Wistaston Ram

I make it just over 3k sold so approximately 1200 sold in an hour and a half!

About 1850 tickets sold to members.  So about half the membership have not bought tickets yet. There will be many like myself who cannot make it due to Christmas commitments, but I imagine there must still be a few hundred holding out until the upper tier opens. Be interesting to see how many go today as they reach general sale.

2 minutes ago, Anag Ram said:

Hope Warne uses the crowd to rev up the team.

We can’t afford a slow start tomorrow 

There'll not stand a chance if we start tomorrow

Hardly any interesting David v Goliath ties. Still a great draw for TV, lots of all premiership ties for them to show (yawn). Wander who we would have got if the teams had all been in alphabetical order as they used to be?

1 hour ago, DerbyRevolution said:

How many tickets left? Wednesday got a reduced allocation of only 2681 so that's about 500 that won't be sold.

Hopefully England top the group tomorrow night so there's no clash on the Saturday which might get a few more through the turnstiles.

About 4000 tickets left, so probably nearly 27,000 sold so far. Be good if we could get close to 30k.

3 minutes ago, Ramarena said:

Job done and into the next round.

It was a very poor first half, we can all talk about the formation, but the lack of effort and desire was embarrassing, no matter what the formation was.

Fortunately we turned it round and altered things a bit tactically and got the job done with an improved performance.

On to the big one against Weds!

 

 

Hope I can remember the way to Pride Park on Saturday, it's been a while.

44 minutes ago, hintonsboots said:

Got to be a top 4 Prem team at home. Televised sell out crowd.

Please not Man Utd or Chelsea. Arsenal or Spurs would be good.

4 minutes ago, Mick Brolly said:

Who the hell was the co commentator never heard so much s**** in my life 

I assume all the good ones are in Qatar.  The commentator seemed a lot more balanced than she was.

Much better second half, two class goals and nice to spoil ITV's story and upset the match summariser who thought Newport deserved another goal because of their fans! No surprise she chose a Newport player for man of the match. Should have had the TV on mute.  Well done Derby and the fans who travelled, look forward to the third round draw on Monday.

Half the players seem to be still on their day off.  We knew they would be in our faces from the start and yet have not matched their work rate, poor passing and constantly out muscled. Surely we will be better second half.

I like to think I have a high pain threshold following Derby, but this has been dire!

6 minutes ago, Inverurie Ram said:

Qatar World Cup Fri 25th Nov 2022.
England v USA.

Hadn't spotted the second DCFC flag until I saw this. TBH flag spotting was more interesting than the football in the first half

Wildsmith 6.5 - Not much to do, caught/punched aerial balls well but kicking was quite poor

Rooney 6.5 - worked hard, calm on the ball

Stearman 6.0 - steady cameo

Forsyth 6.5 - defended well, could not react quickly enough at the back post

Cashin 6.5 - 

Smith 6.0

Thompson 7.0 - Much improved, busy and took a yellow for the team  

Barkhuizen 6.5 - a good run down the left late on

Bird ? 6.5 - 

Hourihane 6.5 - busy, some decent crosses

Sibley 6.0 - Exposed first half, better second and a good chance to win it

McGoldrick 8.0 - Class

Osula  6.0

Collins  6.0

Dobbin 6.0

Despite an awful journey down, we got back home to Crewe by 2.20am. 

Thoroughly enjoyed the game and really thought we were going to nick it late on. Felt like we were under the cosh a bit second half with the crowd behind them, they huffed and puffed but created very little apart from one shot straight down Wildsmith's throat (only shot on target?).  A good point and looking forward to a bit of a break, it has been exhausting month for the team and fans!

31 minutes ago, sage said:

Beers are good in the staggeringly good taproom. On one. 

Just about to try one myself!

Journey from hell but 5 hours later we made it. Hope everyone else is here safe and well. Enjoying a few beers and hoping it will all be worth it!

3 minutes ago, Carlin said:

Yeah sure.

Myself and family members always park in one of the following streets  less than 15 min walk to the ground:

PO4 0AS -  Heidelberg Road

PO4 0HU -  Bath Road

PO4 0JE  -Jubilee Road   

Me and family members have been parking here for night and day games for years without any issues. No permits required, we travel from about 8 miles outside the city anyway. These are long streets and safe to park. You'll find a space.

Lots of fans park on these streets but it does get very busy close to kick off so I would advise getting there as early as possible. I've never been unable to get a space for an afternoon or night game and I always arrive about 1 hr before kick off.

Please note these are one way streets so don't make the mistake of going the wrong way like some people do.

There's lot of other side streets too, I've never parked there but I'm sure they'd be absolutely fine. 

There is a big tesco outside the stadium but not sure of there parking rules.

Those 3 streets above have never failed me and provide a quick getaway after the game.

Hope that helps.

Much appreciated. Aiming to get down there a couple of hours before kick off, but much will depend on Friday afternoon traffic!

2 minutes ago, Carlin said:

Cool.  Safe journey.

They sell programmes outside the stadium yeah.

There are a few burger vans around yeah. There's a couple on Goldsmith Avenue, one at the end of the road on the corner close to the fratton end.

The closest burger van for you though will be right near the away end near your entrance. About 100 yards away.  From your entrance point at the away turnstiles, you don't walk east behind the away stand to it, instead you take a left to the west away from the stadium and you'll see it. Lots of good food there. 

Any recommendations for parking, ideally street parking not too far from the ground?

27 minutes ago, Ghost of Clough said:

What's that based on? Current capacity is 21,100 and you've spent the majority of the last 10 years averaging around 16k. 12/13 actually dropped to 12,232. Prior to promotion to the PL you were struggling to reach 14,000.

Average attendances above 18,000...
Since relegation from the PL in 2010: 18/19 (18,223) and 22/23 (18,240)
Since 1970 until promotion to the PL: 02/03 (18,934)

 

This is currently your best season season you were relegated, and you're averaging 86.4% of capacity. For comparison, that would be an average attendance of 29,043 in our stadium (official capacity). Since our relegation in 2008, we've averaged more than 29,043 on four occasions (29,042 once too). 
Pride Park is the right size for us, just like Fratton Park is the right size for you.

I have to disagree. Like us they have been through tough times (admin a couple of times) spending a lot of time in the bottom two divisions over the years but still getting decent crowds. I would put their potential fan base on par with Southampton and like the saints and us, creating extra capacity, be it a new ground or improving facilities at Fratton Park would I'm sure attract more fans, though of course what they do on the pitch will have a bearing on attendances. Proper traditional club with lots of history, looking forward to visiting Fratton Park tomorrow.

22 minutes ago, Foreveram said:

Looks like they’ve closed the MEL block again with no tickets sold in it and 80 left in the other blocks. So about 1,200 sold.

Not bad for a Friday night game on Sky after all the travelling fans have had to do this month.

Looks to be nearly 7k sold in the home end. Only about 50 left in the sections that are open for sale in the east stand so it should be quite cosy and I imagine might not be a bad atmosphere (pretend its an away game!).  Wish I could be there but with a car that is playing up, I can't take the risk of 120 mile round trip. Just hoping everything is sorted, so I can get to Portsmouth on Friday!

13 minutes ago, Topram said:

About 200 available online still 

Look like some of the end block tickets have just been released (MEL).  Hard to tell how many have been sold as numbers remaining keep going up and down. Probably around 1200?

1 hour ago, Old Spalding Ram said:

Pinched from the Torquay forum regards Saturdays 5-1 home defeat against Chesterfield.

 

Open your eyes people, Torquay United are in a serious relegation battle because of one man, Gary Johnson. I expect the owner to sack Johnson after the Derby game next Tuesday.

 

……………no pressure there then!??

Their local paper seem to think that playing in front of a crowd 20,000 should lift Torquay. Think they might be in for a shock! Quick tot up shows we have sold about 6K plus whatever Torquay bring (500?).

4 hours ago, WestLondonRam said:

That's me 2 more tickets 4 in a row in 2 weeks. Don't think my voice will take much more... 

Were you with the London Branch Supporters Club at Liverpool?  My seat was amongst them and a nice friendly bunch they were too. Strange to hear a mixture of London and scouse accents most of the evening.

We'll do well to get anywhere near 10k and I am not sure there are even that many tickets available for sale in the east and south stands. Think it will be around 5-6k.