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Post by Mediolanum Shrew on May 5, 2005 12:21:24 GMT 1
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Post by youngestshrew on May 5, 2005 15:07:16 GMT 1
Does this mean that people from lets say london but support town wont be able to get in?
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Post by telfordSHREWS on May 5, 2005 15:24:22 GMT 1
Wear your colours would also be a good start
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Post by Shifnalshrew on May 5, 2005 17:30:22 GMT 1
last minute fu****g nonsense from town as usual deal with the issue don't p*ss your own supporters off Will they ever learn ?
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Post by bristol loggerheads on May 5, 2005 18:11:28 GMT 1
It's OK if you're a Sc***horpe exile then.
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Post by bigfateater on May 5, 2005 18:57:46 GMT 1
last minute fu****g nonsense from town as usual
deal with the issue don't p*ss your own supporters off
Totally agree. If the board are hoping for a large crowd for the last game of the season then telling fans they won't get in without i.d. seems a strange way of getting the fans on board
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Post by TonyKellysBelly on May 5, 2005 19:07:47 GMT 1
What's the alternative...make it all ticket which would probably stop a fair number of town fans attending.
Wear town colours, show your ID and what's the problem.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2005 19:13:14 GMT 1
What's the alternative...make it all ticket which would probably stop a fair number of town fans attending. Wear town colours, show your ID and what's the problem. The alternative was make it all ticket 2 weeks ago and with a perfectly good ticketing procedure in place there would have been no problem. Many fans don't wear Town colours or want to, and how are people meant to know about this ridiculous ID lark? Shambles.
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Post by jamo on May 5, 2005 19:27:12 GMT 1
If i didn't know better i would strongly suspect the hand of our previous secretary being behind this almighty cock up.
I don't have any club colours but i have a season ticket so will get in, how do others who don't, gain access.
Also i was intending on bringing two ex colleagues from Birmingham with me, neither of them Town fans but very much looking forward to their first visit to the meadow. Now i have to ring them up and tell them not to bother.
It's embarrassing
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Post by gainsparkshrew on May 5, 2005 19:32:43 GMT 1
Totally agree with the posts above,does our club live in the stoneage? Have they only just realised,48 hours before kick off !!the consequences of Saturdays result to Sc***horpe i.e Champions,promoted or play offs !!!
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Post by SeanBroseley on May 5, 2005 19:36:51 GMT 1
What needs to be ensured is that no ordinary Shrewsbury Town fan his denied entry to the game on Saturday. And I expect the officials of the football club to ensure that that is the case.
What I fear is that this will be carried out in a way that proves the least inconvenience to the people administering it - including the police.
By ID surely they are not talking about proof of address, because that is not proof of an allegiance to our Club.
I expect season ticket holders, priority card holders super blues members, members of official supporters club, people who can produce a programme from a previous home game and people who can be vouched for by people who can do any of the above to be let in without question.
This is also an important game for us, there's the small matter of a young man playing his last game for our club and a few other lads who have been very important to us over the last 2 years who may be playing their last game - not least being our excellent club captain, the player who scored the winning goal to get us back into the Football League and the keeper who saved those penalties in two penalty shoot-outs and who has been excellent for most of this season.
So I expect the stance from the people who currently run our club to be one that assists us in getting into the ground to pay respects to these important people. Anything less than this will not be good enough.
Shades of the Stafford Rangers' game nonsense if we're not careful.
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Post by Sam on May 5, 2005 19:52:42 GMT 1
Im a 15 year old lad and so dont pay bills at home. i go to most home games. Will a photocopy of my passport be ok to get in. Thanks in anticipation.
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Post by Guest on May 5, 2005 20:24:27 GMT 1
Wear town colours, show your ID and what's the problem. No Town colours and not a resident of Shropshire, there's the problem!
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Post by Browny on May 5, 2005 22:39:21 GMT 1
I`m a little annoyed to say the least i was really looking forward to this weekend ( Not Living in Shrewsbury but with a few friends there ) To going to the match with a couple of mates ( One of which never misses a Town match home or away ) having a few lagers and seeing some old friends and faces.
Now it seems i can`t .
If it had been made all ticket one of my mates, me old man could of got a ticket no probs . I could of even ordered them myself ( perhaps ) if we had decent prior notice, but no i`ll be watching the game on Ceefax in the pub instead it seems.
No doubt i`ll make the best of it but thats not the point . What if i had promised someone that i would take them to the game . I`d have to turn around and say "oh Sorry " i`d look and feel a complete tool .
It`s not good enough simple as that i could wear a Town shirt if i wanted ( up until a few years ago i could of shown quite legal documentation showing that my car was insured and i lived in Salop . SY post code a lot cheaper than a B one . At my parents address . Even though my car AT THE TIME spent little time in the district )
So because my gas bill has a Birmingham address i can`t go . As i say i probably could if i wanted . Just like any Scunny fan who desperatly wanted too . I`ll try on Saturday but if i get any questions about my reason for going to watch a game of football with close friends from any authority i`m not going to hang around . Why should i because of bad organisation
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Post by wiganshrew2 on May 5, 2005 22:50:36 GMT 1
I'm O.K. - I've got my SuperBlues membership card and a letter from STFC about updating my details- which refers to me as a "member"- but what what about my grand-daughter? Will she be O.K. with me to verify that she is a Town supporter? I can't go without her- she's really "hooked" now and loves Shrewsbury Town F.C. as much as I do.
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Post by Browny on May 5, 2005 23:10:15 GMT 1
Exactly
It`s ok for me just having a drink with mates it`s as good as anything . Just shrug and disagree .
But haven taken my young cousin to game and witnessing a defeat was bad enough . He wasn`t happy .
Knowing full well you could well be in the same situation ( Albeit different reletatives) for not even possibly getting though the gates . Well what can you say
Obvoiusly i hope both you and your Granddaughter get to enjoy the game , but what a state of affairs
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Post by Guest on May 6, 2005 8:20:23 GMT 1
I agree that this is a total shambles and yet again makes the club look very amateurish, but I think people are going a little over the top - I think this is probably a scare tactic to stop the sc***horpe fans without tickets coming - they are not going to turn away hundreds of paying customers at the gate, and I think the only way you would be turned away is if you turn up looking like a thug and with a sc***horpe accent.
I doubt whether there would be any trouble anyway, we have nothing to play for, there is no rivallry and hopefully it will be a party atmosphere for everyone.
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Post by tom_leather on May 6, 2005 8:42:46 GMT 1
As Whitters said, it doesn't seem like anyone will be denied entry, just 'slowed down' whatever this means It's a bit of a hassle but it seems to me all you have to do is turn up in plenty of time?
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Post by grinfish on May 6, 2005 8:59:18 GMT 1
I'm guessing most turnstiles open with ID, a couple for no ID (possibly with searches), a bit like Barnet at Home IIRC (to make sure ST holders etc got in on priority).
Bring ID or expect to Queue like it was the gate to Mossy's Penalty Heaven all over again....
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Post by Mediolanum Shrew on May 6, 2005 9:24:31 GMT 1
The alternative was make it all ticket 2 weeks ago and with a perfectly good ticketing procedure in place there would have been no problem. Many fans don't wear Town colours or want to, and how are people meant to know about this ridiculous ID lark? Shambles. Thing is though Gareth, if they had made it all ticket you know that people would have been on here saying, 'why's it all ticket'.
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Post by Mediolanum Shrew on May 6, 2005 9:31:32 GMT 1
If i didn't know better i would strongly suspect the hand of our previous secretary being behind this almighty cock up. I don't have any club colours but i have a season ticket so will get in, how do others who don't, gain access. Also i was intending on bringing two ex colleagues from Birmingham with me, neither of them Town fans but very much looking forward to their first visit to the meadow. Now i have to ring them up and tell them not to bother. It's embarrassing Why tell em not to bother? Read what the press statement says. Bringing Id will help you get in the ground quicker. So your mates come from Brum, the police and stewards arent going to turn them away are they! Just be sensible about this. Two weeks ago, I doubt whether Scunny would have brought more than a 1000. Circumstances have changed very quickly. And how can you blame the football club for that? Like I said earlier if Town had made it all ticket in everyone would have been on here moaning. What the flip has Malcom Starkey got to do with it? Come on guys, like I said I know its a pain, but surely if it helps ensure safety on the day whats the problem. Like I said if we all love this football club as much as we say we do, we should be willing to help out on this occasion, surely? ?
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2005 9:33:55 GMT 1
Thing is though Gareth, if they had made it all ticket you know that people would have been on here saying, 'why's it all ticket'. I don't think many would have Ade. STFC get all-ticket games right. There ain't no doubt about that in my view. And what you would have is an entirely defendable decision, a guaranteed number of people in the stadium, a massively reduced chance of Sc***horpe fans in the home end (only tiny numbers of Swansea fans bought tickets for the Shrews end), and the people who splashed out on priority cards able to purchase a ticket for this important game. STFC often tell us 'the police don't like it all ticket' but this is in cases where there is no danger of capacity being reached - Telford and Hereford this season. Sc***horpe sold 2,000 tickets, we have close to 1500 season ticket holders. Almost 4,000 STFC fans turned up to a nothing game agains Notts County 2 weeks ago. Add those sums up (remembering there are around 1000 fans who fit into two categories) and you only need a couple of hundred more Scunny fans and a thousand more Salop fans to reach capacity. I hope they're ready at the Meadow for this one.
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Post by El Huracán!!!! on May 6, 2005 9:37:54 GMT 1
Why tell em not to bother? Read what the press statement says. Bringing Id will help you get in the ground quicker. So your mates come from Brum, the police and stewards arent going to turn them away are they! Just be sensible about this. Two weeks ago, I doubt whether Scunny would have brought more than a 1000. Circumstances have changed very quickly. And how can you blame the football club for that? Like I said earlier if Town had made it all ticket in everyone would have been on here moaning. What the flip has Malcom Starkey got to do with it? Come on guys, like I said I know its a pain, but surely if it helps ensure safety on the day whats the problem. Like I said if we all love this football club as much as we say we do, we should be willing to help out on this occasion, surely? ? Ade it does seem with every passing post that you underlining point is The club is always right Blue and Amber majority opinian is normally wrong? ? If it was all ticket there would have been very few complints and you know it!!!
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Post by SeanBroseley on May 6, 2005 9:40:16 GMT 1
Read what the press statement says. Bringing Id will help you get in the ground quicker. So your mates come from Brum, the police and stewards arent going to turn them away are they! Just be sensible about this. No Ade, the club and police need to be sensible about this. The IDs that are not club related that are being asked for will not address the issue of his this person a Shrewsbury Town fan. So the people at the gates will not have to make a judgement about whether someone is a Sc***horpe fan or a Shrewsbury fan. That leaves uncertainty in the minds of people travelling from out of Town. That uncertainty MUST be taken away. You're saying that the people from Birmingham are not going to be turned away in the situation as described - If that is the case then that needs to be on the Official website.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2005 9:40:40 GMT 1
Two weeks ago, I doubt whether Scunny would have brought more than a 1000. Circumstances have changed very quickly. And how can you blame the football club for that? Ade 2 weeks ago the situation was: "Coca-Cola Football League Two - Updated 23/04/2005 HOME AWAY Pos Name P W D L F A W D L F A GD PTS 1 Yeovil Town 44 15 4 3 54 28 8 4 10 32 37 +21 77 2 Southend 44 13 5 4 31 13 9 6 7 33 31 +20 77 3 Sc***horpe 44 15 5 2 39 16 6 8 8 26 26 +23 76 4 Swansea City 44 14 5 3 35 16 8 3 11 25 27 +17 74 5 Macclesfield 44 14 3 5 38 24 7 6 9 21 22 +13 72" It was guaranteed then that Sc***horpe would come here either needing a victory for the championship having sealed promotion, or a victory to secure automatic promotion.
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Post by Mediolanum Shrew on May 6, 2005 9:45:04 GMT 1
Yeah, so they make it all ticket because Scunny say they are bringing 2000. So what else can the club do.
Sorry if it seems that I'm sideing with the club on this, but I just think some of the comments about this are a little over the top. It's one game. If this was happening every home game I'd be the first to have a pop. Yes its an inconvenience but come on everyone for god sake. You will get in, just help the club out. People on here say that want to help the club, well here's your chance!
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Post by ianwhit on May 6, 2005 9:52:41 GMT 1
sc***horpe about 300+ to the game at cambridge earlier in the season, a short localish game.
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Post by Deleted on May 6, 2005 9:59:41 GMT 1
sc***horpe about 300+ to the game at cambridge earlier in the season, a short localish game. And 1200 to Rochdale - a slightly shorter trip than Shrewsbury, but for a game bowhere near as significant as tomorrow. Anyhoo, the problem here is surely not with the official amount of Sc***horpe fans travelling? We know for a fact there will be 2000. The problem is with any undesirables who try to get into the STFC areas and any Town fans who are unable to get in. PS Has this news been on the Radio, in the Shrop Star and in the Chronicle? (not being flippant, but really don't know )
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Post by blueandamber on May 6, 2005 11:40:39 GMT 1
Aren't these measures being done to make sure we are safe?
It might slow down people getting into the ground, but at least we'll all be safe and able to view the game without any fights breaking out.
between home and away supporters anyway.
Like Ade says, it is a one off.
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Post by rob on May 6, 2005 16:11:13 GMT 1
REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU HAVE A GASBILL, MEMEBERSHIP CARD WHATEVER,
IF YOU WANT TO GO TO THE GAME AND ARE IN SHREWSBURY GO!
iAN WHITEFIELD HAS ALREADY SAID PEOPLE WHO DONT NECESSARILY HAVE GASBILLS WILL NOT BE AUTOMATICALLY STOPPED FROM ENTERING THE GROUND
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