Charlton fans: Our supporters are rubbish, never show up anymore
Also Charlton fans: Look at all these plastics, I prefer it when it's just the hardcore
The club literally can't win in some people's eyes. Some people like to be unhappy
Are they our supporters though? I'd like to know what regulars have heard from friends or family or those with an affilation to charlton of their genuine interest in coming for this specific game? Seems to me like the majority of this 10k extra crowd will be there for some disney franchised nonsense of a football club. If any of them lifted there head up from there tv and looked at a map they would see there's dozens of clubs in London all going through the same roller coaster of emotions that come with following a local football club. A huge difference to when we packed the valley out for doncaster in the play offs, with everyone knowing the importance and magnitude of the occasion and what it meant to the club and its genuine fans
Does it matter if 500-1000 of them love the experience and come back?
You're allowed to come and watch Charlton without having a previous affiliation with the club.
I really don't understand this "where were you when" attitude some people have. We have to build new fanbases out of new generations and this is the modern way.
Or we could just stick with the same core of 10-12k for the rest of time.
Will you complain too if we go up and our crowds improve then?
Couldn't agree more. Bums on seats brings money in to the club but also a fan has to start somewhere. Getting them in to a game is a start point to converting them to a fan. If we get another 7 or 8,000 fans in for the day and we get a few hundred that say "I enjoyed that, I'll go again" and so it grows. There's literally no negatives to getting a bumper crowd.
This will also get lots of internet exposure and lots of column inches which is all good for the club
Three points will be the icing on the cake
Agree 100%. It's more than likely a chunk of them will love it and come back, regardless of the result.
My first game when I was a nipper was a 0-1 loss to Sunderland to a crappy penalty sat in the Jimmy Seed because the Alan Curbishley stand was being re built.
I told my dad I wanted to go again the next home game, and have wasted countless hours, emotional capacity and money on this stupid fucking club ever since.
Half the turnstiles for the Curbs stand by the covered end don’t work or operate. I hope the advanced largesse the club had got in due to this game means they all will be working because of the large crowd expected. Two days to get the turnstiles fully operational.
Will be interesting to see how the logistics hold up on Saturday. Last week the East Stand was about a quarter full yet they still with 10 mins to KO had to open a side gate to let people pile in due to queues from the five working turnstiles. This happens every game.
Printed tickets just don’t seem to work well and there are so many people that just don’t know how or can’t get them working at the scanners.
Half the turnstiles for the Curbs stand by the covered end don’t work or operate. I hope the advanced largesse the club had got in due to this game means they all will be working because of the large crowd expected. Two days to get the turnstiles fully operational.
I foresee many problems like this come Saturday. Will be interesting to see if the club are geared up to cope with such a large crowd.
I cant wait to get there and see the Valley with a crowd over 20k after all the years of sitting looking around at a half empty stadium. I honestly dont care if 10,000 of them are tourists, they have bought their tickets and I hope they get to see a great game and enjoy the day, if so some will come back, the club needs to build and this will help without doubt. All this "proper" Charlton is a negative perspective
Yeah we lost 4-1 in my first game and I’m still coming back 20 years later
Lost the first three home games I watched on the bounce when I started over 50 years ago, did it put me off………..not a chance
It didn’t seem to be about the football back then, walking to the ground with my dad, crawling under the turnstile to get in for free, hoping “our” crash barrier had room to lean on on the East Terrace and of course munching my way through a bag of peanuts off the peanut man.
This seemed enough excitement before the game even kicked off
Yeah we lost 4-1 in my first game and I’m still coming back 20 years later
Lost the first three home games I watched on the bounce when I started over 50 years ago, did it put me off………..not a chance
It didn’t seem to be about the football back then, walking to the ground with my dad, crawling under the turnstile to get in for free, hoping “our” crash barrier had room to lean on on the East Terrace and of course munching my way through a bag of peanuts off the peanut man.
This seemed enough excitement before the game even kicked off
Think the thing that drew me in initially was Robbie Earnshaw doing his post goal acrobatics in front of me, shame he was doing it for the opposition!
But you’re right, after that it was about time with my dad or my friends and now it’s about having a sing song and bumping into old school mates. Both things that wouldn’t happen outside of the football for me. I go on my own now and still the actual football is second to the experience of “going to the football”
I am somebody that has no issues at all with the rise of Wrexham. It’s not as if those very rich American actors started at the glam end of football (I was told Hartlepool turned them down!), they found a distressed yet worthy and credible club and have helped them no end, including canny media involvement leaning in to a space they know well. They have improved the stadium and brought excitement to their community and success on the pitch, good luck to them I say, except Saturday. I like the Valley to have a big crowd so that is good, the bittersweet thing is seeing Dobbo not playing for us, the un relatable thing is the bit about the computer bloke being involved, but people assure me it is the new fashion.
Agreed there is nothing they have done that we would not have wanted Sandgaard to do! at least they are not playing guitars and inventing crap songs.
I cant wait to get there and see the Valley with a crowd over 20k after all the years of sitting looking around at a half empty stadium. I honestly dont care if 10,000 of them are tourists, they have bought their tickets and I hope they get to see a great game and enjoy the day, if so some will come back, the club needs to build and this will help without doubt. All this "proper" Charlton is a negative perspective
5 tourists from Denmark came to watch the Birmingham game whilst on a trip to London, drank in the local pubs, bought items in the club shop, loved the game and the atmosphere and now consider Charlton to be their English team, who they will make an effort to come and see again. Whilst tourists are enjoying themselves and not taking tickets away from 'diehards' it's only a good thing.
I cant wait to get there and see the Valley with a crowd over 20k after all the years of sitting looking around at a half empty stadium. I honestly dont care if 10,000 of them are tourists, they have bought their tickets and I hope they get to see a great game and enjoy the day, if so some will come back, the club needs to build and this will help without doubt. All this "proper" Charlton is a negative perspective
5 tourists from Denmark came to watch the Birmingham game whilst on a trip to London, drank in the local pubs, bought items in the club shop, loved the game and the atmosphere and now consider Charlton to be their English team, who they will make an effort to come and see again. Whilst tourists are enjoying themselves and not taking tickets away from 'diehards' it's only a good thing.
I hope you gave them a hiding in revenge for misery inflicted by Tommy, Allan Simenson and Dennis Rommedhal
I cant wait to get there and see the Valley with a crowd over 20k after all the years of sitting looking around at a half empty stadium. I honestly dont care if 10,000 of them are tourists, they have bought their tickets and I hope they get to see a great game and enjoy the day, if so some will come back, the club needs to build and this will help without doubt. All this "proper" Charlton is a negative perspective
5 tourists from Denmark came to watch the Birmingham game whilst on a trip to London, drank in the local pubs, bought items in the club shop, loved the game and the atmosphere and now consider Charlton to be their English team, who they will make an effort to come and see again. Whilst tourists are enjoying themselves and not taking tickets away from 'diehards' it's only a good thing.
I am somebody that has no issues at all with the rise of Wrexham. It’s not as if those very rich American actors started at the glam end of football (I was told Hartlepool turned them down!), they found a distressed yet worthy and credible club and have helped them no end, including canny media involvement leaning in to a space they know well. They have improved the stadium and brought excitement to their community and success on the pitch, good luck to them I say, except Saturday. I like the Valley to have a big crowd so that is good, the bittersweet thing is seeing Dobbo not playing for us, the un relatable thing is the bit about the computer bloke being involved, but people assure me it is the new fashion.
Like you, I’ve got no problem with the success Wrexham are having, it’s just the media wank fest surrounding them that I can’t stomach.
Will be interesting to see how the logistics hold up on Saturday. Last week the East Stand was about a quarter full yet they still with 10 mins to KO had to open a side gate to let people pile in due to queues from the five working turnstiles. This happens every game.
Printed tickets just don’t seem to work well and there are so many people that just don’t know how or can’t get them working at the scanners.
And quite a few S/T holders that don't seem to realise they don't need scanning - just touching on the sensor!
Sometimes you have to say fair play to the marketing team and Charlie Methven. I can’t remember the last time we had a bumper crowd without having to give away 10,000 tickets.
it's amazing the number of ST holders who still don't realise you can tap the (closed) ticket book on the slanted part of the scanner as if you were tapping in at a station - defo need some instructions by the turnstyles
the number that still open it in front of me and try and hover it under the light
Charlton fans: Our supporters are rubbish, never show up anymore
Also Charlton fans: Look at all these plastics, I prefer it when it's just the hardcore
The club literally can't win in some people's eyes. Some people like to be unhappy
This ‘all or nothing’ rhetoric is rubbish.
Yes, I want lots of fans in The Valley. I want those fans to be regulars who are here for the interest of Charlton, not our opposition. Is it really that hard?
But apparently that makes me a snowflake, on verge of a meltdown etc etc.
Charlton fans: Our supporters are rubbish, never show up anymore
Also Charlton fans: Look at all these plastics, I prefer it when it's just the hardcore
The club literally can't win in some people's eyes. Some people like to be unhappy
This ‘all or nothing’ rhetoric is rubbish.
Yes, I want lots of fans in The Valley. I want those fans to be regulars who are here for the interest of Charlton, not our opposition. Is it really that hard?
But apparently that makes me a snowflake, on verge of a meltdown etc etc.
I want a Brazilian model for a wife.
Life sucks.
This is the reality. We're a league one side with a small fanbase who needs to recruit new fans.
Wrexham fans are now saying that they have sold 3k tickets for game.
I’m surprised they still have coach tickets as well as standard tickets for sale. Fair play to any club that brings 3k though regardless of their TV fame. Atmosphere is always better with a filled up JS stand
Wrexham fans are now saying that they have sold 3k tickets for game.
They haven't, i bought the last 900 in the away end so I've got space around me may do a youtube live from the Jimmy Seed Stand , spoken in English so everyone can understand it
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Agree 100%. It's more than likely a chunk of them will love it and come back, regardless of the result.
My first game when I was a nipper was a 0-1 loss to Sunderland to a crappy penalty sat in the Jimmy Seed because the Alan Curbishley stand was being re built.
I told my dad I wanted to go again the next home game, and have wasted countless hours, emotional capacity and money on this stupid fucking club ever since.
I like what the club is doing and am all for it
Golfie watching his last game of the season surrounded by a large group of American tourists shouting "in the hole" every time Wrexham attacks.
Oh, the joy.
I hope the advanced largesse the club had got in due to this game means they all will be working because of the large crowd expected.
Two days to get the turnstiles fully operational.
This seemed enough excitement before the game even kicked off
But you’re right, after that it was about time with my dad or my friends and now it’s about having a sing song and bumping into old school mates. Both things that wouldn’t happen outside of the football for me. I go on my own now and still the actual football is second to the experience of “going to the football”
#2moresleeps
We need to get them signed up to the
the number that still open it in front of me and try and hover it under the light
Life sucks.
This is the reality. We're a league one side with a small fanbase who needs to recruit new fans.
may do a youtube live from the Jimmy Seed Stand , spoken in English so everyone can understand it