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Sammy,you couldn’t have described Utd more perfect. It is a theme park at OT and daily, coach loads of foreign tourists swarm the place. Everything about the club is a circus. Proper fans support proper clubs for proper reasons while the sheep, the trend followers the foreigners and those who know nothing about the game support Utd. I have always played the same game with these so called red shite worshippers. Ask why they support the fookers and the answers I have had over the last 40 odd years have been staggering lol from “because my mum fancied Georgie Best” to “I really wanted a Liverpool kit but they only had a Utd one instead”. Every reason you should not support a club under the sun. I despise the fu..wits passionately and their millions of worldwide false fans who wouldn’t know where Manchester is if their lives depended on it. I wouldn’t swap my beloved little club and its real fans for a hundred Utd,s.
Only thing I don’t like is people complaining or saying they can’t get tickets when it wasn’t exactly rocket science, simple enough to get if you wanted.
Except it wasn’t at all that easy.
I tried online and on the phone that morning, and except for the fact that I then had things to do that afternoon which meant I couldn’t hang on all day trying, and am retired so am lucky enough to be able to get in my car and get to the ground, I wouldn’t have got a ticket.
My son and his mate (season ticket holders I add) wouldn’t have been able to leave work to go and queue up, so wouldn’t have got tickets.
There are a lot of people who work or live a distance away or are unable to travel for one reason or another who in the end didn’t get a ticket.
Yes, I was lucky. But to say “it was simple enough to get if you wanted” is frankly crass stupidity, bordering on “winding up”.Just seen on a tweat and Nob End have been given a FULL allocation of 4700 seats.
I must be missing something here as the North and South Stands both hold 5400 so why the reduced capacity. 700 x £25 would come in handy for our club so what is going on and why?The 700 seat shortfall is because the front 3 or 4 rows and the 1/2 column to the east of the stand are secured from use by netting for security reasons. I can’t ever see them changing the policy on that for a local derby.[/quote]
Security reasons??? Who made up that pile of shite. So for eight years in the Premier League it wasn’t required and the first season back in the Championship not required. Something wrong here somehow! So how is it that this is not required at Old Trafford or Anfield or Nob End even. Fans at Wigan are in separate stands!!! This smells of the goings on at Springfield Park!!![/quote]
The difference was that in PL days we could afford to pay a bigger police presence inside the ground. Relying now mainly on stewards to prevent pitch incursions is not going to work.
I dont think the East stand ST holders would mind one bit!Precisely.
If you think we’re moving just so Nob End can have bigger support getting behind their team then you have a strange view on life.It’s also impossible for the human eye to watch for a ball being kicked and a line of players 30yds apart especially when that line moves in two different directions.It’s only sky’s freeze frame highlighting this now.
I’ve never officiated at a football match, but I understood that the technique is to watch the line and listen for the sound of the ball being kicked, having a split second before seen that the kick is on. I don’t know how feasible that is, but that is what I was once told.
The transfer window isn’t that important for us, seeing as we can get players on short-term loans whenever we want.Not correct.
Maybe I’m reading it wrong but how can Blackburn be playing Blackpool in the league before our next league match?A good point, well made. They are playing them in the Cup.
So Blackburn will have ONE game, and Burton have two.Not to be a spectre at the feast, but we need to manage our expectations, and not get carried away, but we have a great platform to build on.
Before we next play a league game Blackburn and Burton will both play two (home to Blackpool and Leeda, and away to QPR and home to Fulham respectively). If either get one point from either of their two games then we will be back in the bottom 3. So let’s just pause for breath, and be grateful how we are looking and playing.
But if they do not both gain maximum points from those games then we are again in the driving seat. Norwich will be difficult, but the fact that we are at home in both games works in our favour.
Let’s not relax and assume we are out of the doo-dah – but we are looking good.
We are actually looking like a good unit, attacking in numbers and defending in numbers.I actually said that during the game. It’s a cliche – but we were hunting in packs. Tackling, defending, passing the ball around and attacking; all with plenty of support.
Another point is how good is Haugard?
None of this faffing about playing it wide, slowly and hesitantly, to a defender. Boot upfield, and it’s instantly in their half and they are under pressure. What is impressing me is that he can clear upfield no matter how the ball comes to him: one touch, volley, half-volley, under pressure or whatever. It must give huge confidence to the defence and it can be no coincidence that Dan Burn has improved immeasurably.
I got those messages too, so went up to ground.
Queued about 45 minutes, and when I got to the window thet had sold the original 1,900 but they were awaiting arrival of the second batch of tickets. I’ve paid for the tickets I want, and have a receipt. They will be sent out to me (just the same as if I’d got through on the phone).
Looks like the second batch are going fast as there was still a reasonable queue behind me.I really am not sure about this, but does the fact that BBC have the rights mean they also have rights to lease out to foreign broadcasters for overseas transmission? The pictures certainly will be provided from BBC cameras. The Far East market then is immense, and presumably the fees the BBC could charge would be substantial.
It is refreshing to sign players and put them straight in the team, rather than what we have become used to – “they’ll need to get up to speed, fitness levels, get to know the others etc”.
A refreshing change.
If you’ve signed them then they should be ready to step up to the plate.
