Bloody hell I spotted 2 people under 70 in that queue.
There's gonna be a right old fashioned dust up in the West Stand. There will be thermos flasks and Werthers Originals flying all over the shop when the the Upper West Passive cotton on that their turf is under threat!
The £15 voucher per person is only valid for the one game apparently. Struggling to think what I'm gonna do with three of these (mine, my dads and my sons) so looks like the beers will be on me if anyone wants to claim one!
Got mine today, now I am a bit p***** off. You have to collect the bloody coupons from the Covered End box office .
As if it wasn't bad enough having those "Rehab City" oiks sitting in our seats we have to mingle with the very worst element of our own fans to collect our refreshment vouchers. If I wanted to mix with the oi polloi I would have bought a 50p North Stand season ticket so I could acquire the stench of poverty on my jacket every week.
I won't be claiming them, in fact I won't be going to the match and also having thoughts about giving up supporting them.
Ha ha ha. Priceless.
I'm not supporting Charlton anymore, because I have to sit in a different seat for one game, so that another (friendly) club's supporters, can attend possibly the biggest game in their club's history.
How do you know they're going to be "friendly"?
They could be the biggest bunch of violent herberts that have ever been to a Bournemouth game!
Wait until they turn up before you make statements like that.
I'm sure there are a lot of friendly Millway fans, but would you feel the same if it was a bunch of them?
Why should charlton season ticket holders have to change their seats. Why is okay that the club decide it's ok for us to move to accommodate opposing fans,when if I purchase a ticket for an away supporter the club want to take my season ticket away. I don't give a s**t about extra income when the seat I purchased at the beginning of the season is reallocated to an opposing supporter, putting money before it's own supporters. Why sell me a seat when they can move me when it suits them, I thought that the whole idea of segregation at football grounds was to avoid confrontation between opposing fans. It looks like charlton only adhere to this when it suits. Additionally do you think for one minute that Bournemouth would move their own supporters if charlton were being promoted, not on your life.
I won't be claiming them, in fact I won't be going to the match and also having thoughts about giving up supporting them.
Ha ha ha. Priceless.
I'm not supporting Charlton anymore, because I have to sit in a different seat for one game, so that another (friendly) club's supporters, can attend possibly the biggest game in their club's history.
How do you know they're going to be "friendly"?
They could be the biggest bunch of violent herberts that have ever been to a Bournemouth game!
Wait until they turn up before you make statements like that.
I'm sure there are a lot of friendly Millway fans, but would you feel the same if it was a bunch of them?
If you read the thread & open the Bournemouth Echo link, I think you may realise that I am right.
Unless you are anticipating a pensioner riot.
No of course we shouldn't let Millwall or Palace in The West Stand and probably hardly many other clubs fans.
I won't be claiming them, in fact I won't be going to the match and also having thoughts about giving up supporting them.
Ha ha ha. Priceless.
I'm not supporting Charlton anymore, because I have to sit in a different seat for one game, so that another (friendly) club's supporters, can attend possibly the biggest game in their club's history.
How do you know they're going to be "friendly"?
They could be the biggest bunch of violent herberts that have ever been to a Bournemouth game!
Wait until they turn up before you make statements like that.
I'm sure there are a lot of friendly Millway fans, but would you feel the same if it was a bunch of them?
If you read the thread & open the Bournemouth Echo link, I think you may realise that I am right.
Unless you are anticipating a pensioner riot.
No of course we shouldn't let Millwall or Palace in The West Stand and probably hardly many other clubs fans.
But we're talking Bournemouth.
every club has idiots, people might say we are a nice club, but we had someone banned for 3 years last week every football team has them its natural
The £15 voucher per person is only valid for the one game apparently. Struggling to think what I'm gonna do with three of these (mine, my dads and my sons) so looks like the beers will be on me if anyone wants to claim one!
Got mine today, now I am a bit p***** off. You have to collect the bloody coupons from the Covered End box office .
As if it wasn't bad enough having those "Rehab City" oiks sitting in our seats we have to mingle with the very worst element of our own fans to collect our refreshment vouchers. If I wanted to mix with the oi polloi I would have bought a 50p North Stand season ticket so I could acquire the stench of poverty on my jacket every week.
It's "hoi polloi". You don't need to say 'the' before it either - it's included in the Greek phrase.
Gonna be some gutted Charlton fans if that really offensive club are promoted effectively on Monday night if they beat Bolton at home They will have their pitch invasion then so the easily offended will be ok
Why should charlton season ticket holders have to change their seats. Why is okay that the club decide it's ok for us to move to accommodate opposing fans,when if I purchase a ticket for an away supporter the club want to take my season ticket away. I don't give a s**t about extra income when the seat I purchased at the beginning of the season is reallocated to an opposing supporter, putting money before it's own supporters. Why sell me a seat when they can move me when it suits them, I thought that the whole idea of segregation at football grounds was to avoid confrontation between opposing fans. It looks like charlton only adhere to this when it suits. Additionally do you think for one minute that Bournemouth would move their own supporters if charlton were being promoted, not on your life.
Couldn't agree more but our CEO has such admiration for Bournemouth that she has sold out her own fans just to make money.
If the situation was reversed then maybe the other club would stand up for its fans and say we are not moving our season ticket holders.
I think they are testing the water, no major protest about this, bribe the fans with some food vouchers, they'll do it again when there's a big away following and money to be made.
Its sad that fans cannot put up with a minor inconvenience of moving seats for one match to help fellow fans see the most important game in their history. If roles were reversed how would we feel. Well done the club
One question. How many of those on here calling it a "minor inconvenience" are actually those being moved? Or is it all "NIMBY"?
I'm being moved.
As the results went yesterday hopefully Bournemouth win tomorrow and the more that can be at Charlton on Saturday to witness a promotion party the better in my opinion.
None of this explains why they don't just send out the vouchers with the match tickets and why season ticket holders will now have to queue up to get the vouchers. Just seems odd. Unless, of course, they don't want to make it too easy for people to actually use the vouchers. What other reason is there?
No reason why they could not have sent the vouchers with the ticket.
None of this explains why they don't just send out the vouchers with the match tickets and why season ticket holders will now have to queue up to get the vouchers. Just seems odd. Unless, of course, they don't want to make it too easy for people to actually use the vouchers. What other reason is there?
No reason why they could not have sent the vouchers with the ticket.
Except, obviously, to prevent me from using my John Bull printing kit to make thousands of copies, they have to be high security vouchers with intaglio printing, a hologram of Chris Solly and a metal thread. It'll take time for De La Rue to produce them.
Bournemouth do have an element, small but they do exist, EVERY club has them.
We would not do it for smallwall or palarse, for obvious historical reasons, and I would imagine the club would say no to the likes of Leeds/Brum/Wolves etc, each case judged on its own merit. I would have no issue with it as a one off if I sat in the West upper, better we make some money on guaranteed sales than have empty seats, and Bournemouth have covered any costs. Roles reversed, most on here would be spitting teeth if a club with empty seats/stands didn't offer it to us even if they had to inconvenience a couple of hundred of their own, we wouldnt give a flying one as long as we got the tickets.
I am not being moved, but fully understand why those being moved are pi55ed off. I would be.
I do not understand why Charlton "supporters" want to join in with Bournemouth's promotion celebrations. When we were promoted at Carlisle, I don't remember their fans joining in with our celebration. In fact, we were reported to the Football League, and warned about our future conduct.
And tannoy messages were announced making sure we warned about invading our pitch, when we were given the FL1 Champions trophy.
I want the Bournemouth fans going home miserable, because we have stopped their promotion party.
Maybe other clubs would not think of asking their season ticket holders to move?
But we can make some money, fine that makes it ok?
If the club wants to make money why not double the price of season tickets, I'm sure we would all agree and applaud the club for their actions.
How many have been inconvenienced? Nobody has died, it's not Armageddon, anyone would think the club had asked to sleep with your sisters and wipe their knob on your curtains. It's a one off, a great gesture and something that IMO makes us different and a shining light compared to the monkey cage up the road next to the rubbish incinerator.
Read East Stand Loopey above, that's how I feel about it.
Every club has them, but this would not have been allowed without police discussions from Greenwich and Dorset police, advice from our liaison officer (Oz) and theirs, also John Little and Mick Everett would have a say. It will be well policed and well stewarded, there is no history of trouble between the clubs elements, and as low risk as you could get. We have shared the Jimmy Seed stand before with other clubs (even Leeds). An over reaction by some IMO, yes it's your seat/season ticket, yes you have the right to tell the club your not happy, but what REAL harm has been done. Charlton Life at its best & worst.
I hope we batter them 5-0, I want to spoil their day, I don't want to celebrate with them if they win, but I would be happy if it were us given extra tickets for the biggest game in our history (which it is for them) at another club in a stand/area that will be sparsely used otherwise.
If I were a Bournemouth fan without a ticket I would do everything I could to go to this match, and good luck to them. However this malarkey suggests that some West Stand blocks ought not to be sold to season ticket holders so this thing doesn't happen again. Will the vouchers get you veggie nosh, I need to know?
Do you think Charlton being such "good eggs", helps with our reputation with the powers-that-be? The evidence is entirely to the contrary.
Look at Swansea and Cardiff. There reputation is so awful, that coaches to their grounds are driven straight into a car pack, and the away fans are the ones caged like animals. And, think about it, that means if you want a beer, or a pie, that money can not go anywhere but into their coffers. So, those clubs make money out of the bad behaviour of their fans.
West Ham have one of the worst reputations for "firms", racism, and abuse. They have been "punished" by being given a top quality, £multi-million stadium, which every tax payer in London has partly paid for. Now, they are going to flood the capital which cheap tickets, to try to steal every lower league London clubs supporters. Have they offered me any return on my taxes? What a terrible hard ship for them...
And then we come to the club that probably gets more column inches on this forum than any other. Our friends from down the road, Millwall. Let's look at the terrible punishments they receive for having possibly the worst reputation for violence, racism, and intimidation of any club in the country. They are punished by having a nice comfortable journey home, as the innocent away fans are penned up like cattle in an abbatoir in their ground. When they do travel to their nearest rivals ground, again, they are allowed a nice comfortable journey home, while the home supporters are herded, driven like sheep to the shearing sheds. Missing connections, drinking time etc. To make it worse, because the such a bunch of lively "wags", all the drinking establishments around the Valley get shut, so the "goody two shoes" Charlton fans can't even get their normal pre-match beer. What terrible punishments for them! You can see why the sing "no-one likes us, we don't care". Because everybody, footballing authorities, police etc. bend over backwards to make sure they can do what they want!
Poor little dears suffer soooooooooo much for their dreadful reputations!
And, you wait, they will receive no punishment for their pitch invasion yesterday...
If I were a Bournemouth fan without a ticket I would do everything I could to go to this match, and good luck to them. However this malarkey suggests that some West Stand blocks ought not to be sold to season ticket holders so this thing doesn't happen again. Will the vouchers get you veggie nosh, I need to know?
Why West Stand blocks? Why not East and North too?
Also, I don't actually blame the Millwall, West Ham, Leeds fans for what they do. It is clear they get substantial benefits for what they do!
The excellent sporting fans of Charlton, however, get no benefits for being nice.
You wait until next season. One of the promoted teams from League 1 will get either their first away game at the Valley, of Charlton will be their first home team. This season it was Brentford who's first home game was Charlton. The previous season it was Bournemouth, when Pritchard was sent off.
There is a famous saying used in the USA. "Nice guys finish last". I'm sick of Charlton finishing last.
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Well i know he keeps talking about Trains.
They could be the biggest bunch of violent herberts that have ever been to a Bournemouth game!
Wait until they turn up before you make statements like that.
I'm sure there are a lot of friendly Millway fans, but would you feel the same if it was a bunch of them?
Unless you are anticipating a pensioner riot.
No of course we shouldn't let Millwall or Palace in The West Stand and probably hardly many other clubs fans.
But we're talking Bournemouth.
every football team has them its natural
They will have their pitch invasion then so the easily offended will be ok
If the situation was reversed then maybe the other club would stand up for its fans and say we are not moving our season ticket holders.
I think they are testing the water, no major protest about this, bribe the fans with some food vouchers, they'll do it again when there's a big away following and money to be made.
As the results went yesterday hopefully Bournemouth win tomorrow and the more that can be at Charlton on Saturday to witness a promotion party the better in my opinion.
We would not do it for smallwall or palarse, for obvious historical reasons, and I would imagine the club would say no to the likes of Leeds/Brum/Wolves etc, each case judged on its own merit.
I would have no issue with it as a one off if I sat in the West upper, better we make some money on guaranteed sales than have empty seats, and Bournemouth have covered any costs.
Roles reversed, most on here would be spitting teeth if a club with empty seats/stands didn't offer it to us even if they had to inconvenience a couple of hundred of their own, we wouldnt give a flying one as long as we got the tickets.
But we can make some money, fine that makes it ok?
If the club wants to make money why not double the price of season tickets, I'm sure we would all agree and applaud the club for their actions.
I am not being moved, but fully understand why those being moved are pi55ed off. I would be.
I do not understand why Charlton "supporters" want to join in with Bournemouth's promotion celebrations. When we were promoted at Carlisle, I don't remember their fans joining in with our celebration. In fact, we were reported to the Football League, and warned about our future conduct.
And tannoy messages were announced making sure we warned about invading our pitch, when we were given the FL1 Champions trophy.
I want the Bournemouth fans going home miserable, because we have stopped their promotion party.
I'm sick of Charlton being the soft touch...
Nobody has died, it's not Armageddon, anyone would think the club had asked to sleep with your sisters and wipe their knob on your curtains.
It's a one off, a great gesture and something that IMO makes us different and a shining light compared to the monkey cage up the road next to the rubbish incinerator.
It will be well policed and well stewarded, there is no history of trouble between the clubs elements, and as low risk as you could get.
We have shared the Jimmy Seed stand before with other clubs (even Leeds).
An over reaction by some IMO, yes it's your seat/season ticket, yes you have the right to tell the club your not happy, but what REAL harm has been done.
Charlton Life at its best & worst.
However this malarkey suggests that some West Stand blocks ought not to be sold to season ticket holders so this thing doesn't happen again.
Will the vouchers get you veggie nosh, I need to know?
Do you think Charlton being such "good eggs", helps with our reputation with the powers-that-be? The evidence is entirely to the contrary.
Look at Swansea and Cardiff. There reputation is so awful, that coaches to their grounds are driven straight into a car pack, and the away fans are the ones caged like animals. And, think about it, that means if you want a beer, or a pie, that money can not go anywhere but into their coffers. So, those clubs make money out of the bad behaviour of their fans.
West Ham have one of the worst reputations for "firms", racism, and abuse. They have been "punished" by being given a top quality, £multi-million stadium, which every tax payer in London has partly paid for. Now, they are going to flood the capital which cheap tickets, to try to steal every lower league London clubs supporters. Have they offered me any return on my taxes? What a terrible hard ship for them...
And then we come to the club that probably gets more column inches on this forum than any other. Our friends from down the road, Millwall. Let's look at the terrible punishments they receive for having possibly the worst reputation for violence, racism, and intimidation of any club in the country. They are punished by having a nice comfortable journey home, as the innocent away fans are penned up like cattle in an abbatoir in their ground. When they do travel to their nearest rivals ground, again, they are allowed a nice comfortable journey home, while the home supporters are herded, driven like sheep to the shearing sheds. Missing connections, drinking time etc. To make it worse, because the such a bunch of lively "wags", all the drinking establishments around the Valley get shut, so the "goody two shoes" Charlton fans can't even get their normal pre-match beer. What terrible punishments for them! You can see why the sing "no-one likes us, we don't care". Because everybody, footballing authorities, police etc. bend over backwards to make sure they can do what they want!
Poor little dears suffer soooooooooo much for their dreadful reputations!
And, you wait, they will receive no punishment for their pitch invasion yesterday...
The club could suspend me for selling a home ticket to an away fan but hey they've sold 1,500 tickets to away fans in a home area!!!!
Also, I don't actually blame the Millwall, West Ham, Leeds fans for what they do. It is clear they get substantial benefits for what they do!
The excellent sporting fans of Charlton, however, get no benefits for being nice.
You wait until next season. One of the promoted teams from League 1 will get either their first away game at the Valley, of Charlton will be their first home team. This season it was Brentford who's first home game was Charlton. The previous season it was Bournemouth, when Pritchard was sent off.
There is a famous saying used in the USA. "Nice guys finish last". I'm sick of Charlton finishing last.