Halifax away Tickets

How many times have we been messed about for one reason or another this season?

Bromley - moved for TV & all ticket
Stockport - moved from Bank Hol to Tuesday night, all ticket
Halifax - capped at 1200, all ticket
Kidderminster - all ticket, capped at 1000
Woking - all ticket
Solihull - all ticket, announced about a day before KO.
Aldershot - think this one was all ticket, then letting people in on the gate
Wealdstone - sure this was all ticket, could be wrong, capped at 800
Altrincham - initial 1000 allocation, then opened up to sales on the gate 24 hours before
Southend - moved to Friday night
Chesterfield pre season - capped at 500, moved to 1pm, all ticket on police request
Dagenham - all ticket, announced about 5 days before KO

Going to be looking at something similar for Notts County, Chesterfield, Wrexham, Kings Lynn and Barnet too.

Think there’s only Torquay that hasn’t been a ballache to some degree. Is it any wonder fans are getting sick and tired of it when it’s nearly every single week? Some of the small clubs, yeah fair enough, but not grounds where you can get 7, 10, 15k in. It’s a joke.

Quoted from ska face

How many times have we been messed about for one reason or another this season?

Bromley - moved for TV & all ticket
Stockport - moved by police, all ticket
Halifax - capped at 1200, all ticket
Kidderminster - all ticket, capped at 1000
Woking - all ticket
Solihull - all ticket, announced about a day before KO.
Aldershot - think this one was all ticket, then letting people in on the gate
Wealdstone - sure this was all ticket, could be wrong, capped at 800
Altrincham - initial 1000 allocation, then opened up to sales on the gate 24 hours before
Southend - moved to Friday night

Going to be looking at something similar for Notts County, Chesterfield, Wrexham, Kings Lynn and Barnet too.

Think there’s only Torquay that hasn’t been a ballache to some degree. Is it any wonder fans are getting sick and tired of it when it’s nearly every single week? Some of the small clubs, yeah fair enough, but not grounds where you can get 7, 10, 15k in. It’s a joke.

This doesn't detract at all from your well-evidenced point, but just to be a pedant, I'm sure the Stockport game was moved by Stockport themselves alongside BT Sport because Stockport's previous game had been moved a few hours later to be shown on TV, and Stockport invoked the leagues' rules of '48 hours' between games to move it from Bank Holiday Monday to the Tuesday evening that week.

Quoted from Cod marriner

It’s a shame many fans are going to be forced into resorting to sit in the home end by the WYP ridiculous decision, lots of fans have been looking forward and planning making the trip over on Boxing Day for a while including myself.
Getting tickets isn’t going to be a problem as I’m sure many do have friends and family in the area to purchase them easy enough but it’s not the point is it, shame have to mess about like that..

This. I'm not sure the powers that be realise that asking for proof of address/ID is not going to stop lots of us getting tickets. And the vast majority of us will be in the home stand and be respectful, not take the urine etc - but obviously we'd much rather be in the away end with our fans & atmosphere.

It also doesn't just affect us: Halifax fans are really screwed over by this also. The punitive measures their club has put in place to try stop us getting tickets in the home end has meant Halifax supporters who live elsewhere (it's boxing day ffs, a time when people that have moved away from childhood town come back for a few days) will have to get to the ticket office before the 15th December to pick up tickets in person, they are limited to 4 tickets per person (a standard boxing day home match for us that'd be 1/3rd of our family that go to the game)

All this cos a bloody stupid decision by West Yorkshire Police to limit us to 1200 tickets in one of the largest grounds in the league.

Sorry, that’s right. Moved at a few weeks’ notice to a Tuesday night from bank holiday Monday at Stockport’s request.

The underlying issue is that fans are literally the last people considered in any decision making.

Maybe this should be on the Fair Game agenda. There’s lots of talk about the importance of football to communities on their website. Fans are part of communities and THE WHOLE POINT in making football the important sport it is. Take the fans away and it’s no different from any other sport.

Quoted from ska face

How many times have we been messed about for one reason or another this season?

Bromley - moved for TV & all ticket
Stockport - moved by police, all ticket
Halifax - capped at 1200, all ticket
Kidderminster - all ticket, capped at 1000
Woking - all ticket
Solihull - all ticket, announced about a day before KO.
Aldershot - think this one was all ticket, then letting people in on the gate
Wealdstone - sure this was all ticket, could be wrong, capped at 800
Altrincham - initial 1000 allocation, then opened up to sales on the gate 24 hours before
Southend - moved to Friday night

Going to be looking at something similar for Notts County, Chesterfield, Wrexham, Kings Lynn and Barnet too.

Think there’s only Torquay that hasn’t been a ballache to some degree. Is it any wonder fans are getting sick and tired of it when it’s nearly every single week? Some of the small clubs, yeah fair enough, but not grounds where you can get 7, 10, 15k in. It’s a joke.

Star post by a mile

Quoted from ska face

Sorry, that’s right. Moved at a few weeks’ notice to a Tuesday night from bank holiday Monday at Stockport’s request.

The underlying issue is that fans are literally the last people considered in any decision making.

I might be speaking out of turn here in terms of what the truth really is, but the perception I've had is that the club has been quite subservient in many of these requests / decisions. That may well not be the case; but I've not seen much to suggest that we've fought kicking and screaming and / or will be doing everything in our power to prevent fans being unnecessarily or unreasonably inconvenienced in the future.

If last season taught us anything it's that football is nothing without fans. At a level where money is scarce for most clubs, more should be done to get more fans through the turnstiles, not keep them out. It's unfair and utterly counter intuitive.

Quoted from Poojah

I might be speaking out of turn here in terms of what the truth really is, but the perception I've had is that the club has been quite subservient in many of these requests / decisions. That may well not be the case; but I've not seen much to suggest that we've fought kicking and screaming and / or will be doing everything in our power to prevent fans being unnecessarily or unreasonably inconvenienced in the future.

If last season taught us anything it's that football is nothing without fans. At a level where money is scarce for most clubs, more should be done to get more fans through the turnstiles, not keep them out. It's unfair and utterly counter intuitive.

Out of good faith, I don't doubt the club have argued strongly for our case (I read as much that they'd really battled for Notts home game to stay at 3pm, and were successful), but I do think their statements could be stronger following this.

Why not say "we are extremely frustrated that during the festive period, where attending football matches is a tradition for so many families, that West Yorkshire Police have limited our tickets in one of the largest grounds in the league - therefore preventing many people from attending"

I mean, this is why I would never get the job, but I'd be tempted to add "whilst we appreciate it may be tempting for fans who were planning on attending, we strongly discourage you from attempting to get tickets in the home end" just for the lols 😉

Quoted from The Yard Dog

Thought it was a burger van, that got turned over.

Police van was outside one of the pubs, burger van was at the ground if memory serves me right

Quoted from Simon

Cant remember the year late 80's early 90's Halifax V Grimsby we had more fans in the ground than the home supporters which was amazing to see, the atmosphere was unbelievable sadly i don't remember the result but I do remember two pubs getting wrecked, fans all covered in blood  and a police van being turned over now i appreciate it was a long time ago and football has changed a bit since those dark days but West Yorkshire Police will have a long memory

A dodgy copy, I am sure I have a better one on my highlights tape but wouldn't have a clue how to upload it here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rplxBA8ij44&ab_channel=ChiffyMariner