Football for a Fiver

The club are quite shamelessly using the return of Chris Powell to the Valley to sell tickets for a fiver for the Udders game. Now I don't mind him getting a round of applause before the game, but that's up to the fans, not the club which sacked him. To hear the announcer using this as a selling point was more than a tad cringeworthy in my book.

 

Here here.

 

Agreed

 

He may not last that long. I hope he can turn it round there as I wish him success, but their chairman can't afford them dropping out of the championship. He's invested too much over the years.

 

Don't let the facts get in the way of your prejudice. 'Udders were 21st when SCP took over. They are now 18th. In other words. they are moving steadily up the table, though not at the same rate we are moving downwards,. They are now three points and an inferior GD behind us. Another four games and they are likely to be above us. Their board kept faith with Clark for a long time even when they were not progressing so I imagine they will keep faith with SCP now that they are. Not all chairmen are like RD.

Agree with FHB's original point, though. But that sort of smarmy hypocrisy is par for the course with our present management.

 

Yep, 28th Feb is going to be nauseating. All of those smug middle class families from Blackheath, out of the woodwork for the day and nicking the best seats for a fiver...dabbing their eyes with an onion as "their hero" emerges from the tunnel.

Please God that clown Dave Lockwood pitchside does not big Powell up as he comes out....

 

SCP deserves his clap and all that, but i dont like the fact the club are using it as a selling point and to make a couple of quid.

it's not going to feel nice for SCP if he finds out that it's earnt his previous employers some cash, hardly going to make him want to come back from gardening leave when roland sods off is it?

 

If Udders were to win the game do you think Chrissy will do a tunnel jump for North Upper?

 

He has to much class for that. He might do Nick's favoured celebration and swing from the crossbar though?

 

One thing is for sure, thank to some inept & crass marketing by CAFC, the whole day will turn into a circus focused not on the game & 3 points, but on Chris Powell's favourite subject- Chris Powell.

 

I hate the 'fiver' matches.

The part-timers make my belly roil.

And I don't want to queue longer for my mud and 'meat' pie.

 

I know I'm in the minority - but I like football for a fiver. It's nice to see loads of kids getting involved and enjoying (for most) their first game of football.

And it's nice seeing the Valley at near capacity. You get the odd moron there who will be critical of the players after seeing them for the first time, but I can live with that for one game.

 

Always like a Town match, bit of family aligence (mum from Huddersfield) makes a bit of a laugh with family friends, but Football for a fiver, are Huddersfield only paying a Fiver too? ALSO, do we make more money when we sell games at a fiver over all? Or do we make more when it's like £20 a ticket or whatever it is?

 

I may pop along myself

 

Yes, everybody.
Kid-a-quid days are coming back too, which I'm much more in favour of. Helped me a lot at a time when the readies were in short supply.

 

Not to mention, our record on Football for a Fiver matches have not been great.

 

Barnsley and Exeter at home were two of the most depressing games to be fair.

 

I took a friends' two kids to the Barnsley match for their first Charlton experience, and it was also their last. The plus was that it was the beginning of the end for pardew.