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Post by Topper Gas on Dec 30, 2019 17:14:06 GMT
How will making it all ticket stop away fans buying tickets for the home end? Ah well, looking forward to it. Sort of. I wondered that too. Looking up anyone with a Coventry address seems like the obvious but what's the club to dispute if told they're Rovers fans? I guess someone who newly registers to buy a ticket who lives in the West Midlands is unlikely to be a Rovers fan? Surprised Coventry have sold nearly 2,000 when was hardly any fans at St Andrews earlier in the season!
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Post by farmygas on Dec 30, 2019 17:18:30 GMT
.....and the West Enclosure remains closed...... If we sell enough to make it cost effective to open it, it will be reopened. TG has repeated this countless times.
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Post by Big Jock on Dec 30, 2019 17:20:04 GMT
If we sell enough to make it cost effective to open it, it will be reopened.
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Post by mehewmagic on Dec 30, 2019 17:22:38 GMT
It's clearly a tiny little competition against some club with little cup pedigree or away following, why the hell would we open the whole of our massive 12,000 capacity ground for a first round Muppet cup game?
Er, asking for a friend.
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Post by mehewmagic on Dec 30, 2019 17:28:04 GMT
Only single stand seats left, but South West and South stand not open ? Are they likely to open ? Seems to me we don't want to make money ........ Nonsensical, along with the closure of the West Terrace...and the decision not to open the club shop after Christmas until 2nd January! All those kids (and big kids!) with Christmas money burning a hole in their pockets and we don't bother to open the shop. No wonder they end up elsewhere. Steady on, we have commercial genius in our ranks you know. And now that horrible Hamer has gone it'll be like utopia because it was him who was doing all the weird stuff. 👍👍
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Post by Hudson1883 on Dec 30, 2019 17:28:11 GMT
I called this weeks ago, only to be quickly shut down by another who noted ‘Coventry barely get many home supporters’. Which is quite true, but they, like other clubs who have had problems at board level and/or finding somewhere to play their home fixtures, always travel well in numbers. We can expect a similar sell out of the away allocation when the league fixture comes around.
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Post by heartofgas on Dec 30, 2019 17:44:07 GMT
Isn’t there some sort of FA rule in the fa cup that the home side has to offer 25% of stadium capacity to away fans. Maybe the club wanted to see how many away tickets were sold before opening further parts of the ground. If cov request full allocation then we would have to offer 3k tickets. That’s the away terrace, south stand and southwest stand. In that case surely the whole ground would be open
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Post by nolongernonleaguegas on Dec 30, 2019 17:50:47 GMT
Isn’t there some sort of FA rule in the fa cup that the home side has to offer 25% of stadium capacity to away fans. Maybe the club wanted to see how many away tickets were sold before opening further parts of the ground. If cov request full allocation then we would have to offer 3k tickets. That’s the away terrace, south stand and southwest stand. In that case surely the whole ground would be open It’s 15%
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Post by matealotblue on Dec 30, 2019 17:57:58 GMT
.....and the West Enclosure remains closed...... If we sell enough to make it cost effective to open it, it will be reopened. TG has repeated this countless times. Which is really going to water off those ST holders who were forced out of there in the first place and bought tickets for other areas of the ground. For the third time this season.....!
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Post by Westy on Dec 30, 2019 18:03:06 GMT
I wondered that too. Looking up anyone with a Coventry address seems like the obvious but what's the club to dispute if told they're Rovers fans? I guess someone who newly registers to buy a ticket who lives in the West Midlands is unlikely to be a Rovers fan? Surprised Coventry have sold nearly 2,000 when was hardly any fans at St Andrews earlier in the season! Nah I get it Topper, just can't see how they could enforce it practically. Where there's a will there's a way, making it all ticket won't/can't stop that completely I don't think.
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Post by Topper Gas on Dec 30, 2019 18:28:23 GMT
I guess someone who newly registers to buy a ticket who lives in the West Midlands is unlikely to be a Rovers fan? Surprised Coventry have sold nearly 2,000 when was hardly any fans at St Andrews earlier in the season! Nah I get it Topper, just can't see how they could enforce it practically. Where there's a will there's a way, making it all ticket won't/can't stop that completely I don't think. You'd have to be a bit desperate though to regisiter to buy a ticket to go in our home end just for an FA Cup R3 tie, it's hardly a play off/promotion decider type match.
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Post by aghast on Dec 30, 2019 20:07:22 GMT
Nah I get it Topper, just can't see how they could enforce it practically. Where there's a will there's a way, making it all ticket won't/can't stop that completely I don't think. You'd have to be a bit desperate though to regisiter to buy a ticket to go in our home end just for an FA Cup R3 tie, it's hardly a play off/promotion decider type match. Your attitude, and I'm not saying you're wrong, sums up what the FA Cup means nowadays. There was a time where teams in L1 and L2 would throw everything at the 3rd round of the cup in the hope of a big tie next round, and also just because it was the 3rd round. Closing sections of the ground would have been absolutely unthinkable. Sad how little it all means now.
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Post by oldmarket65 on Dec 30, 2019 20:31:19 GMT
You'd have to be a bit desperate though to regisiter to buy a ticket to go in our home end just for an FA Cup R3 tie, it's hardly a play off/promotion decider type match. Your attitude, and I'm not saying you're wrong, sums up what the FA Cup means nowadays. There was a time where teams in L1 and L2 would throw everything at the 3rd round of the cup in the hope of a big tie next round, and also just because it was the 3rd round. Closing sections of the ground would have been absolutely unthinkable. Sad how little it all means now. I can remember v Leyton Oreint about 15 plus years ago being locked out the ground. Around 150 fans were held back in car park by Police and was informed they shut the ground due to overcrowding. I am sure it was round 3 or 4 and in the end we all left and went back down glou rd...
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Post by kampucheagas on Dec 30, 2019 20:50:10 GMT
I’m going with my 10 year old boy
Been showing him their 1987 win over spurs and how we are playing a previous winner and how exciting it will be if we can beat them and then get Spurs away and maybe win it ourselves this year
The poor lad.
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Post by oldtoteender on Dec 30, 2019 20:50:42 GMT
Sorry, but i think it is awful closing west terrace, it kills what little atmosphere is left at the Mem, it was crap watching against Plymouth and gives the away fans more voice, which will happen against Coventry.
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Post by hardingegas on Dec 30, 2019 21:31:35 GMT
This is the reason I won't be there Sunday. Closing any section of the ground for this stage of the FA Cup is unforgivable.
What should be a great occasion with a big Coventry following will now be diluted by a partly filled ground.
Talk about shooting ourselves in the foot - we should be charged with bringing the game into disrepute and showing contempt for the "Magic of the Cup"! (which of course was lost after the introduction of the Premiership).
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Post by mehewmagic on Dec 30, 2019 21:54:04 GMT
Isn’t there some sort of FA rule in the fa cup that the home side has to offer 25% of stadium capacity to away fans. Maybe the club wanted to see how many away tickets were sold before opening further parts of the ground. If cov request full allocation then we would have to offer 3k tickets. That’s the away terrace, south stand and southwest stand. In that case surely the whole ground would be open It’s 15% Which means around 1800 which is away terrace plus some of South stand, thus proving that that possible excuse is a misnomer. Don't have a problem with the club doing things like this for very small crowds but 3rd round of FA cup against an historical 'big' team with big support and who are actually our 3rd closest away trip (ok, maybe we aren't quite their 3rd closest away trip, but it is an easy & tempting journey on a sunday with a £10 ticket price). Just not worth messing ST holders around for. It isn't. (BTW - not a ST holder / doesn't effect me so no bias there).
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Post by mehewmagic on Dec 30, 2019 22:06:13 GMT
Your attitude, and I'm not saying you're wrong, sums up what the FA Cup means nowadays. There was a time where teams in L1 and L2 would throw everything at the 3rd round of the cup in the hope of a big tie next round, and also just because it was the 3rd round. Closing sections of the ground would have been absolutely unthinkable. Sad how little it all means now. I can remember v Leyton Oreint about 15 plus years ago being locked out the ground. Around 150 fans were held back in car park by Police and was informed they shut the ground due to overcrowding. I am sure it was round 3 or 4 and in the end we all left and went back down glou rd... Yes, I was there as well (or not as the case was!). 1999. Fourth round. I'd dragged a friend over from Birmingham. Parking was hard. We wandered up to the ground (not even via a pub) & absolutely gobsmacked to be told it was full. Zero idea that that might happen. Official att given as 9274. Previous home crowds had been circa 5,500. Even Burnley had only been 7100. The next home game after was 6200. Weird. Just stood there for a while in North East corner where you could see some of the pitch & then later wandered off back to bloody car.
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Post by oldmarket65 on Dec 30, 2019 22:25:51 GMT
I can remember v Leyton Oreint about 15 plus years ago being locked out the ground. Around 150 fans were held back in car park by Police and was informed they shut the ground due to overcrowding. I am sure it was round 3 or 4 and in the end we all left and went back down glou rd... Yes, I was there as well (or not as the case was!). 1999. Fourth round. I'd dragged a friend over from Birmingham. Parking was hard. We wandered up to the ground (not even via a pub) & absolutely gobsmacked to be told it was full. Zero idea that that might happen. Official att given as 9274. Previous home crowds had been circa 5,500. Even Burnley had only been 7100. The next home game after was 6200. Weird. Just stood there for a while in North East corner where you could see some of the pitch & then later wandered off back to bloody car. That was it ! The O'S were allocated about 1800 and brought 300 . The club at to include the 1800 on the 9000 home making it just under 11000 . We were asking the police can we go in the south stand but they refused !. "Rules are rules " they said !.
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Post by keygas on Dec 30, 2019 22:42:34 GMT
Your attitude, and I'm not saying you're wrong, sums up what the FA Cup means nowadays. There was a time where teams in L1 and L2 would throw everything at the 3rd round of the cup in the hope of a big tie next round, and also just because it was the 3rd round. Closing sections of the ground would have been absolutely unthinkable. Sad how little it all means now. I can remember v Leyton Oreint about 15 plus years ago being locked out the ground. Around 150 fans were held back in car park by Police and was informed they shut the ground due to overcrowding. I am sure it was round 3 or 4 and in the end we all left and went back down glou rd... I can remember that game well , we were stood in the West enclosure & you could see a queues of people opposite trying to get in the east enclosure just before kick off . But at that time there was a little bit more magic about the f a cup before the big clubs started to devalue the competition by fielding weaken sides.
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