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Post by stokecityscott on Mar 10, 2008 12:48:37 GMT
for next season, just been reading it on there site, thats pretty dam good.
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Post by dnl3989 on Mar 10, 2008 13:35:30 GMT
wish we could do the same, as we have the supporters.
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Post by lordb on Mar 10, 2008 13:36:57 GMT
if we end up blowing it I reckon we should be get aprox 15000 s/t holders
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Post by dnl3989 on Mar 10, 2008 13:37:49 GMT
BLOWING WHAT?
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Post by surreystokie on Mar 10, 2008 13:38:05 GMT
As I've said before, they are an amazing club and this time envious dissidents can't put it down to parachute payments or having been in the PL.
I'm 100% convinced that it has everything to do with the way the club is run and the feeling of belonging which this engenders.
One thing I know for sure is that my own experience at the Brit on Saturday, would never have happened at Carrow Rd. and it is in this direction, as much as performances on the field of play, that we need to improve. And quickly.
It took twenty minures from the moment of arriving at the ticket office counter, to get my Watford ticket. (To pre-empt criticism of doziness, I had, as always, faxed my request one week earlier, but it apparently had not arrived.) I was seething at the inept service. Maybe "Don't blame me as I'm doing my best and am only here one day a week" would have sounded merely pitiful rather than infuriating, had I not been desperate to get away to visit my cousin in intensive care, locally, but we do have immense problems to be sorted.
As for my trying a different way out, ( not needing the A50 over the bridge) forget it. Can someone tell me why, upon leaving the Power League car park and turning left, I was held up at the roundabout until the coaches, home as well as as away, had left, - which was 20 MINUTES LATER!!!!!!!!
Until someone like TS leaves the match five minutes early, to experience exactly what happens, we will never hold a candle to the likes of the Canaries.
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Post by crowey on Mar 10, 2008 13:48:35 GMT
Monica, I can appreciate that NCFC do things generally very well. If my memory serves me correctly, Carrow Road is very close to the city centre, so how do they manage to disperse the crowds so efficiently? Or maybe I just have to look back to the Vic?
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Post by stokeny on Mar 10, 2008 13:51:35 GMT
Norwich has a massive hinter land. I lived in Swaffham 30 miles away and it's the nearest team by a long way. Go 30 miles from Stoke and you're closer to Man U, Man C,Liverpool, Everton Brum Villa, Wolves Derby West Brom Forest Walsall Wrexham Chester Crewe, Vale Stockport to name a few. Also they haven't been shit for 25 years.
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Post by smigchop on Mar 10, 2008 13:52:24 GMT
fuck norwich
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Post by surreystokie on Mar 10, 2008 13:55:16 GMT
crowey, it's one problem they don't have, because of their convenient venue. I was trying to say that, if they had been cursed with our venue, it would have been sorted ten years ago, as that's how they understand and value their supporters. We have improved in some ways, recently, as I mentioned on her, but there is still a long way to go but with the PL on the horizon  there is much to be done AND TESTED before next season arrives. |
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Post by crowey on Mar 10, 2008 14:00:08 GMT
Monica, huge issues before (I hope)/if the PL, I agree. stokeny, I lived in King's Lynn for ten years - every man & his dog not only supported, but were season ticket holders at Carrow Road
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Post by jeffers on Mar 10, 2008 14:23:48 GMT
Norwich and Stoke is maybe not the best comparison to make. The approx' population of East Anglia is 4 Million (4th most populated region) with Pro football clubs inluding; Cambridge United, Peterborough United, Norwich, Ipswich and Colchester and you could possibly include Southend in that list. Up till recently only two of those were regularly in the top two divisions. Norwich is probably a more affluent area, not an ex-industrial city with lack of jobs, has a student population (like S-O-T). Possibly more jobs in Norwich oweing to an increase in the service industry in the late 70's/80's. I wouldn't be suprised if like Ipswich, Norwich draw a hefty support from the Cambridge area. Like crowey said, they draw support from Rural Norfolk aswell.
There's too much to consider when calculating football attendences/season ticket sales. The perspectives of football in East Anglia are completely different to the footballing hotbed that is the West Midlands/Northern England.
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Post by NorwichStokie on Mar 10, 2008 16:04:06 GMT
The traffic around Carrow Road at full time is terrible Monica. The only reason it isn't worse than it already is, is because unlike us, they don't have a 1000 capacity car park right next to the ground. Most people park at the county Hall which is about 20 mins walk from the ground. Add this to the fact that up to 25% of the crowd often leave the stadium with about 15 minutes left to play, the 'rush-hour' is much more spread out.
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Post by stokemark on Mar 10, 2008 16:09:50 GMT
Being wank for years (Stoke) doesnt help - We have a city half full of glory hunters now !
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Post by tnbiscuitswithtone on Mar 10, 2008 16:24:58 GMT
aren't you forgeting , there's nothing else to do in norfolk . may be that's why there all inbreds? NFN
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Post by daverichards on Mar 10, 2008 20:03:55 GMT
only professional football club in a county with a population of 800,000
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Post by Alvechurch Assassin on Mar 10, 2008 21:52:48 GMT
however, I remember when they used to get about 12,000 every game and we were certainly perceived to be the bigger club. something's happened.
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Post by Thank you from Moorlander1 on Mar 10, 2008 22:11:57 GMT
I think that if we make the Premiership this season we shall sell a minimum of 20,000 season tickets.
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Post by stokelad on Mar 10, 2008 22:15:36 GMT
that is good but then if we do get promotion i think the sale of season tickets will increase a little dont you think.
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Post by mumf14 on Mar 10, 2008 22:36:17 GMT
Moorlander.....20,000 eh....?
There's more chance of a Euro Lotto win .!
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Post by richardparker on Mar 10, 2008 22:52:30 GMT
Parking problem?
I never leave the ground before the final whistle.
I've heard the reasons and arguments of those who do, and whilst I can see other people's points of view, ...
Unless you have a disabilty, why the need to park so close to the ground?
I park off London Road, go to the pub (on Saturday with my 2 daughters aged 9 and 6) and walk to the ground at 35mins before kick off. I'm in the ground before the players come out. Getting out at the end is slow going, but the walk back to my car (all downhill!) is 25mins at most. One quick turn of the ignition, a rev of the engine and I'm off heading North on the M6, passing Sandbach, whilst Nigel Gleghorn is talking to old ladies on P & G, stuck in traffic waiting to get off that dreaded Trentham Lakes site.
Best of all, I get in a bit of useful exercise for my trouble.
Can't understand why more people don't take the decision to park away from the Brit.
Oh, and it costs me nowt to leave my car there!
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there is much to be done AND TESTED before next season arrives. 
