Are people really rushing to fill The Valley to see a team including EOC, Dobbo and the son of a former turnstile operative, managed by a bloke a sizeable chunk of our support wanted out of our club years ago?
It's a strange world in which we live.
To be fair, the Valley was sold out to watch a load of YouTubers … half of which looked like they had never kicked a ball in their life.
Are people really rushing to fill The Valley to see a team including EOC, Dobbo and the son of a former turnstile operative, managed by a bloke a sizeable chunk of our support wanted out of our club years ago?
It's a strange world in which we live.
To be fair, the Valley was sold out to watch a load of YouTubers … half of which looked like they had never kicked a ball in their life.
Much like many actual Charlton players over the last 20 years.
Looking forward to Wrexham match and hopefully a 22K+ crowd, bring 3 relatives, making a day of it, there taking Uber Boat from BPS down the thames to meet for a pub lunch in Greenwich. I'll drive park by the pub and we will pile into my car and park up and be in the ground & seated 15mins before KO.
Trust me its alot easier now to park than before....the restrictions
Do you honestly think the council have enough parking wardens to photo cars at 2.45 and get back around at 4.45 to check if people have run over the 2hr slot. (plus you get 10 min grace over 2hrs)
The wardens aren't mugs either there not going to risk the roathe of fans coming out of the ground and be caught putting tickets on cars, not seen a single warden since the new restrictions.
Are you the annoying sod that makes me have to get up 10 minutes before the end of the every game so you can leave, regardless of the score/state of the game?
Are people really rushing to fill The Valley to see a team including EOC, Dobbo and the son of a former turnstile operative, managed by a bloke a sizeable chunk of our support wanted out of our club years ago?
It's a strange world in which we live.
To be fair, the Valley was sold out to watch a load of YouTubers … half of which looked like they had never kicked a ball in their life.
Much like many actual Charlton players over the last 20 years.
Looking forward to Wrexham match and hopefully a 22K+ crowd, bring 3 relatives, making a day of it, there taking Uber Boat from BPS down the thames to meet for a pub lunch in Greenwich. I'll drive park by the pub and we will pile into my car and park up and be in the ground & seated 15mins before KO.
Trust me its alot easier now to park than before....the restrictions
Do you honestly think the council have enough parking wardens to photo cars at 2.45 and get back around at 4.45 to check if people have run over the 2hr slot. (plus you get 10 min grace over 2hrs)
The wardens aren't mugs either there not going to risk the roathe of fans coming out of the ground and be caught putting tickets on cars, not seen a single warden since the new restrictions.
Are you sure you get an extra 10 mins ? Never heard of that one before
My wife’s uncle is friends with Ryan Reynolds having worked on a number of films with him including the latest Deadpool, I’ve told him to pass onto Ryan that his boys are in for a hell of a beating this weekend!
The words “highest paid attendance” suggests we got 20k+ with freebies at some point in the last 5 years, I presume in the TS era but no idea what game? Brighton in the cup maybe?
Looking forward to Wrexham match and hopefully a 22K+ crowd, bring 3 relatives, making a day of it, there taking Uber Boat from BPS down the thames to meet for a pub lunch in Greenwich. I'll drive park by the pub and we will pile into my car and park up and be in the ground & seated 15mins before KO.
Trust me its alot easier now to park than before....the restrictions
Do you honestly think the council have enough parking wardens to photo cars at 2.45 and get back around at 4.45 to check if people have run over the 2hr slot. (plus you get 10 min grace over 2hrs)
The wardens aren't mugs either there not going to risk the roathe of fans coming out of the ground and be caught putting tickets on cars, not seen a single warden since the new restrictions.
Are you sure you get an extra 10 mins ? Never heard of that one before
The words “highest paid attendance” suggests we got 20k+ with freebies at some point in the last 5 years, I presume in the TS era but no idea what game? Brighton in the cup maybe?
Not sure if it's got to do with it but the tickets for the sidemen charity game were only about a tenner so maybe they are trying to say highest in monetary value maybe just to avoid the (rather embarrassing) fact that they can't exactly say the last time the Valley was sold out was for a Youtube match so they are going down the "technically true" route to avoid saying it?
Just looked and there are still tonnes of tickets left. East stand C, D + H look near empty as does North Upper N and West Q+ P for example. Not to mention we are not even selling g tickets for the 4 blocks closest to the away end so talk of a near sell out is over done I think!
The words “highest paid attendance” suggests we got 20k+ with freebies at some point in the last 5 years, I presume in the TS era but no idea what game? Brighton in the cup maybe?
Bad grammatical English.
"Highest paid attendance" would mean that the club paid supporters to attend.
Tel Mc32..."Are you the annoying sod that makes me have to get up 10 minutes before the end of the every game so you can leave, regardless of the score/state of the game?"
No Tel....I get into the ground and i'm seated by 2.50 and leave usually after the tunnel jump....I don't go up at half time. I've sat in same seat since East / Curbishley stand was built so have had decades of having my view blocked for 20 mins of the match ! 5 mins after KO, 5 Mins before & after HT, 5 mins before the end, its what it is. If people choose to miss part of the match its there choice, I just prefer to see the whole game.
I haven't seen a traffic warden yet before or after a match, its impossible to monitor the 2 hr parking, leave your car at 2.40pm and go in and its irrelevant time you return as no warden is going to be ticketing cars with hundreds of fans coming out of the ground....I may get a ticket one day but happy to take the risk, plus there are a number of places which are available for free close by if you look
Can't remember who, but a famous personality was at the opening of a local supermarket when I was a kid in the 60s.
I asked my mum why he'd even bother to turn up there and she told me, 'given half a chance he'd be at the opening of an envelope'.
Dunno why those words stayed with me, but I put David Beckham in that category. Will he be there?
Absolutely no idea if David Beckham will be there.
But if he is, can we get him to smash a bottle of champers into one of those new beer vending machines in the north stand, bit like the Queen did when she used to launch a new ship!
It’s honestly impressive how good Wrexham’s marketing has been, leading to knock on effects like this at a League One away game.
Alternatively you could say the same about our marketing. Set aside a huge amount of tickets for Red White and Black Day, start publicising the game early and saying tickets are ‘going fast’ (particularly after a huge chunk of freebies have been set aside), the early publicity and talk of big crowds creates interest and FOMO, momentum builds and you can put out extra things like ‘20k tickets passed’ (not sold).
No idea if that’s what happened but I suspect it’s played a big part. No denying though Wrexham are providing a wider interest premium this season, Orient had a 200 bigger crowd v them than they did for the Boxing Day game v us, and Rotherham just had their clear biggest home of the season v them.
It’s honestly impressive how good Wrexham’s marketing has been, leading to knock on effects like this at a League One away game.
Alternatively you could say the same about our marketing. Set aside a huge amount of tickets for Red White and Black Day, start publicising the game early and saying tickets are ‘going fast’ (particularly after a huge chunk of freebies have been set aside), the early publicity and talk of big crowds creates interest and FOMO, momentum builds and you can put out extra things like ‘20k tickets passed’ (not sold).
No idea if that’s what happened but I suspect it’s played a big part. No denying though Wrexham are providing a wider interest premium this season, Orient had a 200 bigger crowd v them than they did for the Boxing Day game v us, and Rotherham just had their clear biggest home of the season v them.
Actually they've purposefully said the attendance is the "highest paid", some of that will be down to ticket price rises but it's an important distinction to make
It’s honestly impressive how good Wrexham’s marketing has been, leading to knock on effects like this at a League One away game.
Alternatively you could say the same about our marketing. Set aside a huge amount of tickets for Red White and Black Day, start publicising the game early and saying tickets are ‘going fast’ (particularly after a huge chunk of freebies have been set aside), the early publicity and talk of big crowds creates interest and FOMO, momentum builds and you can put out extra things like ‘20k tickets passed’ (not sold).
No idea if that’s what happened but I suspect it’s played a big part. No denying though Wrexham are providing a wider interest premium this season, Orient had a 200 bigger crowd v them than they did for the Boxing Day game v us, and Rotherham just had their clear biggest home of the season v them.
Actually they've purposefully said the attendance is the "highest paid", some of that will be down to ticket price rises but it's an important distinction to make
The language of both aspects are deliberate, but separate. Also the highest paid bit isn’t an ‘is’, but a ‘set to be’
It’s honestly impressive how good Wrexham’s marketing has been, leading to knock on effects like this at a League One away game.
Alternatively you could say the same about our marketing. Set aside a huge amount of tickets for Red White and Black Day, start publicising the game early and saying tickets are ‘going fast’ (particularly after a huge chunk of freebies have been set aside), the early publicity and talk of big crowds creates interest and FOMO, momentum builds and you can put out extra things like ‘20k tickets passed’ (not sold).
No idea if that’s what happened but I suspect it’s played a big part. No denying though Wrexham are providing a wider interest premium this season, Orient had a 200 bigger crowd v them than they did for the Boxing Day game v us, and Rotherham just had their clear biggest home of the season v them.
A lot of that is surely down to Wrexham having a large away following, partly because they're a club on the up, but also because they're playing at this level for the first time in 20 years.
I'd imagine that for most teams this season two of their biggest home gates will be against Wrexham and Birmingham. Especially when more than half the division don't even average 1k away fans.
It’s honestly impressive how good Wrexham’s marketing has been, leading to knock on effects like this at a League One away game.
Alternatively you could say the same about our marketing. Set aside a huge amount of tickets for Red White and Black Day, start publicising the game early and saying tickets are ‘going fast’ (particularly after a huge chunk of freebies have been set aside), the early publicity and talk of big crowds creates interest and FOMO, momentum builds and you can put out extra things like ‘20k tickets passed’ (not sold).
No idea if that’s what happened but I suspect it’s played a big part. No denying though Wrexham are providing a wider interest premium this season, Orient had a 200 bigger crowd v them than they did for the Boxing Day game v us, and Rotherham just had their clear biggest home of the season v them.
A lot of that is surely down to Wrexham having a large away following, partly because they're a club on the up, but also because they're playing at this level for the first time in 20 years.
I'd imagine that for most teams this season two of their biggest home gates will be against Wrexham and Birmingham. Especially when more than half the division don't even average 1k away fans.
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The words “highest paid attendance” suggests we got 20k+ with freebies at some point in the last 5 years, I presume in the TS era but no idea what game? Brighton in the cup maybe?
I'm welling up....
"Highest paid attendance" would mean that the club paid supporters to attend.
It should be "highest PAYING attendance"
No Tel....I get into the ground and i'm seated by 2.50 and leave usually after the tunnel jump....I don't go up at half time. I've sat in same seat since East / Curbishley stand was built so have had decades of having my view blocked for 20 mins of the match ! 5 mins after KO, 5 Mins before & after HT, 5 mins before the end, its what it is. If people choose to miss part of the match its there choice, I just prefer to see the whole game.
I haven't seen a traffic warden yet before or after a match, its impossible to monitor the 2 hr parking, leave your car at 2.40pm and go in and its irrelevant time you return as no warden is going to be ticketing cars with hundreds of fans coming out of the ground....I may get a ticket one day but happy to take the risk, plus there are a number of places which are available for free close by if you look
I asked my mum why he'd even bother to turn up there and she told me, 'given half a chance he'd be at the opening of an envelope'.
Dunno why those words stayed with me, but I put David Beckham in that category. Will he be there?
But if he is, can we get him to smash a bottle of champers into one of those new beer vending machines in the north stand, bit like the Queen did when she used to launch a new ship!
No idea if that’s what happened but I suspect it’s played a big part. No denying though Wrexham are providing a wider interest premium this season, Orient had a 200 bigger crowd v them than they did for the Boxing Day game v us, and Rotherham just had their clear biggest home of the season v them.
I'd imagine that for most teams this season two of their biggest home gates will be against Wrexham and Birmingham. Especially when more than half the division don't even average 1k away fans.