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I am seriously considering buying a ticket for Mrs CummingsTackle and myself in the home section. They're not going to sell 18000 tickets. We'll behave ourselves.
You certainly won’t be alone!
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Anyone buying in the home end - do so under a different email address, different card and/or address if you can (just get a friend to do it). The GTFC ticket office pass on booking history if you’ve a record with them, so you’ll end up getting your tickets cancelled.
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The minimum allocation for a play-off game according to NL rules is 600 or 10% of total capacity which ever is greater.
2,000 is the minimum allocation plus 16 based on their advertised ground capacity of 19,841.
So if we ever get to play Notts in a play-off game at BP we should just give them 900 tickets and tell them to “f*** off”.
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Anyone buying in the home end - do so under a different email address, different card and/or address if you can (just get a friend to do it). The GTFC ticket office pass on booking history if you’ve a record with them, so you’ll end up getting your tickets cancelled.
I'm thinking go for the stand to the left of the away stand and as close as possible to the Town fans who'll be at that end of the away stand? I think it will still be a risk getting tickets cancelled if the "friend" has Lincs postcode. I should be ok, have work colleagues who live in Nottingham.
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The minimum allocation for a play-off game according to NL rules is 600 or 10% of total capacity which ever is greater.
2,000 is the minimum allocation plus 16 based on their advertised ground capacity of 19,841.
So if we ever get to play Notts in a play-off game at BP we should just give them 900 tickets and tell them to “f*** off”.
It seems a shame to me that clubs have the prerogative to prevent fans from attending the game who would like to, when there will otherwise be swathes of empty seats. You'd have thought football would have learned something from the behind closed doors pandemic-era about the value fans bring to occasions such as this, but hey ho, whatever... The sad thing is that the notion that restricting Town's allocation furthers Notts County's home advantage is overly simplistic and counter-intuitive anyway. On the surface, it seems obvious that 4,000 Town fans would make twice the noise of 2,000, but that fundamentally misunderstands the dynamics of football crowds. A Town following of 4,000, by its very nature, includes around 3,000 people who do not regularly attend away games. In my experience, very large Town away crowds have always been anti-climatic; it's much harder to generate an atmosphere when you have that kind of mix. I'd argue that the sweet spot does in fact lie somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000, ironically. The reverse is going to be true for County. If they sell 13,000 home tickets, that's 50% of the crowd made up of Johnny-come-lately's there in anticipation of a good night out at the football. 6,500 nervy, hard core County fans interspersed with another 6,500 impatient and expectant fair weather types is probably not the recipe for atmosphere the powers that be at Meadow Lane think it will be. How many times have we seen bumper crowds at BP turn out especially quiet and edgy? It happens more often than not. Sadder than all that though is that all of this overlooks the fact that by far the most important factors on the night will take place on the pitch, not in the stands. If fan power counted for all that much Solihull and Halifax wouldn't be in the play-offs. In fact, the likes of Town and Notts County wouldn't even be in this division in the first place. It's not how it works. All this is achieving is preventing regular football fans who want to watch an important match in their club's history from doing so, and increasing the risk of away fans finding their way into the home end. It's petty, it's wholly unnecessary and I hope it backfires spectacularly.
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Anyone buying in the home end - do so under a different email address, different card and/or address if you can (just get a friend to do it). The GTFC ticket office pass on booking history if you’ve a record with them, so you’ll end up getting your tickets cancelled.
That would be a breach of the Data Protection Act if they do. Hopefully our new regime wouldn’t do that.
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I'm thinking go for the stand to the left of the away stand and as close as possible to the Town fans who'll be at that end of the away stand? I think it will still be a risk getting tickets cancelled if the "friend" has Lincs postcode. I should be ok, have work colleagues who live in Nottingham.
At least most people should already have a black & white scarf! Sure it’s been mentioned on here before but there was a thread on Twitter where someone tried to explain some of the reasoning behind the decision. One of the issues was the size of the concourse and the problems it causes. To be fair, that concourse is not even remotely fit for purpose. There have been massive crushes at the bottom of the stairs every time I’ve been in that stand purely because there’s not enough room. Queues for the kiosks are fúcked because there’s a barrier where you’d expect a queue to form, so you end up with people queuing, hitting that barrier and not knowing where to go. The stewards do absolutely nothing, less than zero, and the kiosk staff look like they’ve been dragged off the street 10 mins before KO. They flapped it and shut the whole thing at HT in Feb because they aren’t used to serving more than 1 man & a dog and they all froze before the supervisor cried off. If there was 4000 in there it would be awful - and that’s not down to any town fan, it’s a costs/logistics problem at Notts that that can’t be ársed to solve.
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At least most people should already have a black & white scarf!
Sure it’s been mentioned on here before but there was a thread on Twitter where someone tried to explain some of the reasoning behind the decision. One of the issues was the size of the concourse and the problems it causes.
To be fair, that concourse is not even remotely fit for purpose. There have been massive crushes at the bottom of the stairs every time I’ve been in that stand purely because there’s not enough room. Queues for the kiosks are fúcked because there’s a barrier where you’d expect a queue to form, so you end up with people queuing, hitting that barrier and not knowing where to go. The stewards do absolutely nothing, less than zero, and the kiosk staff look like they’ve been dragged off the street 10 mins before KO. They flapped it and shut the whole thing at HT in Feb because they aren’t used to serving more than 1 man & a dog and they all froze before the supervisor cried off. If there was 4000 in there it would be awful - and that’s not down to any town fan, it’s a costs/logistics problem at Notts that that can’t be ársed to solve.
They coped with 4,500 Coventry fans a few years back in the L2 play-offs. And didn’t they allow 3,500 Chesterfield fans after we went there?
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They coped with 4,500 Coventry fans a few years back in the L2 play-offs.
And didn’t they allow 3,500 Chesterfield fans after we went there?
I was there, absolutely packed to the rafters!
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They coped with 4,500 Coventry fans a few years back in the L2 play-offs.
And didn’t they allow 3,500 Chesterfield fans after we went there?
I imagine they probably ‘coped’ in the same way they coped with us on February - absolute chaos, kids crushed, people falling down the stairs, stewards watching on.
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