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What? You have to pay to go to E-dud? Surely they should be paying you to go and watch that s***e!!!

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so scott why didnt you come and stand i the cow shed???

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i really cant be doing with going in the side stands.

my brother went though, and came back **** wet through

i might however go forest game on monday, with it being a big opposition and big crowd?

is it ticket only ? or pay on gate?

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I should think he does talk about low gates. What use are low gates? People will be able to climb over them and get in for nothing. Come on Eric get your act together and get these gates highered.

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its all ticket scott, hopefully a big crowd!!!

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id expect forest to bring a lot


but then you have the sky factor

still it didnt stop the crowd when you played huddersfield, great day :not_ripe:

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forest will sell out their end imo, stanley should do the same but we should have also done that for the darlo game :rolleyes:

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We should sell out our 1400 places relatively easy. Only hope he doesn't drop ( sorry I mean rest ) too many first teamers

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Surely your gaffer wouldn't be so naive!
If he wants a decent cup run he's going to have to give us a good game at our place; we're the type of team that shows up your type of team every once in a while...hello's to bournemouth & huddersfield by the by :)

Afterall, we're only a league apart;)

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Yep, say hello to Forest Green Rovers social club for us while you're there in '07 :)

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Cannot fault your optimism, however I can't see Forest Green Rovers going up can you :cool:

By the way, any serious roadworks I should be aware of, I will be cutting it close on Monday night

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At the moment not any major roadworks in Accrington but which way you coming in? If you are thinking of using M62/60 DONT come in from Ringway sode but come from Stockport towards Bury not as bad that way. If coming M62 from Leeds big roadworks just before j18 (M66) might be best coming in from Rochdale and using back roads to A56 then follow signs in.

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Was intending to use M62 and M66 from Leeds side, not recommended it appears

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The road works are about the lanes being made wider not sure if they still in place but they were there about 6 weeks ago and caused some problems. they are about 2 miles from J18 Leeds side of M66. Check with AA www.theaa.co.uk or RAC www.rac.co.uk to see if they still have them on their sites

Both links working just tested them lol

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Well = I have 3 kids myself - 10, 14 and 16. Hubbie used to go to rovers but even their season ticket prices got too much for him. I love footie - strange i know - but it is quite expensive this season for us ALL to go. One son loves chelsea and one loves rovers - guessing game as to what we save up and go to see ? Last season we could manage stanley and we're not fair weather ones - we all love the game.
In addition - disabled toilet facilities at stanley are non existent.

mariam

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some quick answers to points raised to avoid accusations from bagpuss about rarely answering posts :-)

bars are a big concern of ours at the moment, firstly the lost revenue from not serving to over half of the stadium, and secondly the fact that the unavailability of beer at the ground detracts from the match day experience. this will be sorted sooner rather than later.

stanley store would be great if we could get bigger premises, could be a stanley megastore then :-) although there is no short term solution to this we will be opening the ticket office section of this from monday, using the window near the main stand turnstiles, which should help to reduce the number of people coming in to pick up press passes and other tickets etc. also we are looking to keep the programme selling outside the store again to free up space for those looking to browse merchandise.

the catering arangement is a great deal for the club, and takes away the issues with ordering stock, dealing with unused stock, employing staff etc. current agreement ends at the end of this season, all tender enquiries welcome...

family stand has been brought up as part of the whole package of making our games more affordable. hopefully we'll have something in place for the rochdale game. will be an area of the main stand with no smoking and zero tolerance on swearing.

if ever a question isn't answered please feel free to get in touch...

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You complete and utter ******.. You have taken what I said and repeated it out of context. My original point was that the club couldn't reply to every rumour posted or they would be here all day.. and you then post the above you moron :( thanks for that... you want a response from rob fair enough.. but to have a dig at me in order to get it is well out of order :(

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Sorry Mariam, got to pick you up on the point about disabled toilet facilities being non existent. You'll find the disabled loo just inside the clubhouse at the other side of the gents. Hope this helps

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there is also a disabled toilet in the away end in the new first aid room I believe.

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Hopefully miriam82 isn't posting this sort of missinformation on any other messageboards.

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These roadworks don't affect the traffic on the motorways at all, only the slip road.

I've made the M62/M66 journey several times over the last few weeks (including yesterday) without any holdups. It's bit busy coming out of Leeds around 6pm, but nothing too bad.

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Cheers mate, much appreciated - one last question. Whats car parking like ??

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Kipax please accept my humble apologies, the post I was refering to was by John Timmins and said "no offense meant but the club do not have to answer things on this un-official message board". I was not in anyway having a dig at you but it was an attempt at some sort of a follow up from the club which Rob Heys has done, cheers Rob.:)
In future Kipax I will get my facts in order before I post.:p

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Fairynuff and apologies for the OTT response.. It just reads very sarcastic and aimed at me and I couldnt see why..... But its a messageboard so lets hug and move on :)

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what about a stanley superstore in the town centre ie where icon is. its shutting down it will encourage visitors and residents of accrington to go in and buy something ...

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Surely it would be wiser to 'persuade ' a retailer to promenatly(sp) display Stanley stuff in a successful retail operation rather than open its own store which would (at best in the short term) be a huge drain on the clubs finances.?

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We're only human!

Must be the passion of the new season!

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Apologies about disabled facilities - was not aware of new ones at first aid point. BUT - have to say - hubbie says disabled ones near bar are used by all and sundry and seat cracked = so not ideal for disabled child to use. Not our main reason for non attendance and no - not posted on other sites - do not have time.

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Won't someone PLEASE think of the children?!? :eek:

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[quote=Kiwi John]Surely it would be wiser to 'persuade ' a retailer to promenatly(sp) display Stanley stuff in a successful retail operation rather than open its own store which would (at best in the short term) be a huge drain on the clubs finances.?[/quot i thought we are supposed to be back in the big time if the people dont want to come to stanley we have to go to them why dont they set up an ebay shop that will help finance the cost towards it and stop other people cashing in .....:) :not_ripe: :not_ripe: :not_ripe:

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there is an outlet up town
there is a stanley ebay
there is a stanley store online

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Real shame at work (towards Bury), where everybody is now asking me about the poor gates, rather than the great football, thanks for that Eric and John.

As I've said before the club's missed an opportunity to catch a new audience, but it's about perspective. Anybody who's within the catchment area who hasn't seen Stanley isn't interested in football, or is pursuing their own team, to to the exclusion of all others.

I used to be able to get people to non league games, partly through novelty, but also it wasn't expensive. £10 for a couple of pints and a game of football, great. These people, in the main, used to go to watch their own chosen teams, and gave up through the cynical attitude of most league clubs towards their supporters, but mainly the cost.

I can't get them to come now!

Going to football is largely a habit, Stanley rekindled my habit, by being a well run club, whose players give 100%. I think the fan base will grow, but we've had the explosion, it'll be slow and steady from now on. I think the club are trying their best, but a cursory trawl of other League 2 clubs pricing policies show how competitive it is to get people through the gates, we seem to be trying to reinvent the wheel.

Sorry, going on a bit now. In an effort to be positive, how about,"Bring a friend for a tenner", leading up to Xmas, obviously standing only, (how you can watch a match sitting down defeats me anyway).

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its not much cop is it .

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Maybe we should think ourselves lucky with the prices we have at Stanley;apparently it's gonna be £19 in at Stockport tonight!:eek:

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£16 at Stockport, in a seated, but open end.

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I still like to stand for £13 given the choice.

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Actually I didn’t mind sitting for the period the lads where down field, it give us a rest in between excitement. I have to say almost every soul, young or old, where on their feet as Stanley charged back up the field in the second half. Fantastic stuff.

Anyone notice the increased Steward activity when the lads woke up or better still when a certain Willie Miller was singing “Stand up if you love Stanley”

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I'm a new fan, moved near Accy recently. I want to know why retirement concessions are only for 65+ people. I'm on the state pension already, being a women, and I'm only 61 - why do i have to pay full price? maybe it's another reason gates are low.

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Im brassic so that was only reason that kept me from going tonight & poss for next few weeks awwwww booohooo:(

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Just thought I'd bump this to the top to show Pendle Red it was done to death this time last year. Seventeen exhaustive pages of it, I don't want to go through it all again.

Of course, if anyone has a solution please feel free to post. :)

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Cheers Oggy!:)
Fair play you are correct with what you say!
Heart on sleeve sometimes
My Mistake!
Please accept my apologies!:)

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Wasn't really knocking you, I understand your enthusiasm, but......

Let's hope the team put a few results together. :)