I'm a ST holder as well and have been this year at Wembley. I think often it depends on the game. Against Liverpool and Arsenal for instance it was rocking, but I fear there is a snobbery among some fans that the "lesser" games aren't really worth the effort to sing and have a good time, so the whole thing starts to feel like a manufactured and laboured experience. I must admit it started to get to me to the extent that I have put some of the lesser games on the ticket excahnge, along with yesterday's game (because of the time and because I never thought we'd win and figured a fan who'd be more up for getting behind the team was more deserving of my seat).
No.Are you including yourself as one of these snobs then?
Yes.Do you try and start the chants singing alone and noone joins in?
Yes.
I used to be part of the 1882 movement.
Compare that to someone like myself that would love a season ticket but living in Ireland makes it impossible unless you share a ticket and tbh you end up fighting over who sees what game, then there is having to get flights which is an extra layer of nonsense.
In 2015/16 I lived in Cambridge and got to WHL a few times because I could and it was an easy journey.
So think yourself lucky you have the option to see our club week in week out.
I fall into the same camp as a lot of others - simply can't justify the spend anymore. It's become almost a holiday event - saving up to afford the ticket (knowing that i'm almost certainly limited to the cheap seats for a Cat C game that hasn't sold out), putting a few quid aside for drinks and travel, etc.
I still have memories of deciding the day before and rolling up with a couple of quid spare for a pint before and a bovril after with my nan. Now i have to pick the game weeks in advance and spend the in between time hoping my cashflow and available tickets sync up.
I earn a fair wage and last years season tickets I could swallow. This year I have renewed for obvious reasons. I agree that you could swallow the price of the tickets if everything else wasn’t so fucking expensive. I take my son so that means programme. Sweets. Drinks. Burgers etc. Plus a few beers and travel. Makes it 19 expensive days out.
My son wouldn't care about the sweets and burgers... He'd want a few beers.I earn a fair wage and last years season tickets I could swallow. This year I have renewed for obvious reasons. I agree that you could swallow the price of the tickets if everything else wasn’t so fucking expensive. I take my son so that means programme. Sweets. Drinks. Burgers etc. Plus a few beers and travel. Makes it 19 expensive days out.
I'd only go more if all the other football fans stopped going.