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I can see Barrow taking up to 300 fans. You'd imagine they'd be around 2000 Taunton so it's going to be pretty much full to capacity.

We'd better get there early, then.

There's a bar in the ground and they are laying on extra facilities (beer tent?)

I'll be going in asap to make sure of getting in.

Would have made more sense to ticket it. I'm assuming there's more than one exit which could have been used as a temporary entrance for ticket holders rather than routing everyone through one turnstile. Got disaster written all over it. Gonna be some very [SwearFilter] off people if we travel and don't get in. Would rather have it guaranteed.

Will it be segregated ?

If there is only one set of turnstiles and the game creating this much interest it could turn into a shambles. Think as soon as I get there I'll be going in as long as bar in the ground or somewhere to stay warmish.

From what I remember there is only one way in and that is through a bank of 5/6 turnstiles situated at one corner of the ground.

Queueing to the fire station for last week's game.
Google maps tells me that's about 150 metres.

http://www.tauntontown.com/TTFC/ViewReport.asp?id=124

Ferret wrote:

Moribund wrote:
Would you have an issue paying £21 at Holker Street if Barrow drew Newcastle or Villa?

Absolutely, yes. It's immoral, in my opinion, regardless of who we're playing. I appreciate that making money is vital, especially for smaller clubs, but ripping off loyal supporters is not the way to go about it.

For away supporters, £7 is almost negligible compared to the cost of travel to get there and food/drink for the day. A couple of pints less will cover that. For home fans it probably works out at £7 extra over a season which again is neglibible.

boyliegladbach wrote:They got 1282 in last round.
More away fans and more interest this time. Going to be chaos. One turnstile.
Won't sell out though due to being greedy and increasing the entrance fee, but if it does then there's a chance people could travel all from Barrow and not get in. (I would be going over the wall)

Nice!

Reminds me of when we played Colne Dynamoes away in the FA Tophy Semi-Final 1990.
I think they only gave us 250 tickets - yet when the teams ran out it looked like about 500 Barrow in the ground!

If Plod is reading this, I bought a ticket off a Steward 10 mins before kick-off...

Arvo wrote:I would imagine that they've consulted with the Barrow board and that they had some input into this price too.

They have probably have talked but they are not required to, unless they charge away fans more. They only have to observe the £10 minimum for this round. I posted the rule earlier in the thread. Any disputes require immediate referral to FA, this doesn't seem to happen much. At least not publicly.

As we pay £14 upwards for adults, £15 is not that unreasonable for us, maybe a bit steep for Taunton regulars. I recall Kettering Town fleecing fans against Fulham and Leeds, left a lot of fans disgruntled.

K_BFC wrote:They have probably have talked but they are not required to, unless they charge away fans more. They only have to observe the £10 minimum for this round.

That surprises me, I had always thought that the pricing was agreed between the two clubs. Maybe it's changed recently. It often happens that the price is set halfway between the prices charged by the two clubs (like for like accommodation).

xerxes wrote:

K_BFC wrote:They have probably have talked but they are not required to, unless they charge away fans more. They only have to observe the £10 minimum for this round.

That surprises me, I had always thought that the pricing was agreed between the two clubs. Maybe it's changed recently. It often happens that the price is set halfway between the prices charged by the two clubs (like for like accommodation).

Not sure when but it changed sometime after 2007-08 and I know it was used as far back as 2013-14. So it was changed sometime in that 5-6 year period. Clubs are still required to agree during the qualifying rounds.

The Tomahawk Kid wrote:Reminds me of when we played Colne Dynamoes away in the FA Tophy Semi-Final 1990. I think they only gave us 250 tickets - yet when the teams ran out it looked like about 500 Barrow in the ground!

My mate who lived in Colne at the time bought our tickets as we weren't sure how many tickets we could get from here, trouble was they were bought as Colne supporters so that's where we were sent to - the Colne areas of the ground. Walked in with Barrow scarfs on and within minutes there was trouble (started by a pie being shoved in someone's face.....now that's a novel way to introduce opposing supporters to each other) police grabbed us and we thought that was our day done, what they did was actually walk us around the pitch perimeter and put us in with all the Barrow supporters.....right at the front

Now that was a result....

We got tickets from Cowps and they were in the Colne end. We got moved round too.

I also witnessed a pie getting pushed into a Fleetwood supporters face in 1986.Wonder if it was the same perpetrator?
There was a pie thrown onto the pitch at Oldham fa cup game to.