Stickied League One Away Support Thread 2023/24

[valefan16]

Yeah we’ve lost a couple of thousand on our capacity (around 20%) due to health and safety. I’ve been at the abbey in a crowd of 9.9k but we are now capped at 7.9k frustratingly.

Ours is the same, bearing in mind Vale Park is around 20k in terms of seats, half the Lorne Street isn't open yet due to the concourse needing to be finished so that leaves 17.5k

We are capped due to safety so we sold out two stands on Saturday yet was only 7900 home fans in the 13000 home seats available.

 

[LancashireTrotters]

Vale fans - What’s the deal with tickets for our game a week on Sat?

Still yet to receive an allocation from you?

 

[valefan16]

Vale fans - What’s the deal with tickets for our game a week on Sat?

Still yet to receive an allocation from you?

Not sure, we’ve only just received the MK ones for the following Tuesday so since covid it’s all very last minute a lot of the time with tickets.

Stand holds 4500 but with cap on capacity it’s limited I believe to around 4k so should be plenty of tickets for it at least. Hopefully get 11k for that one.

Enjoy though as almost certainly the last time you’ll get that stand and will be opposite with around 3000 allocation if we meet again next season.

 

[Bobbin']

Don’t know if I’ve completely got this wrong but didn’t Bolton get promoted at Port Vale a few years back and there was a fair bit of trouble in the ground/on the pitch?

 

[valefan16]

Don’t know if I’ve completely got this wrong but didn’t Bolton get promoted at Port Vale a few years back and there was a fair bit of trouble in the ground/on the pitch?

They didn’t go up. They could of done but think results elsewhere went against them on the day.

Their second goal saw fans spill onto the pitch scrapping.

A game I’d rather forget to be honest as it almost confirmed relegation largely thanks to big Reg Cicilia ridiculous scoring with his hand to get a second yellow in the first half!

The season we played football manager in real life and signed a load of lads from across Europe and thought it may work!

I don’t know why no allocation but may be still being worked on as the ground is still going through some work that hasn’t been completed due to the play offs and then Robbie Williams concert leaving us with far less time to get the works completed so may still be questions on what allocation we can offer Bolton.

I know we requested for example to play away the first game but it was rejected!

 

[Pompeyblueboy]

Vale fans - What’s the deal with tickets for our game a week on Sat?

Still yet to receive an allocation from you?

same with us

 

[91SPP]

I didn’t anticipate the demand, Charlton tickets are close to being sold out (will tomorrow) and Mansfield is now sold out too in the league cup.

I’ve now bought an away membership now to make sure I can get to the ones I’m actually free for, because I’d Imagine Cambridge, Oxford and others would’ve been impossible. Charlton had over 3000 so expected it to be a bit easier.

 

[denzel ecfc]

Well this is fun

 

[Sydney Posse]

I’m thinking about starting a debate about who is the smallest least successful club in the league. It’s us and all you Morecambe and Cambridge fans can bugger off

 

[cookiemonster]

I’m thinking about starting a debate about who is the smallest least successful club in the league. It’s us and all you Morecambe and Cambridge fans can bugger off

ahem

 

[LancashireTrotters]

Finally got our allocation from Port Vale for next week. They’ve restricted us to 3,250.

Harsh.

 

[kieran_vale]

Might just be an initial allocation and then maybe let you have up to 4000 if you sell that lot out. Either that or it could be because we have just been charged by the FA for what happened at the end of the Swindon game last season and probably want to limit the chances of it kicking off here to avoid being dragged over the coals for that too.

 

[valefan16]

Finally got our allocation from Port Vale for next week. They’ve restricted us to 3,250.

Harsh.

That is current allowed capacity, its not us who have restricted it.

We had the same amount for the play off semi final when it was a home end.

 

[huddsmoose]

I’m thinking about starting a debate about who is the smallest least successful club in the league. It’s us and all you Morecambe and Cambridge fans can bugger off

Know your place Grecian.

Too BIG for Lg1:

Sheff Weds, Ipswich, Derby, Pompey, Bolton, Charlton

Tinpot non-league upstarts:

Morecambe, Fleetwood, Accrington, Burton, Cheltenham, Forest Green

Traditional league 1/2 cloggers:
The rest.

 

[Si Robin]

Know your place Grecian.

Too BIG for Lg1:

Sheff Weds, Ipswich, Derby, Pompey, Bolton, Charlton

Tinpot non-league upstarts:

Morecambe, Fleetwood, Accrington, Burton, Cheltenham, Forest Green

Traditional league 1/2 cloggers:
The rest.

Been in the Football League 22 out of the last 23 years - still classed as non-league upstarts. By a fan of a team who has spent more years than us in non-league during that time.

You've got to laugh I suppose....

 

[K-Win]

I'm a proud member of The Big Time Charlies Club.

 

[Another Walkley Owl]

Know your place Grecian.

Too BIG for Lg1:

Sheff Weds, Ipswich, Derby, Pompey, Bolton, Charlton

Tinpot non-league upstarts:

Morecambe, Fleetwood, Accrington, Burton, Cheltenham, Forest Green

Traditional league 1/2 cloggers:
The rest.

None of us are too Big for League 1, that's why we're all here. (Yes, I know you don't mean it literally)
All those named have Potential to go much higher and historically have been, but that means nothing Now.
I guarantee more than one of these Clubs will come a cropper against one of the "Tinpotters", (as we found out last season!!)
That's part of the "Beauty" of this league, the unpredictability.
Having said that, I can't wait to get out of this Fucking Tinpot League!!!

 

[FGR-Star]

Been in the Football League 22 out of the last 23 years - still classed as non-league upstarts. By a fan of a team who has spent more years than us in non-league during that time.

You've got to laugh I suppose....

Cannot believe I am agreeing with a Cheltenham fan, but you are bang on there.

Cambridge are just as tinpot as Cheltenham and really just as tinpot as Morecambe and FGR in reality.

At least we are not in denial and know FGR are firmly tinpot. Proud of it.

 

[Chris FGR]

I don't think you can really say Cambridge are as tinpot as us or some of the other ex non league clubs. 43 years in the football league and nearly got to the Premier League under John Beck with Dion Dublin up front.

 

[Boletus Edulis]

Do we have mods/administrators on this forum? If so, do they actually do anything?

 

[Si Robin]

I don't think you can really say Cambridge are as tinpot as us or some of the other ex non league clubs. 43 years in the football league and nearly got to the Premier League under John Beck with Dion Dublin up front.

I wasn't personally digging at Cambridge, I just take umbrage with Cheltenham still being classed as non-league upstarts when I'm pushing 40 and we've been in the Football League for longer than half my life.

Are we tinpot - absolutely, we struggle to average more than 3,500, our record purchase is still £50k, and that was nearly 20 years ago. But we're not upstarts anymore. And I won't take it from a fan of a club who have spent more of the past 25 years in non-league than we have.

 

[thewwfc]

I wasn't personally digging at Cambridge, I just take umbrage with Cheltenham still being classed as non-league upstarts when I'm pushing 40 and we've been in the Football League for longer than half my life.

I don’t want to get too po-faced or beard-stroking over what was just a throwaway bit of banter in the first place, but it’s also arguable at what point a club becomes an established league club…or at what point you lose that status (1/4 of the top tier conference clubs could be said to be established league clubs slumming it…).

 

[Muzzle]

I don’t want to get too po-faced or beard-stroking over what was just a throwaway bit of banter in the first place, but it’s also arguable at what point a club becomes an established league club…or at what point you lose that status (1/4 of the top tier conference clubs could be said to be established league clubs slumming it…).

Well, if we use the premise of people who weren't born in a small village, but have lived there 40 years are still considered as newbies, I guess if you weren't around at the very start of the first professional league, you are all knackered apart from us Accrington and Derby

 

[BarrieOwl]

Well, if we use the premise of people who weren't born in a small village, but have lived there 40 years are still considered as newbies, I guess if you weren't around at the very start of the first professional league, you are all knackered apart from us Accrington and Derby

We were around we just didn't join the League, we formed the Football Alliance

 

[Sydney Posse]

ahem

Pah !, we are way more tinpot than you !, how many times have you been knocked out of the FA Cup by non league opposition ?

 

[Limerick Mariner]

Know your place Grecian.

Too BIG for Lg1:

Sheff Weds, Ipswich, Derby, Pompey, Bolton, Charlton

Tinpot non-league upstarts:

Morecambe, Fleetwood, Accrington, Burton, Cheltenham, Forest Green

Traditional league 1/2 cloggers:
The rest.

I'm with you "Brother"...

 

[Essex2Wessex]

It's telling that Wycombe, for all the criticism they get, and deserve, for their playing style, seem throughly now to have graduated from the status of "non-league tinpotter upstart". In their way, they really are a bit of a role model for those clubs yet to do so....

 

[UppaTowen_ITFC]

It's telling that Wycombe, for all the criticism they get, and deserve, for their playing style, seem throughly now to have graduated from the status of "non-league tinpotter upstart". In their way, they really are a bit of a role model for those clubs yet to do so....

Bragging on at least two occasions on their twitter account that they’d sold out the home car park is probably enough to relegate them to a level even below that to be fair!

 

[thewwfc]

Bragging on at least two occasions on their twitter account that they’d sold out the home car park is probably enough to relegate them to a level even below that to be fair!

I think that was taken a bit out of context at the time, it’s more testament to how shit the parking situation is around the ground…the media team pretty much play it up for comedy value

 

[Marked Ox]

Well, if we use the premise of people who weren't born in a small village, but have lived there 40 years are still considered as newbies, I guess if you weren't around at the very start of the first professional league, you are all knackered apart from us Accrington and Derby

Not the same Accrington.