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Think he said it was about £200 cheaper than buying the equivalent at St Andrews.
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I think that includes a Balti pie and compulsory meet and greet with Jasper Carrott.
I suppose thats an upgrade from Bob Carolgees and Spit the dog. Was Sandy from Crossroads in the wheelchair section?  |
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I think that includes a Balti pie and compulsory meet and greet with Jasper Carrott.
I've met Jasper a couple of times, he's a good guy. |
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Should have played Funky Moped before kick off.
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I think someone should just take this city of Peterborough and just... just flush it down the f***in' toilet
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It is certainly possible to have a crowd of over 8000 with away supporters still in the east stand when their total allocation is just over 1450. On Saturday strangely Birmingham didn't sell out and brought 1379 but if they had brought 1432 the crowd would have been 8000.
The home support on Saturday was 6568 when Mansfield came they brought 1435 so with a similar home support the crowd would have been 8003.
when Peterborough came they brought 1465 so with a similar home support the crowd would have been 8033.
Also the away support in the east increases with the extra seating now available.
We could still have topped 8000 on Saturday as there was at least the extra 53 vacant seats available for home supporters.
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I watched one of the Birmingham vlogs, the guys had tickets but seem to have been told it was unallocated seating and their vid seemed to show stewards directing them to the East. Seemingly they didn't want to go there so just stood in front of the seating.
So any suggestion that the police let fans in without tickets probably isn't accurate.
Regarding unallocated seating, it's fine when we're away at Wigan or Bolton on Tuesday nights with 200 fans in a 2000 seat block but probably not so good when the away following is a sell out.
FWIW, the two Brum vlogs I watched... Yes they were a little cocky but under the circumstances with their backing and runaway leadership, I don't hold that against them, I can remember some of us bigging it up during our Wilder season. Certainly during the Carr promotion season, we thought we were invincible, tho obviously there was nothing like this forum back then to "big it up". Post game, the Brum fans were quite gracious in that they'd failed to beat us over the two games and similarly, acknowledged that we dominated for long periods.
They do need a few more songs tho.... 90 minutes of "all that money and top of the league" must get dull
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It is certainly possible to have a crowd of over 8000 with away supporters still in the east stand when their total allocation is just over 1450. On Saturday strangely Birmingham didn't sell out and brought 1379 but if they had brought 1432 the crowd would have been 8000.
The home support on Saturday was 6568 when Mansfield came they brought 1435 so with a similar home support the crowd would have been 8003.
when Peterborough came they brought 1465 so with a similar home support the crowd would have been 8033.
Also the away support in the east increases with the extra seating now available.
We could still have topped 8000 on Saturday as there was at least the extra 53 vacant seats available for home supporters.
https://www.bcfc.com/pages/en/media-article/bluenoses-set-to-hit-the-road-againSmaller allocations now for away fans? I suppose there might have to be as the away section will have to be kept back from the first gangway underneath the stand as there is no segregated concourse. |
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Thank you for that GPC. We still ought to be able to top 8000 as the capacity is said to increase to 8203 and as I said in the previous post we only needed our home support to be 53 higher on Saturday to reach 8000 and their were plenty of empty seats.
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I am more puzzled now that Birmingham allocation was 1374 because according to the Reading site they have been given the usual 1473.
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I am more puzzled now that Birmingham allocation was 1374 because according to the Reading site they have been given the usual 1473.
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I am more puzzled now that Birmingham allocation was 1374 because according to the Reading site they have been given the usual 1473.
In theory it should be higher than 1473 because of the 2 new rows of seats but for some reason we don't seem to be letting people use them - even on Saturday the back 2 rows were mostly off limits in the away section. |
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In theory it should be higher than 1473 because of the 2 new rows of seats but for some reason we don't seem to be letting people use them - even on Saturday the back 2 rows were mostly off limits in the away section.
They had what looked like second hand fishing nets draped over them, most bizarre? |
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GrangeParkCobbler
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Can only think that the safety team decided they needed a bigger buffer between home and away fans on Saturday hence the lower allocation from the off. As for the back rows of seating...I did think they might be a bit too close to the executive boxes..... so potentially the only time they will be used is if home fans are using the away overspill in the event of us playing a "smaller" team. The best bit about this though is the fact that some people actually believed Birmingham didn't sell out their allocation!! |
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As for the back rows of seating...I did think they might be a bit too close to the executive boxes..... so potentially the only time they will be used is if home fans are using the away overspill in the event of us playing a "smaller" team.
Could you imagine we wait 10 years for a tiny increase in capacity and then find out half of it can't be used? Hopefully there's a different explanation! |
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Could you imagine we wait 10 years for a tiny increase in capacity and then find out half of it can't be used? Hopefully there's a different explanation!
Much as it is great to see the stand finally finished I felt a sense of realism on Saturday, firstly that we still didn't get an 8000 crowd at home, and secondly the fact that despite our record highest attendance ever at Sixfields the gate was still only higher than two other attendances in League 1 and lower than the crowd at Oldham for their National League game against Rochdale. Gives us an idea of what we are up against at times. The East Stand is great......but it should only be a start! |
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The East Stand is great......but it should only be a start!
Really, any ideas about what is needed. Could be the start of a whole new thread. |
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Much as it is great to see the stand finally finished I felt a sense of realism on Saturday, firstly that we still didn't get an 8000 crowd at home, and secondly the fact that despite our record highest attendance ever at Sixfields the gate was still only higher than two other attendances in League 1 and lower than the crowd at Oldham for their National League game against Rochdale.
Gives us an idea of what we are up against at times.
The East Stand is great......but it should only be a start!
Yep. It's good that we've finally taken a step forward with the facilities but the reality is that we are a small club operating near the limit of our capabilities. |
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Much as it is great to see the stand finally finished I felt a sense of realism on Saturday, firstly that we still didn't get an 8000 crowd at home, and secondly the fact that despite our record highest attendance ever at Sixfields the gate was still only higher than two other attendances in League 1 and lower than the crowd at Oldham for their National League game against Rochdale.
Gives us an idea of what we are up against at times.
The East Stand is great......but it should only be a start!
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Really, any ideas about what is needed. Could be the start of a whole new thread.
 My biggest fear is that the "Redevelopment Closer Than Ever" thread is locked now that the East is done!! |
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WasRambo
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There are always outliers in every division at both the high and low ends. Either a "big" team drops down or a "small" team comes up.
I don't think we're different from most and let's be honest, if we doubled capacity to 16k, it wouldn't make us a bigger club. It'd just make us a club with a ground which, more often than not, is less than half full. More to manage and maintain. I'm sure season ticket holders and pay on the day fans would be chuffed as fuk when prices go up because our ground costs more to maintain.
If an when the time comes, fill the corners. If we make the Championship and consolidate there, then that's when a thousand page plus would be justified if the ownership were dragging their feet....
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