[CFC91]

On sale to ST holders from Thursday - https://x.com/cheste...8Orla3ArMqcJ6Lw

[JonB]

Dont think its the biggest allocation at Fleetwood is it?

[CFC91]

 JonB, on 26 November 2024 - 08:26 AM, said:

Dont think its the biggest allocation at Fleetwood is it?

1150 I think i've seen

[CFC1409]

 CFC91, on 26 November 2024 - 10:07 AM, said:

1150 I think i've seen

Yeah think bradford got 1100 Not long back

[HoneyTrippa]

What happened to local games on Boxing Day !!!! Thought the FA tried to asssist where there could for travelling Away fans for Bd fixtures. Fleetwood at over 100 miles and 2 to 3 hours drive? Have we been stitched up?

[Westbars Spireite]

I think sales will be a little slower for this than it would have been had it been a normal Saturday game. I?d have definitely gone if it had been but Boxing Day isn?t ideal.

[JonB]

 HoneyTrippa, on 27 November 2024 - 07:36 AM, said:

What happened to local games on Boxing Day !!!! Thought the FA tried to asssist where there could for travelling Away fans for Bd fixtures. Fleetwood at over 100 miles and 2 to 3 hours drive? Have we been stitched up?

Thought the local games over the holidays was a non league thing more than EFL thing? Quick google maps of the route suggests it would take 2hrs 30 now so you would expect, weather permitting, on Boxing Day it will be a good chunk less than that as currently the traffic around the M60 is, as expected, pretty pants. Could be worse....quick look at the fixtures and one that stands out as a trek is Newport away at Bromley, Gillingham to Colchester is a similar sort of journey to ours as is Crewe at Cheltenham.

AFC Wimbledon 15:00 Swindon Town
Bradford City 15:00 Port Vale
Bromley 15:00 Newport County AFC
Carlisle United 15:00 Morecambe
Cheltenham Town 15:00 Crewe Alexandra
Colchester United 15:00 Gillingham
Fleetwood Town 15:00 Chesterfield
Grimsby Town 15:00 Harrogate Town
Milton Keynes Dons 15:00 Notts County
Salford City 15:00 Barrow
Tranmere Rovers 15:00 Accrington Stanley
Walsall 15:00 Doncaster Rovers

As it stands i think i'm going to end up at Blackburn instead among 7500 Sunderland fans in the away end there. Other half and daughter are Sunderland fans and daughter has been wanting to go to an away game. With their usual followings its hard to get away tickets but this big allocation, which they will still sell, means we should get them. We did have a backup of plan of me dragging them both to Fleetwood instead but looks like i will lose out and my alternative of dropping them off, heading to Fleetwood and collecting them on the way back wasnt a goer either.

This post has been edited by JonB: 27 November 2024 - 08:29 AM

[calvin plummers socks]

 HoneyTrippa, on 27 November 2024 - 07:36 AM, said:

What happened to local games on Boxing Day !!!! Thought the FA tried to asssist where there could for travelling Away fans for Bd fixtures. Fleetwood at over 100 miles and 2 to 3 hours drive? Have we been stitched up?

It?s definitely because of Darren Brown being chairman in 1999.

[lindave]

 Westbars Spireite, on 27 November 2024 - 07:41 AM, said:

I think sales will be a little slower for this than it would have been had it been a normal Saturday game. I?d have definitely gone if it had been but Boxing Day isn?t ideal.

There will be plenty of takers, we got ours and plenty said they are going. Boxing Day fixtures are usually popular.

 JonB, on 27 November 2024 - 08:18 AM, said:

Thought the local games over the holidays was a non league thing more than EFL thing? Quick google maps of the route suggests it would take 2hrs 30 now so you would expect, weather permitting, on Boxing Day it will be a good chunk less than that as currently the traffic around the M60 is, as expected, pretty pants. Could be worse....quick look at the fixtures and one that stands out as a trek is Newport away at Bromley, Gillingham to Colchester is a similar sort of journey to ours as is Crewe at Cheltenham.

AFC Wimbledon 15:00 Swindon Town
Bradford City 15:00 Port Vale
Bromley 15:00 Newport County AFC
Carlisle United 15:00 Morecambe
Cheltenham Town 15:00 Crewe Alexandra
Colchester United 15:00 Gillingham
Fleetwood Town 15:00 Chesterfield
Grimsby Town 15:00 Harrogate Town
Milton Keynes Dons 15:00 Notts County
Salford City 15:00 Barrow
Tranmere Rovers 15:00 Accrington Stanley
Walsall 15:00 Doncaster Rovers

As it stands i think i'm going to end up at Blackburn instead among 7500 Sunderland fans in the away end there. Other half and daughter are Sunderland fans and daughter has been wanting to go to an away game. With their usual followings its hard to get away tickets but this big allocation, which they will still sell, means we should get them. We did have a backup of plan of me dragging them both to Fleetwood instead but looks like i will lose out and my alternative of dropping them off, heading to Fleetwood and collecting them on the way back wasnt a goer either.

The only good thing about non league was the fairly local games in the big holidays.

[Johnnyspireite7]

 calvin plummers socks, on 28 November 2024 - 10:46 AM, said:

It?s definitely because of Darren Brown being chairman in 1999.

Explain April 1997 when we got shafted out of the FA Cup Final disallowed goal & penalty that never was, miles outside the box.

[calvin plummers socks]

 Johnnyspireite7, on 28 November 2024 - 12:37 PM, said:

Explain April 1997 when we got shafted out of the FA Cup Final disallowed goal & penalty that never was, miles outside the box.

The FA had a vendetta against Barry Hubbard obviously

[Looker-on]

 Johnnyspireite7, on 28 November 2024 - 12:37 PM, said:

Explain April 1997 when we got shafted out of the FA Cup Final disallowed goal & penalty that never was, miles outside the box.

The same ref in the 5th round gave us a pen when Jonny Howard dived.

[clarevoyant.]

 Looker-on, on 28 November 2024 - 03:17 PM, said:

The same ref in the 5th round gave us a pen when Jonny Howard dived.

and sent Crossley off, but the rules appeared to change in the semi.

[Osborne again]

 Johnnyspireite7, on 28 November 2024 - 12:37 PM, said:

Explain April 1997 when we got shafted out of the FA Cup Final disallowed goal & penalty that never was, miles outside the box.

I wonder if the same would have applied if Wrexham had been in the same position as us when they were riding high in the National League, I really think not. Disney would have made several series out of that run, and if they'd won the FA Cup it would have carried on longer than Last of the Summer Wine lol.

[Sammy Spireite]

 clarevoyant., on 28 November 2024 - 03:20 PM, said:

and sent Crossley off, but the rules appeared to change in the semi.

after Bruno dived for our pen, you mean??

[clarevoyant.]

 Sammy Spireite, on 28 November 2024 - 04:32 PM, said:

after Bruno dived for our pen, you mean??

Like Howard did apparently. At least Elleray was consistently inconsistent.

[Sussex Spireite]

 clarevoyant., on 28 November 2024 - 04:36 PM, said:

Like Howard did apparently. At least Elleray was consistently inconsistent.

Yes, should have sent Clayton Blackmoor off for pulling back Davies when clean through in the second half.

[HaslandBlue58]

 Sussex Spireite, on 28 November 2024 - 05:20 PM, said:

Yes, should have sent Clayton Blackmoor off for pulling back Davies when clean through in the second half.

My memories of the day say 'Boro should have had a maximum of nine men on the field at full time,they had more luck in that game than we have in a season.

[JonB]

 Sammy Spireite, on 28 November 2024 - 04:32 PM, said:

after Bruno dived for our pen, you mean??

Think he meant the pen v Forest where Howard was ?fouled? by Crossley for the pen to win 1-0 after Curtis scored. Bruno was then upended in similar fashion by Ben Roberts in the semi final.

[clarevoyant.]

 JonB, on 28 November 2024 - 06:17 PM, said:

Think he meant the pen v Forest where Howard was ?fouled? by Crossley for the pen to win 1-0 after Curtis scored. Bruno was then upended in similar fashion by Ben Roberts in the semi final.

Yep, both very similar but totally different punishments.