Wrexham sell out ?

Bizarre seeing the amount of other clubs shirts in and around the ground today. Saw Real Madrid, Arsenal and Napoli on show around the covered end today

Did you climb up a ladder to take that?

Home atmosphere was hardly any better than usual so that puts to bed the claim that it was hordes of Charlton fans returning for the game. 

Smithy said:

Home atmosphere was hardly any better than usual so that puts to bed the claim that it was hordes of Charlton fans returning for the game. 

Also the ticket scanners just don’t work for any significant kind of crowd. Was there before 2:30 and there was a huge queue of people who had no idea what they were doing, passing phones and tickets back through the turnstiles to each other trying to work out which ones hadn’t been used yet. 

On the whole just pure wank. Looking forward to the empty seats again next time. 

Five turnstiles open in Harvey Gardens for the AC Stand at 2pm. Sixth, which has broken tech, was open but blocked by a female steward with a ticket reader who clearly did not understand her role. Three more closed alogether, and presumably broken?

Airman Brown said:

Smithy said:

Home atmosphere was hardly any better than usual so that puts to bed the claim that it was hordes of Charlton fans returning for the game. 

Also the ticket scanners just don’t work for any significant kind of crowd. Was there before 2:30 and there was a huge queue of people who had no idea what they were doing, passing phones and tickets back through the turnstiles to each other trying to work out which ones hadn’t been used yet. 

On the whole just pure wank. Looking forward to the empty seats again next time. 

Five turnstiles open in Harvey Gardens for the AC Stand at 2pm. Sixth, which has broken tech, was open but blocked by a female steward with a ticket reader who clearly did not understand her role. Three more closed alogether, and presumably broken?

This is most unsatisfactory to say the least……I understand that this has been an ongoing problem for quite sometime.
Get it sorted ASAP…….FFS. 🧐

raytreacy69 said:

Some of you just can’t wait to criticise the club
FFS this is the 3rd tier of English footi and a crowd of over 22k Charlton fans
Why not celebrate that fact and the commercial success it was for the club
Oh no - let’s have another pop

It’s a safety issue, but then who ever got killed going into a football ground, eh? Spend some of the windfall and get it fixed, because eventually the council will restrict the capacity or close the stand if they don’t. People were also admitted without ticket checks and are routinely admitted through exit gates to relieve congestion at other games. 

Airman Brown said:

raytreacy69 said:

Some of you just can’t wait to criticise the club
FFS this is the 3rd tier of English footi and a crowd of over 22k Charlton fans
Why not celebrate that fact and the commercial success it was for the club
Oh no - let’s have another pop

It’s a safety issue, but then who ever got killed going into a football ground, eh? Spend some of the windfall and get it fixed, because eventually the council will restrict the capacity if they don’t. People were also admitted without ticket checks and are routinely admitted through exit gates to relieve congestion at other games. 

Windfall? I'd credit the Club with being proactive in promoting the match and earning the income.

raytreacy69 said:

yup Typical negative response from
you AB

Idiot.

swordfish said:

Airman Brown said:

raytreacy69 said:

Some of you just can’t wait to criticise the club
FFS this is the 3rd tier of English footi and a crowd of over 22k Charlton fans
Why not celebrate that fact and the commercial success it was for the club
Oh no - let’s have another pop

It’s a safety issue, but then who ever got killed going into a football ground, eh? Spend some of the windfall and get it fixed, because eventually the council will restrict the capacity if they don’t. People were also admitted without ticket checks and are routinely admitted through exit gates to relieve congestion at other games. 

Windfall? I'd credit the Club with being proactive in promoting the match and earning the income.

Can’t they do that and make sure the turnstiles are operational? This really doesn’t feel like a massive request.

swordfish said:

Airman Brown said:

raytreacy69 said:

Some of you just can’t wait to criticise the club
FFS this is the 3rd tier of English footi and a crowd of over 22k Charlton fans
Why not celebrate that fact and the commercial success it was for the club
Oh no - let’s have another pop

It’s a safety issue, but then who ever got killed going into a football ground, eh? Spend some of the windfall and get it fixed, because eventually the council will restrict the capacity if they don’t. People were also admitted without ticket checks and are routinely admitted through exit gates to relieve congestion at other games. 

Windfall? I'd credit the Club with being proactive in promoting the match and earning the income.

Wrexham’s circumstances are clearly the main driver of additional revenue here. The crowd couldn’t have been and wouldn’t have been generated against Birmingham or Stockport. That isn’t to denigrate anything the club did, but if they had approached it in exactly the same way as every other game they would still have got most of the extra revenue. That’s the very definition of a windfall and exactly the context in which it is generally used.

The League Cup draw at Man United also produced a windfall, if that helps. We could credit the players for the win over Brighton that got us there, but they didn’t make the draw.

Mendonca In Asdas said:

I loved having a packed Valley, it was a blast from the past of how things used to be, man do I long for those days to come back, when opposing teams hated coming to the valley, and the north stand really were the 12th man.

Do you really think so? The attendance was double normal, but I’m not really sure the atmosphere was commensurately better. 

se9addick said:

Mendonca In Asdas said:

I loved having a packed Valley, it was a blast from the past of how things used to be, man do I long for those days to come back, when opposing teams hated coming to the valley, and the north stand really were the 12th man.

Do you really think so? The attendance was double normal, but I’m not really sure the atmosphere was commensurately better. 

Agreed . I thought the atmosphere was poor considering how packed it was . I sat in a seat level with the half way line in the Alan Curbishley stand and Wrexham were definitely the louder crowd. 

Croydon said:

Bedsaddick said:

se9addick said:

Mendonca In Asdas said:

I loved having a packed Valley, it was a blast from the past of how things used to be, man do I long for those days to come back, when opposing teams hated coming to the valley, and the north stand really were the 12th man.

Do you really think so? The attendance was double normal, but I’m not really sure the atmosphere was commensurately better. 

Agreed . I thought the atmosphere was poor considering how packed it was . I sat in a seat level with the half way line in the Alan Curbishley stand and Wrexham were definitely the louder crowd. 

When we did the free tickets against Plymouth, I sorted some mates out with tickets on halfway in the west and they said it was the best home atmosphere they'd experienced as neutrals in England. Today was always going to have too many people with no interest in Charlton to create a decent atmosphere.

We’ve not had a lot of them in recent years to use as examples, but it has usually been the case with big home cup ties too. 

Bedsaddick said:

se9addick said:

Mendonca In Asdas said:

I loved having a packed Valley, it was a blast from the past of how things used to be, man do I long for those days to come back, when opposing teams hated coming to the valley, and the north stand really were the 12th man.

Do you really think so? The attendance was double normal, but I’m not really sure the atmosphere was commensurately better. 

Agreed . I thought the atmosphere was poor considering how packed it was . I sat in a seat level with the half way line in the Alan Curbishley stand and Wrexham were definitely the louder crowd. 

A full or near full Jimmy Seed is always louder if they sing.