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Post by tijuanabrass on Feb 13, 2008 8:20:02 GMT
There seems to have been much grumbling over the past few days about "non regulars" getting tickets for the Southampton match. With a sub 20k gate it looks like nobody ended up missing out on a seat.
It does raise the point though that if this success continues and the inevitable promotion happens, Glory Hunters are a species that some of the regulars are going to have to familiarise themselves with.
Suddenly, non ST holders that have been regular attenders throughout the doldrum years will not be able to get tickets to big games. People you work with who've never been to a game in their life will be bragging about the Potters and how they've supported them since the Waddo years.
Forget the ID cards, away ticket allocations will be absorbed by groups of visiting American's and Japanese.
Of course, hopefully the upside will be more bums on seats,more merchandise sold, more cash in the coffers and a prolonged period of success.
The stalwart fans perhaps need to tone down their disdain for the bloke and 3 kids with home counties accents that they find occupying the same seat they've had since Brian Little was in the dugout.
Of the "new supporters" many will become the regulars of tomorrow.
Whether they're a group of Czech exchange students or some corporate visitors to a business in Sheffield or Derby. The good folk of the Potteries should embrace them to their Red 'n White bussom.
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Post by stayingupfor GermanStokie on Feb 13, 2008 8:24:52 GMT
Not sure what you mean, i know you are being welcoming to "new" fans but for example quite a few of us buy tickets frequently and i have never sat in the same place yet this season! So that bloke you are sat next to, who you may have not seen before, may have actually been going to Stoke all / most of the season. It is just he has "moved" around the ground after each match.
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Post by Trouserdog on Feb 13, 2008 8:33:43 GMT
Exactly.
It's a typical insular Stoke attitude that a lot of people would secretly prefer that we just kept getting 12,000 regulars, rather than attract new fans who might not be able to reel off all the reserve team's names and inside leg measurements.
I heard a few ridiculous chants last night "If you hate part-timers clap your hands", "where were you on Saturday etc"...it was only a few people singing that kind of stuff, but it's a mind-set that many, many others seem to have quietly adopted.
Put it this way, if I was attending my first game of the season last night, I wouldn't have really liked having to listen to that small-mided crap, and it's the kind of stuff that might dissuade the more sensitive potential supporters from attending again.
If we are to maintain our new status as a major player in the championship, we need to attract as many new fans as we can, as we won't stay here for too long on gates of 12,000, even if we do all sit there congratulating each other for coming down since Alan Ball was manager etc etc.
Welcome new supporters with open arms, rather than chanting derogatory crap at them like a complete moron.
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Post by stayingupfor GermanStokie on Feb 13, 2008 8:46:15 GMT
Yep..... I haven't got a ST yet i have been to most of the matches this season. And lo and behold i have sat in a different seat for every game all over the ground.
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Post by foxfield on Feb 13, 2008 8:50:38 GMT
The extra gate last night did not consist of glory hunters. You could describe them as "stay away" or "lapsed" City fans. Glory Hunters follow Prem. teams that have a chance of a major honour. We should all welcome extra support for the finance they bring in and the noise they can make.
I have supported Stoke for over half a century and I can say that I have never failed to get a ticket. You just have to be determined
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2008 8:56:55 GMT
Brassneck - So you would rather have an half empty stadium. I'm a season ticket holder who couldn't make last night nor can I make Friday night. You call them Glory Hunters guess what we've done nothing yet and theres still lots of games to go and the fat lady hasn't sung yet.
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Post by RAF on Feb 13, 2008 9:06:49 GMT
No one watching Stoke could ever be accused of being a glory supporter, unless they started watching us solely down to winning the League Cup in 72, because we have had no glory since, unless you count the 2 Mickey Mouse trophies we have won.
It's amazing that a small set of petty minded simpletons who groan every week about the crowds being poor are probably the same people moaning about glory hunters.
Maybe people should get electronically tagged for every game they attend , so they can take the moral high ground with some of the fans that have been to less games.
H
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Post by wolvesryan on Feb 13, 2008 9:08:50 GMT
glory hunters at stoke ha ha ha ha, they will soon go when you start to slip
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Post by RAF on Feb 13, 2008 9:12:05 GMT
Those grapes still a bit sour Ryan?
I mean if we are talking glory, you have only won one cup more recently to us and that was the same League cup in 74.
A season getting hammered in the Prem is not glory.
H
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Post by Thank you from Moorlander1 on Feb 13, 2008 9:19:44 GMT
I just put the cries from these people as being the calls of ignorant people,this club is good,this club is going places,this club needs more supporters,the more the merrier.
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Post by slaps10 on Feb 13, 2008 9:21:24 GMT
Wolvesryan........
Few words.....
still seething at the tonking you got on Saturday....
Prick
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Post by scfclifer on Feb 13, 2008 9:21:27 GMT
nowt against new ppl coming down the brit to lend support ,,,,,,,wat i dont agree with is the new fans who came down last n8 and did not sit in there allocated seats instead sat in a st holders seat because it was a better view if there going to come down great good news for the club as long as they behave and sit where they are supposed too
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Post by northantsmike on Feb 13, 2008 9:28:14 GMT
Tijuana ---- I see why the Americans worry you - some may be Mexican border cops  ;D But seriously - those visting American/Japanese will likely be "trouble" for us in the JS Upper so unless you are there - not to worry. Also I have sat next to the same guy at the Brit/Vic for over 20 years and he is a right moaning so and so. I will call him Ken - to protect his identity and because that is his name. He does not shoput abuse at the manager or the players but even at 3-0 uplast night it was "What if they take their foot off now? What if they annoy Fuller again and he gets sent off? How close is Whelan to a ban? And worse - "Tell me what the Manager is saying to them now and will he make changes for the second half?" and he actually expects me to know. He has moaned at every game we have played so maybe I would welcome a new Americo/jap next to me who asks questions that I can answer. Like "who was the guy who scored the third" Well to me it looked like Sidibie but I know it cannot have been big Mama so I guess I could not even answer that one. Do I really want "Ken" out - no - he is a mate and is part of the atmosphere - perhaps if he was not such a pain I would start moaning about the team, TP or even the glory hunters. Finally It is known by statistics that though our average crowd is in the 14,000's that over the season 32,000 go to make that number up - so we actually have a following - before glory - that would fill the Stadium - maybe even get those darned corners filled in. Roll on the "glory" days. |
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Post by tijuanabrass on Feb 13, 2008 9:59:21 GMT
It does beg the question which would the preferred type of "new supporter" be?
The local that couldn't be arsed to go to games when we were in Division 1 or the out- of-towner who knows nowt about the club and it's history but saw Ricardo Fuller on the telly and thought he had good legs?
We need to accommodate the Wolves fans who realise that this is a chance to see top-flight football in Staffordshire as well as the (Northants)Ken's of this world.
[Posted by pjbo1957 on Today at 7:56pm
Brassneck - So you would rather have an half empty stadium.]
kwijibo - where in my original post etc. etc.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2008 10:26:28 GMT
There really are some first class pricks at Stoke.  Moan when theres only 12000 then moan when they have to wait an extra minute for their bovril & meat pie. I haven't had a season ticket for the last 2 years, mainly because I can pick and choose where to sit. For example I hate sitting in the sentinel stand on a sunny afternoon as I cant see a fucking thing without a daft cap or shades on. But normally block 31 is my first choice. I personally would like to see the place sold out every week & it wouldn't bother me if they never missed a game or just came 2 or 3 times a season ffs! |
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Post by petershiltonsmini on Feb 13, 2008 10:51:21 GMT
glory hunters buy merchandise foe manure, arse, Liverpool, chelski they do not buy stoke shirts.
I for one would celebrate if kids from all over the country bought stoke shirts.
Just imagine walking around machester on a Saturday and seeing kids in stoke shirts!
I can only dream
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Post by Akinbadbuy on Feb 13, 2008 13:19:03 GMT
There were kids in the queue for tickets yesterday wearing Man Utd shirts!!!
Piss off to old trafford then!!!
Unfortunately football fans are the most fickle in the world and that fact will never change.
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Post by stayingupfor GermanStokie on Feb 13, 2008 13:21:45 GMT
Lol.. now that is shocking..... going to a Stoke match wearing Man Ure colours........... what next, let's sell germany shirts in the club shop???? If Only ;D lol.
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Post by GRUMPY 1 on Feb 13, 2008 22:03:22 GMT
My youngest had to be "Talked out" of wearing her Liverpool top.
By half time she had two stoke scarves waving.
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;D
