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5,600 tickets sold / issued already for Saturday’s game. Seats certainly looking very scarce if you want an unrestricted view in one of the traditional hone stands (though the Osmond is now open).

I don’t recall such announcements this far in advance of previous games, so all signs point to the biggest home crowd of the season so far (and who knows, possibly even the biggest full stop).

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Wonder how many Yeovil will bring.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Wonder how many Yeovil will bring.

Quoted from Bristol Mariner

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Surely more than that? Used to be a well supported club.

They’re just one of those teams they’ll never bring more than a bus load, unfortunately this league and the one above are full of them

Police horses and dogs broke up fights las Sat between Yeovil and Weymouth fans, both before and after the game.

I doubt Yeovil will bring enough fans to BP to even start a fight.

Just been down to the ground, because I'm old fashioned, to get 4x tickets for the pontoon, really struggled to get them together, that's unbelievable on a Monday, really think the osmond could be close to selling out this Saturday!!

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

Police horses and dogs broke up fights las Sat between Yeovil and Weymouth fans, both before and after the game.

I doubt Yeovil will bring enough fans to BP to even start a fight.

Didn't even realize that was a derby game until today!

The Slovakians sure know how to have a punch up ! Anybody see that from the weekend?!?! ??)

This is great news indeed. The more we win, the closer we get to packing the park for real. what a season this will be if we keep it up! but let's be honest, it's about bloody time this club and this town got the rub of the green

Looking to get three together in the Findus. Not possible now unless slightly restricted views at the Pontoon end. Might just get tickets for the Osmond. Be good to get a good few hundred in there. Any noisy buggers got tickets for the Osmond? Don't wanna be singing on my own, like.

Would be fantastic to get a few hundred Town fans in the Osmond. A good vocal backing from all four stands, not something the Yeovil players will have come up against very often!

Yeovil play Weymouth away in the cup replay tonight. Hopefully, a Weymouth win might demoralise the Yeovil camp and give them something to dwell upon on their long journey north.

They have only scored twice and conceded 7 in their last 5 games, so I don't think they will fancy a free scoring Town with goalscorers all over the pitch. A full house in good voice will definitely mean a home win. The only question is how many will we score?

UTM

Quoted from DB

Yeovil play Weymouth away in the cup replay tonight. Hopefully, a Weymouth win might demoralise the Yeovil camp and give them something to dwell upon on their long journey north.

They have only scored twice and conceded 7 in their last 5 games, so I don't think they will fancy a free scoring Town with goalscorers all over the pitch. A full house in good voice will definitely mean a home win. The only question is how many will we score?

UTM

Hopefully it will go to extra time and penalties

Quoted from DB

Yeovil play Weymouth away in the cup replay tonight. Hopefully, a Weymouth win might demoralise the Yeovil camp and give them something to dwell upon on their long journey north.

They have only scored twice and conceded 7 in their last 5 games, so I don't think they will fancy a free scoring Town with goalscorers all over the pitch. A full house in good voice will definitely mean a home win. The only question is how many will we score?

UTM

Well we know who to blame when Yeovil win 1-0 thanks to a Mitch Rose pen now.

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves DB going all Billy big balls! A definite home win and wondering how many we’ll score is totally the wrong attitude to have and I hope you haven’t jinxed us. Just the sort of comment if the opposition reads will give them that extra incentive…….

Quoted from DB

The only question is how many will we score?

UTM

Confidence in the team is great but this is way over the arrogance side of the line.

DB, overall this season Yeovil have found it hard to score. But they have conceded FEWER goals than we have (ok with fewer games played) and do not get thrashed.

Likely to be a tough old battle and I will take any old one nil victory now. We know this division very well, mid table teams like Yeovil can be a real handful on the wrong day utm

Gives Hurst and Doig a chance to do a bit of scouting of them tonight too.. long trip tho to Weymouth.. fingers crossed for hard match with an extra 30 mins thrown in!

Struggled to get anything decent in the Pontoon

6 left in lower, 12 left in upper, 100 left in Pontoon. All 3 of them will be sold out by tomorrow I reckon.

Just over 400 left in The Main Stand..

Quoted from Peeler_Crab

Just over 400 left in The Main Stand..

The Main Stand won't sell out when people can buy in the Osmond and watch a game where all the players have heads...

Quoted from Limerick Mariner

The Main Stand won't sell out when people can buy in the Osmond and watch a game where all the players have heads...

I always watched on the bench seats right at the back , loads of legs room and warm in winter.
It’s well worth not seeing where the high balls are going .
If we ever do get a new ground I’ll miss the Theatre of Restricted views

6,100 gone now, and it’s only Tuesday lunchtime. 500 sold in the last 24 hours - this has to be headed for the biggest home crowd of the season. I can see the Osmond being pretty full on Saturday.

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Absolutely brilliant UTM!!!!

Quoted from grimps

I always watched on the bench seats right at the back , loads of legs room and warm in winter.
It’s well worth not seeing where the high balls are going .
If we ever do get a new ground I’ll miss the Theatre of Restricted views

I think the back of the Osmond is header-free football viewing as well, although, this is hearsay from away fans - I've only ever been on the front terrace, when it was a terrace. If this brain trauma issue with heading results in outlawing of heading then BP will suddenly be practically ok for viewing.

Town play far more on the ground this season.

Passes that make players run onto them at pace - great to see !!

The only exception seems to be Hunt to Waterfall - GOAL.L.L.L. - from corners !!

I like exceptions !!

Great support if we carry on at the top end of the table we’re nailed on for the best average home support in over 20 years . That’s staggering considering the level we’re at with virtually nil away support. We all need to carry this on digging out Town fans who stopped going for whatever reason hopefully we can turn 6k home fans into a regular 7k. Nice problem to have for the new owners who are clearly trying to do things the right way and have taken on board much of what came back via the fans survey. So proud to be GTFC

Quoted from 1mickylyons

We all need to carry this on digging out Town fans who stopped going for whatever reason hopefully we can turn 6k home fans into a regular 7k.

This. Think more can be done in terms of attempting to get people to share posts on social media. It’s the best form of advertisement.

Quoted from 1mickylyons

Great support if we carry on at the top end of the table we’re nailed on for the best average home support in over 20 years . That’s staggering considering the level we’re at with virtually nil away support. We all need to carry this on digging out Town fans who stopped going for whatever reason hopefully we can turn 6k home fans into a regular 7k. Nice problem to have for the new owners who are clearly trying to do things the right way and have taken on board much of what came back via the fans survey. So proud to be GTFC

A lot of it will no doubt depend on how much momentum we continue to carry forward, but if things do continue on their current trajectory then I’d be hopeful of an average crowd of around 6,500 come the end of the season (particularly with the bigger away followings from Notts County, Chesterfield and Stockport still to come).

The last time we cleared that mark was in 98/99 (6,698’), after our double Wembley heroics and finishing in our joint highest league position since 1984 (and would have been higher had it not been for our woeful end of season form).

Of course, that season featured a number of away sellouts (including those green seats) from the likes of Sunderland and Sheffield United, so realistically our home support was probably the best part of 1,500 down on that figure, so we’re being significantly better supported now than back then.

In fact, you’d possibly have to go back as far as the late 70s / early 80s since we’ve been that well supported by our own fans.

It’s just mind blowing given we are playing at the lowest level in this club’s 143 year history.

I’ve got my eyes on poaching new fans hopefully some youngsters from Brigg are coming to watch their first ever game at Blundell Park . This is or has been in recent times a Scunny area of support so only right we exploit their current woes . I’m hoping Town continue listening and start expanding their message to reach Brigg,Goxhill,Barton and Tetney to Skeg out the other way. The support is out there it just needs harnessing and we now seem to have the right people in position to build this support .

Notts County tickets will be like golddust if we can get the win on Saturday.

Wonder if they’ll open up the area behind the directors, against Dover it was empty. Always ruins the look of the stand a bit with an empty area in the upper

Unfortunately with Notts we will have to give them the Osmond and possibly the cage due to segregation issues ? The good news with Town doing that is we should see a decent ticket allocation at their place. The same applies to Chesterfield . Not sure any other visitors will bring more than 500 ?

Quoted from DB

Yeovil play Weymouth away in the cup replay tonight. Hopefully, a Weymouth win might demoralise the Yeovil camp and give them something to dwell upon on their long journey north.

They have only scored twice and conceded 7 in their last 5 games, so I don't think they will fancy a free scoring Town with goalscorers all over the pitch. A full house in good voice will definitely mean a home win. The only question is how many will we score?

UTM

My above post seems to have upset a few on here which was not my intention. As many are aware I am very optimistic and positive and as many others will also know when something good is happening push it harder, embrace it and enjoy the good times. Even Hurst said after the Bromley defeat, let's start another run.

If you read my post, on another thread, you realise where my optimism is from an era where few on here will have watched. This was the 1979/80 season when we played 31 home games and scored 57 goals. The conversation going into the ground was always not are we going to win, but how many are we going to win by. That team included local lads, Drinkell, Ford and the Moore brothers.

We didn't care who we played that season at home because we only lost 4 home games and were promoted to what is now the championship. What my post was trying to show is that I believe this team is as good as the one I watched over 40 years ago and regardless of who we play, especially at home in front of a full house all teams, including Yeovil, will not fancy playing us.

We've now scored 16 goals at home in only 5 games and 30 in all games. What you might call our second string demolished Bromsgrove, albeit, they are leagues below us. Let's not forget that the team that started at Bromsgrove had not played a first-team match together before, and as someone posted the only man left on the field at the end who started the previous game was Sears.

Ok, we are only 11 games in but what a wonderful position to be in top of the league. What is there not to be passionate about with the future this season. The future is looking good, it's BLACK and WHITE.

So to all those I upset I am sorry, again it was not my intention, but my wish is for promotion this season, and looking back to 1979/80 we have a similar team and set up.

UTM

Be good if County sell out the osmond should be a terrific atmosphere.

Quoted from Ashby mariner

Be good if County sell out the osmond should be a terrific atmosphere.

Well they should. Less than 80 miles away, just outside the play-offs and a big chance for them to make a big statement of intent.

Will be a poor show by their fans if they don't as far as I'm concerned.

Quoted from Les Brechin

Well they should. Less than 80 miles away, just outside the play-offs and a big chance for them to make a big statement of intent.

Will be a poor show by their fans if they don't as far as I'm concerned.

I'd be surprised if they do tbh. Certainly won't sell out the main osmond section AND the osmond corner, so hopefully we can have the corner if they don't look like selling out the main bit in plenty of time.

Quoted from LH

Notts County tickets will be like golddust if we can get the win on Saturday.

Ssshhh please don't jynx it. I'm a mariners Trust exile and I have to wait until after the Yeovil game to get my Notts County ticket 😔 - - I'm coming up to see family for a few days and desperately hoping to be able to get to the game 🤞

Quoted from toontown

I'd be surprised if they do tbh. Certainly won't sell out the main osmond section AND the osmond corner, so hopefully we can have the corner if they don't look like selling out the main bit in plenty of time.

They won't sell out the whole Osmond. Not a happy camp at Notts at the moment. It would be 1,500 max if they were given all 1,900 tickets and I forecast circa 1,200 . My view is give them 1,200 so home fans go in the corner as you say.

Quoted from DB

Yeovil play Weymouth away in the cup replay tonight. Hopefully, a Weymouth win might demoralise the Yeovil camp and give them something to dwell upon on their long journey north.

They have only scored twice and conceded 7 in their last 5 games, so I don't think they will fancy a free scoring Town with goalscorers all over the pitch. A full house in good voice will definitely mean a home win. The only question is how many will we score?

UTM

sorry DB - that sort of arrogant , over confident, Billy Big Bollox outlook is the very last thing we need

Those hellish 6 years in the Conference last time around should've taught you that!

Quoted from forza ivano

sorry DB - that sort of arrogant , over confident, Billy Big Bollox outlook is the very last thing we need

Those hellish 6 years in the Conference last time around should've taught you that!

Not arrogant or over confident my friend. Reply 35 this thread should explain.

Quoted from lukeo

Ssshhh please don't jynx it. I'm a mariners Trust exile and I have to wait until after the Yeovil game to get my Notts County ticket 😔 - - I'm coming up to see family for a few days and desperately hoping to be able to get to the game 🤞

PM'd you mate.

I wonder if Hurst is at Weymouth tonight, hell of a trip?

Weymouth equalise in the 87th minute. Extra time and tired legs awaits.

2nd half of extra time - still 1-1.

They won’t be the only tired ones. Giles Koké has just played 90’ against Liverpool in Madrid.

Sounds like Yeovil are out on their legs and under real pressure

looks like it going to penalties

Adi Yussuf wins Yeovil a penalty 10 seconds from the end of extra time.

Which they miss.

Yeovil just missed an extra time injury time pen.

Quoted from The Yard Dog

looks like it going to penalties

Let's hope Weymouth win it 77 to 76 on penalties :)

Yeovil miss pen in last minute.

I’ve learned over the years not to read too much into things like this, but besides winning tonight this is absolutely not what Yeovil would have wanted, is it?

Two dogged derby games in a week. Late equaliser against you. Extra time. Pens. Can’t train tomorrow. Light training only on Thursday. 300 mile journey on Friday. Haven’t won in four league games. Away at the league leaders in front of what will be close to a full house, who were able to rest much of their team at the weekend.

The fact that Saturday is not a forgone conclusion is what keeps football interesting, but the odds couldn’t be much more in our favour. In fact, it’s exactly the scenario I’d expect Town to fúck up over the years, but things do feel different with this lot. They really do.

Looks like Yeovil finally did it. Not ideal preparation for Saturday but I didn’t but Hurst’s squad will take anything for granted. That’s the great thing about this squad. Thoroughly professional.

Good high tempo start to see what they have left in their legs after that saga of a game.

We still have to play well to deserve the win !

WhT was the result ?

Quoted from Mariner Timsky

WhT was the result ?

1-1 AET. Yeovil win 2-1 on pens.

Seems to be a lot of pens missed recently.

2 missed in the Barrow- Scunny game tonight. Even Mbappe missed one for PSG.

Remember when we had a FAC replay at home to Salisbury? They were a division below us and part-time.

We were taken to ET and scored to take the lead. Job done? No, we ended up losing the tie.

Don’t think tonight’s game will have much of an impact on their performance on Saturday. They are young professional players. Plenty of time to recover.

The only downside would be if any of them got injured or aggravated an existing strain.

I think if will be a tough match and it seems they are hard to score against, but I think we will have too much for them.

Quoted from RonMariner

Don’t think tonight’s game will have much of an impact on their performance on Saturday. They are young professional players. Plenty of time to recover.

The only downside would be if any of them got injured or aggravated an existing strain.

I think if will be a tough match and it seems they are hard to score against, but I think we will have too much for them.

That’s true but it will still take a per cent or two off their physical resources. Could be enough.

Quoted from 1739

6 left in lower, 12 left in upper, 100 left in Pontoon. All 3 of them will be sold out by tomorrow I reckon.

49 in the Pontoon
7 in the Findus
315 in the Main Stand

Just got my 4 in the Ozzy. Let's 'ave it you Yeovil slags!

#seatwatch
#betterthanpornhub

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Yer man at https://www.alltownarentwe.co.uk/ has a live count of remaining seats for the next match if you scroll (all the way) down to the bottom of the front page.

Main - 321
Lower - 2
Upper - 3
Pontoon - 32
Osmond - 152

So 510 to shift in the next 72ish hours for a full sell out.

Just glad I’ve already got mine for Notts County, place is already looking a bit busy.

Quoted from ska face

Yer man at https://www.alltownarentwe.co.uk/ has a live count of remaining seats for the next match if you scroll (all the way) down to the bottom of the front page.

Main - 321
Lower - 2
Upper - 3
Pontoon - 32
Osmond - 152

So 510 to shift in the next 72ish hours for a full sell out.

Just glad I’ve already got mine for Notts County, place is already looking a bit busy.

Well that’s my refresh button fúcked.

I suspect those remaining seats in the traditional hone stands will be tricky to shift as they’re largely restricted view. I’d expect those in the Osmond to keep moving quickly and we’ll open another block.

FYI, block D in the Osmond holds close to 650 seats. I don’t think all of the seats taken are necessarily paid tickets (when it opened up, there was a big chunk across the middle already gone), but we should be on for a bigger crowd than the Wrexham game even with Yeovil’s modest following.

Mad.

Quoted from ska face

Yer man at https://www.alltownarentwe.co.uk/ has a live count of remaining seats for the next match if you scroll (all the way) down to the bottom of the front page.

Main - 321
Lower - 2
Upper - 3
Pontoon - 32
Osmond - 152

So 510 to shift in the next 72ish hours for a full sell out.

Just glad I’ve already got mine for Notts County, place is already looking a bit busy.

If this continues I wonder if there will be consideration given to re-installing temporary seating in the corners? Could add hundreds more to the capacity.

http://codalmighty.com/site/ca.php?article=8150
Todays Cod Almighty diary. Scroll to the bottom and there's short video from last nights shoot out between Weymouth and Yeovil. It's comedy genius!!

Quoted from Poojah

I’ve learned over the years not to read too much into things like this, but besides winning tonight this is absolutely not what Yeovil would have wanted, is it?

Two dogged derby games in a week. Late equaliser against you. Extra time. Pens. Can’t train tomorrow. Light training only on Thursday. 300 mile journey on Friday. Haven’t won in four league games. Away at the league leaders in front of what will be close to a full house, who were able to rest much of their team at the weekend.

The fact that Saturday is not a forgone conclusion is what keeps football interesting, but the odds couldn’t be much more in our favour. In fact, it’s exactly the scenario I’d expect Town to fúck up over the years, but things do feel different with this lot. They really do.

Agreed it does feel different, like they give a sh*t and the atmosphere around the club not to mention the town, which i'd only get vibes leading up to a playoff final as we didn't have that until the takeover.

However, i wouldn't be too surprised to see something like, oh Yeovil player gets covid (hush hush) game postponed, then re-arranged and players then become much fresher.

Quoted from RonMariner

If this continues I wonder if there will be consideration given to re-installing temporary seating in the corners? Could add hundreds more to the capacity.

You can't realistically do that now without moving all the stuff in the corners. Fanzone has taken one corner and the others are filled with food outlets, water tanks, the club shop etc etc. Would be a bit of a squeeze as things are now.

Quoted from ginnywings

You can't realistically do that now without moving all the stuff in the corners. Fanzone has taken one corner and the others are filled with food outlets, water tanks, the club shop etc etc. Would be a bit of a squeeze as things are now.

No such word as can’t

Pretty sure all the stuff in the two Pontoon corners could be condensed into one over the course of a few days then get seats in the other one and add 5-600 to the home end.

A fantastic problem for the football club to have considering we’re 5th tier

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They certainly enjoyed there win last night. Let's hope there not so happy on Saturday at 5pm

Quoted from RonMariner

If this continues I wonder if there will be consideration given to re-installing temporary seating in the corners? Could add hundreds more to the capacity.

At this moment in time we still haven’t sold out our tickets in the osmond and main stand though. I know when we have a big away following we won’t get the osmond but there’s only going to be 3 occasions (Stockport, Notts County and Chesterfield) in which we won’t get the entire Osmond. And by the time you get the temporary seating installed we’ll only have Stockport who will need more than just the corner.

That might be because the view from the seats left in the Main is pants? The casual fan is less like to pay for a view which is like watching through a wood through a letterbox.

Quoted from LH

That might be because the view from the seats left in the Main is pants? The casual fan is less like to pay for a view which is like watching through a wood through a letterbox.

This.
When my wife went to an earlier game we were in seats in the pontoon with poor visibility due to a post and it put her off. Its that sort of thing that discourages more casual fans.

1318 is what we can have from the osmond. 586 is capacity in the corner for away fans. There’s still 400 seats available at this moment in time in the rest of the ground with potential for 900+ more if needs be for the rest of the osmond as Block D in the osmond only holds approximately 400. We can’t justify having 1300 empty seats in the home ends (yes granted 300 might be restricted view) to get temporary seating. The way the tide is changing though I may have to eat my words come the new year.

Quoted from 1739

1318 is what we can have from the osmond. 586 is capacity in the corner for away fans. There’s still 400 seats available at this moment in time in the rest of the ground with potential for 900+ more if needs be for the rest of the osmond as Block D in the osmond only holds approximately 400. We can’t justify having 1300 empty seats in the home ends (yes granted 300 might be restricted view) to get temporary seating. The way the tide is changing though I may have to eat my words come the new year.

In terms of what's left right now, with the exception of a couple of single seats in the Lower Findus and Pontoon, you're basically down to the very front and back of the Osmond block or restricted review in the Main Stand (even those not technically listed as 'restricted review', between the pillars and the roof your view is going to be limited). I can see further sales being slow whilst the remaining pickings are so slim, so I'd expect them to open another block in the Osmond by Friday if not tomorrow.

Unless something goes horribly wrong against Yeovil and Wealdstone, Notts County is going to be much tighter and people will have to take what they can get - we won't have the luxury of much of the Osmond and I think there will be naturally greater demand against a club of County's size and who will bring a decent if not massive following.

Those kind of games are going to be few and far between though. For the vast majority of games we're going to have in excess of 8,000 seats available to Town fans if needed, and I'd be surprised if that wasn't sufficient for 95% of our remaining fixtures. Where it could get tricky is if things go to the wire or we're in with a shout of winning the title at home (long, long way to go before we start to think about that, mind), but I'm not sure the economics of installing a further 1,000 or so temporary seats would make commercial sense.

Regardless, how nice to be even giving this issue some thought.

Quoted from Poojah

Regardless, how nice to be even giving this issue some thought.

Never in a million years did I think 3 months ago there would be threads on here discussing temporary seating.

I think you’d have looked more sane talking about shutting the osmond 3 months ago rather than contemplating temporary seating.

I’d be curious to see what we’ve budgeted for. Hopefully this extra income gives Hurst the funds to sign/ keep players required in January. I still forget that we’ve got 4 players in which Hollowords signed so hopefully we can shift to free up some wages (Rose, Morallis, Spokes, Gibson).

A rough estimation let’s say we’ve had 11 match days with an extra 2000 people coming through the gate paying an average of 15 quid each. That’s over £300,000 to play with if needs be. And looking at things at this moment in time we don’t need much do we? If we managed to keep all the loanees I’d probably say we’d only need a winger and a striker.

We have budgeted for 4400 .Was told this by a very good source .

Quoted from Norseman

We have budgeted for 4400 .Was told this by a very good source .

That’s an ambitious figure to have budgeted on. I can only think that 1878 were going to underwrite a fair chunk of that as not many would have predicted crowds above 3500.

So as it stands we’re about 1500 above that budget, or c. 35%

Quoted from 1739

Never in a million years did I think 3 months ago there would be threads on here discussing temporary seating.

I think you’d have looked more sane talking about shutting the osmond 3 months ago rather than contemplating temporary seating.

I’d be curious to see what we’ve budgeted for. Hopefully this extra income gives Hurst the funds to sign/ keep players required in January. I still forget that we’ve got 4 players in which Hollowords signed so hopefully we can shift to free up some wages (Rose, Morallis, Spokes, Gibson).

A rough estimation let’s say we’ve had 11 match days with an extra 2000 people coming through the gate paying an average of 15 quid each. That’s over £300,000 to play with if needs be. And looking at things at this moment in time we don’t need much do we? If we managed to keep all the loanees I’d probably say we’d only need a winger and a striker.

I think over the summer many did make comments about shutting the ossie completely.

I get that new owners have clearly helped with the uplift in interest, but when you’re winning and sitting top of the league, it doesn’t half help.

I think the way we’ve played has kept people interested and again, I don’t think even the most optimistic fan would’ve predicted this quick turnaround in style and form…

Quoted from Norseman

We have budgeted for 4400 .Was told this by a very good source .

That figure seems high to me considering what happened last season

Quoted from dapperz fun pub

That figure seems high to me considering what happened last season

If it's true, maybe it's been set high because anything over that needs to go to he who shall not be named.

Quoted from Ashby mariner

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They certainly enjoyed there win last night. Let's hope there not so happy on Saturday at 5pm

Sorry but a ‘double there’ ! The first one is ‘their’ and the second is ‘they’re’
Just saying

Bit late on this one!
I can't go on Saturday, but against Dover, we got there just after 2pm.
Eventually got parked 20 mins later, and was closer to home, than the ground!

Misses was fuming as it was raining!!!
Even more so when i told her to fully expect a 0-0 ..... that soon changed ;D

Anyway, she's just as gutted as me that we can't go!
The feel good factor is grabbing people unexpectedly!

UTFM

Block E in now open in the Osmond. Biggest crowd of the season looks nailed on, regardless of what Yeovil bring.

Will be going as a lonesome figure on Saturday as most of the lads are on shift. I debated just staying at home as not been by myself before but I'm enjoying watching town that much this year I can't stay away.

C'mon boys another 3 points will be delightful

Looking on ticket sales website for away the whole of blocks A and B have been made available for sale to away fans that’s about 900 seats which seems unnecessary for Yeovil. Around 40 have been purchased in block B and just 1 in block A, . I agree with comments that that last 200 or 300 seats in Main have terrible views and are unlikely to impress a casual fan. Surely we are now at the point where other then the big 3 visitors we should put the whole of Osmond except Block A on sale to home fans from the beginning of ticket sales rather then add blocks late on after seats with poor views elsewhere have sold and casuals have already looked at it and thought no don’t fancy that. I appreciate this is a new phenomena but it was predictable the Yeovil game would sell out after progress over the last month and we would have sold even more seats if the Osmond had been more available from the start.

Quoted from HerveJosse

and just 1 in block A,

On your own
On your own
On your ooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwn

Quoted from HerveJosse

Looking on ticket sales website for away the whole of blocks A and B have been made available for sale to away fans that’s about 900 seats which seems unnecessary for Yeovil. Around 40 have been purchased in block B and just 1 in block A, . I agree with comments that that last 200 or 300 seats in Main have terrible views and are unlikely to impress a casual fan. Surely we are now at the point where other then the big 3 visitors we should put the whole of Osmond except Block A on sale to home fans from the beginning of ticket sales rather then add blocks late on after seats with poor views elsewhere have sold and casuals have already looked at it and thought no don’t fancy that. I appreciate this is a new phenomena but it was predictable the Yeovil game would sell out after progress over the last month and we would have sold even more seats if the Osmond had been more available from the start.

I don't know what percentage of our capacity we have to contractually give but we might have to give 2 blocks to begin with unless the away team agrees otherwise.

Quoted from HerveJosse

Looking on ticket sales website for away the whole of blocks A and B have been made available for sale to away fans that’s about 900 seats which seems unnecessary for Yeovil. Around 40 have been purchased in block B and just 1 in block A, . I agree with comments that that last 200 or 300 seats in Main have terrible views and are unlikely to impress a casual fan. Surely we are now at the point where other then the big 3 visitors we should put the whole of Osmond except Block A on sale to home fans from the beginning of ticket sales rather then add blocks late on after seats with poor views elsewhere have sold and casuals have already looked at it and thought no don’t fancy that. I appreciate this is a new phenomena but it was predictable the Yeovil game would sell out after progress over the last month and we would have sold even more seats if the Osmond had been more available from the start.

I don't think that's possible due to access to seats and facilities in the segregated away area. When limited to the Harrington Street corner, I believe away fans enter the ground through the vomitory which splits blocks B and C, so you can't have home fans beyond block C. I still don't see that being an issue for the overwhelming majority of games - we're still some way from selling out the larger portion of the Osmond.

Pic for reference:

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Quoted from HerveJosse

Looking on ticket sales website for away the whole of blocks A and B have been made available for sale to away fans that’s about 900 seats which seems unnecessary for Yeovil. Around 40 have been purchased in block B and just 1 in block A, . I agree with comments that that last 200 or 300 seats in Main have terrible views and are unlikely to impress a casual fan. Surely we are now at the point where other then the big 3 visitors we should put the whole of Osmond except Block A on sale to home fans from the beginning of ticket sales rather then add blocks late on after seats with poor views elsewhere have sold and casuals have already looked at it and thought no don’t fancy that. I appreciate this is a new phenomena but it was predictable the Yeovil game would sell out after progress over the last month and we would have sold even more seats if the Osmond had been more available from the start.

I imagine there’s probably a minimum proportion of the ground you have to give to away fans, and although it’s unlikely they’d bring that many here, Yeovil did take 1000 to Weymouth (yeah I know) on Tuesday, so there’s always the potential they could have had a decent turnout. Then you’ve got issues like stewarding and access to arrange, not easy at relatively short notice when people like the Council & Police need to be involved. Also a duff result last Saturday might’ve knocked a few hundred off the gate, especially if we had a replay at BP this Tuesday gone.

Quoted from ska face

I imagine there’s probably a minimum proportion of the ground you have to give to away fans...

I think the NL rules state you have to give 10% or 600, whichever is greater. If Block A and B is approx 900, that sounds about right.

I aremain more optimistic then most on here on where we are now with potential crowd levels. If it is the case that only blocks Cand D in Osmond can be made available to home fans and given that realistically there are 300 seats at least in the rest of the ground where the views are unacceptable we are effectively now at capacity as Saturday will show. It would be a great shame if we are turning people away . Momentum is all . It is to be hoped new short term solutions will be forthcoming.

You have to make these numbers available for away fans, but if they are not taken up we can resell them if needed.

Quoted from HerveJosse

I aremain more optimistic then most on here on where we are now with potential crowd levels. If it is the case that only blocks Cand D in Osmond can be made available to home fans and given that realistically there are 300 seats at least in the rest of the ground where the views are unacceptable we are effectively now at capacity as Saturday will show. It would be a great shame if we are turning people away . Momentum is all . It is to be hoped new short term solutions will be forthcoming.

Block D and E (the two blocks closest to the Findus Stand) are currently open for the Yeovil game, and we’ve used Block C in the last for home fans - you’ll just lose a small chunk of it for segregation.

Another factor to consider is it will soon be winter.

Fans will not want to sit in a stand which is open to the elements.

So any added seating area's will need a roof on it.

With a free hot drink at half time . ;)

Quoted from 1739

Never in a million years did I think 3 months ago there would be threads on here discussing temporary seating.

I think you’d have looked more sane talking about shutting the osmond 3 months ago rather than contemplating temporary seating.

I’d be curious to see what we’ve budgeted for. Hopefully this extra income gives Hurst the funds to sign/ keep players required in January. I still forget that we’ve got 4 players in which Hollowords signed so hopefully we can shift to free up some wages (Rose, Morallis, Spokes, Gibson).

A rough estimation let’s say we’ve had 11 match days with an extra 2000 people coming through the gate paying an average of 15 quid each. That’s over £300,000 to play with if needs be. And looking at things at this moment in time we don’t need much do we? If we managed to keep all the loanees I’d probably say we’d only need a winger and a striker.

I see what you mean about using the extra income for players in January. Wouldn't it be better utilised though in getting that "monkey off our back" sooner? Maybe a more appropriate adjective would be "leech on our jugular".

6,700. I suspect we’ll fall short of 7,000, but that’s some going.

https://mobile.twitter.com/officialgtfc/status/1451179667201802248

Quoted from rancido

I see what you mean about using the extra income for players in January. Wouldn't it be better utilised though in getting that "monkey off our back" sooner? Maybe a more appropriate adjective would be "leech on our jugular".

Getting promoted must be worth an extra million quid or so each season to the club. Might as well go for broke and spend any cash we have floating about in Jan on a few players who might get us over the line and kill 2 birds with 2 stone.

Quoted from rancido

I see what you mean about using the extra income for players in January. Wouldn't it be better utilised though in getting that "monkey off our back" sooner? Maybe a more appropriate adjective would be "leech on our jugular".

I don't think we should pay him off any sooner than we have to. He agreed a three year repayment schedule (accelerated by any incoming transfer fees) so let's stick with that.

I assume that he transfer fee clause only related to payers at the club when he left? Anyone know?

Hard to believe that only as recently as 2014, Yeovil were in The Championship.

Does the 6700 sold include Yeovil's allocation?

Upper, Lower and Pontoon now all sold out. Less than 200 in the main as well.

I agree with Ska Face, use any additional income to strengthen the squad to hopefully ensure promotion, the most important thing this season is promotion, then consolidate in league 2 over the next 2/3 years while we pay of Mr Fenty, then when we’re dept free start to look at further promotions.

Well been and collected my tickets at 2pm and ticket office / shop very busy 4-5 staff on all answering phones . I asked about a raffle prize and straight away the answer no problem came back . The Club are doing great work in terms of building an affinity with the community outside of the 90 mins on the pitch . The word of the public spreads like wildfire in a small community like NE Lincs and these sell out crowds are testament not only to PH and his players but the massive culture change within the club itself . We the fans talking seriously about the problems we now have off the pitch and it’s largely the lack of seats whilst in the 5th tier of English football. This is an extraordinary change in mentality in less than a year from the board.team,club staff and fans alike . I have no idea but suspect commercially it must be a similar scenario with support from local business? This is a Club on the up and whilst we may yet not win the league or promotion we will take some serious stopping . UTM

I'll admit to this now ....my lad(massive GTFC fan) is bringing his best mate with him Saturday, he happens to be a Dull City pass holder but to quote "wants to come see what proper, winning football looks like"!!..

This is remarkable it really is, what a turnaround in such a shirt time. Surely we are into the realms of doubling our home attendances under our previous " Custodian " 🤬. Massive well done to all concerned UTM ⚫⚪⚫⚪

Quoted from RonMariner

I don't think we should pay him off any sooner than we have to. He agreed a three year repayment schedule (accelerated by any incoming transfer fees) so let's stick with that.

I assume that he transfer fee clause only related to payers at the club when he left? Anyone know?

I agree with Ron here.
Presumably we have already accelerated the repayment by circa 500k.
(Pollock 250k, Dembele 100k, & Grist anything rumoured from 71.5k - 200k).
Any extra revenue should be retained for improvements on or off the pitch.

I hope the lads are backed vocally. So far this season the fans have been really good and the positive atmosphere in the stands is so different after the simmering resentment that was only ever just under the surface under the long, dark Fenty years.

But this squad is class and they deserve our backing. No passenger, no hiders and everyone puts in the maximum. They fully deserve a loud and positive backing from the first whistle till the last and they usually respond too! UTM!

Quoted from Heswall Mariner

I agree with Ron here.
Presumably we have already accelerated the repayment by circa 500k.
(Pollock 250k, Dembele 100k, & Grist anything rumoured from 71.5k - 200k).
Any extra revenue should be retained for improvements on or off the pitch.

I understand it is a valid point. Of course we don't know what Hurst has lined up, player wise or if JS and AP see it that way. We also have the scenario that if we get promoted this season then there will have to be a large influx of better players to combat a consolidating season in League 2. Maybe the extra income would be better used for that. There will be extra income from the FA for being in the league but surely it is better to keep funds in reserve for any other expenditure?

Quoted from Scenes on toast

This is remarkable it really is, what a turnaround in such a shirt time. Surely we are into the realms of doubling our home attendances under our previous " Custodian " 🤬. Massive well done to all concerned UTM ⚫⚪⚫⚪

'In such a shirt time,' bloody hell, are you from Dull too?

Quoted from 1739

At this moment in time we still haven’t sold out our tickets in the osmond and main stand though. I know when we have a big away following we won’t get the osmond but there’s only going to be 3 occasions (Stockport, Notts County and Chesterfield) in which we won’t get the entire Osmond. And by the time you get the temporary seating installed we’ll only have Stockport who will need more than just the corner.

easy, just give them the bare minimum. About time we loaded games in our favour.

Instead of temp seats i would rather the club spent money on segregating a small section of the main stand for when we have away supporters that total less than 100. Then sell the whole osmond to town fans.

Quoted from Sigone

Instead of temp seats i would rather the club spent money on segregating a small section of the main stand for when we have away supporters that total less than 100. Then sell the whole osmond to town fans.

Whs

Quoted from Sigone

Instead of temp seats i would rather the club spent money on segregating a small section of the main stand for when we have away supporters that total less than 100. Then sell the whole osmond to town fans.

Games against the tinpots aren't the problem at the moment (though they may be if the current growth trend continues) - we can probably accommodate another 500 home fans in the Osmond and still segregate from the sub 200 away followings. It's the games against teams that will bring a few hundred - too many under current police policy (or is it GTFC?) to allow homes fans in the Osmond. This means there are empty seats in the Osmond but home fans are being turned away - I expect this will be the case v Notts.

We have split the Osmond before with full sell-out crowds - definitely Fulham in the play off semi, also Tottenham and West Ham? Also Oldham the last game before the Fulham semi was an 8k+ crowd and Oldham won't have brought more than 500.

Quoted from Limerick Mariner

Games against the tinpots aren't the problem at the moment (though they may be if the current growth trend continues) - we can probably accommodate another 500 home fans in the Osmond and still segregate from the sub 200 away followings. It's the games against teams that will bring a few hundred - too many under current police policy (or is it GTFC?) to allow homes fans in the Osmond. This means there are empty seats in the Osmond but home fans are being turned away - I expect this will be the case v Notts.

We have split the Osmond before with full sell-out crowds - definitely Fulham in the play off semi, also Tottenham and West Ham? Also Oldham the last game before the Fulham semi was an 8k+ crowd and Oldham won't have brought more than 500.

I remembered that we did it against Oldham as I was sat in the Osmond, but hadn't realised we'd done the same for the Fulham game too. Just watched the footage of Donovan's goal and you're quite right. The segregation looks a little bit lighter than we might get away with today (just a handful of stewards at the bottom of the stand), but I don't see why we couldn't do the same again with five or six seats worth' of tarp.

I hope so anyway, County aren't in great form and are up against Stockport and Bromley next. A couple of bad results there and I can see their following taking a hit.

As a mildly interesting side note, they look like proper flat track bullies, Notts. Here's their record so far against the current top, middling and bottom sides in the division:

1-7: LLL
8-13: DD
14-23 : WWWDWW

Other than failing to beat Weymouth, their results perfectly segment themselves based on the league position of their opposition, losing every game against top 7 opposition and have so far failed to beat anyone currently in the top 13 positions.

Incidentally, Town have only played 2 of the current top 8 (won one, lost one) but then between the 23rd November and 22nd January face 7 of the top 8, followed by a potentially new look Wrexham at the end of Jan. I'd feel a lot better about that run of games if we could put some distance between us and the stragglers in the next 5 games.

Quoted from wuffing

'In such a shirt time,' bloody hell, are you from Dull too?

God no , just got fat fingers 🤣🤣🤣

I said yesterday that I didn’t think we’d quite clear 7,000 tickets for the Yeovil game. I think I’m going to be wrong; at the current run rate (which appears to be picking up if anything) we’ll easily clear another 150 between now and kick-off tomorrow. Whether that translates into a 7k+ attendance remains to be seen, but regardless, what a time to be alive!

https://mobile.twitter.com/officialgtfc/status/1451501017749655556

Selling 7,000 tickets at home to Yeovil in non-league, having just been relegated is astounding.

The owners must be absolutely over the moon.

I must say it is great to be looking forward to the match several days out, knowing there will be huge numbers of Town fans willing us on. In recent years going to the match was a chore, just going through the motions but that has changed now beyond all recognition.

The good thing is I think there is a lot more to come - everybody wants to be associated with success and be part of a project to deliver it and whatever happens in the end for this season I think people know that each season we will improve on and off the field. Brilliant stuff from the new owners, the manager and the team and the fans who are now reconnecting with their football club.

Hopefully a final big push tonight by Town fans on social media to try and sell the remaining 450 tickets. Will be good to see the Osmond full for once.

Quoted from Poojah

I said yesterday that I didn’t think we’d quite clear 7,000 tickets for the Yeovil game. I think I’m going to be wrong; at the current run rate (which appears to be picking up if anything) we’ll easily clear another 150 between now and kick-off tomorrow. Whether that translates into a 7k+ attendance remains to be seen, but regardless, what a time to be alive!

https://mobile.twitter.com/officialgtfc/status/1451501017749655556

The only question remaining is how many who decide to go and pay on the day will be locked out. There will always be several hundred of these.This also means there will be many more unable to attend next week when the Osmond is more restricted for home fans. We are going to need more capacity if we are to continue to move forward.Lincoln went from 3k to 10k in a year and we could if we had the capacity.

Just read on FB we have Covid in the camp……

We’ll be without several first team players!!

Yep, the covid story has thoroughly drunk me off.

I mean it’s not surprising but why us? We never get the luck……

Shit happens, we've got a good squad, we saw that last weekend.

I have a ticket for the Osmond tomorrow for £10 if anyone requires it 8)
UTMM

Fewer than 100 to go now, inevitable we’ll break the 7,000 barrier.

https://mobile.twitter.com/officialgtfc/status/1451565059356995590

When was the last time we had 7,000 Town fans in the ground? 21st March 2009 vs Gillingham (RIP Jade Goody)?

Feels weird that we’re getting crowds like this for very regular season games. Never known anything like it. Our attendance tomorrow could be in the region of 250% HIGHER than Scunny’s. In the league below.

For now.

Quoted from Poojah

When was the last time we had 7,000 Town fans in the ground? 21st March 2009 (RIP Jade Goody)?

Feels weird that we’re getting crowds like this for very regular season games. Never known anything like it. Our attendance tomorrow could be in the region of 250% HIGHER than Scunny’s. In the league below.

For now.

Ironically, I think it was Barnet in April 2010 trying to save ourselves from ignominy of relegation to the National League...

Does the number published by the club include tickets purchased by Yeovil fans?

Quoted from buckstown

Does the number published by the club include tickets purchased by Yeovil fans?

Yes, all 12 of them

Quoted from Fette Schlange

Yes, all 12 of them

105 greyed out seats in the away end. Not the worst following we've seen or will see.

There's a time to hold your hands up and say 'I got it wrong', me included. And boy I am very pleased I did get it wrong. Who would have predicted 7,000 in April?

https://forum.thefishy.co.uk/Blah.pl?m-1618960884/

Quoted from DB

There's a time to hold your hands up and say 'I got it wrong', me included. And boy I am very pleased I did get it wrong. Who would have predicted 7,000 in April?

https://forum.thefishy.co.uk/Blah.pl?m-1618960884/

Even with Covid stopping folk going, Fenty finally flipping off a couple of wins did anyone expect us to have this sort of up turn in fortunes.

I thought shifting 3000 season tickets was decent but would probably only see 500/1000 max added to the match day numbers…it’s nice to be wrong from time to time…

Quoted from DB

There's a time to hold your hands up and say 'I got it wrong', me included. And boy I am very pleased I did get it wrong. Who would have predicted 7,000 in April?

https://forum.thefishy.co.uk/Blah.pl?m-1618960884/

Just waiting for Yoda now😂

Well that was an interesting look back DB! No one predicted what’s happened and not at all surprising, it is truly unbelievable!! Tickets for next week will be like gold dust!UTM!

21 seats have just become available in the Lower Findus apparently.

https://www.alltownarentwe.co.uk/ Scroll to the bottom for the counter.

Quoted from immariner

21 seats have just become availablebin the Lower Findus apparently.

https://www.venuetoolbox.com/grimsby/ASP/selectArea.asp?selectArea=true&eventID={3A84245C-577E-405D-8CA1-81566C20704E}&areaID={FA6941B8-709C-4E68-ACD3-AED982343B31}&layoutID={69881A9B-2A74-4B2D-A7B7-FEECDA4351E9}&parentID={FA6941B8-709C-4E68-ACD3-AED982343B31}&packageID={6F9619FF-8B86-D011-B42D-00C04FC964FF}&homeArea=home&socialBubbleNumberOfSeats=&linkedSeats=&=&carParkID={6F9619FF-8B86-D011-B42D-00C04FC964FF}

Yeah, saw that and thought it was odd. Looking at it, I think the numbering is in reverse so they’re actually the seats closest to the Osmond. Are they usually kept free like that? I sit close to there and have never noticed it.