Bristol Rovers game

[Foley]

I have just realised that the Rivers game is all ticket and is kicking off at 1 O Clock on Saturday.
Stupid time for a kick off ....

 

[TailsWeWin]

The muppets will be out and about, so a sensible time to start.

 

[Gary Baldi]

I hear the old blokes at the back have their SSU tickets sorted and have the lozenges ready to give their critique to the manager

 

[Oufcrealist]

I have just realised that the Rivers game is all ticket and is kicking off at 1 O Clock on Saturday.
Stupid time for a kick off ....

Agree. Stupid time.
Glad you posted this, I didn't know!!

 

[Berliner]

On a slightly random note...ever noticed how the CEO of Dynamo Dresden and Sam the Eagle are never seen in the same room at the same time?

 

[akilham]

I have just realised that the Rivers game is all ticket and is kicking off at 1 O Clock on Saturday.
Stupid time for a kick off ....

So. Why is it a 1PM kick off?

 

[makv]

So. Why is it a 1PM kick off?

TVP

 

[Oldham]

Blooming hooligans!

 

[Sarge]

Early kick off to allow various divisions of TVP to play with their 'crowd control toys' ...especially the new ones that Santa Stansfeld sanctioned? ...... it seems TVP are looking forward to try herding our visitors from NW Brizzle, collectively aka Gas which is 'a substance or matter in a state in which it will expand freely to fill the whole of a container, having no fixed shape ' ..... herding cats may be a simpler option?

Early pre match buffet at The 'bird will no doubt be interrupted and disturbed by some of TVPs 'units' in the name of 'crowd safety' ( and checking out some of chefs quince specials on the quiet too? )

Funny old game football sure is! ...Doncaster away their SLO went more than the extra mile to ensure visiting supporters recieved a genuine welcome and felt valued last Saturday, wheras THIS saturday ALL football supporters intending going to watch a match in the same league are inconvenienced by having the kick off time moved from 3pm to1pm, and supporters of both OUFC & Brizzle Rovers are likely to be treated like something thats been stepped in. I know of 5 ST holders who have family members in Bristol, who, in the main are Rovers fans, yet members of the same family are not permitted to go to and watch the match together in Oxford. OUFC Family Club? yeah right!

 

[Northstandboy]

I've heard they plan to drink in the B Bird!

 

[Sarge]

I've heard they plan to drink in the B Bird!

Gas or TVP ?

 

[YellowShark]

Gas or TVP ?

Both.

We can all have civilised pre-match drink or two, and enjoy the game in a spirit of friendly rivalry. Just as long as none of the TVP horses start getting out of order.

 

[NottsYellow]

Not only is the early kick off time totally inconvenient, but the all ticket thing is bizarre in todays world of online ticket system. So an Oxford fan with a track record of attending home games on the online system, can't turn up an hour before kick off and get a ticket when there are 4,000 empty seats or a season ticket holder can't take a guest along at the last minute. I estimate this effect the crowd by at least 1,000, reduced gate receipts of £20k.
This is all because some youngsters had a "to do" on Gloucester Road after the Bristol Rovers game.
I feel the club have given in too easily on this one.

 

[Sarge]

Not only is the early kick off time totally inconvenient, but the all ticket thing is bizarre in todays world of online ticket system. So an Oxford fan with a track record of attending home games on the online system, can't turn up an hour before kick off and get a ticket when there are 4,000 empty seats or a season ticket holder can't take a guest along at the last minute. I estimate this effect the crowd by at least 1,000, reduced gate receipts of £20k.
This is all because some youngsters had a "to do" on Gloucester Road after the Bristol Rovers game.
I feel the club have given in too easily on this one.

well said @NottsYellow

 

[bicesterox]

Most involved on Gloucester Road didnt even go to the game that day, stayed in the pub.
Idiots

 

[Banbury2018]

Not only is the early kick off time totally inconvenient, but the all ticket thing is bizarre in todays world of online ticket system. So an Oxford fan with a track record of attending home games on the online system, can't turn up an hour before kick off and get a ticket when there are 4,000 empty seats or a season ticket holder can't take a guest along at the last minute. I estimate this effect the crowd by at least 1,000, reduced gate receipts of £20k.
This is all because some youngsters had a "to do" on Gloucester Road after the Bristol Rovers game.
I feel the club have given in too easily on this one.

Whilst I agree 100% with you I think in today’s modern day football laws( different to the rest of society) the club probably had little say on tickets.

 

[Village-Yellow]

Unfortunately there are some morons who have no interest in the football but who are intent on spoiling it for others..

There is a part of me that wishes TVP would just stay away, to prove the point.

Problem is, once it all kicks off (and it would) they would then be accused of a complete lack of presence and control and be held to blame for any trouble anyway.... (I’m sure someone on here could find past comments/threads about a lack of policing at certain games)

Either way, TVP will be in the wrong.

When people can’t behave themselves they spoil it for others but generally appear to be blameless because of the go to stance .. Blame TVP.

I’m not a copper and have no friends in plod but I do get mightily pissed off when it is always TVP to blame for any trouble whilst these morons are apparently blameless little angels.

Do me a favour... we don’t want them in the game, they let the club down and they spoil it for others.

 

[ZeroTheHero]

This is all because some youngsters had a "to do" on Gloucester Road after the Bristol Rovers game.

If the early kick off and restricted ticket sales have been caused by this (therefore losing the club apparently badly needed cash), perhaps the little idiots who were involved could go and 'support' another team?

 

[tim lane]

Unfortunately there are some morons who have no interest in the football but who are intent on spoiling it for others..

There is a part of me that wishes TVP would just stay away, to prove the point.

Problem is, once it all kicks off (and it would) they would then be accused of a complete lack of presence and control and be held to blame for any trouble anyway.... (I’m sure someone on here could find past comments/threads about a lack of policing at certain games)

Either way, TVP will be in the wrong.

When people can’t behave themselves they spoil it for others but generally appear to be blameless because of the go to stance .. Blame TVP.

I’m not a copper and have no friends in plod but I do get mightily pissed off when it is always TVP to blame for any trouble whilst these morons are apparently blameless little angels.

Do me a favour... we don’t want them in the game, they let the club down and they spoil it for others.

Well said, I couldn't agree more. There are some on this Forum who take every opportunity to blame TVP for what happens on match days, whether justified or not. Pathetic!

 

[West Oxon U’s]

https://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/news/2018/december/ticket-update-oxford-sold-ot/

Bristol Rovers have sold out their allocation.

 

[YellowShark]

https://www.bristolrovers.co.uk/news/2018/december/ticket-update-oxford-sold-ot/

Bristol Rovers have sold out their allocation.

1400's not a lot is it?

 

[NottsYellow]

1400's not a lot is it?

That is about 500 too much. At their place, they give away fans about 750 terrace tickets and 200 pokey seats.
They could easily rejig their ground ie seats behind the goal to give away supporters more. As they can't be bothered to provide away fans with proper facilities and a decent number of tickets then they should be treated like wise when they go away.

 

[Sarge]

That is about 500 too much. At their place, they give away fans about 750 terrace tickets and 200 pokey seats.
They could easily rejig their ground ie seats behind the goal to give away supporters more. As they can't be bothered to provide away fans with proper facilities and a decent number of tickets then they should be treated like wise when they go away.

Agree with that overview re away ticket allocation on a kind of like for like basis @NottsYellow .... sadly there are FA/ EFL rules n regs regarding a minimum percentage of total allocation for away tickets based on the capacity of the host stadium

Despite what SHOULD have been learned (if not before, certainly on the day) at the total n utter bollox debacle of allowing Orient ( now non league Orient ) travelling support to have the ENTIRE north stand at a certain last game of a season some years back.... subsequently, since which, the only restrictions I can think of have been to Scum & Wycombe, wheras the likes of fuckin Pompey, looton, Gass etc have, due to nothing more than greed by several OUFC owners , been allocated more than the required minimum amount of tickets for recent visits.

Currently IF our owner was to actually ANSWER question awaiting answers, ...and OUFC sides didnt (*like yesterday) get mugged the way they tend to in front of a larger than usual home attendance, plus OUFC actually told TVP to do one instead of agreeing to 'request' to have an early kick off so they (TVP) can intimidate ALL football supporters going to the match, there would be perhaps more home supporters going to home games thus negating OUFC need to cash in on additional away supporters? There again, if our owner actually provided answers to questions already asked just for starters that would be a move in the right direction Id thinkl

 

[Village-Yellow]

With all due respect Sarge, I can’t recall it ever being a problem filling the ground against Swindon despite a heavier police presence or change in ko time.

Lack of fans is mostly to do with quality of football and opposition imho.

For what it’s worth, I can’t ever recall being intimidated by TVP at high presence games so to say ALL fans are intimidated is questionable.

 

[Oldham]

That is about 500 too much. At their place, they give away fans about 750 terrace tickets and 200 pokey seats.
They could easily rejig their ground ie seats behind the goal to give away supporters more. As they can't be bothered to provide away fans with proper facilities and a decent number of tickets then they should be treated like wise when they go away.

Makes you want to stay in the pub all game don’t it ?

 

[Sarge]

With all due respect Sarge, I can’t recall it ever being a problem filling the ground against Swindon despite a heavier police presence or change in ko time.

Lack of fans is mostly to do with quality of football and opposition imho.

For what it’s worth, I can’t ever recall being intimidated by TVP at high presence games so to say ALL fans are intimidated is questionable.

fair comment @MC Yellow .... Ive a few acquaintances who are occasionals at home games...from experience previously, none of them are going to saturdays match with their young uns, entirely due to bad experiences at matches in the past where our local neighborhood bobbys have frightened the life out of youngsters with their 'robust' approach to policing football crowds. ( special mention to the clown in the mounted division whos preference tends to be using his horse as a weapon to intimidate ordinary people, as he rides through them brandishing an extended riot stick while braying loudly, hey, hey hey as he swings said stick in the direction of anyone and everyone), ...to be fair, the mounted officer in question isnt biased, he appears to hate 'everyone' equally!!!!

I did say in my post that Sw*nd*n (Scum) & Wycombe are limited to the required minimum with no extra tickets offered to their away support...yet Pompy, Gass, Looton etc it appears always get issued with 500 or more (?) additional tickets for their visits., along with earlier than it should be kick off times etc

In general the more numbers TVP have on display, the more volatile the policing tends to be, usually but not definitively
the worst excesses tend to be post match where most football supporters get wrongly tarred with the same brush by TVP, as those very few looking for a scrap with their visiting counterparts of a similar outlo0ok


contrast the siege mentality surrounding Gas visit this coming saturday , with its rearranged, early kick off, warnings issued to pub licensees/ managers, with the welcoming aura at Doncaster saturday last... that was the point I was (probably badly) trying to make

 

[Deleted member 462]

fair comment @MC Yellow .... Ive a few acquaintances who are occasionals at home games...from experience previously, none of them are going to saturdays match with their young uns, entirely due to bad experiences at matches in the paqst where our local neighborhood bobbys have frightened the life outof youngsters with their 'robust' approach to policing football crowds.

I did say in my post that Sw*nd*n (Scum) & Wycombe are limited to the required minimum with no extra tickets offered to their away support...yet Pompy, Gass, Looton etc it appears always get issued additional tickets for their visits., along with earlier than it should be kick off times etc

In general the more numbers TVP have on display, the more volatile the policing tends to be, usually but not definatively post match

contrast the siege mentality surrounding Gas visit this coming saturday , rearranged, early kick off, warnings issued to pub licensees/ managers, with the welcoming aura at doncaster saturday last... that was the point I was (probably badly) trying to make

It was the club that requested kick off moved not tvp.

 

[Sarge]

It was the club that requested kick off moved not tvp.

cheers for the info @Dave T .... do you know why this wasnt more widely known ? And any idea as to why the club requested an early kick off?
or for that matter exactly WHO it was at OUFC that made the call to move the kick off from 3pm to 1am?

if it was a 3pm kick oiff I could just about make the game, with a 1pm kick-off Ive got no chance of getting to Oxford in time for this coming Saturdays game

 

[Deleted member 462]

cheers for the info @Dave T .... do you know why this wasnt more widely known ? And any idea as to why the club requested an early kick off?
or for that matter exactly WHO it was at OUFC that made the call to move the kick off from 3pm to 1am?

if it was a 3pm kick oiff I could just about make the game, with a 1pm kick-off Ive got no chance of getting to Oxford in time for this coming Saturdays game

I don’t I’m afraid , although Im guessing it wasn’t just to stop you going [emoji6]. It was requested before the trouble in Bristol so nothing to do with that. We are currently working with tvp to try and rebuild a better relationship between fans and police. And that is very much from both sides .

 

[Oldham]

cheers for the info @Dave T .... do you know why this wasnt more widely known ? And any idea as to why the club requested an early kick off?
or for that matter exactly WHO it was at OUFC that made the call to move the kick off from 3pm to 1am?

if it was a 3pm kick oiff I could just about make the game, with a 1pm kick-off Ive got no chance of getting to Oxford in time for this coming Saturdays game

It’s fine @Sarge, a bit of argy bargy isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. No need to make excuses about kick off time etc. Don’t feel bad about it mate, we all still love you ?