yes we did during the 2005 season

The trade off of having a modern stadium against the aging HP. As already said the turnstiles aren't geared up for permanent cash turnstiles. What we are talking about here is arriving 15-20 mins b4 KO, perhaps 30 mins if bigger than normal crowd.
We have fresh memories of queues for LSV because of the alien concept of tickets, but lets not forget the famous Tommy Sale terrace corner (near golden gate) 5-10 mins b4 KO - queues!

Or we could all buy season tickets and save the hassle

This is not me as because I have said my previous post was the last one I would make on this thread so someone else is doing the keyboard.

On Sunday a Fax fan said to me last seasons queue and delay in getting in would put at least 100 of their fans off going to the LSV in a couple of weeks. The person typing this post (not the Watcher btw) said he did not think that many visited last season.

My good friend giving me the instructions tells me to say we are talking about 150/200 arriving at our stadium 5 minutes before kick off and if we ever fill the place we will have to delay kick off till Monday morning.

He is having a glass of wine now and humming the flute song.

Tell your mate that he should start going in the South Stand at the Shay, Frank - took ages to get in again yesterday. Makes Leyth look efficient!

Frank is snoring and incoherant as usual.

I have put his bucket' clean socks and underwear at his side of the bed.

Expect he will be at the LSV tomorrow whilst I shall be having a sweet sherry and watching a Star Trek rerun.

Thats what I did at City. As soon as all ticket games came in I thought sod that!


I remember a few years ago I got invited in one of the boxes at Maine Road, and thought I'd flog my ticket. Sold it no problems but then I realised ST's only had seat details on the book. That poor bloke would not have realised until inside the ground that he would be playing musical chairs for most of 1st half.



Regarding stadium tickets I have got a plan - delay KO until 3.30pm. But don't tell the latecomers.

3.30 idea is the best yet matt!

Hang on don't rope me in to this Yorkshire idea!

Road works have started on the bridge, single lane traffic, big queues both ways tonight at around 7, should be fun trying to get to the ticket office tomorrow night and the England game

That sways it. Pub for the afternoon, walk to the game

Do you actually ever work ?


Think the road works deserve a thread on its own to give others the heads up on it.

Think I'll park near Boars Head and walk down after getting a pint of Lucozade from pub.

I am in work quite often (6 out of the past 7 days, in fact), but whether I [ido[/i any work is another matter

ooooohhhhhhh matron cheeky

I suppose despite the British way seemingly of liking to queue in a orderly fashion a new generation look on this type of function as something alien to them.
We have a large empty stadia on matchdays, if people want a cash turnstile or easier excess to the stadia then a good forward thinking customer focussed company would give them just that and overcome what ever barriers required to do so.

In a ideal world people would want to be at the LSV from 1pm (or 4pm saturday evening if talking a totally ideal world KO time

) and enjoy the prematch buildup / entertainment whilst sampling the food /drink inside the stadia.
Obviously some way to go before we get that basic attraction in place but at least we're going in the right direction



Whatever your take on the Cash turnstiles Isn't it a lot better typing about problems getting in the ground then concerns about our poor form from 12 months ago

One thing I do find it encouraging is that it's rare that you hear people complain about a lack of atmosphere at the LSV, so we as fans must be doing summat right.

maybe you can't here it because of the cr@p tannoy system

It wouldn't be Leigh if we had a state of the art stadium where everything worked would it?!

like I said in another thread from what i heard over it on friday when it was being tested they would appear to have that sorted, blame SKY they wanted it altering.

Wouldn't you think that the Pigeon loft would have better sound deadening?

Lets hope its blasting out tonight!

Thats why they bring it now they complained after the Barrow game they didnt have the 'shed' for that one

Anyone with a bit of common, on buildiing a new stadia worth millions would put in a decent bar area. People would have then from the beginning come inside the ground and have a pint. I am not going to the ground an hour before the kick off to lean against a concrete wall. I think that the people in charge of these projects are not your average fan, so have no idea what so ever. Probably the only games they go to are the corporate freebies.

Isn't the Legends bar open before the game? I don't know as I don't drink on match days.

Why where Fev fans allowed to walk freely from the North Stand into the West? 2 stewards said nowt to the first 2 or 3 then spoke with the next couple who then continued to swap stands. Several more moved at half time. Is this right that firstly in our super Health & Safety concious stadium you CAN actually move around the ground and secondly these fans got in for £14 and then freely moved into the £16 seats

What are those stewards paid for?
While i'm in a bad mood - what the Fcuk was the guy doing announcing the teams at KO time when fans are cheering the lads onto the pitch

couldn't hear him. Oh and the tannoy is still s4ite but not as bad coz they played the music on a mellow setting

The larger group that moved at half time had wanted to move away from our fans because of bad language, the others before KO managed to get through as the stewards in the corner seemed to be too busy talking until another steward questioned why they had let them through.
I did hear someone say that they refused Turley to go from west to north stand???