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it's probably been pointed out earlier, but the Email the Club sent out today ("Your Seat Awaits – Renew For 2025/26 Now!") contained the following section: DIGITAL TICKETS FULL ROLL-OUT Our full roll-out of Digital Tickets will continue, in compliance with Premier League standards, regardless of divisional status... So we're annoying 10,000 season ticket holders, by applying a standard, that doesn't apply to us. What a club ...................

Skip to 3m 30s. Crazy days. Skip to 3m 30s.

Day trip to Brighton, Saturday 3pm KO. Wouldn't matter how cr*p we were. 500 tickets would've been snapped up immediately. But that's beside the point. It's the cowardly behaviour o the club that stinks.

Absolutely. We were so close to being relegated to the 3rd Division for the first time in our history, that it shook everyone up. We were so glad, just to be in the 2nd Division! Took near on 4,000 to Swindon for the opening League match, and it was pretty mental tbh. It just went on from there ...

In 1991-92, we were just about as good as anyone. Like Southend away ...

We're never going to be passionate like Celtic/Rangers, Newcastle or Leeds. But we've had our moments. We were fairly decent 2014 (promotion), 2015 (Great Escape), 2016 (Champions) and 2017 (Champions League). But it's gone downhill IMHO, as soon as Brendan Rogers aka "The Great Fraud" took over. Two 5th place finishes masked what was going on ... a change to a slow sidewards-and-backwards possession-at-all-cost sterile football, that slowly but surely sucked the life out of the fans ... and the players as well. It took a while, and the change wasn't obvious. But it was a slow drip-feed away from any get-up-and-go amongst either the players or fans. As I say, it's very much my opinion, not fact, and I can't quantify or prove any of it. But that's what I believe.

LCFC ticket website now says "Original allocation reduced from 3,001 to 2,450 based on forecasted attendance" They forgot to add ", because we refuse to put away tickets on General Sale, or to anyone with a booking history" What a club .........................

Supporting the City for over 50 years has seen some truly shit moments. Pissed on, snowed on, bricked, beaten up by rival fans, ripped off prices, treating like dirt by the police, etc etc etc. But the worst thing is being lied to by the Club. "we've listened to your feedback, blah blah blah". Like f u c k. 15,000 Season tickets holders said they actually wanted the option of having a card.

As @Globalfox implied earlier, lots of Football League clubs are into Mobile tickets, and I think Championship clubs will be jumping on the bandwagon. I don't think one relegation is going to save us from this overkill. Relegation to the 3rd or 4th Divisions, on the other hand ........................

I was going to go Brighton, but can't be arsed to download and setup a Google Pay account just to go a bloomin crappy football match. So **** it. I'll save myself the money and hassle. (yeah, I know at some point I'll have to "go mobile" if I want to continue going matches ... but not just yet!)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0kvt7sf

On the BHA website, in the "What mobile devices are supported?" FAQ section, it says: If you have a smart phone that does not have an NFC chip you will be able to download your ticket/season ticket to your Google/Apple Wallet and select the 'Show Code' option when entering via the turnstiles. You scan the barcode in the turnstile in the same way that you would with a paper or Print@Home ticket. The barcode will regenerate at regular intervals so screenshots of the barcode will not work. If you have a smart phone with an NFC chip you will be able to store your ticket/season ticket to your Google or Apple Wallet and scan your phone on the top of the turnstile when entering. https://tickets.brightonandhovealbion.com/screenloader.aspx?dd_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.brightonandhovealbion.com%2F&page=usercontent%2Fdocuments%2Fhtml%2Fmobiletickethelp.html&type=include

Ah right ... when you're not signed in, and the button is highlighted 'BUY' (rather than greyed out 'Coming soon'), it usually means "General Sale". ok, nice of the club to be misleading

Tickets on General Sale against Man Utd. . How low have we sunk?

Well said. Whilst most people might be concentrating on the obvious problems on the pitch, I'm actually more bothered about all the things the club is doing wrong off it. The utter contempt they treat us with. And they way they seem to want to get rid of anyone with the slightest passion, and just replace us all with compliant, silent, neutered zombies. Examples that spring to mind: 1. The away priority ticket rules that over the last 11 years have turned our away support into a mainly season ticket holders only closed shop. 2. Apart from the odd exception, since Aug 2021 no away tickets have gone on-sale to anyone but ST holders and members. Not even people with a booking history! Which means it now is a stale closed shop, and has nearly finished off any last remnants of passionate away support. 3. Keeping the annoying, embarrassing clappers going long long after their sell-by date. So pathetic and naff. 4. Playing stupid post-match music at the end of every match we win. As above, pathetic and naff. 5. Blaring out pre-match music so loud, you can barely hear yourself think. Let alone try to generate an atmosphere. 6. A stadium expansion that should've started the minute we won the league. 9 years later ... as you were. 7. Dragging their feet on safe standing, whereas most other clubs in the top 2 divisions have already got it installed. 8. Over zealous stewarding in certain parts of the ground, as though they actually hate any sign of passion. 9. Banning fans for trivial "offences". 10. Ringing the pitch with stewards at the end of matches, when there is not the slightest chance of any pitch invasion by us downtrodden/neutered fans. 11. Forcing through Mobile Ticketing, when the majority of fans want the choice of either having a card or a mobile ticket. You can probably add some more to that list. And the thing is ...because the club is so secretive, we don't actually know who is responsible for anything?

A pair of superb defences. It sounds boring, but it was actually engrossing. Amazing tackling, covering and physicality. Wigan had a "try" disallowed for a previous infringement. Both team attempted drop-goals late on in the match, but without success. Leigh won it with a drop goal in "extra time". Also a record crowd for an opening match (21,748). https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/articles/c2k5w971j35o

Fascinating game tonight. Wigan 0 Leigh 1 (golden point). First ever Super League game to finish 0-0 after 80 mins.

In fairness, Queens Park are a big club. Only Celtic and Rangers have won more Scottish Cups. Ok, the last one was 132 years ago. (But 132 is a cosmically significant number, as it was 132 years after our formation in 1884, that we won the league in 2016)

@EastAnglianFox @UniFox21 That's the point. You could go to Napoli and have the most amazing atmosphere for a big game, then a week later against some rubbish oppo have an atmosphere as flat as a thin-crust pizza.

Lots of comments on here about how atmospheres in England are dead, and that only Scotland is any good on these islands. St Andrews tonight nailing that lie. Absolutely rocking, proper old fashioned humdinger of an atmosphere.

Just over 300 tickets left (out of 3065). Not bad, bearing in mind we're not quite setting the world alight .............

Southampton home (5-0) and Preston away, were the only 2 games last season that I really enjoyed.

In fairness ... back in the 70's and 80's, there were pretty much no live matches to be seen. So if you didn't go and watch the City regularly, you wouldn't know how well (or badly) we were actually playing. All you'd ever get is a few minutes of highlights, every few weeks ... if you were lucky! (It's worth pointing out that you can be a "fan" but be unable to attend matches eg if you have certain physical issues, or if you have to look after someone and there's no one to help you out, and obviously now as it's so expensive)

I dug up some turf that day. I noticed that my good lady had a decent-sized handbag on her, so I asked her if she minded putting the turf in her bag and carrying it home for me. She gave me that look that all husbands will recognise. But fair play to her, she realised how much having a part of Filbert Street meant to me ... and agreed. Anyway, I put the turf on a plate in my kitchen window, and lovingly cared for it. Watered it, occasionally trimmed it with scissors, it was my agricultural pride and joy. And then after about 18 months, just as the Club were going into Administration ............................. it died!

I watched the Arsenal v Man City highlights, and for a moment I thought that Danny Ward was in goal for Man City.