nick - Evans has done really well if that’s through diet and exercise, not sure if he used one of the drugs or a band or whatever, but he has hopefully extended his life expectancy. He’s always been a thrown in our side as an oppo manager, and a figure of ridicule, but my goodness he’s got passion and speaks well when interviewed - respect to him for this 👍

Advertising piles cream on the advertising board in Serbia that’s a new one for me

[Link] Who would have thought it

The attendance at PL and Highbury are known, but I haven't come across the crowd at Walthamstow yet...

TBK, has any analysis of the data been in terms of location of ticket, matches, dates, frequency, length of holding, etc.

OI-poor show OI or Young Isthmian as you probably were at the time

I wasn't there as I was only 3 at the time CW

Anyone able to confirm the attendance for the Walthamstow Avenue vs Wimbledon FA Amateur Cup 4th round replay match in early March 1952, which would seem to have been an all time ground record at Green Pond Road if it can be stood up.

Survey is fine, but "percentage of capacity" vs "absolute number" seems moot at this juncture, unless a stadium expansion is imminent? Even then, to not increase ST availability alongside increased capacity seems daft to me.

Yes but how many golf courses are in labour held seats ;-/

Hope you like the season ticket cap survey. Please encourage as many members as possible to complete it.

Good that we haven't got a midweek game,we should be raring to go Saturday .need to stop this slump 4 match defeats.

Naz - actually they are wrong as Barnet has joined Bromley to double the number - [Link]

Naz starting political post tut! tut!😂

9yrs Tuesday Update available now. Bit of a slow news week but a round-up of what has happened on and off the pitch this week: [Link]

I heard somewhere that Bromley is the only ground in the PL/EFL with a Tory MP. (That might be fake news, of course.)

Bromley have a great set up. What they have that we don't is that it's all on site around the ground. When they ripped up the 4g pitch they laid it behind the ground for the academy and training. It feels because of this the nar Broomfields is busy most nights of the week with parents of Academy kids or the many community leagues playing. Also it means that when my daughter plays at home their changing room is next to the boot room so they've seen first team players and the manager so they feel part of the club. I know we didn't have the space but seeing the setup they have it does feel like a missed opportunity

No half-cock ideas for penalising STHs please but let's fix the anomaly on child rates (and reduce the 65+ concession a bit)

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Automation can help with reselling season tickets. I do not understand why it is not automated if it isn't already. You can quite easily credit ST holders one match off the next season ticket if the ticket is sold. You can also have Saturday or midweek only season tickets - based on the average over the last few seasons. The most important things is to have a system that is easy to use. The more complicated it is to let the club you know you will not be attending the less likely they are to do it.

I think the reasoning for requests to offer up tickets for resale are that , 1) VAT can be reclaimed for the season ticket seat 2) if the ticket is resold, not only does the club make more money from the sale but also,the person buying the ticket may buy a drink and/or food, whereas an empty seat doesn’t make money.

Bolton have a much larger capacity so are able to charge less for STs

Tomato - I agree. Kite - mine appeared (a couple of hours after the email saying that it was there). Woking - maybe I was slightly misled (maybe it was a discounted one for pensioners or whatever). Doobs - exactly.

Ange is the new Forest manager.

I struggle to make a lot of games now on a Saturday. I missed two in August sent the club the obligatory email no response what so ever. Don't know if they received the email, don't know if they sold them. I pay the money up front so the club has my cash whether I can go or not. That is why the club has a lot of people not turn up because we are giving the club money where we can. You can't have your cake and eat it. I'm pretty sure from the emails that there is'nt a thousands of people on a waiting list wanting season tickets. How often can people not get tickets for a game. You can take season tickets who go infrequently but then what happens when you haven't won in 10 and people don't want those empty seats. The club wants my money up front therefore take the other side of that if I can't go