JoetheRam Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 A lot of season ticket holders do seem to have a little touch of self importance about them. "I paid £200 this year, I should get priority over someone who pay's £25 to attend one away game" blah blah blah. Money should be no issue, i've spent about £2000 in the last year watching Derby County, many will have spent a lot more, it shouldn't matter. For me priority should be: People who've been to the first 3 away games People who've been to 2/3 away games People who've been to 1/3 away games Memberships (which should only be allowed to be purchased before the start of the season) Season ticket holders General sale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsdubs Posted September 5, 2011 Share Posted September 5, 2011 If i rock up at 12 tomorrow what do you reckon my chances are? Otherwise i might just phone and waste some more cash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenportram Posted September 5, 2011 Author Share Posted September 5, 2011 If i rock up at 12 tomorrow what do you reckon my chances are? Otherwise i might just phone and waste some more cash I'd say phone, they were sold out by lunchtime last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therams69 Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Aprrox 1000 fans queuing already and that was at about 0800 according to my source! Best fans in East Midlands however you look at it! You would never see Forest or Leicester doing that and camping out at PPS overnight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenportram Posted September 6, 2011 Author Share Posted September 6, 2011 Aprrox 1000 fans queuing already and that was at about 0800 according to my source! Best fans in East Midlands however you look at it! You would never see Forest or Leicester doing that and camping out at PPS overnight! Drove past at 850, no queue outside but ticket office was packed. Only 670 available in person at the ticket office. Think I would have been queueing and online on my phone at the same time. Glad I got mine last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therams69 Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Drove past at 850, no queue outside but ticket office was packed. Only 670 available in person at the ticket office. Think I would have been queueing and online on my phone at the same time. Glad I got mine last week. They were queuing inside mate! West Stand! As far as the dugouts too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsdubs Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Got up early to buy one online, the online login system doesn't work. Going to have to quickfire on the phone at 10 at work :mad: If i can't get one a florist fan has offered to buy me one in the home end :eek: Would rather not to be honest! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenportram Posted September 6, 2011 Author Share Posted September 6, 2011 They were queuing inside mate! West Stand! As far as the dugouts too! Bloody hell, I'd definitely been online. Glad I paid for membership to save the hassle of queueing. Paid more for one game for me and the lad than a junior Season ticket though, must be crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davenportram Posted September 6, 2011 Author Share Posted September 6, 2011 Just gone to get legends tickets, won't let me in because of the forest queue. 15 minutes ago there were 100 left, not everyone in the queue will get a ticket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuespachRam Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Aprrox 1000 fans queuing already and that was at about 0800 according to my source! Best fans in East Midlands however you look at it! You would never see Forest or Leicester doing that and camping out at PPS overnight![/QUOTE] To be fair to Forest and Leicester fans, I would be very very very surprised if you found and Derby fans camping out at the pig sty or at the King Prawn stadium. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EastKentRam Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Aprrox 1000 fans queuing already and that was at about 0800 according to my source! Best fans in East Midlands however you look at it! You would never see Forest or Leicester doing that and camping out at PPS overnight! Forest and Leicester would take more than 900 to Watford first game of the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peachmyster Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 sold out on line now !!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeds Ram Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Forest and Leicester would take more than 900 to Watford first game of the season. but we were only given an allocation of 1,000 weren't we? and that was just after the London riots had took place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derby Loyal Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 There was a lot more than 100 spare seats at Watford, not convinced either Leicester or Notts Forest would have taken more though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuespachRam Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 There was a lot more than 100 spare seats at Watford, not convinced either Leicester or Notts Forest would have taken more though yes they would have done easily. Forest have a lot better away following than we do, and so do Leicester if you compare it to their home support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambitious Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 yes they would have done easily. Forest have a lot better away following than we do, and so do Leicester if you compare it to their home support. Our away following compared to our home following is possibly as bad as it gets in the football league, we really are not good travellers, I used to go a lot but more recently stick to the games that tickle my fancy so probably do between 5-10 a year, last season I think I only went to 5, quite poor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-JW- Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 I hate to say it but our support is the worst in E midlands. We were only allocated 1000 tickets at watford because we were not expected to sell more than that and we did not. Last year when forest played watford they sold 2195 tickets and we sold 1100. I go to 7 or 8 away games per year and love them, atmosphere is great and the fans are amazing but it would be even better if more fans went. Using F*rest as an example again last year they played Hull in September and had only won one game so far and completely filled the away end, thats about 3500-4000 tickets. That match was also on the TV and 5.20 pm kick off. Now we play cov this week at 5.20 and on the tele and we have won 4 out of 5 and its 50 mins down the road. How many tickets will we sell? Nowhere near 3500. People will use the excuse that its forest the week after so I will give this one a miss and go to the shitty ground instead. That just proves that they only care about the forest game and none of the other games which is not what i would call loyal support. I get really annoyed when people laud our fans because we sold out for forest in a couple of hours. Along with leicester its the only away game we sell out for. I just wish that more fans would show how loyal they really are and go to the less glamorous places like bristol, burnley, reading, Ipswich etc. Rant over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambitious Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 I hate to say it but our support is the worst in E midlands. We were only allocated 1000 tickets at watford because we were not expected to sell more than that and we did not. Last year when forest played watford they sold 2195 tickets and we sold 1100. I go to 7 or 8 away games per year and love them, atmosphere is great and the fans are amazing but it would be even better if more fans went. Using F*rest as an example again last year they played Hull in September and had only won one game so far and completely filled the away end, thats about 3500-4000 tickets. That match was also on the TV and 5.20 pm kick off. Now we play cov this week at 5.20 and on the tele and we have won 4 out of 5 and its 50 mins down the road. How many tickets will we sell? Nowhere near 3500. People will use the excuse that its forest the week after so I will give this one a miss and go to the shitty ground instead. That just proves that they only care about the forest game and none of the other games which is not what i would call loyal support. I get really annoyed when people laud our fans because we sold out for forest in a couple of hours. Along with leicester its the only away game we sell out for. I just wish that more fans would show how loyal they really are and go to the less glamorous places like bristol, burnley, reading, Ipswich etc. Rant over. As I said, we have the best support in the east midlands when it comes to sticking at home, anywhere outside the midlands and our fans just aren't interested and I don't blame them. As much as I love a good away day, a trip down to Watford just seems dull and pointless when I can listen to it at home and do other things, watch the highlights on ramsplayer or on the beeb later that day, also good to moan on here. When it comes to near away games or a 'bandwagon game' as I like to call them, for instance Barnsley away we took 8k which has got to be some sort of Championship record, although probably not then we are quite good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeds Ram Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Tickets are extremely expensive and so is travel, i normally get to around 5-6 away games a year, i can't do more than that as i have to pick and choose which ones due to money arrangements, next year i will be lucky if i can maintain a season ticket due to the cost and the fact that i will be at university. Our away support isn't great but not many teams in this league have good away support, forest, leeds can't comment on leicester as am not sure but they are the only ones which have really good away support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therams69 Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 To be honest I actually prefer it when we take less fans i.e Boro, Hull, any Tuesday night game....... There is more of an atmosphere than when we take 3300 to Leicester for example. We were an embarrassment with supporting the lads that day! Just my view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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