Reading Allocation

[Pearcey3]

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But it isn't every weekend is it?

And besides it is incumbent on the HOME fans to create an atmosphere that the team can thrive on, and for a club or a the team to admit to being affected by the opposing support is just absolutely pathetic I'm afraid.

Why not ban away fans altogether, if they are such a concern?!

Personally, I think that away support, especially a big, vocal following make for a much better game.

This is just so lame on Reading's part. I'd be embarrassed to admit it, if I was them!!

I’m not embarrassed Your fan base is more passionate than ours. I wish our fans were louder but that’s not how a lot of our fans are.These are our home games. When it comes to internationals away teams usually get a 10% allocation. That’s what we give.
With the way our ground is set up giving the entire South Stand to the opposition is a problem.

[Pearcey3]

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I find it incredible that a club with losses of £100 plus million turn down up to 20/25,000 paying supporters per season. Local businesses will also be affected , speaking personally we usually stay at Winnersh Premier Inn after the matches

The decision was made around three years ago when the atmosphere was dreadful. We were doing very badly. The atmosphere was either toxic or silent. It’s improved considerably since then. I prefer it now to then. I genuinely think it’s helped us stay in this division. The loss of revenue would have been far greater had we gone down.

[Canton Kev]

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This is what football has become.
In a word shite.
Probably 10 sides would fill that away end but a half empty home crowd would rather stop away fans.
Utter gash decision.

Become? Pretty sure back in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s teams were putting in measures to reduce away crowds

[insider]

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Become? Pretty sure back in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s teams were putting in measures to reduce away crowds

Pretty sure is quite confident in my book
QUOTE a few teams and what they did in the 70s 80s and 90s because I don't remember allocation for away fans back then tbh

[Canton Kev]

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Pretty sure is quite confident in my book
QUOTE a few teams and what they did in the 70s 80s and 90s because I don't remember allocation for away fans back then tbh

It’s just a hunch. I doubt teams were too keen to offer the likes of Chelsea, West Ham, Millwall, Leeds and even ourselves extra tickets if they were going spare.

[cyril evans awaydays]

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The additional revenue from 1-1.5k away fans would probably equal the wandering captain, Liam Moore's weekly wage. If that's your business model then a motley crew shouting Come On You Rzs every 10 minutes next to the away end is a no brainer when it comes to Dai Yongge's idea of value for money.

[insider]

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It’s just a hunch. I doubt teams were too keen to offer the likes of Chelsea, West Ham, Millwall, Leeds and even ourselves extra tickets if they were going spare.

Tickets don't remember them pre early 90s

[Lawnmower]

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The decision was made around three years ago when the atmosphere was dreadful. We were doing very badly. The atmosphere was either toxic or silent. It’s improved considerably since then. I prefer it now to then. I genuinely think it’s helped us stay in this division. The loss of revenue would have been far greater had we gone down.

From my many experiences of going there the last time we went the home fans next to us made a lot more noise than we did - for pretty much the first time. Did help them that they won 3-0, but it was better for them even before that.

It’s a shame we can’t have more tickets, but it’s their choice at the end of the day.

[BLUETIT]

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Have we sold anywhere near the 2200 yet ?

As no one is asking about spares !

[Nobody's Rep]

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It’s just a hunch. I doubt teams were too keen to offer the likes of Chelsea, West Ham, Millwall, Leeds and even ourselves extra tickets if they were going spare.

Certainly 70s and 80s it was a case of first come first serve down the city and I can think of three games Chelsea Sunderland and Sheffield Wednesday who basically overtook our ground based on the number of fans they brought - segregation was based on choice ie if you wanted to go in the allocated away end then fine but there was nothing to stop you taking a chance and going in the home end. Can't remember any games when I needed a ticket in advance but then I did have a season ticket from the early 80s on so I maybe wrong

We werent playing one Saturday so me and two friends decided to go and watch Newport play Swansea at Somerton Park and there was so many Cardiff there we had our own part of the ground

[dml1954]

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Certainly 70s and 80s it was a case of first come first serve down the city and I can think of three games Chelsea Sunderland and Sheffield Wednesday who basically overtook our ground based on the number of fans they brought - segregation was based on choice ie if you wanted to go in the allocated away end then fine but there was nothing to stop you taking a chance and going in the home end. Can't remember any games when I needed a ticket in advance but then I did have a season ticket from the early 80s on so I maybe wrong

We werent playing one Saturday so me and two friends decided to go and watch Newport play Swansea at Somerton Park and there was so many Cardiff there we had our own part of the ground

Ah yes, those were the days - when it was a ticket free for all and opposing fans used to kick the living daylights out of each other !!!

[Nobody's Rep]

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Ah yes, those were the days - when it was a ticket free for all and opposing fans used to kick the living daylights out of each other !!!

Never kicked anyone thanks - just describing what it was like then as a reply to a poster in terms of tickets and allocation

[Pearcey3]

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From my many experiences of going there the last time we went the home fans next to us made a lot more noise than we did - for pretty much the first time. Did help them that they won 3-0, but it was better for them even before that.

It’s a shame we can’t have more tickets, but it’s their choice at the end of the day.

That’s exactly the point Tim. It’s not done out of spite to the opposition. In the dregs of the Stam era the atmosphere was non existent. The football was awful to watch. Painfully slow sideways and backwards. The ground was silent. Something had to be done. The lay out of the stadium was such that there were two choices where to put our louder fans. The North or South Stand. The North houses our family enclosure so the South Stand was seen as the preferred choice. Initially I wasn’t keen on bigger away supports being denied the full Stand as I like to see the stadium as full as possible but it has definitely worked.

The atmosphere is pretty good these days. It’s worked.

[IanD]

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Only about 30 seats left now.

[dml1954]

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Never kicked anyone thanks - just describing what it was like then as a reply to a poster in terms of tickets and allocation

I wasn't accusing you of doing anything. I was just reminiscing about the ‘bad old days’ and giving my opinion on why tighter control of ticket sales and size/location of allocations to away fans are generally a good thing and have had the desired effect. However, it does seem a bit odd the way that Reading didn't allow for the proper, safe, location and segregation of away fans when designing and building the stadium, as we did with ours.