Play-Off Tickets

[dean horrix legend]

Home form has to be the main factor.If we had been on a winning streak would have been nearer capacity,then of course we wouldn't have been in the play offs anyway.

I personally knew of half a dozen season ticket holders who just couldn't see past an away win so didn't bother,so your casual supporter will be thinking the same.

[soggy biscuit]

Reading fans have been poor nearly all season, lasts nights attendance was no shocker.

[toppy]

I am a current STH and have renewed for next season, but didnt go last night. Evening kickoffs are never good and I just couldnt face it.

Well done to all those who went.

[Rex]

Yeah and well done to those leaving with 30 mins to go.

[mr_number]

gotta say i thought it was embarassing that we couldn't find more than 17 thousand or so willing to support the team in such a big game. sure, it was hard to be optimistic, but if you don't go to that sort of game,then why do you bother following football at all?

[brendywendy]

empty stands for a playoff semi!
fans leaving with 30 to go
no one bothering to see the team off


we really dont deserve a successful team

[Schards#2]

That was an absolutely shocking attendance for a game of this magnitude. Worse still was the number of fans streaming for the exits with half an hour to go - shame on you.

Embarrasing isn't a world I often use about support but our support was embarrasing yesterday and demonstrates just how temporary and fickle the post 2006 influx of new supporters actually.

I have real concerns with where this club may be heading if we can only sell 17,000 seats for a play off. Thank god we didn't expand.

[Barry the bird boggler]

I was thoroughly embarrassed by the pathetic turn out of the home support. 5000 empty seats is inexcusable for a game of that size.

However if we'd won I bet those 5000 would have been first in the queue to get Wembley tickets!

[Royal_Belly]

I was shocked to see so many of the usual faces who come week in week out were absent last night! I know our home performances have been awful but this was a semi final 2nd leg play off final - it was set up to be a good game - which it was for the first half.

[Royal_Belly]

I was shocked to see so many of the usual faces who come week in week out were absent last night! I know our home performances have been awful but this was a semi final 2nd leg play off final - it was set up to be a good game - which it was for the first half.

[Rex]

Not one person within 6 places either side of me was an ST holder.

[Maguire]

Worse still was the number of fans streaming for the exits with half an hour to go - shame on you

lolz, fck watching that shit.

Why bother sitting around for half an hour watching a game you know your team's going to lose and will never score in if they played until next May? I think retiring to the Oakford early doors with a copy of the Daily Sport is bare skillz to be honest.

[North Somerset Royal]

Not one person within 6 places either side of me was an ST holder.

How do you know? Did you ask to see their tickets? I have an ST in Upper West but was in East last night for a change. As the game was not covered by the ST I suspect a lot of people took the opportunity to change seats.

[Sarah Star]

Everyone near me was a season ticket ticket holder. It was good to be back amongst them all. We were going to sit together if we got to Wembley. One of us had been to Wembley and picked our seats for us.

By the end of the match however, I was sitting on my own.

[Humanistic]

Whilst not wishing to get in the way of Reading fan-bashing, it's worth noting that in their best season in years Burnley only averaged 13,000 at home (i.e. the fourth worst attended team in the division). Considering how we lost the plot at home over the last few months, to average just under 20,000 was quite a good effort I thought. The play-off semi was bit of an odd one, probably a combination of being on TV, STH having to pay for another match and the belief that we were never going to win at home.

[Rex]

Not one person within 6 places either side of me was an ST holder.

How do you know? Did you ask to see their tickets? I have an ST in Upper West but was in East last night for a change. As the game was not covered by the ST I suspect a lot of people took the opportunity to change seats.

I didn't realise we have a movers day on this game. I think i know all the people on my row who i've sat with all season.

[Sarah Star]

Whilst not wishing to get in the way of Reading fan-bashing, it's worth noting that in their best season in years Burnley only averaged 13,000 at home (i.e. the fourth worst attended team in the division). Considering how we lost the plot at home over the last few months, to average just under 20,000 was quite a good effort I thought. The play-off semi was bit of an odd one, probably a combination of being on TV, STH having to pay for another match and the belief that we were never going to win at home.

The Burnley fans really want this promotion. You could tell just driving through Burnley with the amount of claret and blue about and the way they all acted. Reading fans I've spoken to, really aren't that fussed about going up to the Premier League, presumably because we've been there, done that, disliked the hype, prices etc. If winning was worked out by how much the fans want it, then Burnley would surely be up near the top. Luckily for us, it isn't.

[Royal Lady]

There were lots of people around me who don't usually sit there - I suspect it's more to do with the fact that ST holders were only given one day to renew their ST seat - many were too late and other people then picked the better seats as they were on offer.

[The Real Sandhurst Royal]

Royal Lady wrote:

There were lots of people around me who don't usually sit there - I suspect it's more to do with the fact that ST holders were only given one day to renew their ST seat - many were too late and other people then picked the better seats as they were on offer.

Agreed - A few ST's I know could not get their seat so they said f*ck it and did'nt go.

[fridays child]

I felt that given the cave in at home it should have been a freebie for ST holders. Thus I saved the cost of two tickets to spend at Wembley.