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Post by lrb on Feb 24, 2004 17:20:32 GMT
Without an ID card I was thinking of buying a ticket for the match in the home end (adjacent to the away end) and asking to be transferred in with the Stokies once I got inside.
I've employed this at places such as Crystal Palace a few times with no problems. Has anybody tried this and been successful at Reading - I'm not exactly intimidating. Just wondering if it was worth it with the possibility of getting chucked out.
Cheers
lrb
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Post by StokieSC on Feb 24, 2004 17:23:13 GMT
Surley it would be cheaper to get an ID card in the long run?
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Post by haj23scfc on Feb 24, 2004 17:23:35 GMT
I wouldn't risk it unless you slip the steward a note! I'd just sit in the Reading end and keep quiet or try and sneak in!
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Post by RobPa on Feb 24, 2004 17:26:51 GMT
my mate has forgot is ID card at gillingham and wimbledon and just blagged is way in, u wud be fine
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Post by Pricey on Feb 24, 2004 17:26:55 GMT
We haven't played Reading and needed an ID card to get in before. Go for it, what's the worst that can happen?!  ;D A couple of my mates that have ID cards bought a ticket for Coventry in the home section of the away stand and got told they were 'fucking mad' but were let in with the away fans (they showed their ID cards to a steward). Just in case everyone is wondering why someone would do that, they only decided to go to the match at midday. |
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Post by haj23scfc on Feb 24, 2004 17:31:43 GMT
I just sat in the home end at coventry last season and behaved myself! As long as you aren't stupid its easy! I'm planning on doing it at Crewe too if I can get a ticket off my Crewe mates.
I don't have a TS Card because I work till 1 on Saturdays so can't get to many away games so not much point!
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Post by lrb on Feb 24, 2004 17:59:39 GMT
Thanks for the advice folks.
Smeegs,
can't deny that, but the problem is I am not always in the UK and don't have a permanent address here. Where do tickets get sent to? and I very rarely venture to the sacred city that is SOT so cannot collect.
If ID card holders could buy on the day I'm sure I would join the scheme - its just logistics and ease of ticket access preventing me.
Bobpa,
did your mate already have a ticket for the away end or was it the same scenario as I've described?
I think I'll get a ticket with the home fans and try to wing it - might take the wife as cover. Surely they wouldn't chuck out a couple.
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Post by RobPa on Feb 24, 2004 18:39:58 GMT
he already had a ticket for the away end
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Post by no1stokie on Feb 24, 2004 19:02:08 GMT
How could you keep quiet last year at coventry? Remember we won and Brighton lost!
It's easy to get in without an ID card if you're on your own! Just try and walk past them with your wallet in your hand and if that doesn't work just say you've forgotten it!
People always forget them and i've not seen anyone refused though apparently it's happened!
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Post by RobPa on Feb 24, 2004 19:10:57 GMT
i wouldnt want to be at crewe, going in the stoke end with no id card though
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Post by kajshdfsiuf on Feb 24, 2004 20:06:23 GMT
I doubt anythin wud happen at readin anyway if you did cheer a stoke goal! Cud be wrong thoh
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Post by no1stokie on Feb 24, 2004 20:35:43 GMT
Doubt much would happen at most places!
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Post by Olgrligm on Feb 24, 2004 21:52:48 GMT
That ManUre fan who went around flashing the badge in our end in the preseason got away..........should be ok if you celebrate
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Post by no1stokie on Feb 24, 2004 22:12:58 GMT
A friendly m8! A bit different!
I've jumped up and down at Bolton before, Huddersfield, QPR and others all in the home end! No-ones ever done anything other than look at me!
Dirty pervs!
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Post by browneyedboy on Feb 24, 2004 22:35:13 GMT
can't deny that, but the problem is I am not always in the UK and don't have a permanent address here. Where do tickets get sent to? and I very rarely venture to the sacred city that is SOT so cannot collect. Before the scheme, it was possible to have your tickets send down on the official coach then pick them up from the ticket office at the ground. I did that a couple of times when I decided to go to matches too late to get the tickets from the ticket office. I don't know if it's possible since the ID card scheme, but it might be worth phoning the ticket office and finding out. I see no real reason why they shouldn't still allow people to have tickets sent down to the away ground like this. |
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Post by sushi on Feb 25, 2004 6:25:14 GMT
I was in the same situation as you for the Watford game but blagged my way into the away end after about 10 minutes to meet up with my mate. Now got an ID card though - just use anyone's address and write "c/o" - they're pretty efficent
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Post by dude on Feb 25, 2004 10:09:57 GMT
About 5 seasons ago we played Reading in the FA cup, all ticket for Stoke fans. Was in the home stand and asked to be moved. Ended up with about 6 blokes on walkie talkies giving me the 3rd degree on what I was doing sitting where I was.
After about 20 minutes, me and my brother who was about 11 at the time were taken into the home stand flanked by 2 security men. Was completely over the top.
The visiting stand was 3/4 empty as well.
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Post by TheWall on Feb 25, 2004 14:24:51 GMT
Went in the home end the day we lost 1-0 but still made the play-offs. I kept me gob shut until all the people at the other end of the ground to me went berserk as Brizzle Rovers had lost to Cardiff(i think). From that moment onwards anyone within about 30 rows of me knew I was a stokie. I only had one bloke give me grief, and that was as I was leaving the stadium 10 minutes or so later. He'd stopped behind to "ask" me if i'd have done the same thing had we been playing down at the den. As we'd just played reading i'd asked him what the fuck he was on about and then showed me the millwall shirt he was hiding under whatever else he was wearing. arsehole. The reading lot were no problem at all though....
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