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Blues Fans Accepting Our Fate
Topic Started: Apr 22 2006, 07:56 AM (258 Views)
harken
Martin Grainger
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I have just read that we haven't sold out our allocation for Everton. I am completely amazed. We do, after all, have a chance of escaping relegation. You would expect a big following at Everton so I'm puzzled as to why this is.

I know our support has been poor numerically for a couple of seasons but nonetheless you'd expect a decent sized club to sell 2000 tickets. We did manage to sell all the allocation at Torquay, Reading and Stoke which I suppose is because people thought we could actually win these. Presumably most fans have accepted we will lose and don't want to go.

I've been a Blues fan for over forty years and have seen many promotion and relegation run-ins, but never before can I remember our fans not backing the side and actually travelling away to support the side.

Clearly not everyone is the same as some are going but the apathy is shocking!

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Mikael Forssell
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Have you ever been there, the place is a disgrace? I'm sorry but I refuse to part with my hard earned to sit and look at a post. If it was the game where everything depended on it then i'd have gone but other than that.....Goodision Park? No no no, never again!


We're only a few hundred short anyway, and buy the time a few pay on the days have gone, it won't be far from a sell-out.
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valleyblue
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Does the cost not enter in to your thoughts?????

3 games in 7 days can over-stretch a lot of wallets
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harken
Martin Grainger
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Didn't it always cost to go and support your side? If this was a semi-final or play-off game we would sell out. Obviously for many cost is an issue but surely there are 2500 fans who could afford it! Porstmouth are taking 5000 to Wigan next week.

Fans have backed the side at crucial times in the past, but are not doing so now.
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MagicKapo
Ian Bennett
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Well Harken are you going?
I'm not due to work, but I would not go to that foul hole they call Goodision Park, especially after spending loads recently on other games away from home.
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valleyblue
Paul Tait
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Harken

It's just gone Easter loads of people will have holidays to pay for.

3 games in 7 days

Pay day for most on salaries is a week away

People have families.

Yes if it was play-off game or a semi-final they'd find the cash but it's a league game at a horrible ground.


If you're going and can afford it good luck to you - some ( a lot in all likelyhood) do have other demands upon our time and money. Which should not be called in to question by threads like this.
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harken
Martin Grainger
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yes I am going and I would never knock people who can't go because they're short of cash and obviously if you're working you can't go, but I'm afraid this is a sign of the times - we are a smaller club these days on a par with Charlton and Palace. I can recall many times in the past when fans have rallied round at the end of the season and backed the club.

I presume most fans have just accepted we're going down and can't be bothered.
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stephen
Jose Dominguez
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If Harken is right and Portsmouth are taking 5000 to Wigan then he has a point.
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Frank Worthington
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It's not quite as simple as that, Stephen. Don't forget Portsmouth have a big catchment area with absolutely no rival clubs bar Southampton. The Birmingham area has FOUR big clubs in the space of a 5 mile radius. Prices of football these days is absolutely crazy, the time of the year isn't exactly useful and when Blues fans have backed the club in the past, the game was a game of the people (Ie. cheaper prices) or we were in the lower divisions.
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proccy_blues
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how can we expect to sell our away allocation when we cant even sell out at home?
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stephen
Jose Dominguez
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But Birmingham's catchment area is probably 4 times the size of Portsmouth. However, I take the point of the 3 games in 7 days and Easter and add in school holiday expenses.
I'm only replying as I need more Posts so I can stop being on the Walter Pandiani level. I was quite happy being Trevor Hockey.
Now, do I wear the lucky scarf or the lucky hat. This could take some time and the train is due in an hour.
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