Is the reading game sold out? - answer: yes!

[scotty]

We ought to start a new thread for this, talk about off-topic...

[The Majestic Channon]

Maybe it's a derby maybe it's not who ****ing cares

jesus

[ludgershallsaint]

Now this one is sold out we should overtake Derby in the attendance table.

 

I presume Derby offer some very deep discounts?

[opthomps]

Now this one is sold out we should overtake Derby in the attendance table.

 

I presume Derby offer some very deep discounts?

 

Correct, dont know if they still are, but first half of the season, including against us it was 2 for 1 on tickets regularly through groupon.

 

In my opinion you can't really have more than one true derby, so to me this isn't a derby, but in a different category somewhere on its own.

[Lets B Avenue]

Surely its only a derby if the fans travel in a "bubble".

[brianoneils slidingtackle]

(slightly off topic) I work in West London and have noticed all season that West Ham have full page adverts in the Evening Standard for their home games, even for saturdays game, I Know they have stiff competition for attracting floating fans but how much advertising do we do ?

[Turkish]

(slightly off topic) I work in West London and have noticed all season that West Ham have full page adverts in the Evening Standard for their home games, even for saturdays game, I Know they have stiff competition for attracting floating fans but how much advertising do we do ?

 

They've also has deals on groupon this season. We don't Seem to be very good at encouraging your twice a seasoners to come along. although go be fair what with it being such a great time to be a Saints fan you'd think people wouldnt need adverts in papers to get their arse off the sofa.

[Turkish]

I lived in Basingstoke for 20 odd years and most follow the London clubs eg Chelsea/Millwall etc but scatterings of Saints, liv ed in reading for a few years too, however, for 25 years I have since lived in Newbury. Yes, there are a few Saints fans around Newbury but most are in the Hampshire villages which starts 1 mile south of Newbury. Newbury/Thatcham is mainly Reading fans with a smattering of Oxford, Chelsea, an u etc. So I have lived on the borders of all of them for over 50 years and can honestly say that Reading v Saints is only a "Derby" for those of us that live with mainly Reading fans in and around Newbury. Reading fans from Reading don't class it as a derby game, more like playing the big club 50 miles down the road. Oxford and Aldershot have always been the traditional derby games for Reading. Reading v Chelsea is more like a home game for both as i'd say most Reading people have grown up following Chealsea.

 

To be fair most people from Basingstoke are helmets who think they are Londoners so I wouldn't trust anything they say.