Bits & Bobs

[Twenty Eight]

Why would you think this is just down to money ?
Shrewsbury are in free fall.
Destined for league two and no money.
Gillingham a better bet for Ainsworth.
At least Gillingham had the balls to get shut and identify who they wanted and went for him.

[Crown Grounder]

Originally Posted by Twenty Eight

Why would you think this is just down to money ?
Shrewsbury are in free fall.
Destined for league two and no money.
Gillingham a better bet for Ainsworth.
At least Gillingham had the balls to get shut and identify who they wanted and went for him.

Just my opinion Twenty Eight. As you point out Gillingham a better bet with new American owners. And yes they had the gumption to change their manager, 5 times so far in the last two seasons, good work there. Ainsworth has experience higher up the football pyramid......I'll watch his progress with interest....

[NORTHERNSOUL]

Anyone any idea why Carlisle are only getting just over 1000 tickets for the game in 3 weeks when Bradford had over 2500 at the weekend

Over to you Mr T perhaps ?

[Exile on Spencer St]

Originally Posted by NORTHERNSOUL

Anyone any idea why Carlisle are only getting just over 1000 tickets for the game in 3 weeks when Bradford had over 2500 at the weekend ?

Maybe that’s all they asked for?

[mab]

Carlisle utd are below Stanley and fighting to stay up at the expense of Stanley... Why give them that extra man with a large away following and vocal at that ..

[NORTHERNSOUL]

Originally Posted by mab

Carlisle utd are below Stanley and fighting to stay up at the expense of Stanley... Why give them that extra man with a large away following and vocal at that ..

Not sure where you're getting the idea that they are "fighting" for anything from The truth is they have half a team who really dont give a **** about the club, the fans or even worse their own professional pride and just roll over at the first chance they get.

In fact id say its pretty certain they will already be mathematically beyond being able to catch Accrington by the time of the game and were it not for Stanley hitting this latest slump that position would have been achieved already.

Believe me if any Carlisle fans thought they were a threat to Stanley staying up they would be down here in their thousands, tickets or no tickets.

In fact if they were to win their next couple of games [ dont panic guys there is zero chance of that ] they could still do that creating a problem for Accy that didnt need to be there had they just played fair and given the same allocation to them as Bradford were given.

[Crown Grounder]

[QUOTE=NORTHERNSOUL;1281398]Anyone any idea why Carlisle are only getting just over 1000 tickets for the game in 3 weeks when Bradford had over 2500 at the weekend

I would think it's just operational NSoul. I wouldn't read anything into it. Would you expect Carlisle to sell 2500? With their present League position?......

[NORTHERNSOUL]

[QUOTE=Crown Grounder;1281440]

Originally Posted by NORTHERNSOUL

Anyone any idea why Carlisle are only getting just over 1000 tickets for the game in 3 weeks when Bradford had over 2500 at the weekend

I would think it's just operational NSoul. I wouldn't read anything into it. Would you expect Carlisle to sell 2500? With their present League position?......

Not sure what you mean by "operational" CG ?

Anybody can see from past allocations that the maximum is somewhere around the 2700 that Bradford has last week yet Carlisle are given not much more than a third of that with no explanation given as to why whatsoever and without any hint of an explanation from Stanley.

To be honest i expected better than this from Stanley, Andy Holt and the management team at the Wham. [ Carlisle are just saying it was a decision made at the Accrington end and theres nothing they can do about it ]

And to answer your question yes the 2700 would have sold easily [ unless you fancy trekking to Cheltenham for a dead rubber game ] it will be a lot of fans last chance to see their club away in the football league ] and for instance the 1750 that Morecambe gave [ the maximum they can offer ] for the game next week sold out on the first day of sale not going beyond the top priority level [Season ticket holders] and i would have thought the not letting the opposition fill the ground argument is much more relevant to them than to Accy dont forget this is a club who last season took over 4k to two away games [at Bolton and at Wigan] and over 3k to two more matches.

But to look on the bright side to see that Stanley are now doing so well financially that they can afford to turn down the 50k that the missing 1700 would have put into the coffers can only be good news.

[Exile on Spencer St]

Don’t let it get to you, Northernsoul, the extent to which the town’ inhabitants (and Council) support Stanley, and after last Tuesday’s performance, with 1,000 tickets the Cumbrians may well outnumber home fans.

[Crown Grounder]

By "operational reasons" Northern Soul I mean't comments we've seen earlier about selling tickets in the seated area for away fans on the far side BEFORE selling any of the standing area on the Coppice Terrace in the "Temporary Stand" (Club's Words). Are you saying that the 1000 tickets already allocated to Carlisle, have been sold? If so maybe more will be made available......that seems to be the normal process for clubs with large away followings. From a personal perspective I wouldn't allocate more and give Carlisle equal fan support advantage.....but that costs the club money and I understand why the Owner would want to maximise revenue......I'm not quite sure which club you actually support....you seem to be wearing a Carlisle Scarf at the moment....and if that's the case I doubt you would want Stanley Fans telling Carlisle United what it should be doing on match days? Maybe I'm wrong......no offence mean't....just my thoughts...