Bridgeman
Alfie Biggs
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Post by Bridgeman on Jan 18, 2015 14:08:24 GMT
So what were the fish and chips like then lads ?
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Stuart Taylor
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Post by LPGas on Jan 18, 2015 14:10:58 GMT
Coffee in the leisure centre was good
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Post by bemmygas on Jan 18, 2015 14:32:42 GMT
£5 for double cheeseburger,but it tasted alright,my nephew who lives locally bought me it as the nice turnstile operator only charged him £3 to get in and he's 25.
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Jan 18, 2015 16:41:08 GMT
So what were the fish and chips like then lads ? Dunno about fish and chips....i asked for two pints of lager and a packet of crisps and all I got was: Splodgenessabounds! |
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GasPanic!
Rickie Lambert
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Post by GasPanic! on Jan 18, 2015 19:12:57 GMT
Apparently if we accepted their offer of making it all ticket we would have only been allocated 600 tickets.
Christ knows why it being all ticket would make such a huge difference to the allocation.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2015 19:48:04 GMT
Woking officials say they had no choice but to turn away the several hundred Bristol Rovers supporters who were unable to buy a ticket for the goalless draw between the two sides this afternoon. Reports suggested up to 300 Rovers supporters were locked out of Woking’s Kingfield Stadium just after kick-off as a result of all away areas of the ground being sold out. John Moore, a spokesperson for Woking, explained that an offer to make the match – which attracted almost 1900 travelling supporters in a crowd of close to 4000 – all-ticket had been declined by Rovers. He said: “I totally understand how frustrating it is for those people who weren’t allowed in because I am a football fan myself. “The bottom line is that the number of people we are allowed to let into the ground was exceeded and we have to abide by the restrictions set on us by the rules of our safety certificate. “The game was also subject to segregation so although we were not full to capacity we were unable to start putting a couple of away supporters in the areas that housed the home supporters. “As far as I am aware, we offered to make the game all-ticket, but that offer was declined by Bristol Rovers, as is their right. I would like to add that the supporters who did manage to get a ticket for the game were an absolute credit to their football club and to see them turning up in such huge numbers was incredible.” So the Woking official website should therefore state clearly the away capacity limit numbers and there would be no comeback to them. Thats bulls**t saying its "our right" to decline to make a game at their ground all ticket,they can take advice regarding possible attendee numbers but the decision is quite rightly always down to the home club. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2015 20:30:50 GMT
Is there any water in the theory I've seen posted, er, somewhere that Woking weren't happy about the standard charge that would have been levied by BRFC for the service of selling tickets on their behalf?
Honest question, but some of the facts around this are murky to say the least
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Post by nit3owl64 on Jan 18, 2015 20:46:20 GMT
Blame sainsburys's...Sack the board  |
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Post by Blue Mist on Jan 19, 2015 0:20:29 GMT
Over the PA they announced nearly 1900 gas and 1200 Woking.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2015 7:58:41 GMT
Apparently if we accepted their offer of making it all ticket we would have only been allocated 600 tickets. Christ knows why it being all ticket would make such a huge difference to the allocation. That would have been the minimum allocation (10% of the capacity) we would have been allocated more. |
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Post by Peter Parker on Jan 19, 2015 8:06:54 GMT
Apparently if we accepted their offer of making it all ticket we would have only been allocated 600 tickets. Christ knows why it being all ticket would make such a huge difference to the allocation. That would have been the minimum allocation (10% of the capacity) we would have been allocated more. I am sure we would have but, this hasn't really been explained properly.
If we had been in contact saying we will take 1500ish, I am sure we could have arranged 1500 tickets given Woking could accommodate us.
The original comment makes no sense whatsoever. (That's not a criticism of BSS)
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Post by CountyGroundHotel on Jan 19, 2015 8:43:15 GMT
Woking officials say they had no choice but to turn away the several hundred Bristol Rovers supporters who were unable to buy a ticket for the goalless draw between the two sides this afternoon. Reports suggested up to 300 Rovers supporters were locked out of Woking’s Kingfield Stadium just after kick-off as a result of all away areas of the ground being sold out. John Moore, a spokesperson for Woking, explained that an offer to make the match – which attracted almost 1900 travelling supporters in a crowd of close to 4000 – all-ticket had been declined by Rovers. He said: “I totally understand how frustrating it is for those people who weren’t allowed in because I am a football fan myself. “The bottom line is that the number of people we are allowed to let into the ground was exceeded and we have to abide by the restrictions set on us by the rules of our safety certificate. “The game was also subject to segregation so although we were not full to capacity we were unable to start putting a couple of away supporters in the areas that housed the home supporters. “As far as I am aware, we offered to make the game all-ticket, but that offer was declined by Bristol Rovers, as is their right. I would like to add that the supporters who did manage to get a ticket for the game were an absolute credit to their football club and to see them turning up in such huge numbers was incredible.” So the Woking official website should therefore state clearly the away capacity limit numbers and there would be no comeback to them. Thats bulls*** saying its "our right" to decline to make a game at their ground all ticket,they can take advice regarding possible attendee numbers but the decision is quite rightly always down to the home club. So the Woking spokesman isn't actually sure of his facts stating 'As far as I am aware'. Then he praises the away fans who managed to get a ticket for a non-ticket match, so those that paid on the day by implication weren't a credit to the club? But shouldn't he be praising those that were locked out for taking the situation so calmly? But hey Bristol Rovers should've made it all ticket. You couldn't makeup such a pathetic viewpoint. |
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Post by lulworthgas on Jan 19, 2015 10:14:52 GMT
So the Woking official website should therefore state clearly the away capacity limit numbers and there would be no comeback to them. Thats bulls*** saying its "our right" to decline to make a game at their ground all ticket,they can take advice regarding possible attendee numbers but the decision is quite rightly always down to the home club. So the Woking spokesman isn't actually sure of his facts stating 'As far as I am aware'. Then he praises the away fans who managed to get a ticket for a non-ticket match, so those that paid on the day by implication weren't a credit to the club? But shouldn't he be praising those that were locked out for taking the situation so calmly? But hey Bristol Rovers should've made it all ticket. You couldn't makeup such a pathetic viewpoint. [ If we are still in this league next season, we should boycot this game. They must have made a good 40 grand out of us, enough to fund a couple of players at this level. Take aldershot out the equation and we probably quadrupled their takings from away sales this season. |
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Post by GasPanic! on Jan 19, 2015 12:27:26 GMT
So the Woking spokesman isn't actually sure of his facts stating 'As far as I am aware'. Then he praises the away fans who managed to get a ticket for a non-ticket match, so those that paid on the day by implication weren't a credit to the club? But shouldn't he be praising those that were locked out for taking the situation so calmly? But hey Bristol Rovers should've made it all ticket. You couldn't makeup such a pathetic viewpoint. [ If we are still in this league next season, we should boycot this game. They must have made a good 40 grand out of us, enough to fund a couple of players at this level. Take aldershot out the equation and we probably quadrupled their takings from away sales this season. Bit extreme. If we're in this league next year I'll definitely be doing Woking away again. I was pissed and had a fantastic day out! |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2015 13:27:07 GMT
Having read this tread i'm now confused... first woking have offered Tickets and spoke to the club, then Rovers said they had no contact from Woking, now Woking are not sure who said what and when... but the posters on here blame Rovers  WTF is going on and who is to blame ?? How can BRFC be to blame when its Woking's job to organise ticket facilities for their own game ?? How can BRFC be to blame for ANY of this ?? Very confused now |
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Post by fanatical on Jan 19, 2015 13:32:27 GMT
Having read this tread i'm now confused... first woking have offered Tickets and spoke to the club, then Rovers said they had no contact from Woking, now Woking are not sure who said what and when... but the posters on here blame Rovers WTF is going on and who is to blame ?? How can BRFC be to blame when its Woking's job to organise ticket facilities for their own game ?? How can BRFC be to blame for ANY of this ?? Very confused now suggest someone asks our CEO |
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Post by Peter Parker on Jan 19, 2015 13:37:24 GMT
Having read this tread i'm now confused... first woking have offered Tickets and spoke to the club, then Rovers said they had no contact from Woking, now Woking are not sure who said what and when... but the posters on here blame Rovers WTF is going on and who is to blame ?? How can BRFC be to blame when its Woking's job to organise ticket facilities for their own game ?? How can BRFC be to blame for ANY of this ?? Very confused now It's confusing alright.
The only thing I would say is IF Woking declined making it all ticket based on advice from Rovers, Rovers could have made mention of it to Gasheads and advised 'us' of the fact and get in the ground early as possible to avoid any potential disappointment.
That's not to blame Rovers but something to think of going forward
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Post by Antonio Fargas on Jan 19, 2015 13:46:24 GMT
Having read this tread i'm now confused... first woking have offered Tickets and spoke to the club, then Rovers said they had no contact from Woking, now Woking are not sure who said what and when... but the posters on here blame Rovers WTF is going on and who is to blame ?? How can BRFC be to blame when its Woking's job to organise ticket facilities for their own game ?? How can BRFC be to blame for ANY of this ?? Very confused now Afaict, Rovers haven't said they've had no contact, they've said that in response to Woking offering 600 all-ticket places they advised we'd be taking upwards of 1500. All the interested parties are being careful how they word stuff. I'd be particularly careful how you interpret Woking's statements coz they're being clever. When a Woking spokesperson said 'Rovers had declined to make it all-ticket' they're being disingenuous coz it isn't Rovers' decision. What we declined to do, afaict, is insist they make it all ticket. And even if we had insisted, they could have simply ignored that. Istm, if Rovers had insisted on 600 all-tickets there'd be a lot more than 200 disgruntled fans blaming Rovers and demanding to know why they couldn't go and see the game. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2015 13:46:36 GMT
Having read this tread i'm now confused... first woking have offered Tickets and spoke to the club, then Rovers said they had no contact from Woking, now Woking are not sure who said what and when... but the posters on here blame Rovers WTF is going on and who is to blame ?? How can BRFC be to blame when its Woking's job to organise ticket facilities for their own game ?? How can BRFC be to blame for ANY of this ?? Very confused now suggest someone asks our CEO Maybe we could ask the Woking CEO ? do they have one ?? |
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Post by dagnogo on Jan 19, 2015 14:08:47 GMT
I'm not sure anyone's to blame.
Rovers didn't want to insist on all ticket status because they knew we'd take way over the inital 600 allocation and there would have been a race against time to get the rest sold at the shop/Mem.
Woking's away end holds 1600 and we hadn't taken over 1200 anywhere all season.
Is there any reason why Woking couldn't have made itnall ticket and given us 1500 tickets to sell from the off?
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