Jerryattrick
Vital Football Hero
Johny come lately!
Wednesdays fans forum - whos going from here?
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markinkent
Vital Football Hero
Gills twitter has 90,600 followers. Even if one tweet is viewed by 25% of them thats some reach in one tweet.
Im sure there are IT tools for email shots as well
nibbles
Vital Football Hero
No good to people like me who’ve never used email.
Therealwaldo
Vital Squad Member
Ah, the exaggeration that comes with the passage of time ! When we played Wycombe in the Cup it was a replay in 1995/96 and the gate was 8,585. Sell outs only became a thing once games started being ticketed on a regular basis. Remember for years it was just turn up on the day and pay at the turnstiles. So there were no advance tickets for the Everton home games giving us crowds of 15,000 and 17,000.
In the Championship we rarely had a complete full house although we definitely did for the West Ham game. I can’t remember whether we restricted admission when the Town End was still terracing, as opposed to seating. We never had un allocated tickets for seating. It was always buy a ticket for a named seat. There was an argument to do what Millwall did which was to sell seats on an unallocated basis so you could come early as a group of friends and sit together.
nibbles
Vital Football Hero
Any statto can look up attendances but the real fans (like me) in the ground that night will confirm there were at least 15,000 crammed in the ground that night. The 10,000 of us in the Rainham End laughed in unison when the attendance was read out.
No coincidence that 8585 is the Casio equivalent of BS BS.
Trev_GFC
Vital 1st Team Regular
With rail seats I believe technically the ratio between seated capacity and standing capacity can be different, but obviously depends on our regs.
1:1 is the current norm here but I believe years ago Everton were pushing for 1:1.5 in their new stadium, so eg 5,000 seated mode vs 7,500 standing mode.
I say seating vs standing mode but at the moment this country has a pathetic form of rail seating rather than the lockable, flat surface ones abroad.
Fair point Lark re: the roof. I was assuming a greater capacity than currently as we’re only using the front half of the BMS, and with no home fans in it.
Maybe you could have a smaller version of the current full-height BMS but with a roof, but then it would still impact certain houses in the GRS.
Trev_GFC
Vital 1st Team Regular
That was my first full season supporting Gills and missed it as me and my dad were only doing games here and there at that time. The Coventry game was ridiculous though, I loved it
Best bundle I’ve been involved in.
chris who
Vital Champions League
Would not a more upright stand be more cost effective?
IE you could then build facilities behind it to bring in revenue.A second club bar would be a massive boost to takings and could be used for home and away fans when practical.
If it was a upright two tier stand then it would be easy to split the stand with the away fans using one level only.
Rob_b100
Vital 1st Team Regular
Now that’s a great question. As long as their answer doesn’t contain “stay away and keep your cash”
Therealwaldo
Vital Squad Member
Having got planning permission in the past makes it far more likely that a new application would be approved. In the jargon it’s known as a ‘favourable planning history’. It’s a sort of precedent.
LOL. There were actually 3 full houses in that 95/96 season and Wycombe certainly wasn't one of them.
I had a terrace ST for the middle one (v PNE) and due to working late I didn't arrive until 2.55. The turnstiles were all shut and I had to bang on the Directors Entrance Door and watched the game at below pitch level with the St Johns lot next to the Main stand.
markinkent
Vital Football Hero
I was going to mention that game as well - the only time it felt fuller was Everton or Sunderland/Swindon in the playoffsThat was my first full season supporting Gills and missed it as me and my dad were only doing games here and there at that time. The Coventry game was ridiculous though, I loved it
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Trev_GFC
Vital 1st Team Regular
I think we can build a concrete stand but I don’t like the idea of a two-tiered stand with massive height restrictions. I don’t feel small-ish stands should have lower and upper tiers if they’re going to be small.
You could get away with it at the Medway Stand with the exec boxes in the middle and the club facilities in a lot of the upper but not in the BMS.
Besides, I’m grumbling about getting 6k in the basement league. We should be getting bigger crowds and, hoping, we make our way back up the leagues, we shouldn’t think of hemmed-in Priestfield as being our medium- to long-term home.
That’s why I don’t want us building off-field revenue streams, not that they would guarantee a return in that area anyway.
chris who
Vital Champions League
I was thinking of it being not much deeper than the Gordon road stand or maybe double that at most .Then the light would not be a problem if all building behind the stand was single storey.
Solent Knight
Vital Squad Member
Wasn't even tempted even though I remember being offered £50 by two desperate fans for a ticket that possibly only cost about £15. I was so sure that this would be the one win we needed to stay up & all would be ok. Course we fucked it up and drew 1-1 and got relegated at Forest the following week.
As for Everton, that was way back in the 80's and a tight sqeeze in a packed Priestfield of over 17,000. Fucking Cascarino.
Jerryattrick
Vital Football Hero
Agreed but why dont they also use those tools and why dont they update the club website.
FishGills
Vital Reserves Team
Think it starts circa 7pm & will be live-streamed on YouTube.
I can't provide a link to the video itself (as its not live yet) but you should be able to access it here nearer 7pm:
You’re missing Scally’s looong letters, aren’t you?
