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They're all whinging about the atmosphere again. One mackem on twitter saying they have the worst home crowd in the Country!

https://x.com/JamesCopley_/status/1893348409341276444?t=Oh0QocbsXUwRTzIY64ATpw&s=19

The standard of the Championship has never been lower in recent memory. Not sure what the Conference League has to do with that mind.

Basically all shite as each other. Just a dreadful league. The 3 promoted teams from last season are currently sitting on a combined -109 goal difference in the Premier League, and the were better than the teams up at the top of the Championship this season. Leicester finished on 97 points, Ipswich 96 and even Southampton managed 89.

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Yep. The point is that they're doing it out of necessity because their stadium always looks so empty. For a club that is never shy in crowing about how good their support is, it's piss poor that they're having to do this to pull in a crowd given how well they're doing.

Aye the point was more that they're having their best season in years, are coming to the business end of it amd are having to resort to this to pull a crowd in. Piss poor really. Whilst it's commendable that kids can get in for a pound, they aren't doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. They are doing it cos the place looks empty every week. If they thought they could sell the kids tickets for the full £10 price, that's what they'd do.

I see these small time jokers are having to do a kids for a quid offer for tomorrow. Right in the thick of the promotion race and having to resort to this to pull a crowd in is highly embarrassing tbh.

Aye there's a good reason why they only went to 52k for their new stadium and we'll be looking at around the 70k mark.

Don't think they're anywhere near us tbh. Last time they averaged more than us was in 1991/1992 (the season we almost got relegated to Division 3) and our historical average is higher than theirs.

There's 10 of us so one of the lads was on about seeing if we can organise a minibus to take us in. I'd have rather done the train but if they're off hopefully that's an option.

Staying in Watford Saturday and Sunday night. Apparently there's a direct train straight to Wembley Central from there. Got cracking seats for the match at the front of Block 528.

No that was my first thought. Don't know if it needs some writing on the seats along the side spelling "Everton" or something like that but I was very underwhelmed when I seen it. Seen it described as both one of the generic FIFA grounds and a bigger version of White Hart Lane and it's hard to argue with either. Would like to think that with if we get a new ground a bit more imagination will be put into it.

https://www.blythspartans.com/news/blyth-spartans-afc--boards-quarterly-report-feb-25/

The referees are so far up Liverpools arse it's scary. Should be down to 10 men and not booking Jota for that is ridiculous. Dreading the Cup final.

Spread over 3 tiers. It's not a great away end to create an atmosphere but as I said when they play at home in Europe the away fans generally don't have any trouble creating a din.

Anfield sounds absolutely abysmal once again today, for those who automatically assume these old traditional grounds have the best atmospheres.

It isn't due to it being high and narrow but I remember watching them play Feyenoord earlier in the season and the Feyenoord fans still managed to make a hell of a racket. I'm already getting the fear for Wembley. I can see it being the same as last time. At least it can't be any worse I suppose.

Aye seen a few people on twitter complaining that nobody seemed arsed today. Suppose the performance wouldn't have helped but in days gone by that wouldn't have mattered.

Just doesn't look interested anymore. If we want to move forward he's the sort of player we need to be moving on.

You don't HAVE to use a ballot system. Most clubs don't.

Of course everyone wants to be in the higher tiers but you'd have to earn the right to get there by attending games both home and away. The more games you attend the more points you accumulate. I would include home games in that as well, so season ticket holders for example would immediately get a 19 point start every season and a member who went to 12 home games over the season for example would be awarded 12 points (plus any aways). Maybe offer 2 or 3 points for away games and keep back a % of tickets for members. At the end of the season, say there's 500 STs up for grabs through people not renewing the club could look at the points of the top 500 members, work out the threshold, and say members on X amount of points can apply for a season ticket. It's not exactly radical thinking. It's just what our competitors are doing. If they want to build the fanbase, which was one of the things the new owners committed to, you can't operate a closed shop ticketing policy.

Not sure you're grasping the concept of tiered membership here, certainly in football terms.

The Chelsea fans complaints centre around the following things; They belive that their owner who has a stake in some American ticketing resale site is skimming tickets to flog across the pond at a huge mark up. Secondly they're hampered by having a small stadium. 40k capacity. They reckon there's as few as 3k tickets going on sale for general admission areas these days. This brings me to point 3. They've removed a lot of GA areas and replaced them with corporate seats in both the East and west stands, meaning there's even fewer seats available to normal supporters. When you look at their actual membership scheme it's a pretty fair one. Members being recognised and rewarded for their loyalty in exactly the same way as their ST holders. The problem they have is that since their new owners came in it's become more difficult than ever to access tickets. An interesting point that also should be made is that Chelsea floated the idea of switching to a ballot style system last year like what we have and they had so much resistance from the supporters that they didn't go ahead with it. People preferring to take their chances on muliltiple devices at 10am as we used to. @SteVwas asking when could they implement changes. I'd say this summer. In no way am I suggesting removing any loyalty points from ST holders but at least allow members to start earning them themselves. Make a % of away tickets available to members as well. It's hardly a radical thing to do. Most other clubs do it. Another thing worth pointing out is that we are the only club who's loyalty points scheme goes back to the 1990s. Most other clubs operate a 3 year rolling scheme, Chelsea actually reset theirs every summer. Something needs to happen because a very large % of the fanbase is being badly short changed and excluded as things stand. I know of loads of people who bought memberships a couple of seasons back who don't have them any more because they felt it was a waste of time and money.

I'm pretty sure they played a home game at the San Siro many years ago, possibly when they were still at the old Delle Alpi and it was a complete sell out. Might have been a CL game.