What are the odds on seeing people dressed as Deadpool or Wolverine in the home end tomorrow? Quite high I would expect
Who or what are Deadpool and Wolverine? Serious question.
Another one who lives under a rock . I don’t for one minute believe you’ve never heard of these.
Maybe there are more than you think...don't assume everyone is as genned up as you appear to be...
There is absolutely nobody in this country who hasn’t heard of Deadpool or Wolverine or at least one of them , even if they aren’t into films . That’s unless they’ve been in a coma .
How self opinionated can you get...
About as much as you can be judgmental... That makes both of us opinionated and i still stick by my original statement.
So despite several people saying that they have never heard of them, you stick by your statement that you don't believe there are people that have never heard of them....nice one.
Yes. I’m stubborn like that
I’m stubborn as well, and I can confirm yet again I have never heard of them, and I feel slightly insulted to be called a liar.
At least you were not called a "miserable old c***"
What are the odds on seeing people dressed as Deadpool or Wolverine in the home end tomorrow? Quite high I would expect
Who or what are Deadpool and Wolverine? Serious question.
Another one who lives under a rock . I don’t for one minute believe you’ve never heard of these.
Maybe there are more than you think...don't assume everyone is as genned up as you appear to be...
There is absolutely nobody in this country who hasn’t heard of Deadpool or Wolverine or at least one of them , even if they aren’t into films . That’s unless they’ve been in a coma .
How self opinionated can you get...
About as much as you can be judgmental... That makes both of us opinionated and i still stick by my original statement.
So despite several people saying that they have never heard of them, you stick by your statement that you don't believe there are people that have never heard of them....nice one.
Yes. I’m stubborn like that
I’m stubborn as well, and I can confirm yet again I have never heard of them, and I feel slightly insulted to be called a liar.
What are the odds on seeing people dressed as Deadpool or Wolverine in the home end tomorrow? Quite high I would expect
Who or what are Deadpool and Wolverine? Serious question.
Another one who lives under a rock . I don’t for one minute believe you’ve never heard of these.
Maybe there are more than you think...don't assume everyone is as genned up as you appear to be...
There is absolutely nobody in this country who hasn’t heard of Deadpool or Wolverine or at least one of them , even if they aren’t into films . That’s unless they’ve been in a coma .
How self opinionated can you get...
About as much as you can be judgmental... That makes both of us opinionated and i still stick by my original statement.
So despite several people saying that they have never heard of them, you stick by your statement that you don't believe there are people that have never heard of them....nice one.
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.
We all know the answer to that question.
Think it’s best people allow extra time for the delays that will occur.
All the best to Mick tomorrow,if he is still working for the club.
What are the odds on seeing people dressed as Deadpool or Wolverine in the home end tomorrow? Quite high I would expect
Who or what are Deadpool and Wolverine? Serious question.
Another one who lives under a rock . I don’t for one minute believe you’ve never heard of these.
Maybe there are more than you think...don't assume everyone is as genned up as you appear to be...
There is absolutely nobody in this country who hasn’t heard of Deadpool or Wolverine or at least one of them , even if they aren’t into films . That’s unless they’ve been in a coma .
How self opinionated can you get...
About as much as you can be judgmental... That makes both of us opinionated and i still stick by my original statement.
So despite several people saying that they have never heard of them, you stick by your statement that you don't believe there are people that have never heard of them....nice one.
Yes. I’m stubborn like that
I’m stubborn as well, and I can confirm yet again I have never heard of them, and I feel slightly insulted to be called a liar.
At least you were not called a "miserable old c***"
Yes, but to be honest at least that would be accurate 😀
Charlton Athletic announced today that sales for tomorrow's home match against Wrexham are already at 23,200 and are expected to exceed 24,000 by kick-off.
This would constitute the club's largest home full paying attendance since the play-off semi-final in 2019, and the highest such Charlton regular season home gate of the last decade. Wrexham have sold 2,500 of their 3,100 allocation, meaning that upwards of 22,000 spectators will be in The Valley's home ends.
West Stand Lower has sold out and there are only 200 seats remaining in the Covered End, so the club has now made the last remaining blocks in the Alan Curbishley Stand and West Stand Upper available. Those tickets will still be available on the day, from Charlton's Ticket Office in the West Stand.
Over 4,000 of the crowd will be first-time visitors from the South East London and Kent area, together with 1,000 visitors from foreign countries.
Charlton CEO Charlie Methven said: "We are delighted with the attendance and looking forward to seeing what a packed-out Valley delivers in terms of atmosphere. The intention of our 'Welcome to London' campaign was precisely to encourage new local audiences to come and sample what Charlton has to offer, so it's gratifying for our marketing team to see so many local first-time attendees. It's important to note, though, that the sheer number of 'first-timers' will bring with it a few operational challenges. We would encourage all fans to arrive as early as possible."
Home sales might be approaching 22000 but if our regular group of season ticket holders is anything to go by the actual attendance will be as far off the quoted number as always. 40% of our group won't be there, cos their real lives get in the way of matches occasionally. Our group is 20% down this season on last.
Maximising the cash take from a one off attendance like tomorrow is precisely what the business managers should be doing. Failure so to do would be moronic. Nobody's forcing anyone to buy a half/half scarf. You old luddites might not like them but they've been a 'thing' in football for a generation at least. I don't get the attraction, even for an FA Cup final, they make no sense to me, so I've never bought one. They've never upset me, cos maybe I'm a grown up with actual stuff and life to deal with, not screaming self-righteous indignation on soshal meedya to a faceless audience of several. (Irony/hypocrisy filter in full effect) If the club makes a few quid by tapping cash off the willingly fleeced, so effing what? It's the dopes' money to fritter as they please and Charlton's coffers are as good a place as any. Pushing cheap, or rather less expensive, beer via the emails and website is a less good look. A big chunk of the audience is under age. Pushing boozing is never good. The offer ain't that special, ending as it does 2 hours before kick off. Extra pissheads stumbling around the place ain't needed by anyone, there'll be enough slack jawed gormless plodders bunging up the concourses and slumping in the wrong seats as it is. Then the dipsos will be pissing us all off again 20 minutes after kickoff when they need us to stand up to let them out to go empty their bladders of the surfeit of bland fizzy eurolager. This is the first season in about 10 we haven't had a couple of alkies in our row stumbling out for a slash minimum once per half.
It'll all be forgotten in a fortnight as the plastics inevitably disappear for good. Last time we had a crown anywhere near this level for the Doncaster playoff semi - a proper enjoyable evening - we progressed to the play-off - got promoted but the regular crowd is no bigger. The %age of newbies from that night who caught the Charlton bug must be less than 1. Getting humped by Wrexham won't sow any seeds that'll germinate in SE7 future attendances.
What are the odds on seeing people dressed as Deadpool or Wolverine in the home end tomorrow? Quite high I would expect
Who or what are Deadpool and Wolverine? Serious question.
Another one who lives under a rock . I don’t for one minute believe you’ve never heard of these.
Maybe there are more than you think...don't assume everyone is as genned up as you appear to be...
There is absolutely nobody in this country who hasn’t heard of Deadpool or Wolverine or at least one of them , even if they aren’t into films . That’s unless they’ve been in a coma .
How self opinionated can you get...
About as much as you can be judgmental... That makes both of us opinionated and i still stick by my original statement.
So despite several people saying that they have never heard of them, you stick by your statement that you don't believe there are people that have never heard of them....nice one.
Yes. I’m stubborn like that
I’m stubborn as well, and I can confirm yet again I have never heard of them, and I feel slightly insulted to be called a liar.
At least you were not called a "miserable old c***"
Yes, but to be honest at least that would be accurate 😀
What are the odds on seeing people dressed as Deadpool or Wolverine in the home end tomorrow? Quite high I would expect
Who or what are Deadpool and Wolverine? Serious question.
Another one who lives under a rock . I don’t for one minute believe you’ve never heard of these.
Maybe there are more than you think...don't assume everyone is as genned up as you appear to be...
There is absolutely nobody in this country who hasn’t heard of Deadpool or Wolverine or at least one of them , even if they aren’t into films . That’s unless they’ve been in a coma .
How self opinionated can you get...
About as much as you can be judgmental... That makes both of us opinionated and i still stick by my original statement.
So despite several people saying that they have never heard of them, you stick by your statement that you don't believe there are people that have never heard of them....nice one.
Yes. I’m stubborn like that
I’m stubborn as well, and I can confirm yet again I have never heard of them, and I feel slightly insulted to be called a liar.
At least you were not called a "miserable old c***"
I actually never called you it, please stop playing the victim as I wished you a good day 90 mins ago but you seem adamant to ignore that. If wed have had the exact conversation in person wed have agreed to disagree (like I did already twice now ) and moved on.
What are the odds on seeing people dressed as Deadpool or Wolverine in the home end tomorrow? Quite high I would expect
Who or what are Deadpool and Wolverine? Serious question.
Another one who lives under a rock . I don’t for one minute believe you’ve never heard of these.
Maybe there are more than you think...don't assume everyone is as genned up as you appear to be...
There is absolutely nobody in this country who hasn’t heard of Deadpool or Wolverine or at least one of them , even if they aren’t into films . That’s unless they’ve been in a coma .
How self opinionated can you get...
About as much as you can be judgmental... That makes both of us opinionated and i still stick by my original statement.
So despite several people saying that they have never heard of them, you stick by your statement that you don't believe there are people that have never heard of them....nice one.
Yes. I’m stubborn like that
I’m stubborn as well, and I can confirm yet again I have never heard of them, and I feel slightly insulted to be called a liar.
At least you were not called a "miserable old c***"
I actually never called you it, please stop playing the victim as I wished you a good day 90 mins ago but you seem adamant to ignore that. If wed have had the exact conversation in person wed have agreed to disagree (like I did already twice now ) and moved on.
What are the odds on seeing people dressed as Deadpool or Wolverine in the home end tomorrow? Quite high I would expect
Who or what are Deadpool and Wolverine? Serious question.
Another one who lives under a rock . I don’t for one minute believe you’ve never heard of these.
Maybe there are more than you think...don't assume everyone is as genned up as you appear to be...
There is absolutely nobody in this country who hasn’t heard of Deadpool or Wolverine or at least one of them , even if they aren’t into films . That’s unless they’ve been in a coma .
This will be our biggest selling home league attendance in 10 years (where we haven’t just given 5000 tickets away.)
Why shouldn’t the club try to monetise whatever they can from it and ALSO try to pick up a few new fans from the 10000 new faces who will be there.
so there are more emails flying about but there’s also been a big marketing campaign aimed at the younger generation that some of us probably haven’t seen. Whatever they are doing is working.
The way ffp now works means we can’t just get cash injections from a wealthy owner. We have to be self sustaining and can only spend a percentage of our revenue so anything that increases revenue is good in my book. This is football nowadays
See Birmingham City
Charlie Methven more or less said they're a phenomenon because of their deals and attendances etc. We can't compete with them.
I still don't understand why we can't be second to them though and be a mini super league one team of sorts. The transfer window never made much sense to me, and as the season goes on, it looks even more ridiculous that we didn't buff up a fairly depleted squad.
I know this is a bit off topic, but just because of how the club have approached this game, it concerns me they don't have the financial muscle that they've claimed, and are underestimating the league like Sandgaard did, and even he had more of a go at it than these lot with his money.
In response to your second paragraph part of the reason is we don’t get fans in the ground, we’re capitalising on that this weekend. Sure they won’t all come back but some will. The more full the ground is the better sponsorships we can get etc. Ultimately the main driver will always be performance though
That still doesn't make much sense. Birmingham City have been getting attendances of 25k plus, we are around the 12-13k mark, they spent over 30 million, so why couldn't we spend between 5-10 million as an example?
Some people say you can bend the rules with cash injections and writing it off, others say you can't. It just isn't very clear how it all works.
This would be a flawed system if it were the case. As teams would never have a chance to progress if they were limited to how much they could spend based on their gates.
It all just seems too convenient for them. They can't/won't buy the Valley because it's too expensive right now, and have a fair deal on the lease. This is restricting them to improve the Valley and in turn the match day experience they keep harping on about, but then they don't want to improve how the Valley looks, as then the asking price would be more (their words).
So what's their plan? Try and get promoted with a bit of luck, aka on the cheap. Something is off.
I basically agree, if they really wanted they could invest more. It's just different strategies, we're trying to be run as a more standard business and Birmingham are taking a punt that their spending will be evened out with increased other income coming forward.
Agree with the ground ownership too although I doubt RD is stopping them doing much development, sounds like the lease is basically just for the use of the land and we can do pretty much what we want from it. Happy to be corrected though.
Here's the thing though mate, they can't. As a poster on here asked them this question (sorry can't remember who) and Methven deflected it and tried to have a cheap dig at the users math skills. Apparently we were tapped out and had no wiggle room in the transfer market.
RD isn't stopping them at all. It's just when someone asked what their plans were to improve stuff, they essentially said, as we don't own it, we don't want to improve it.
If you're a billionaire, with a genuine passion for this club, and see it as a long term project, you'd buy it all up immediately, especially if it was hindering development plans you have in mind.
Reynolds and McElhenney have spent around 25 million combined (potentially more) out of their pockets with half of our owners net worth.
I don't understand their vision. Cynic in me says these are gone within 2 years.
That was me. Andy Scott did similar when he couldn't answer the question about his recruitment.
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Think it’s best people allow extra time for the delays that will occur.
All the best to Mick tomorrow,if he is still working for the club.
40% of our group won't be there, cos their real lives get in the way of matches occasionally.
Our group is 20% down this season on last.
Maximising the cash take from a one off attendance like tomorrow is precisely what the business managers should be doing. Failure so to do would be moronic.
Nobody's forcing anyone to buy a half/half scarf. You old luddites might not like them but they've been a 'thing' in football for a generation at least.
I don't get the attraction, even for an FA Cup final, they make no sense to me, so I've never bought one. They've never upset me, cos maybe I'm a grown up with actual stuff and life to deal with, not screaming self-righteous indignation on soshal meedya to a faceless audience of several. (Irony/hypocrisy filter in full effect)
If the club makes a few quid by tapping cash off the willingly fleeced, so effing what? It's the dopes' money to fritter as they please and Charlton's coffers are as good a place as any.
Pushing cheap, or rather less expensive, beer via the emails and website is a less good look. A big chunk of the audience is under age. Pushing boozing is never good.
The offer ain't that special, ending as it does 2 hours before kick off. Extra pissheads stumbling around the place ain't needed by anyone, there'll be enough slack jawed gormless plodders bunging up the concourses and slumping in the wrong seats as it is. Then the dipsos will be pissing us all off again 20 minutes after kickoff when they need us to stand up to let them out to go empty their bladders of the surfeit of bland fizzy eurolager. This is the first season in about 10 we haven't had a couple of alkies in our row stumbling out for a slash minimum once per half.
It'll all be forgotten in a fortnight as the plastics inevitably disappear for good.
Last time we had a crown anywhere near this level for the Doncaster playoff semi - a proper enjoyable evening - we progressed to the play-off - got promoted but the regular crowd is no bigger. The %age of newbies from that night who caught the Charlton bug must be less than 1. Getting humped by Wrexham won't sow any seeds that'll germinate in SE7 future attendances.
Enjoy the game
https://transpont.blogspot.com/2012/03/last-orders-at-montague-arms.html
Im dreading 5pm tomorrow if we lose lol
Hmm think they need a refund
This threads embarrassing.
Andy Scott did similar when he couldn't answer the question about his recruitment.