Been going along for years to as many games as I can manage given other commitments (I play a lot of golf/travel a lot on business and, sadly, neither of my boys have bitten on the football bug so its a "me" thing that needs to fit around my family). My mate and I manage about ten games a season on average. The exceptions have been last season when we just gave up as it was all too depressing and I couldn't justify paying out to subsidise the complete miss-management of my club and this season where we have only missed two home games and have started dabbling with closer to home away trips. We therefore concluded at the weekend that we can no longer sensibly resist the temptation to buy season tickets and will be doing so before the Easter price watershed. The dilema is where to sit. The advantage of buying match to match is that you can be a bit of an itinerant and tour the ground. Also, as seems to happen to me with monotonous regularity, you sit next to, behind or in front of a complete arsehole or three. I'm afraid I have become less tolerant with age so some of what follows is as much a comment about me as it is about the arseholes, but sufficient unto the day to say that I will want with the purchase of my prized season ticket to avoid close proximity to any of the following who have blighted my otherwise enjoyable visits to the Valley this season: 1. Women with piercing voices who insist on talking constantly and shreeking rubbish at a frequency that is quite possibly damaging to the ears (East, Block C row V - you know who you are!!!! The ticket office people laugh when I ask for those seats cos someone different sits there for every game - they never go back); 2. Trainspotters with wierd afflictions (e.g. the guy in West Upper block K who rubs his hands together frenetically for 90 minutes); 3. Trainspotters without the afflictions but who talk constant bollocks (West Upper, same general area as 2 above who says "Ard Luck" about every 3.5 seconds! 4. Very large people who wear even larger anoraks (they are everywhere!). 5. Restless, overly talkative children, 6. People with long legs and pointy knees - I nearly hit someone on Saturday for the first time since I was old enough to know that I shouldn't! If he'd kneed me in the kneck one more time........ 7. Drummers - love it, but I don't want to be next to it. 8. People who arrive 5 minutes late and leave 5 minutes early and go for a piss/pint 5 minutes before half time and arrive back 5 minutes into the second half - that's more than 20% of the game you paid to watch that you've missed and 4 times you have disriupted me!!! 9. Smelly people (East, Block D row W - FFS have a f#####g shower you lardy git! 10. People who are asleep or may actually be dead (Take your pick in the West Upper). So good people of not606, and with apologies to any of you who I may have inadvertantly mentioned in 1 - 10 above, where should I buy? Favourite at the moment is centre East just below the walkway (my mate gets a say in this too and he's a bit more tolerant than me and that's his shout at present). Advice welcome.
Oh my life - this is the funniest thing I've read on here in a while. Except Number 2, of course. I, er, it gets very cold in Upper West...
Brilliant thread haa Well I'm Lower West South Side I see it as like a Goulag for those un-laddish people who don't really want to partake in the noise and hysteria of the crowds in the north but like to admire it from a safe distance. It is a home for the football intellects too - the view (6 rows from the pitch) is idyllic to 'feel' the game - Keith Peacock should sit where I sit to better advise Chrissy Also you get to witness the Away fans banter at first hand Lastly, the old disabled area still remains here and several of them are hilarious - and I mean that in the kindest way possible as I have always sat there and they are well respected and treated. I can't really explain how. I thoroughly recommend giving it a try there before deciding your new home.
West Upper, front row of block Q. I have had a seat there for years. You get a great view of the pitch and can enjoy the banter of the away fans - from a safe distance! Plus it never gets too busy for the kiosks, bogs etc. But I would happily forsake these comforts for a return to the big-time.
Thats a good point from Ponders - can you go along to the Ticket office and find out where the good seats are available? (like front row of Upper West) - a bit like going to the cinema and choosing your seats.
that was funny just finished reading it!i recommend best atmosphere where i used to sit lower tier north right at back in c block have had some funny times in that section i laughed so uch one game caused a back injury.
Cheers guys. We are heading down to the valley this morning to see what's available. You never know who I might end up beside.........
This is in the same category as the proposed drink up. It could be great but it might just shatter the illusion......
Let us know how it goes Jimbob, and whether it is just a case of turning up and seeing whats available, like going to the cinema?
Hi Stu. Will put a separate thread up to flag how good our commercial team are. It was great!! Got to walk round the stadium to try out a few seats. Ended up buying in East Stand Block D. I am now a season ticket holder. Whahey!!!
OI! Now you are a season ticket holder we'll have no talk like "Whahey" especially from an East Stander.... you are either fast asleep or looking miserable it's their raison d'etre Did you buy yourself an East Stand blankie from the store? Designed with a special pocket for your vacuum of Bovril or tea
Cheers guys. Stu - just force of habit really. We tend to buy tickets in the East and I like the view from there. It feels closer to the pitch than the West and, as a spectacle wearer, I don't seem to get dazzled by the floodlights as much as I do when I sit in West Upper. I'd quite like to get involved with the atmosphere and sundry other shenanigans in the North Upper but I like a side on view and I'm getting a bit old for all that AllHell, I won't have all this rugist and bovrilist prejudice on ere! Hot chocolate has been our flask of choice this winter!!!! In any acse, you are allowed to move if you don't like it after a couple of games so you never know, I might end up in the mad end after all!
