Wendies v Town Championship Play-offs 2nd Leg

**St Charles Owl** · (This post was last modified: 19-05-2017, 20:26 by St Charles Owl.)

(19-05-2017, 19:22)theo_luddite Wrote: Sheffield Wednesday1
Steven Fletcher (51')

Huddersfield Town1
Tom Lees (og 73')

Sky Bet Championship Play-off
Attendance: 32,625
Venue: Hillsborough Stadium

Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England has been the home ground of Sheffield Wednesday F.C. since opening in 1899. Wikipedia
Address: Sheffield S6 1SW
Capacity: 39,732

Now I know we only got 2,000 out of potentially 3,700 tickets in the upper layer and the tellybox men would have had cameras perched on a few seats but didn't I read this was a 38,000 sellout? I thought the fancy dress code of looking like a seat cover seemed to extend a bit further than the blue and white stripes they kindly put in front of the Town fans

This has been an ongoing argument between the club and the Safety Advisory Committee all season. Currently they restrict the capacity for all home games (I believe its around 34,000 but you only had 2000 seats in a stand that holds 3700 as agreed by the 4 clubs in the playoffs) and leave huge amounts of seats either as segregation or for other strange reasons!! Every seat that the club was allowed to sell was sold!! For instance there are some seats on the Kop that have a restricted view due to the roof pillars, the club doesn't sell those tickets on advice, the away end is severely restricted as you saw and then there are a couple of blocks of seats in the two side stands near the away end that are not allowed to be sold for segregation reasons. Its madness for games like this but the club has to follow their advice!! Our Chairman has stated that he is not pushing this at the moment with them but has said he is getting tired of it and will start to try to find solutions to stop this excessive segregation in particular.

If you did read this was a 38,000 sellout then that wasn't from the club, we haven't been able to get to that number all season. It was a sell out, as was the Fulham game before it, yet there were nearly 2000 more at the Fulham game, presumably that is the extra away tickets for that game compared to yours.

theo_luddite · (This post was last modified: 19-05-2017, 20:55 by theo_luddite.)

Yeh I know about us in The Upper Tier Subbuteo Stand SCO but you had big lumps of empty seats that were nowhere near segregated or anything else closely related to it in the Kop and the posh new stand you built for the 1966 World Cup what hasn't got any pillars, being amongst the first of proper cantilever jobbies that were built in the 60's. I saw 'em frequently on the tellybox and/or my laptop as I had a Now TV card and Chromecasted it over to my tellybox). Good to know we aren't the only one's with a stadium (ahem) Safety Officer with his head and his arse still stuck in the 80's.

I stands correction SCO, just checked on my source (Worcestershire or HP, I don't care) and my occassional slysdexia ikcked in), it says 33,800 - sorry. Then again it might have been a beverage or two - http://www.examiner.co.uk/sport/football...l-13015128

1200 still missing in action - ferkin' prawn sandwich mob given free tickets and still don't turn up. Pah!!

Anyway - are 2nd hand Sheffield to London train tickets much cheaper than £30 Wolvo to London off peak returns on Bank Holiday Monday/Weekend at the moment? (That's Chiltern Line in case anyone thinks Virgin have some cheap offer on by the way).

WakeyTerrier · 20-05-2017, 10:31

I had a really crap seat, 2nd row from the back about 10 in from the side with a a cracking view of the goal...the only problem was I had a massive supporting pillar right in the middle of the goal. These seats should be sold as restricted view and what made things worse is they blocked off the 1st 10 rows which all had a perfectly good view

theo_luddite · 20-05-2017, 10:37

I had a similar view at Wendies the last time I was there Wakey. It's claimed that if England had got one of the World Cups that Sceptic's corrupt crew handed out elsewhere they'd have put a third level on it. What? More pillars? http://www.footballgroundguide.com/leagu...velopments

**Lord Snooty** · (This post was last modified: 20-01-2024, 22:26 by Lord Snooty.)

theo_luddite · 20-05-2017, 17:12

They are claims that Sadfud v Meewaw today could be a record Wembley crowd for a League 1 playoff. Really? I know a lot of bandwagon jumpers that threw their t-shirts out of the pram at Old Trafford didn't go to Wembley but I'm sure between us and The Blunts we did a better job of filling the lower tiers than I'm seeing today.

WakeyTerrier · 20-05-2017, 17:16

Bradford sold 24k and Meeeeeewaaaawwww 27k

theo_luddite · (This post was last modified: 20-05-2017, 18:02 by theo_luddite.)

We had 52,100 between us. The record attendance for a League One Play-off final at Wembley was the 1999 final, when Manchester City played Gillingham and the attendance stood at 76,935. So they ain't close at either incarnation of Wemberlee.

Having a giggle at some of the comments on 606 Wakey. Like the bit where Waltzing suggests buying a Now TV box to Darn. Stream it down a VPN, yeh OK. Paying for the stream with an Aussie credit card might just give the game away. Doh

Ood a thunk Gillingham had so many bandwagon jumpers?

I Chromecast Town's match to my Tellybox from my laptop in midweek. It were a tad jumpy. I've stuck an HDMI cable in today, purrfick, apart from Meewaw just scoring. Not that I like Sadfud either but Yorksha comes first on all occasions but one.

OK, we need to get out of this place. Meewaw again next season, nooooooooooooh!