Stevenage Tickets

[Negative_Jeff]

Given the pitiful turn out at most away games this season I am surprised at the interest in this fixture.
There are two points worth making. Anyone who went to Southampton two years ago will know that most "fans" in the away end at Stevenage will be "spectators" and not "supporters" and the atmosphere will be as dead as a pricked balloon. (Spectators love balloons).
Secondly it appears that many regular awayday faces will not be attending. I remember travelling on the train to Liverpool in the first season in the Premiership, many RFC shirts but I never recognised a soul, and before anyone asks, no, I didn`t get a ticket for that game either. Sour grapes? Not really, just all part of the plastic RFC experience.

[Red]

At least you can console yourself that you're a much better fan than all these others though eh Jeff? That must cheer you up a little.

[muddyfeet]

Given the pitiful turn out at most away games this season I am surprised at the interest in this fixture.
There are two points worth making. Anyone who went to Southampton two years ago will know that most "fans" in the away end at Stevenage will be "spectators" and not "supporters" and the atmosphere will be as dead as a pricked balloon. (Spectators love balloons).
Secondly it appears that many regular awayday faces will not be attending. I remember travelling on the train to Liverpool in the first season in the Premiership, many RFC shirts but I never recognised a soul, and before anyone asks, no, I didn`t get a ticket for that game either. Sour grapes? Not really, just all part of the plastic RFC experience.

and of course you must be plastic if you dont make it to many away games

[Negative_Jeff]

At least you can console yourself that you're a much better fan than all these others though eh Jeff? That must cheer you up a little.

Don`t worry about me, I shall probably make the trip for ze pint.

[pea]

Given the pitiful turn out at most away games this season I am surprised at the interest in this fixture.
There are two points worth making. Anyone who went to Southampton two years ago will know that most "fans" in the away end at Stevenage will be "spectators" and not "supporters" and the atmosphere will be as dead as a pricked balloon. (Spectators love balloons).
Secondly it appears that many regular awayday faces will not be attending. I remember travelling on the train to Liverpool in the first season in the Premiership, many RFC shirts but I never recognised a soul, and before anyone asks, no, I didn`t get a ticket for that game either. Sour grapes? Not really, just all part of the plastic RFC experience.

And yet simply by going to every home game since royalty points began wouldn't have made you eligible to buy a ticket yesterday so what you're saying is clearly a load of rubbish considering all 1350 who are going would have to have gone to at least three full seasons worth of games to have got the points to buy tickets, what a bunch of plastics

[Harpers So Solid Crew]

And yet simply by going to every home game since royalty points began wouldn't have made you eligible to buy a ticket yesterday so what you're saying is clearly a load of rubbish considering all 1350 who are going would have to have gone to at least three full seasons worth of games to have got the points to buy tickets, what a bunch of plastics

so for 3 seasons we have taken 1350 plus to each away game as a minimum

[Negative_Jeff]

Given the pitiful turn out at most away games this season I am surprised at the interest in this fixture.
There are two points worth making. Anyone who went to Southampton two years ago will know that most "fans" in the away end at Stevenage will be "spectators" and not "supporters" and the atmosphere will be as dead as a pricked balloon. (Spectators love balloons).
Secondly it appears that many regular awayday faces will not be attending. I remember travelling on the train to Liverpool in the first season in the Premiership, many RFC shirts but I never recognised a soul, and before anyone asks, no, I didn`t get a ticket for that game either. Sour grapes? Not really, just all part of the plastic RFC experience.

And yet simply by going to every home game since royalty points began wouldn't have made you eligible to buy a ticket yesterday so what you're saying is clearly a load of rubbish considering all 1350 who are going would have to have gone to at least three full seasons worth of games to have got the points to buy tickets, what a bunch of plastics

Could you edit that rambling passage for me so that I may be able to construct a suitable reply.

[Ian Royal]

Arse. Oh well, surprised by this, but I guess it's a new ground and we had a good cup run last year.

[Svlad Cjelli]

Given the pitiful turn out at most away games this season I am surprised at the interest in this fixture.
There are two points worth making. Anyone who went to Southampton two years ago will know that most "fans" in the away end at Stevenage will be "spectators" and not "supporters" and the atmosphere will be as dead as a pricked balloon. (Spectators love balloons).
Secondly it appears that many regular awayday faces will not be attending. I remember travelling on the train to Liverpool in the first season in the Premiership, many RFC shirts but I never recognised a soul, and before anyone asks, no, I didn`t get a ticket for that game either. Sour grapes? Not really, just all part of the plastic RFC experience.

And yet simply by going to every home game since royalty points began wouldn't have made you eligible to buy a ticket yesterday so what you're saying is clearly a load of rubbish considering all 1350 who are going would have to have gone to at least three full seasons worth of games to have got the points to buy tickets, what a bunch of plastics

Could you edit that rambling passage for me so that I may be able to construct a suitable reply.

I will. I think he's trying to make the point that Southampton went on general sale so any plastic numpie with no points could take their family for a day out, but as there was quite a strict points requirment for Stevenage the only people there will be people who've been to football matches before.

[howser]

Uhmmm these are the bonuses of course of having a son that lives in Stevenage I suppose yipeeeeeee !! 3 tickets secured game on !!

[RoyalBlue]

Given that every home game is an away trip for us, we have no guilt about going to 'home' games such as Watford and Stevenage!

Oh, and I served my away apprenticeship back in the days of Persil Tickets, The Jolly Porter Crew and the Reading Ornithological Society day trips!

I still remember the 'punk' stealing a whole turkey off the carvery counter in that riverside pub at York!

[who are ya?]

Hands up who has a ticket for this but "didnt bother" with the WBA? Only the cup after all.

Me. Home games are shit... so there..

[Tony Le Mesmer]

Shows how far we've come as a club in recent times. There's a real eagerness to see us play at little old Stevenage when I suspect there'd be relative indifference if we'd got a Premiership team.

I miss the little 'uns.

I agree - but I wonder if it's actually more telling in that it's a rather damning verdict on the championship and the upper reaches of the football pyramid.

We're fed up of paying over the odds to sit in souless stadia watching overpayed prima donnas.

Can't just be me...can it?

Not just you Red. Well up for this one, but im fed up with touring round purpose built lego sets. In fact, this season is probably the worst ive ever known it for away games. Apart from maybe QPR & Sheff Utd (just a fav of mine) its the most dire set of fixtures you could come up with. Derby, Leics, Cov, Ips, Preston, boro, burnley, barnsley, swansea, cardiff, watford, hull... simply dire fayre.

[who are ya?]

Watford's not a lego bowl, it's a pile of rubble with yellow seats.

[SHORT AND CURLY]

Oh, and I served my away apprenticeship back in the days of Persil Tickets, The Jolly Porter Crew and the Reading Ornithological Society day trips!

As above.

I have only been to Bristol, Millwall, QPR and Watford away this season but in my years of following the Royals (And of course the Biscuit Men) I have accumulated enough points to pick and choose what games I will be going to.
I will be going to Cardiff and Sheff Utd away in the coming weeks.

I have tickets for the game and genuinely feel sorry for those that have been to every away game this season that could not get a ticket, but as RoyalBlue indicated, I have too have earned the points over around 30+ years of following the team.
(By the way I know the points system is relatively new, but you know where I am coming from.)

[Kitson12]

Watford's not a lego bowl, it's a pile of rubble with yellow seats.

Cardiff's the lego bowl.

[RoyalBlue]

Watford's not a lego bowl, it's a pile of rubble with yellow seats.

To be fair, like their team, the ground is starting to improve quite dramatically and becoming better to look at!

[Ian Herring]

Watford's not a lego bowl, it's a pile of rubble with yellow seats.

That aside though, it has some nearby allotments that are arousing.

[LWJ]

FFS :'( was planning on doing the whole cup run this year. Just interested why we didn't sell out for liverpool away, west brom away in the cup last year, but manage to sell out for this. It's not even terracing, so why the big interest?

[1871 Royal]

FFS :'( was planning on doing the whole cup run this year. Just interested why we didn't sell out for liverpool away, west brom away in the cup last year, but manage to sell out for this. It's not even terracing, so why the big interest?

20 mins outside of London, old fashioned club, decent welcome and atmosphere, don't have to go too far north where all the poor people are.

Plus we never sold out liverpool or west brom away because they were midweek games and if my memory serves me correctly the liverpool game was around the time we had the really bad snow in the area, not worth the risk of not being able to make KO/actually getting home.