Is it 2,200 this season or could the club ask for more if demand requires ?
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Is it 2,200 this season or could the club ask for more if demand requires ?
They can ask. It would be up to Reading, Thames Valley police and the Heddlu. Can't see it happening.
Nope you won’t get any more. You will have half of the South Stand are our club 1871 fans will be in the other section of the South StandQuote:
Originally Posted by TWGL1
It’s not to do with the Police but a club decision a few years ago not to give the opposition the full South Stand. Our so called more fanatical fans take up the other half of the Stand. It works pretty well although we lose match day revenue when the likes of Cardiff and big away support come to town.Quote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue
Given current finances this makes no sense. I’m sure we use to take 5-6,000 to Reading, it’s virtually a derby game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pearcey3
You would have had all of the South Stand in the past so around a 4,000 allocation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Des Parrot
The move was made 1) to improve the atmosphere by having our loudest fans next to the away support and 2) the players wanted it as seeing one of the main stands completely full of away support was seen as an issue.
It’s worked well. Yes we lose matchday income but if it helps us stay in the Championship it’s worth the hit.
This is what football has become.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pearcey3
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.
How's that working for you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pearcey3
Quite.Quote:
Originally Posted by willo1927
Just weird, the whole idea of it :shrug:
I can their point, would you want 4,000 away fans at the CCS every week?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby Dandruff
Well the atmosphere is far better now than before we made the change. We are struggling to stay in the division and the atmosphere today helped get us over the line. So to answer your question perhaps better than you think.Quote:
Originally Posted by willo1927
Well very few fill the bit we give them now.Quote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue
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Originally Posted by insider
Disagree.The atmosphere has improved as far as home fans are concerned. The owners have got so much wrong but they have listened to the fan base and accepted the atmosphere used to be dire and since the advent of club 1871 it’s improved a lot.
They have been willing to take less revenue as a result.
But it isn't every weekend is it?Quote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue
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 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 matchesQuote:
Originally Posted by Pearcey3
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby Dandruff
With the way our ground is set up giving the entire South Stand to the opposition is a problem.
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Originally Posted by TWGL1
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.
Become? Pretty sure back in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s teams were putting in measures to reduce away crowdsQuote:
Originally Posted by insider
Pretty sure is quite confident in my bookQuote:
Originally Posted by Canton Kev
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by insider
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.
Tickets don't remember them pre early 90sQuote:
Originally Posted by Canton Kev
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pearcey3
It’s a shame we can’t have more tickets, but it’s their choice at the end of the day.
Have we sold anywhere near the 2200 yet ?
As no one is asking about spares !
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 wrongQuote:
Originally Posted by Canton Kev
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 !!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Nobody's Rep
Never kicked anyone thanks - just describing what it was like then as a reply to a poster in terms of tickets and allocationQuote:
Originally Posted by dml1954
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawnmower
The atmosphere is pretty good these days. It’s worked.
Only about 30 seats left now.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nobody's Rep
No tickets unless for the sitting areas. Pay at the gate.
Don’t look like there be any left to go back on sale on Tuesday by the looks of it
Plenty more showing up now online..Quote:
Originally Posted by Neilmorgan10
Isn't anyone going to say it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Neilmorgan10
I was in this pub today, looked up and………Quote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue