Away end - Ticket allocation

[Tredder]

SALAMI DRUM DRUM

[Sun Tzu]

Say we need a result against Brum on the last day and there's a chance we won't sell out, will we give Brum the whole of the South?

The decision isn't based on whether there is a 'chance we won't sell out'. The ticket office need to know that there will be a decent level of demand for the 2200 seats in the SW stand. If the rest of the ground is filling up with a week or so to go then they'll keep it for us, if it isn't then they'll let Brum have it.

But let's be honest if it's the last game of the season and promotion depends on it we'll either sell out well in advance or we'll need to question whether we as fans deserve promotion.

As for whether the home fans can ever make more noise than away fans then the answer is obviously yes ! Every one who travels away goes to home games (broadly speaking) so no reason at all why the noise can't happen. Plenty of home grounds are noisy - Villa, West Ham, Sunderland, Leeds.....

[FiNeRaIn]

double what we took to ashton gate, loud, original chants and very supportive of their team.

Its no coincidence that southampton, qpr, cardiff and bristol city have all gone away with something from the mad stad this year.

Big loud away followings on a good day out, how football should be.

We'll be taking 500 to our next away game...top support.

[T.R.O.L.I.]

double what we took to ashton gate,

We were only allocated half of the Wedlock stand at Ashton gate (as opposed to the whole stand in previous visits) - hence why they had "double what we took".

[Tango Horribly]

I reckon they should always limit the away supporters to half of the South stand. Southampton and Brizzle both had the whole thing,both embarrassed the home support and lifted thir own teams. Who both beat us.

[Avon Royal]

double what we took to ashton gate, loud, original chants and very supportive of their team.

Its no coincidence that southampton, qpr, cardiff and bristol city have all gone away with something from the mad stad this year.

Big loud away followings on a good day out, how football should be.

We'll be taking 500 to our next away game...top support.

Did you notice that the Bristol support was full of families and kids too?

Kind of pisses all over the "mean and moody" drivel you usually spout.

[Deathy]

We'll be taking 500 to our next away game...top support.

He says with a Glasgow Rangers badge as his avatar.

Fuk off.

[Snowball]

We make 60K from that second half of the stand, so even if we did it for ten games
and actually sold the allocation that is 600K. A whole season is about 1.2 million
except we wouldn't fill it. Bristol, Cardiff, Swansea, Saints, Birmingham, Wolves,
would that be it? 360K

Compare that with 30 MILLION for being in the Premiership.

Will we sell out the whole South Stand for the Birmingham game if we need a win
to go up?

Doyle has said it makes a big difference if half that stand is full of Reading Fans

We should make it a kids end, FREE for the rest of the season, pack it to the gunnels
and tell the kids to shout us to victory

[Snowball]

How many of you, when you arrived yesterday, saw the Brizzle end
and felt that the atmosphere was "away win?"

[Rex]

How many of you, when you arrived yesterday, saw the Brizzle end
and felt that the atmosphere was "away win?"

i just remember looking across and wishing we were as animated.

BACK THE BOYS AND MAKE SOME NOISE. Followed by a brief few minutes of effort from us.

The only support who actually responded all game were the BC supporters.

[The Real Sandhurst Royal]

It’s irrelevant whether Bristol City or Southampton are allocated 2,200 or 4,000+ seats in the South Stand it is the team performance that gets the fans going.

Sh*t performances in both games against sides who worked us out meant they were on top from the start.

Change our tactics on the field and the fans might change theirs!!

[Hugo Boss]

How many of you, when you arrived yesterday, saw the Brizzle end
and felt that the atmosphere was "away win?"

Me.

That, and seeing a team sheet with Lita starting and Noel Hunt on the bench.

[brendywendy]

i didnt think it would effect the game
but i did look and think

oh great another 90+ minutes of being embarrassingly outsung


have you people no pride?!

[LUX]

We'll be taking 500 to our next away game...top support.

He says with a Glasgow Rangers badge as his avatar.

Fuk off.

spot on Jay.

[Matt de K]

Surely any nob with half a braincell can see clearly that a full away end results in a shit performance from RFC. You only have to look over the seasons results so far so see this.

I don't want to see a full stand of away supporters. Fuk the money. At this stage of the season I want three points. Like someone said earlier (snowball i think) gate receipts vs promotion to the premership is a no brainer when it comes to revenue.

RFC fans are NEVER going to outsing 4k away fans EVER. Away fans are generally the ones that WANT to sing and generate a good atmosphere. Anyone that suggests that 18k RFC can outsing 4k away fans clearly needs a realism check as well as a hearing aid. It seems that alot of RFC home fans are the ones that want to get away from the wife or kids for 2hrs for some peace.

Anyway - looking to the rest of the season it doesn't look like this will happen again. The only teams that could potentially do this are SUFC, which is on sky - so thats deffos a no-no and BCFC, which I would hope that there will actually be demand for these tickets from RFC as this potentially is going to be the decider.

[Gordons Cumming]

If the team start playing as they did in the early part of the season you will be amazed how the volume of the home fans will increase.

IMHO

[North Somerset Royal]

But according to Coppells post match interview theyt were a factor in our downfall!

Unusually for him, Coppell is talking bollocks.

From todays Bristol Evening Post :-

Despite being outnumbered nearly 5 to 1 City's travelling contingent drowned out home supporters from start to finish creating an atmosphere to rival anything experienced at Ashton Gate in recent years. "When you have a fantastic atmosphere and following like that behind you it makes all the difference" said manager Gary Johnson. Cole Skuse sorer of the second goal said " Our supporters were brilliant. You could hardly hear the Reading fans and it felt just like a home game for us"

So are Johnson and Skuse also talking bollocks or is it you JSC?

[Sun Tzu]

RFC fans are NEVER going to outsing 4k away fans EVER. Away fans are generally the ones that WANT to sing and generate a good atmosphere. Anyone that suggests that 18k RFC can outsing 4k away fans clearly needs a realism check as well as a hearing aid. It seems that alot of RFC home fans are the ones that want to get away from the wife or kids for 2hrs for some peace.

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Bizarre that as I'm pretty sure it's happened. Bournemouth seems an obvious example. There are probably others.

[Jerry St Clair]

But according to Coppells post match interview theyt were a factor in our downfall!

Unusually for him, Coppell is talking bollocks.

From todays Bristol Evening Post :-

Despite being outnumbered nearly 5 to 1 City's travelling contingent drowned out home supporters from start to finish creating an atmosphere to rival anything experienced at Ashton Gate in recent years. "When you have a fantastic atmosphere and following like that behind you it makes all the difference" said manager Gary Johnson. Cole Skuse sorer of the second goal said " Our supporters were brilliant. You could hardly hear the Reading fans and it felt just like a home game for us"

So are Johnson and Skuse also talking bollocks or is it you JSC?

What else would you expect a victorious manager and player to say? "The fans were loud but, to be honest, it was my tactical genius and Reading's inept midfield that won the day".

Managers and players routinely spout "the fans were great" nonsense after games, but stats don't bear it out. How were Wimbledon so successful in the 80s with their pisspoor support?

[North Somerset Royal]

True but there again the Dons have always had a hard core of around 3500 very vocal fans who did not xfer to MKD and now form the basis of the AFC Wimbledon following