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Title: Away allocation at Arsenal
Post by: Eastleighvilla on March 25, 2012, 08:29:57 PM
Does anyone know why we only had a somewhat smaller following than usual?
I never miss this fixture and was disapointed, but not surprised, Did the club generally believe we wouldn't sell out, Our away support in the capital is usually strong.I realise times are hard and the team is struggling, but our away support is the hard core, once that diminishes we are in trouble
Title: Re: Away allocation at Arsenal
Post by: villajk on March 25, 2012, 08:32:20 PM
This season we have only been taking the initial away allocation for all games.

If we take any extra we have to pay for them and unsold tickets are non refundable.
Title: Re: Away allocation at Arsenal
Post by: Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air on March 25, 2012, 08:33:49 PM
Probably didn't help that 5,000 plus of us were there a couple of months back.
Title: Re: Away allocation at Arsenal
Post by: London Villan on March 25, 2012, 08:39:10 PM
And we aren't very entertaining to watch at the moment either.
Title: Re: Away allocation at Arsenal
Post by: Pete3206 on March 25, 2012, 08:42:13 PM
The tickets only sold out about Wednesday, so the club made the correct decision. I admire anyone brave enough to shell out £48 for Liverpool, when we are all but guaranteed to serve up tripe again.
Title: Re: Away allocation at Arsenal
Post by: Chipsticks on March 25, 2012, 08:43:02 PM
The tickets only sold out about Wednesday, so the club made the correct decision. I admire anyone brave enough to shell out £48 for Liverpool, when we are all but guaranteed to serve up tripe again.

I quite fancy us to get a result there, after all they've struggled against shit teams.
Title: Re: Away allocation at Arsenal
Post by: Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air on March 25, 2012, 08:49:18 PM
The tickets only sold out about Wednesday, so the club made the correct decision. I admire anyone brave enough to shell out £48 for Liverpool, when we are all but guaranteed to serve up tripe again.

£48 ? I look forward to watching the aforementioned tripe on my laptop for free, if I can be bothered at the time.
Title: Re: Away allocation at Arsenal
Post by: UK Redsox on March 25, 2012, 08:55:44 PM
The tickets only sold out about Wednesday, so the club made the correct decision. I admire anyone brave enough to shell out £48 for Liverpool, when we are all but guaranteed to serve up tripe again.

I didn't realise that Arsenal had sold out. There were quite a few empty places scattered around.

I'm one of the mugs going to the Fuhrerbunker in a couple of weeks
Title: Re: Away allocation at Arsenal
Post by: Kingthing on March 25, 2012, 09:02:09 PM
The tickets only sold out about Wednesday, so the club made the correct decision. I admire anyone brave enough to shell out £48 for Liverpool, when we are all but guaranteed to serve up tripe again.

I didn't realise that Arsenal had sold out. There were quite a few empty places scattered around.

I'm one of the mugs going to the Fuhrerbunker in a couple of weeks

Those empty seats belonged to people who went back to the pub, a whole row disappeared in front of me after 20 mins.
Title: Re: Away allocation at Arsenal
Post by: villajk on March 25, 2012, 09:02:26 PM
The tickets only sold out about Wednesday, so the club made the correct decision. I admire anyone brave enough to shell out £48 for Liverpool, when we are all but guaranteed to serve up tripe again.

I didn't realise that Arsenal had sold out. There were quite a few empty places scattered around.

I'm one of the mugs going to the Fuhrerbunker in a couple of weeks

I've noticed that a lot this season.  I've put it down to groups congregating together.  Our son is a culprit of this.  His seat is purchased with ours through the away scheme but he chooses to stand with his mates.  pft

See you at Anfield.
Title: Re: Away allocation at Arsenal
Post by: villajk on March 25, 2012, 09:04:25 PM
The tickets only sold out about Wednesday, so the club made the correct decision. I admire anyone brave enough to shell out £48 for Liverpool, when we are all but guaranteed to serve up tripe again.

I didn't realise that Arsenal had sold out. There were quite a few empty places scattered around.

I'm one of the mugs going to the Fuhrerbunker in a couple of weeks

Those empty seats belonged to people who went back to the pub, a whole row disappeared in front of me after 20 mins.

Ah, and that could be another reason.
Title: Re: Away allocation at Arsenal
Post by: black pearl of inchicore on March 25, 2012, 09:30:48 PM
The tickets only sold out about Wednesday, so the club made the correct decision. I admire anyone brave enough to shell out £48 for Liverpool, when we are all but guaranteed to serve up tripe again.

I didn't realise that Arsenal had sold out. There were quite a few empty places scattered around.

I'm one of the mugs going to the Fuhrerbunker in a couple of weeks

Those empty seats belonged to people who went back to the pub, a whole row disappeared in front of me after 20 mins.

Ah, and that could be another reason.
Did anyone see the Villa team in the Pub after 20 mins??????  I heard Heskey was in the Queen Vic by half time.
Title: Re: Away allocation at Arsenal
Post by: dave.woodhall on March 25, 2012, 09:35:21 PM
One thing I did notice was at least three groups of Arsenal daytrippers turning up with tickets in our section. Where they got them from would be interesting.
Title: Re: Away allocation at Arsenal
Post by: Pete3206 on March 26, 2012, 12:03:37 AM
One thing I did notice was at least three groups of Arsenal daytrippers turning up with tickets in our section. Where they got them from would be interesting.

Yes there were a couple in front of us as well. They seemed find our football team rather amusing.
Title: Re: Away allocation at Arsenal
Post by: Stu on March 26, 2012, 12:07:33 AM
One thing I did notice was at least three groups of Arsenal daytrippers turning up with tickets in our section. Where they got them from would be interesting.

Yes there were a couple in front of us as well. They seemed find our football team rather amusing.

I wonder if the smug wankers were laughing quite so hard in last years fixture.
Title: Re: Away allocation at Arsenal
Post by: Pat McMahon on March 26, 2012, 09:00:44 AM
One thing I did notice was at least three groups of Arsenal daytrippers turning up with tickets in our section. Where they got them from would be interesting.

Yes there were a couple in front of us as well. They seemed find our football team rather amusing.

All the regulars in the Blarney Stone find us amusing, but that has deteriorated lately to pure pity. They genuinely cannot understand how we have become so poor so quickly. The only saving grace is that the time difference means I can watch us at 11pm and be fairly pissed, then carry on drinking without moronic UK Licensing laws to stop the anaesthetics flowing till the early hours..
Title: Re: Away allocation at Arsenal
Post by: chazvilla on March 26, 2012, 09:07:45 AM
Well the club sold our 4 tickets twice, so ours were blocked. We had to go to the ticket office, argue with them / Villa for 20 minutes before being told by Villa that even though it was their mistake, WE had to buy 4 more tickets and then get a refund later. Got to our seats just in time to see the 2nd go in. Brilliant. Fucking awesome being a Villa fan these days.
Title: Re: Away allocation at Arsenal
Post by: Archbishop Herbert Cockthrottle on March 26, 2012, 09:10:44 AM
Well the club sold our 4 tickets twice, so ours were blocked. We had to go to the ticket office, argue with them / Villa for 20 minutes before being told by Villa that even though it was their mistake, WE had to buy 4 more tickets and then get a refund later. Got to our seats just in time to see the 2nd go in. Brilliant. Fucking awesome being a Villa fan these days.

Yes, but apart from that, did you have a good day?
Title: Re: Away allocation at Arsenal
Post by: Brend'Watkins on March 26, 2012, 09:20:01 AM
One thing I did notice was at least three groups of Arsenal daytrippers turning up with tickets in our section. Where they got them from would be interesting.

The back two Rows around where we sat were all tourists.  We had a class of Spanish kids next to us, a few Germans in front and some Scandanavians behind. I had more satisfaction from brushing up on my foreign language skills than anything that happened on the pitch.
Title: Re: Away allocation at Arsenal
Post by: Chico Hamilton III on March 26, 2012, 09:22:48 AM
4 of my mates came down for the game and 3 of them left at half time to go back to the pub. We left with about 20 miniues to go

And there was the old boy behind us who fell asleep in his seat in the first half......
Title: Re: Away allocation at Arsenal
Post by: chazvilla on March 26, 2012, 09:36:01 AM
fantastic day Villa aside. First beer at 11am in the Sun, then ended up in the Griffin after.
Title: Re: Away allocation at Arsenal
Post by: villajk on March 26, 2012, 09:59:28 AM
One thing I did notice was at least three groups of Arsenal daytrippers turning up with tickets in our section. Where they got them from would be interesting.

Yes there were a couple in front of us as well. They seemed find our football team rather amusing.

All the regulars in the Blarney Stone find us amusing, but that has deteriorated lately to pure pity. They genuinely cannot understand how we have become so poor so quickly. The only saving grace is that the time difference means I can watch us at 11pm and be fairly pissed, then carry on drinking without moronic UK Licensing laws to stop the anaesthetics flowing till the early hours..

The Blarney Stone, eh?  How appropriate.  I think I know of somebody who has kissed that lately.
Title: Re: Away allocation at Arsenal
Post by: adrenachrome on March 26, 2012, 04:48:38 PM
One thing I did notice was at least three groups of Arsenal daytrippers turning up with tickets in our section. Where they got them from would be interesting.

Yes there were a couple in front of us as well. They seemed find our football team rather amusing.

All the regulars in the Blarney Stone find us amusing, but that has deteriorated lately to pure pity. They genuinely cannot understand how we have become so poor so quickly. The only saving grace is that the time difference means I can watch us at 11pm and be fairly pissed, then carry on drinking without moronic UK Licensing laws to stop the anaesthetics flowing till the early hours..

The Blarney Stone, eh?  How appropriate.  I think I know of somebody who has kissed that lately.

Never heard it called that before.

Title: Re: Away allocation at Arsenal
Post by: Mister E on March 29, 2012, 04:54:56 PM
One thing I did notice was at least three groups of Arsenal daytrippers turning up with tickets in our section. Where they got them from would be interesting.

Yes there were a couple in front of us as well. They seemed find our football team rather amusing.

All the regulars in the Blarney Stone find us amusing, but that has deteriorated lately to pure pity. They genuinely cannot understand how we have become so poor so quickly. The only saving grace is that the time difference means I can watch us at 11pm and be fairly pissed, then carry on drinking without moronic UK Licensing laws to stop the anaesthetics flowing till the early hours..

The Blarney Stone, eh?  How appropriate.  I think I know of somebody who has kissed that lately.

Never heard it called that before.


Very good! - what's Jon been up to then?!
Title: Re: Away allocation at Arsenal
Post by: villajk on March 29, 2012, 05:09:43 PM
One thing I did notice was at least three groups of Arsenal daytrippers turning up with tickets in our section. Where they got them from would be interesting.

Yes there were a couple in front of us as well. They seemed find our football team rather amusing.

All the regulars in the Blarney Stone find us amusing, but that has deteriorated lately to pure pity. They genuinely cannot understand how we have become so poor so quickly. The only saving grace is that the time difference means I can watch us at 11pm and be fairly pissed, then carry on drinking without moronic UK Licensing laws to stop the anaesthetics flowing till the early hours..

The Blarney Stone, eh?  How appropriate.  I think I know of somebody who has kissed that lately.

Never heard it called that before.


Very good! - what's Jon been up to then?!

 :o

I was thinking more of McLeish's post match comments.
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