Wembley tickets - more to be made available 7:30pm Thursday

[Shrimperjohn]

In a weird parallel to events in the US where a journalist was invited by accident to a top secret chat group of senior government and military officials discussing an impending assault on Houthi rebels, by chance I found myself added a couple of weeks ago to the National League Board WhatsApp group. I didn’t mention it at the time but I thought it was now time to share extracts from what I was copied in on. Names redacted to preserve confidentiality. Apologies for fruity language in some places…

“Sure we won’t get caught out by this reduced capacity thing at Wembley?”

“Nah, we’ll be fine. It’ll be a Yorkshire v FGR final and there’ll be less than 20,000 there”…
“What about Oldham?”
“York finished 20 points above them, they’ll steamroller them”
“What about Southend?”
“Southend?! ”
“”
“Haha - what is it, sideways and backwards everywhere they go? Stop winding me up…”

[Oldham v Halifax. Oldham go 3-0 up in 12 minutes against Halifax]
“Bloody hell, looks like Oldham could make the final”
“Nah, they’re away at York - they’ve got no chance. Keep your nerve”

…

[Rochdale v Southend, 5 mins before kickoff]
“Just in case anyone’s worried about Oldham getting through last night, I’ve bunged tonight’s ref £100 plus a bag of pork scratchings. He’ll see us right.”
“Good plan. Bit extravagant on the scratchings though?”
“No it’s fine, we’ve got plenty in petty cash. If we run short we’ll just fine Southend again for some made-up ****”
“Ah yeah, forgot about that. The gift that keeps on giving…”

[Rochdale take an early lead against Southend]
“Breathe easy guys ”

[Early in second half. Rochdale awarded very soft penalty]
“That’s £101 well spent ”
“Nice work”

[Devante Rodney slams in the penalty for 3-1]
“Whoop whoop - told ya Southend were **** - their fans can bankroll our division for another season “

[Parillon bundles in at the back post for 3-3]
“Er hold on guys…”
“Nah, they’ve got no depth, they’ll be out on their arses in extra time. Plus we bought the ref, remember?”

[Referee gives nothing when KAF bundled over when clean through on goal]
“That’s £101 VERY well spent ”

[Kendall nods in for 4-3]
“****”
“Bollocks”

[Full time. 4-3]
“Cheer up guys. York-FGR final still on. No way Southend will go down there and get a result”

…

[York v Oldham. Oldham take lead]
“Woah, that wasn’t supposed to happen”
“Long way to go guys…”

[Oldham score two quick fire goals to make it 3-0]
“Urgh, looks like the Latics are through”
“Still, a long way to travel down to London and no-one in Oldham has any money, they won’t take that many”
“You know they haven’t played at Wembley since 1994 right?”
“Well, FGR will bring three men and a dog so overall capacity will still be fine…”

…

[FGR v Southend. Goodliffe sends looping header into FGR top corner]
“Err, guys…”
“Plenty of time to go…”

[Inniss equalises]
“As you were - breathe easy”

[Full time. 1-1]
“Anyone nervous..?”
“Yeah I’m just starting to wonder…”
“They can’t, can they? They must be knackered after last week”
“Let’s hope so…”
“Just wondering…who out of us lot is giving out the medals and trophy at the final? It wasn’t me…”
“No it was you”
“No it was XXXX - he’s on holiday”
“Yeah definitely XXXX”
“Defo”

[FGR take a 2-1 lead 5 minutes into extra time]
“Get in!!!!”
“****ing have that you Essex ****s”
“Next year, we’ll see you all next year “
“Knew Dale Vince’s boys would do the biz”

[Jack Bridge equalises for 2-2 in the 116th minute]
“FFS”
“****”
“They’re like cockroaches aren’t they?”
“How far is Southend from Wembley? It’s miles away, right..?”

[Full time AET 2-2. Match goes to penalties]
“Ah guys…sorry, just had a call from my uncle in Australia. My Auntie Winnie has just died so I’m going to have to be out of the country for the next couple of weeks, really sorry”
“Haha- that’s bollocks, can’t believe you don’t have faith”

[Southend win penalty shootout 4-2]
“****”
“****”
“****ity ****ing ****”
“Do you think anyone will want to go?”

…

[Morning of Thursday 22nd May]
“Hi guys, just back from a fantastic 2 weeks holiday in the Maldives. No phone signal, pure detox from everything, it was heaven. I feel so refreshed. So - what’s been happening?”


[

One of the best posts I’ve seen on here ! How long did it take to script that ?

 

[ShrimperInTheShadows]

Before I switch off for tonight, has there been any update on when this extra allocation will be on sale?

 

[Crowstone Crevette]

Before I switch off for tonight, has there been any update on when this extra allocation will be on sale?

THIS^^^^^^^

Any info' would be much appreciated

 

[Holy Joe]

I was looking at Oldham;s away record in what is essentially an away game for both of us, only lost 5 away all season;

England - National League - home and away tables

Home and away tables in England National League and relative home/away performance overview for each team.

www.soccerstats.com

Very similar away form - 10 draws each - extra time it is?

 

[Jack_23]

Oldham’s general sale starts tomorrow lunch time and they are allowed a maximum of 30 tickets per order they’ve sold 11,350 so far

 

[united we stand]

In a weird parallel to events in the US where a journalist was invited by accident to a top secret chat group of senior government and military officials discussing an impending assault on Houthi rebels, by chance I found myself added a couple of weeks ago to the National League Board WhatsApp group. I didn’t mention it at the time but I thought it was now time to share extracts from what I was copied in on. Names redacted to preserve confidentiality. Apologies for fruity language in some places…

“Sure we won’t get caught out by this reduced capacity thing at Wembley?”

“Nah, we’ll be fine. It’ll be a York v FGR final and there’ll be less than 20,000 there”…
“What about Oldham?”
“York finished 20 points above them, they’ll steamroller them”
“What about Southend?”
“Southend?! ”
“”
“Haha - what is it, sideways and backwards everywhere they go? Stop winding me up…”

[Oldham v Halifax. Oldham go 3-0 up in 12 minutes against Halifax]
“Bloody hell, looks like Oldham could make the final”
“Nah, they’re away at York - they’ve got no chance. Keep your nerve”

…

[Rochdale v Southend, 5 mins before kickoff]
“Just in case anyone’s worried about Oldham getting through last night, I’ve bunged tonight’s ref £100 plus a bag of pork scratchings. He’ll see us right.”
“Good plan. Bit extravagant on the scratchings though?”
“No it’s fine, we’ve got plenty in petty cash. If we run short we’ll just fine Southend again for some made-up ****”
“Ah yeah, forgot about that. The gift that keeps on giving…”

[Rochdale take an early lead against Southend]
“Breathe easy guys ”

[Early in second half. Rochdale awarded very soft penalty]
“That’s £101 well spent ”
“Nice work”

[Devante Rodney slams in the penalty for 3-1]
“Whoop whoop - told ya Southend were **** - their fans can bankroll our division for another season “

[Parillon bundles in at the back post for 3-3]
“Er hold on guys…”
“Nah, they’ve got no depth, they’ll be out on their arses in extra time. Plus we bought the ref, remember?”

[Referee gives nothing when KAF bundled over when clean through on goal]
“That’s £101 VERY well spent ”

[Kendall nods in for 4-3]
“****”
“Bollocks”

[Full time. 4-3]
“Cheer up guys. York-FGR final still on. No way Southend will go down there and get a result”

…

[York v Oldham. Oldham take lead]
“Woah, that wasn’t supposed to happen”
“Long way to go guys…”

[Oldham score two quick fire goals to make it 3-0]
“Urgh, looks like the Latics are through”
“Still, a long way to travel down to London and no-one in Oldham has any money, they won’t take that many”
“You know they haven’t played at Wembley since 1994 right?”
“Well, FGR will bring three men and a dog so overall capacity will still be fine…”

…

[FGR v Southend. Goodliffe sends looping header into FGR top corner]
“Err, guys…”
“Plenty of time to go…”

[Inniss equalises]
“As you were - breathe easy”

[Full time. 1-1]
“Anyone nervous..?”
“Yeah I’m just starting to wonder…”
“They can’t, can they? They must be knackered after last week”
“Let’s hope so…”
“Just wondering…who out of us lot is giving out the medals and trophy at the final? It wasn’t me…”
“No it was you”
“No it was XXXX - he’s on holiday”
“Yeah definitely XXXX”
“Defo”

[FGR take a 2-1 lead 5 minutes into extra time]
“Get in!!!!”
“****ing have that you Essex ****s”
“Next year, we’ll see you all next year “
“Knew Dale Vince’s boys would do the biz”

[Jack Bridge equalises for 2-2 in the 116th minute]
“FFS”
“****”
“They’re like cockroaches aren’t they?”
“How far is Southend from Wembley? It’s miles away, right..?”

[Full time AET 2-2. Match goes to penalties]
“Ah guys…sorry, just had a call from my uncle in Australia. My Auntie Winnie has just died so I’m going to have to be out of the country for the next couple of weeks, really sorry”
“Haha- that’s bollocks, can’t believe you don’t have faith”

[Southend win penalty shootout 4-2]
“****”
“****”
“****ity ****ing ****”
“Do you think anyone will want to go?”

…

[Morning of Thursday 22nd May]
“Hi guys, just back from a fantastic 2 weeks holiday in the Maldives. No phone signal, pure detox from everything, it was heaven. I feel so refreshed. So - what’s been happening?”


[

Brilliant, loved that on what has been a stressful day

 

[Supershrimper]

Before I switch off for tonight, has there been any update on when this extra allocation will be on sale?

THIS^^^^^^^

Any info' would be much appreciated

The club have confirmed on twitter that "Currently, a very small number of tickets will be released tomorrow. A further announcement will be made before these are released"

I personally would keep hanging in there. Hopefully the suits see sense and announce a wave of tickets made available for sale. And by wave i'm hoping for opening the full amount (or just give us an extra 10k each with no attachments to coaches etc)

 

[Farmer Fossett]

Does anyone know how many sold? Assume as we have also sold tickets including coach travel (not included in 21,500 allocation) we have sold more??

 

[lreed567]

I was looking at Oldham;s away record in what is essentially an away game for both of us, only lost 5 away all season;

England - National League - home and away tables

Home and away tables in England National League and relative home/away performance overview for each team.

www.soccerstats.com

Will be a very difficult game, they will be going into this full of confidence aswell, hardly anything between the 2 teams

 

[fredheim_holm]

I wonder if Oldham don't sell out their 23k allocation whether it would shift to us? Would obviously be in our end, but if the concern is overall numbers surely that would make sense later in the week once it's clear how many Oldham are going to sell?

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

Does anyone know how many sold? Assume as we have also sold tickets including coach travel (not included in 21,500 allocation) we have sold more??

It's probably about 23k including the coaches.
Not sure where the extra tickets on sale tomorrow will be for and it doesn't sound like many.

 

[kurila's gorilla]

In a weird parallel to events in the US where a journalist was invited by accident to a top secret chat group of senior government and military officials discussing an impending assault on Houthi rebels, by chance I found myself added a couple of weeks ago to the National League Board WhatsApp group. I didn’t mention it at the time but I thought it was now time to share extracts from what I was copied in on. Names redacted to preserve confidentiality. Apologies for fruity language in some places…

“Sure we won’t get caught out by this reduced capacity thing at Wembley?”

“Nah, we’ll be fine. It’ll be a York v FGR final and there’ll be less than 20,000 there”…
“What about Oldham?”
“York finished 20 points above them, they’ll steamroller them”
“What about Southend?”
“Southend?! ”
“”
“Haha - what is it, sideways and backwards everywhere they go? Stop winding me up…”

[Oldham v Halifax. Oldham go 3-0 up in 12 minutes against Halifax]
“Bloody hell, looks like Oldham could make the final”
“Nah, they’re away at York - they’ve got no chance. Keep your nerve”

…

[Rochdale v Southend, 5 mins before kickoff]
“Just in case anyone’s worried about Oldham getting through last night, I’ve bunged tonight’s ref £100 plus a bag of pork scratchings. He’ll see us right.”
“Good plan. Bit extravagant on the scratchings though?”
“No it’s fine, we’ve got plenty in petty cash. If we run short we’ll just fine Southend again for some made-up ****”
“Ah yeah, forgot about that. The gift that keeps on giving…”

[Rochdale take an early lead against Southend]
“Breathe easy guys ”

[Early in second half. Rochdale awarded very soft penalty]
“That’s £101 well spent ”
“Nice work”

[Devante Rodney slams in the penalty for 3-1]
“Whoop whoop - told ya Southend were **** - their fans can bankroll our division for another season “

[Parillon bundles in at the back post for 3-3]
“Er hold on guys…”
“Nah, they’ve got no depth, they’ll be out on their arses in extra time. Plus we bought the ref, remember?”

[Referee gives nothing when KAF bundled over when clean through on goal]
“That’s £101 VERY well spent ”

[Kendall nods in for 4-3]
“****”
“Bollocks”

[Full time. 4-3]
“Cheer up guys. York-FGR final still on. No way Southend will go down there and get a result”

…

[York v Oldham. Oldham take lead]
“Woah, that wasn’t supposed to happen”
“Long way to go guys…”

[Oldham score two quick fire goals to make it 3-0]
“Urgh, looks like the Latics are through”
“Still, a long way to travel down to London and no-one in Oldham has any money, they won’t take that many”
“You know they haven’t played at Wembley since 1994 right?”
“Well, FGR will bring three men and a dog so overall capacity will still be fine…”

…

[FGR v Southend. Goodliffe sends looping header into FGR top corner]
“Err, guys…”
“Plenty of time to go…”

[Inniss equalises]
“As you were - breathe easy”

[Full time. 1-1]
“Anyone nervous..?”
“Yeah I’m just starting to wonder…”
“They can’t, can they? They must be knackered after last week”
“Let’s hope so…”
“Just wondering…who out of us lot is giving out the medals and trophy at the final? It wasn’t me…”
“No it was you”
“No it was XXXX - he’s on holiday”
“Yeah definitely XXXX”
“Defo”

[FGR take a 2-1 lead 5 minutes into extra time]
“Get in!!!!”
“****ing have that you Essex ****s”
“Next year, we’ll see you all next year “
“Knew Dale Vince’s boys would do the biz”

[Jack Bridge equalises for 2-2 in the 116th minute]
“FFS”
“****”
“They’re like cockroaches aren’t they?”
“How far is Southend from Wembley? It’s miles away, right..?”

[Full time AET 2-2. Match goes to penalties]
“Ah guys…sorry, just had a call from my uncle in Australia. My Auntie Winnie has just died so I’m going to have to be out of the country for the next couple of weeks, really sorry”
“Haha- that’s bollocks, can’t believe you don’t have faith”

[Southend win penalty shootout 4-2]
“****”
“****”
“****ity ****ing ****”
“Do you think anyone will want to go?”

…

[Morning of Thursday 22nd May]
“Hi guys, just back from a fantastic 2 weeks holiday in the Maldives. No phone signal, pure detox from everything, it was heaven. I feel so refreshed. So - what’s been happening?”


[

Brilliant!

 

[Crowstone Crevette]

Does anyone know how many sold? Assume as we have also sold tickets including coach travel (not included in 21,500 allocation) we have sold more??

@Farmer Fossett Before we were told at RH this afternoon that they had completely sold out. They had announced that only the Coach/Ticket 'package' was now available. So unless they can source more coaches that option is no longer available to us.

 

[kentblues]

If this is the actual reason for the cap then it’s an actual disgrace.

No please…alternative facts, conspiracy theory, not true. Elf & safety, Wembley Stadium, @TheVanaramaNL didn’t think reduced capacity would matter (because they are utter cretins of the first order)

 

[kentblues]

Think at an occasion like this, form and all else goes out the window

FGR had only lost once at home…

 

[Holy Joe]

It's probably about 23k including the coaches.
Not sure where the extra tickets on sale tomorrow will be for and it doesn't sound like many.

Think it's 2,000 on sale tomorrow isn't it? Unless more become available - but considering safety meeting is on Tuesday doubt there'll be much more movement before that

 

[DCC]

One of the best posts I’ve seen on here ! How long did it take to script that ?

Once I got into the flow, it pretty much wrote itself - I imagine the truth isn’t that far off…

I’m still in the WhatsApp group by the way

 

[Roger The Alien]

Strongly wouldn’t suggest either fans try to go in the others end…we both have great fans and no need to create problems for no reason but it also robs a fan of the other team a ticket with their fans….I may not be able to get a ticket despite supporting the club through thick n thin for 40+years but I wouldn’t dream of denying a Shrimper a ticket.

Oldham fans haven’t seen their team at Wembley since 1994 in a FA Cup semi final, I was a child watching it & and I was rooting for Oldham. Has Mark Hughes over hit his volley, Oldham might reached the final, could won the FA Cup and picked up 8 points better off in Premiership and finished in mid table.

Who know ….

 

[Rosielee]

Can anyone tell me if the Trust coaches and the coaches included with the ticket package both help with our allocation of tickets. Or is it only coaches booked with a ticket. I haven't seen a clear explanation of this anywhere. We have booked seats on the Trust coach as we are members. I was hoping that would still help. Hope that isn't too silly a question

 

[meerkat54]

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Heres your view mate

Thanks mate, I’m at work and there’s hardly any mobile data.