The more fans we get the better in my opinion, all the big teams didn't start life getting 40,000 ever week, it's a growing process. It's a shame that some of the vetch/liberty regulars didn't get STs, but we're now a successful club, and hopefully if we do well the stadium will be expanded over time. Living in Norwich, I can only manage away games in my region & London, but have been going to the away games since our lads were on the bottom of the ladder, but all this talk of not "Real" fans is making me feel a touch persecuted, why can't we just be a happy family of Jacks and welcome in the new blood and hope they also form life-long bonds with this fantastic club?!
Well said mate. Life is a game of oneupmanship, unfortunately. I'm probably going to get to see one or two games live next year, and I'm expecting none of them to be at the Liberty. Does that bother me? Well I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a bit gutted... but the Swans are in the Premiership! Who cares!
Bullshit. Have more faith in your club man, I fully expect a lot of those new "plastic" fans (as you lot call them) to be drawn in by the club hook line and sinker. I have a number of friends who only had a passing interest in our results until I convinced them to come to a few games back when the liberty opened, they got hooked within weeks and have been regular attendees ever since. I see no reason why anyone else won't have the same kind of reaction. Stop moaning and make the new fans welcome, it will be in the best interests of the club.
Guys, give it a rest. I got my season ticket in March. It doesn't make me a Die Hard or a Plastic or a Gummi Bear or a Jammy dodger, blah, blah, blah! If you wanted one, you coulda got one in March or April without any probs. Calling these people that beat you to the front 'Plastic' when you were in the same queue smacks of sour grapes. I'm not even gonna explain (again) the correct way you should be feeling. Read my signature and stop having a go at people who, evidently, are more of a fan than you if they got up earlier, queued for longer, etc.
I agree with Norfolk on this and as someone who now lives over 200 miles from Swansea home games were and will be difficult to get to. But there is no excuse for someone in or near Swansea not to have got a ST in March. When I lived in Neath through the 60s and 70s I supported the Swans home and at a lot of away games through some really bad (and some good) times and stood in some dire grounds lol. Just get behind the team!
Welcome to SCFC, where some people just want a crowd of 200 die-hard fans. They like to think they are better than everyone else and want you to think they supported the Swans before they learnt to walk and talk. Many even support other teams, like Man U, so SCFC isn't even their first team. But that doesn't matter, because they are REAL. LOL. Maybe they just need to get a life.
Don't be such a numpty will you Hacker, there are even Cardiff supporters who have purchased a season ticket, to watch the Premier clubs, some people are so naive aye!............. please log in to view this image
Hacker - I went to my first Swans match around 35 years ago and then went to a few more but then kind of lost interest in football. But I got back into it around 5 years ago, although I never went to any matches. I lived in London at the time, but used to visit Swansea quite often. A mate of mine who is more of a Swans supporter suggested going to a match and a few of us went along. We then made it a bit of a regular thing and went to about 5 home and 5 away matches a season, until I left the UK. If it wasn't for my mate I'd probably never have gone again. So you're right, new fans can get drawn it. But that's just not good enough for some of the so-called real fans.
At the risk of sounding a grumpy so and so, if I see anyone at home games wearing another teams shirt God help them because they will get a piece of my mind and I'll probably report them to a steward too, although it's only likely to happen when we play the likes of Man Ure, Liverpoo and the like. Season tickets for should be for our fans regardless of how long they've supported us. I take my hat off the the guys living away that can only get to away games, I hope you get tickets for these games.
This was never about the " New " fans , really . This is about the " Old & Regular " fans & the way the people making decisions overran them . That's not the " new " fans fault , their going to take whatever they can get , human behavior & all .
