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Stadium Old or new stadium?

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Mrs Perryman said:
Exactly! I don't know why season ticket holders aren't seated together. One of my friends sits two rows behind me, and she requested if she could be moved next to me, as it definitely is not a ST. They refused for whatever reason. It's this sort of inflexibility that doesn't help the situation.
The powers that be don't care who they sell the seat to, or even if the purchaser doesn't turn up.
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I think they messed up the pricing badly too from the start. Where I sit in the south stand is the cheapest band and you can tell people bought their tickets there because of this, not because they want to sing and get behind the team. Add that to the 1882 section and it is why the south stand struggles.

I’m not one of these fans that says the atmosphere in the old place was wonderful every game either. We sat in silence in there plenty of times too. However, the new place feels a mess. I’m not sure the club want to face up to that either. Of course a successful team really is what makes the atmosphere good though of course.
 
JimothyCF14 said:
Easiest solution to that it is once you sell a certain % of your games you have to give it up.

The exchange is useful for me because in the last 4 years there has genuinely been maybe 3 matches I couldn't get to and it was a simple way of getting some money back. People who buy a season then sell 75% of their tickets are just taking the piss and banking up loyalty points and shouldn't have one.
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The club embrace it’ as they sell more memberships to supporters, spectators, neutrals and away fans.

Should absolutely be a cap of 2 games per season
 
Rocket said:
I think the powers that be would rather harm the atmosphere in the pursuit of ticket sales than risk not having a "sell out" every game.

Basically, it seems fairly obvious that if you took ST's away from people who don't attend 75% of games then you would probably no longer have a "waiting list" for the season tickets that are cancelled. Then you have to hope that you have enough interest from the members every match in order to sell out.

Selling 40,000 season tickets ensures that the money is raked in whether or not the seat is occupied.
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Good point
 
I prefer the old stadium, nothing could beat it , however I can see why the club took the decision to build the new stadium, I just thought we would use the extra revenue to bring the glory days back, bearing in mind it hasn't improved us as a team and we seem to have regressed give me the old WHL back any day of the week!
 
Did Return of The Shelf get a dedicated "atmosphere area" for the Carling Cup game? If so did it actually make a difference?
 
Biff said:
Many memories of old White Hart Lane, loved the place. Had a Season Ticket back row of the Paxton lower for the last 5 years or so. Loved it. Best memory must be Kane in mask curling a beautful goal in from the west side against Woolwich. Literally had the perfect view of it. I knew or at least recognised everyone around me.

We needed to rebuild but the new stadium is not the same. 30,000 extra fans don't add to the atmosphere it just dilutes it. Its more comfortable but I'm further away from the pitch, view not as good, not made the same bonds with people nearby. Atmosphere doesn't compare at all - but that is modern football generally, not just our stadium.

Big regret not going on the pitch on the final day, I just stood there fixed taking it all in. Really should of gone on just for a bit, won't get the opportunity again sadly.
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Re your last paragraph - I was in Paxton lower too, row 9. When I saw people going onto the pitch at the final whistle, I said to the guy next to me "silly sods, they're going to delay the Finale"!
When I realized that the stewards weren't stopping people and actually helping people over the hoardings, you've never seen me move so fast and I managed to get to the halfway line for a few minutes before we were ushered back to our seats. That Finale will stay in my memory forever, one of those special moments that makes it worthwhile. TTID.
 
Nutter-Naylor said:
WHL.

It's where 95% of my Spurs memories are.

The new stadium is obviously an amazing place to watch NFL, Taylor Swift and Guns and Roses, go abseiling or go karting or have a Michelin starred meal but the 'match day experience ' isn't even close to being the same level.
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I think that is the basic issue we have been mainly shit in the new stadium. The stadium is amazing but the memories are at best mediocre.
 
Just take me back....

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Have more amazing memories from the old stadium. Also it was much better atmosphere when away fans were next to the park lane.

The new stadium is amazing spectacle but it just feels a more commercial machine with over priced tickets, hence more tourists with half and half scarves. :ange-confused:
 
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Phomesy said:
IYup. There is a slight romanticizing of the old days. Couldn't get a beer or take a piss without having some bald headed cunt hosing your trousers :ange-confused:
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That’s life. People want it to be like 1900 again when the empire ruled the world. Overlooking the fact that my past generations of family were living in workhouses or dying in fields in Europe or being rationed for food and evacuated from London.

WHL had its time. And some fantastic memories.
But it was a joke of a stadium by the time we left.
And we’d expanded it as much as we could. It was right to move into the future.

Time moves on.

No fucker is choosing to ride to work on a Penny farthing. Well maybe one idiot.


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The Absolute GOAT said:
It is perfectly possible to generate a really good, hostile atmosphere at the new stadium (just look at the Woolwich game in 2022).

But it appears atmospheres like that are few and far between.

Imagine if the majority of games had that level of hostility. Would be a thing of beauty.
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Dortmund manage it and we were told the design of that stand was meant to mimic the Dortmund stadium.

They don’t price out hardcore fans, they make arrangements so the hardcore fans can always get tickets next to each other in the singing section as well. Basically Dortmund have an amazing football stadium, we have an amazing stadium.
 
The new stadium has done nothing for my match day experience. The transport in is just as bad. There are fewer regulars and less singing more toursts. It's got more expensive and we are buying poorer quality footballers, and the Nico Williams level signings have proven as tangible as the rind on the cheese in the invisible cheese room.

Worse the income from non football related activity has enabled the owners not actually need ECL revenue. As a result even less motivation to push sporting success. Its a shit sandwich.
 
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