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Title: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: Donnywolf on November 09, 2018, 01:14:13 pm
... at 3pm today
Still quite a few left unsold - but will there be pay on the Day ? According to what I have read Chorley are NOT allowing walk ups on the day
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: dickos1 on November 09, 2018, 01:31:46 pm
How are we not selling out at chorley?
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Post by: the vicar on November 09, 2018, 01:42:05 pm
Maybe cos our so called fans are not interested anymore
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: Donnywolf on November 09, 2018, 01:47:57 pm
At the moment we look to be on course for an average away following. 650 ish ?

Probably about right for a Non League Team away ?

Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: Retdon1 on November 09, 2018, 01:52:37 pm
There’s 5 of us going to the England - New Zealand rugby league match instead... booked tickets months ago before rovers game was announced. Selling around 650-700 seems to be the standard away following for us now days.
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: Boomstick on November 09, 2018, 02:05:36 pm
Shame, used to take 1500 everywhere.
And 2k to Lancashire clubs.
5000 to Dingles
7000 to wednesday
3500 to hull
3000 to derby
2500 to forest

To name a few
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: idler on November 09, 2018, 02:13:29 pm
Shame, used to take 1500 everywhere.
And 2k to Lancashire clubs.
5000 to Dingles
7000 to wednesday
3500 to hull
3000 to derby
2500 to forest

To name a few

Was that before years of austerity?😳
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Post by: selby on November 09, 2018, 02:25:27 pm
  Definitely before Hull, Derby, Wendies and forest got greedy with ticket prices, which cannot be said of Sundays game.
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Post by: GazLaz on November 09, 2018, 02:26:13 pm
Poor sales for this one surprisingly. A fairly local non league FA Cup tie and all that.
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: Surrey Rover on November 09, 2018, 02:27:30 pm
Shame, used to take 1500 everywhere.
And 2k to Lancashire clubs.
5000 to Dingles
7000 to wednesday
3500 to hull
3000 to derby
2500 to forest

To name a few

Did all those fixtures kick off at 12:45pm on a Sunday?
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: godlike1 on November 09, 2018, 02:31:03 pm
its on remembrance Sunday, some people may want to spend quality time with their families and appreciate how important they are, putting football into perspective

add to the fact that we have been playing tripe and can't defend for our lives, I do not consider this a definite route to round 2
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: vaya on November 09, 2018, 02:42:50 pm
Maybe cos our so called fans are not interested anymore

Or some of our fans would quite like to go to more games than they do, but they don't have a lot of spare disposable income as they're stuck working to pay for triple-locked pensions, free travel and free TV licences.
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: Donnywolf on November 09, 2018, 03:01:32 pm
... and the stay at Home Man City v Man United Fans opting to travel no further than their own Sofas !
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: selby on November 09, 2018, 03:47:05 pm
  And so they should Dave, those you are talking about worked to pay for the NHS, rebuilt the country after the war, paid way more percentage in income tax than workers do now, and in most cases didn't do drugs, or stabbed people, and most of the older end did 2yrs national service for littlemonetry reward. And paid back the massive debt for the second world war to the U.S.A.
   It's just their time to pick up the batten buddy.
 
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: vaya on November 09, 2018, 04:08:56 pm
Some good points there Selby. Perhaps it would be nice then if people understood that a lot of fans would be quite interested in going to every single away game, but as they're taking their turn with the baton (and are quite happy to), they might not able to make it, however much they'd want to.
 Lack of ability, rather than lack of motivation.
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: DearneValleyRover on November 09, 2018, 04:28:09 pm
I’m not going due to it being Remembrance Sunday, family first
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: selby on November 09, 2018, 04:38:27 pm
 I appreciate everything you say Vaya, lots of things take  precedence over games of football, and in most cases rightfully so, one of the main things is the FA cup has lost it's lustre, even to clubs like us, We have not exactly had large cup gates over the last few years, even regular season ticket holders not attending in the earlier rounds.
   
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: Red wizard on November 09, 2018, 04:42:07 pm
Shame, used to take 1500 everywhere.
And 2k to Lancashire clubs.
5000 to Dingles
7000 to wednesday
3500 to hull
3000 to derby
2500 to forest

To name a few

don't think we have ever taken 7 k to wednsday. Or over 5 to dingle
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: scawsby steve on November 09, 2018, 04:53:43 pm
Anyone who witnessed that at Charlton last week will fully understand why ticket sales for Chorley and Barnsley have been so poor up to now.
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Post by: big fat yorkshire pudding on November 09, 2018, 05:22:28 pm
Perhaps football should consider why people are a tad more bored with it?  Mind that could just be my take on it with many other things to do.

Might have gone on the Saturday, Sundays it's swimming lessons with my daughter, much more rewarding.  It's part of the reason I wouldn't like us making the premier league.  Football is a Saturday thing for me.
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: Padge_DRFC on November 09, 2018, 07:13:26 pm
The 5k to Barnsley was a Tuesday night. The 7k yo Sheffield Wednesday was Sunday.

Mixed reports but apparently gonna struggle to take 1500 to Barnsley
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: RedRover45 on November 09, 2018, 07:31:21 pm
Shame, used to take 1500 everywhere.
And 2k to Lancashire clubs.
5000 to Dingles
7000 to wednesday
3500 to hull
3000 to derby
2500 to forest

To name a few

don't think we have ever taken 7 k to wednsday. Or over 5 to dingle

We took 5382 to Barnsley in the mid 2000's
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: RedJ on November 09, 2018, 07:42:29 pm
Let's be fair as well, we've got about a million away games in a row at the moment, one of which being in London, so it can get pretty expensive.
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Post by: GazLaz on November 09, 2018, 07:57:29 pm
Our away support has been poor for a while. The atmosphere at Accrington was the worst I can remember at an away game.
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: RedJ on November 09, 2018, 08:06:42 pm
Our away support has been poor for a while. The atmosphere at Accrington was the worst I can remember at an away game.

There was no atmosphere at Accrington to remember.
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: drfchound on November 09, 2018, 08:15:46 pm
Maybe cos our so called fans are not interested anymore

Or some of our fans would quite like to go to more games than they do, but they don't have a lot of spare disposable income as they're stuck working to pay for triple-locked pensions, free travel and free TV licences.





Woooo, someone has got a problem with pensioners then.
You might be old one day yourself.
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: drfchound on November 09, 2018, 08:18:07 pm
Shame, used to take 1500 everywhere.
And 2k to Lancashire clubs.
5000 to Dingles
7000 to wednesday
3500 to hull
3000 to derby
2500 to forest

To name a few





Were those matches when we were in the Championship?
Even so, they are all much bigger clubs and more attractive opponents than Chorley.
All closer to Donny too.
Or maybe because our recent results have been poor some fans don’t want to go.
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: drfchound on November 09, 2018, 08:28:26 pm
I also reckon that some of the morons who turn up in our away support put some supporters off going to away games.
I have a pal who won’t go away because of them.
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: RedRover45 on November 09, 2018, 08:29:14 pm
Shame, used to take 1500 everywhere.
And 2k to Lancashire clubs.
5000 to Dingles
7000 to wednesday
3500 to hull
3000 to derby
2500 to forest

To name a few





Were those matches when we were in the Championship?
Even so, they are all much bigger clubs and more attractive opponents than Chorley.
All closer to Donny too.
Or maybe because our recent results have been poor some fans don’t want to go.

Hull and Dingles were both in League One and I've got a feeling Forest was as well but I stand to be corrected on that.
We also hadn't played these 'big' teams for a few years and it was also the time of our 'golden generation' too. Probably a multitude of reasons why Away attendances have dropped.
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: Jim Dobbin on November 09, 2018, 08:33:45 pm
Shame, used to take 1500 everywhere.
And 2k to Lancashire clubs.
5000 to Dingles
7000 to wednesday
3500 to hull
3000 to derby
2500 to forest

To name a few


You can't pick out random decent crowds from years gone by for a yardstick. Those were one off crowds, exaggerated ones at that.
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: Padge_DRFC on November 09, 2018, 08:39:23 pm
Over 3k went to Leeds in league 1.

Always 2.5k sell outs at Scunny and fans in the home end
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: vaya on November 09, 2018, 08:41:17 pm
Over 3k went to Leeds in league 1.

Always 2.5k sell outs at Scunny and fans in the home end

Although from memory the last time we faced Leeds in the league there was a boycott due to the prices they were charging.
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: RedJ on November 09, 2018, 08:51:54 pm
Over 3k went to Leeds in league 1.

Always 2.5k sell outs at Scunny and fans in the home end

Although from memory the last time we faced Leeds in the league there was a boycott due to the prices they were charging.

Aye, £42 was it and £35 for kids or something ridiculous like that?
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: vaya on November 09, 2018, 08:56:11 pm
Over 3k went to Leeds in league 1.

Always 2.5k sell outs at Scunny and fans in the home end

Although from memory the last time we faced Leeds in the league there was a boycott due to the prices they were charging.

Aye, £42 was it and £35 for kids or something ridiculous like that?

Sounds about right, although there's nothing 'right' about prices like that.
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: RedRover45 on November 09, 2018, 09:07:22 pm
Over 3k went to Leeds in league 1.

Always 2.5k sell outs at Scunny and fans in the home end

Although from memory the last time we faced Leeds in the league there was a boycott due to the prices they were charging.

Aye, £42 was it and £35 for kids or something ridiculous like that?

Sounds about right, although there's nothing 'right' about prices like that.

There was only ever one way of dealing with that and that was to charge Leeds fans exactly the same price at the Keepmoat.
However we all support a decent club with morals and that doesn't have the greed of a joke club.
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Post by: RoversAlias on November 10, 2018, 10:13:23 am
Over 3k went to Leeds in league 1.

Always 2.5k sell outs at Scunny and fans in the home end

Although from memory the last time we faced Leeds in the league there was a boycott due to the prices they were charging.

Aye, £42 was it and £35 for kids or something ridiculous like that?

Sounds about right, although there's nothing 'right' about prices like that.

There was only ever one way of dealing with that and that was to charge Leeds fans exactly the same price at the Keepmoat.
However we all support a decent club with morals and that doesn't have the greed of a joke club.

Leeds fans don't set the prices though, not fair to punish them. I hope our club never charges any set of fans such an obscene ticket price.
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Post by: Padge_DRFC on November 10, 2018, 11:10:26 am
I think £21 is one of the lower in league 1 what we charge. Obviously those with terraces less
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Post by: Mark Lyall on November 10, 2018, 05:18:35 pm
Would have gone if was a played on the sat , but my boy is playing football in the morning , TV is ruining football
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: Jim Dobbin on November 10, 2018, 05:38:24 pm
 don't think we have ever taken 7 k to wednsday. Or over 5 to dingle
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Probably correct. 6k to Weds, wasn't the corner section used? 4.5k tops to Oakwell, end section was empty which holds around 1200 and the front few rows weren't used. Someone on their forums once posted a pic and the seating plan.
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Post by: RedRover45 on November 10, 2018, 11:15:47 pm
don't think we have ever taken 7 k to wednsday. Or over 5 to dingle
Probably correct. 6k to Weds, wasn't the corner section used? 4.5k tops to Oakwell, end section was empty which holds around 1200 and the front few rows weren't used. Someone on their forums once posted a pic and the seating plan.
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No, incorrect.
As I posted earlier there were 5382 Rovers fans there in the mid 2000's. I know this as fact as I was working in the control room at the match.
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: Jim Dobbin on November 11, 2018, 11:14:38 am
Then you'll know the figure the control room gave out.
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: RedRover45 on November 11, 2018, 01:43:32 pm
Then you'll know the figure the control room gave out.

You know as well as I do that what they publish as there is seldom the real figure.
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: since-1969 on November 13, 2018, 07:13:05 am
Why no info only week until reply ?
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Post by: GazLaz on November 13, 2018, 07:20:04 am
Why no info only week until reply ?

They can release info until everything has been confirmed. They have only had one day!!
Title: Re: Chorley Tickets are going offsale ....
Post by: RedJ on November 13, 2018, 10:49:09 pm
Why no info only week until reply ?

They can release info until everything has been confirmed. They have only had one day!!

Bloody rubbish, Bramall!