Question The North Bank and your thoughts?

[Up the Shrimpers]

Now 36 seats sold in the home areas of the North Bank for Halifax game...... mind you Halifax have sold just 1 away ticket so far, so I don't think we will be outnumbered.

Is the drummer chap going in the North or West on Saturday?

 

[sufc4life21]

Now 36 seats sold in the home areas of the North Bank for Halifax game...... mind you Halifax have sold just 1 away ticket so far, so I don't think we will be outnumbered.

Is the drummer chap going in the North or West on Saturday?

Surely that total is wrong. Halifax Surely won't bring 1 fan lol.

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

Surely that total is wrong. Halifax Surely won't bring 1 fan lol.

Yep just 1 away ticket sold, you can see the away block on the ticket site. (Don't look at the total on the ticket counter link on here as that is still showing incorrectly).

No rush to buy tickets though, so I expect they will have 80 to 100 on the day.

 

[shrimperjon]

Surely that total is wrong. Halifax Surely won't bring 1 fan lol.

Think they only took 12 to Braintree i read somewhere

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

Think they only took 12 to Braintree i read somewhere

Hmmmm maybe not 80 to 100 then.

 

[Smiffy]

With the club charging fans to switch (absolute joke by the way) and having to ring up or visit the ticket office to do so, the take up to switch is going to be tiny.

It needs to be FREE for season card holders to switch. The North Bank wasn't even an option at the start of the season. So why charge the fans to move?

You should be able to switch online.

The NW gate should be open and fans allowed to free roam between West and North Bank, should they wish. Like many other NL grounds. Even if that means giving a couple of stewards a clicker to monitor numbers in and out.

It should be unreserved seating in the NB, first come first served. Like many other NL grounds.

Until the NB is knocked down and rebuilt, hopefully as as large safe-standing stand. Then failure to do anything like the above and it will be a pointless exercise opening the North Bank. There's a number of fans that would like to go in there and create a better atmosphere at RH. But it has been made very difficult to do so. And I suspect most will therefore remain where they are currently.

 

[annie1954]

Surely that total is wrong. Halifax Surely won't bring 1 fan lol.

Maybe leaving it late with snow around plus just after Christmas many probably waiting for payday later in the month

 

[mattytheshrimper]

With the club charging fans to switch (absolute joke by the way) and having to ring up or visit the ticket office to do so, the take up to switch is going to be tiny.

It needs to be FREE for season card holders to switch. The North Bank wasn't even an option at the start of the season. So why charge the fans to move?

You should be able to switch online.

The NW gate should be open and fans allowed to free roam between West and North Bank, should they wish. Like many other NL grounds. Even if that means giving a couple of stewards a clicker to monitor numbers in and out.

It should be unreserved seating in the NB, first come first served. Like many other NL grounds.

Until the NB is knocked down and rebuilt, hopefully as as large safe-standing stand. Then failure to do anything like the above and it will be a pointless exercise opening the North Bank. There's a number of fans that would like to go in there and create a better atmosphere at RH. But it has been made very difficult to do so. And I suspect most will therefore remain where they are currently.

Couldn't agree more with every point! If this isn't going to be the case then may as well give up on the North idea. To be honest, its seems really silly to not do this from the very start. Just just shutting the gate in the North West corner. Makes you wonder who makes these decisions that are clearly just wrong.

 

[Shrimper83]

I'd switch if it was free to do so. It should be!

 

[Roger The Alien]

Halifax only sold 5 so far ….

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

Halifax only sold 5 so far ….

Nope they have still only sold the 1 ticket.
Don't go by the counter thing it's still wrong.

 

[HertfordshireBlue]

Watching the Southport highlights, the mic certainly picks up the home fans more.. a half full north bank sounded class.

 

[Shrimper]

Nope they have still only sold the 1 ticket.
Don't go by the counter thing it's still wrong.

Says they have sold 32 doesn't it? How can we tell they've only sold 1?

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

Says they have sold 32 doesn't it? How can we tell they've only sold 1?

Go on the official site look at Block NF and they have sold 1.
The ticket counter is adding up all the North Bank ticket sales.

 

[PIERS]

 

[Shrimper]

Go on the official site look at Block NF and they have sold 1.
The ticket counter is adding up all the North Bank ticket sales.

Blimey, that's bad.

 

[Hawkwell Blue]

Blimey, that's bad.

Do away fans have to buy tickets in advance though?

 

[sufc4life21]

COSU shouldn't be charging fans money to relocate to different parts of the ground. By all means sell that ticket on which the fan has vacated his usual seat. If Southend want to have decent atmosphere at home games they need to make it affordable to the working class fan as such and stop charging fans who want to relocate to the different part of the ground ie the North bank to create an atmosphere. £400 season ticket, £24 per match plus charging fans money if they wish to relocate for non league football thats overpriced in my opinion and bit of **** take. This isn't Premier league lads where you can over price tickets and get away with it due to the demands for tickets to watch premier league. This is Southend who probably only have hardcore of 6/7k who turn up week in week out, be careful not to push those fans away.

 

[MountainDrew]

Just been told the same, a charge for moving seats, absolute joke!

Will end up being a day trippers family stand.

I pay a premium for my season ticket along with 3 others in my family, no way will I pay extra to move, I’ve been in the north for the last two matches loved the atmosphere but back to the east I go. absolute joke

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

I sat in The East yesterday on those wooden seats. Never again, my back thought " are you taking the ****"

I did suggest a few months ago that COSU might want to look at hiring out cushions for your backside or your back. Obviously it can't be done like the 60s and 70s where the cushions would be thrown on the pitch for all sorts of reasons. There would have to be a big enough deposit to stop fans throwing them. Yes, those wooden seats in the East are so uncomfortable. So a little cushion hut outside or inside the East. Maybe £15 deposit, and 3 or 4 pounds per cushion to hire each match. Is it worth doing, any thoughts?