- Jan 23, 2006
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I'm banking the refunds and saving for next year's season ticket.
You can only take the piss out of the very loyal and true supporters for a certain amount of time before they realise they have finally had enough
As the average age of our core support is around 45-55 they need to be very careful
Loyal football supporters that spend a lot of money and travel home and away do not grow on trees anymore especially when you can watch virtually every game these days from the comfort of your own home with a nice cup of Coco
This whole saga has been embarrassing at best and will make thousands of supporters (in the next few years) reevaluate what they spend their time and money on, at worst
You all know I’m sworn BSODL but this particular situation is a slap in the face. I’ve been going with my dad my whole life and this year we deliberately reduced our seat quality for the new ground from above the players tunnel to in line with the goal line because it was just too expensive.
Now we’re being given £52 back per match and then being asked to pay up to £95 to have our equivalent seats to last season (rather than the same price to have equivalent to this season’s at the new ground). I get that a) I don’t have to pay it and b) that last season’s seat is always going to cost more each match than this season’s but a) going to spurs is as much about having a chat and interacting with the people around you who you’ve developed relationships with for several decades and b) if they are really going to only refund the 1/19 of this season’s ticket, they should be charging 1/19 of last season’s ticket. If I’m being charged a category A price (1/15th roughly) I should be refunded a category A price too (about £66 ) so that the difference isn’t so disproportionate.
You can only take the piss out of the very loyal and true supporters for a certain amount of time before they realise they have finally had enough
As the average age of our core support is around 45-55 they need to be very careful
Loyal football supporters that spend a lot of money and travel home and away do not grow on trees anymore especially when you can watch virtually every game these days from the comfort of your own home with a nice cup of Coco
This whole saga has been embarrassing at best and will make thousands of supporters (in the next few years) reevaluate what they spend their time and money on, at worst
Having witnessed you approaching so many things on this site with an egalitarian bias for the past 15 years roughly, I know deep down you believe that nobody losing out is better than some losing out and some benefitting....It's working the opposite way for me. To get a comparable view to where we were in WHL (Block G), we had to pay considerably more (and also move up the opposite end of the Shelf, way too near where the visiting supporters are going to be). But the effect now, for every match that moves to Wembley, is that we are being refunded £20 more per ticket than it is costing us to reserve last year's Wembley seats.
Back to stadium build issues. Just a question which probably has been asked answered before but I missed. It is with regard to further testing- the bounce of the ball! Has a test been done to see how this elevated pitch affects the bounce and movement off the ball? If not can you imagine after all the delays and disappointments, the stadium opens to a grand fanfare only to see the ball stick to the ground like a shot put or bounce up high like a beach ball?!
I don't think they will.Actually funny you should say that. Honestly been expecting to see someone bouncing a ball on pitch just to check. On side issue do we think they will lay a new Wembley pitch before PSV. Be 8 days maybe a bit tight.
You can only take the piss out of the very loyal and true supporters for a certain amount of time before they realise they have finally had enough
As the average age of our core support is around 45-55 they need to be very careful
Loyal football supporters that spend a lot of money and travel home and away do not grow on trees anymore especially when you can watch virtually every game these days from the comfort of your own home with a nice cup of Coco
This whole saga has been embarrassing at best and will make thousands of supporters (in the next few years) reevaluate what they spend their time and money on, at worst
Back to stadium build issues. Just a question which probably has been asked answered before but I missed. It is with regard to further testing- the bounce of the ball! Has a test been done to see how this elevated pitch affects the bounce and movement off the ball? If not can you imagine after all the delays and disappointments, the stadium opens to a grand fanfare only to see the ball stick to the ground like a shot put or bounce up high like a beach ball?!
Back to stadium build issues. Just a question which probably has been asked answered before but I missed. It is with regard to further testing- the bounce of the ball! Has a test been done to see how this elevated pitch affects the bounce and movement of the ball? If not can you imagine after all the delays and disappointments, the stadium opens to a grand fanfare only to see the ball stick to the ground like a shot put or bounce up high like a beach ball?!
it was tested at the training ground, but unless the builders have had a sneaky play during their breaks, I don't think it has yet
I can't see how it would be an issue. The soil and the whole pitch-assembly is much too thick and massive for it to affect the flight or rebound of a ball weighing a kilo or less differently than the ground. There's too much mass in the trays and too little, by comparison, in the ball.
A comparison, exaggerated to an extreme to make the point, would be a ping-pong ball bouncing off a 300mm thick brick wall. it wouldn't make any difference if the wall were 600mm thick.
As I said before I have no clue in anything constructive or engineered. This is why my questions seem silly, or at least your knowledge on these subjects make them sound that way. Good to know there wont be any issues with the bounceI can't see how it would be an issue. The soil and the whole pitch-assembly is much too thick and massive for it to affect the flight or rebound of a ball weighing a kilo or less differently than the ground. There's too much mass in the trays and too little, by comparison, in the ball.
A comparison, exaggerated to an extreme to make the point, would be a ping-pong ball bouncing off a 300mm thick brick wall. it wouldn't make any difference if the wall were 600mm thick.
Back to stadium build issues. Just a question which probably has been asked answered before but I missed. It is with regard to further testing- the bounce of the ball! Has a test been done to see how this elevated pitch affects the bounce and movement of the ball? If not can you imagine after all the delays and disappointments, the stadium opens to a grand fanfare only to see the ball stick to the ground like a shot put or bounce up high like a beach ball?!
So if we create a temporary stand over the running track, what fills the space behind? Trampolines?